RUN with this idea. What is up and what is down? The answer is simple right? Down goes to the ground and up goes to the sky. Well what if we take away relativity. Now where is up and where is down? Your no longer relative to the earth so the ground isn't down and the sky isn't up. If your living in NorthAmerica your relative up may actually be left or right. While if your on either of the poles this idea is completely useless to you.
Now lets delve alittle deeper into this and change the relativity. Say you live in North America and are now relative to China. down is actually right up is left. left is down and right is up. Confused yet? Now if we flip it and are in China relative to North America its backwards, down is left up is right left is up and right is down.
Ok this next part is for the people that are gonna try and argue me. "no North America relative to China is normal. down is down" ect. ect. yes it seems that way but thats when we play with 2 relatives. a location and our position. our position relative, being our feet to the ground so we assume that China being on the other side of the world and our position relative being to the ground that makes our relative down being towards china. but we removed the relative of our position. the only relative we are refering to is towards another place. so we have to assume scientists are correct and that the south pole is at the bottom and the north pole is at the top. that being a truth we can agree on, China and America being on opposite sides of the Earth making your relative from one to the other being left and right not up and down.
Relativity. its a fun idea to play with, And if you understand it well enough you can pick your relativities so anything you say is true. I hope you all enjoyd this thought to toy around with
More to come
-Siegs The UnExamined Side (TUES)
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Technically, left is always left, no matter where you are relative to. The terms you're looking for are "east" and "west", because those are the directions on a compass. If you are in NA and propose China as your north pole, North leads to China directly, and East/West lead around it in a ring. It's particularly difficult to do when the two objects are not in a parallel around the sphere.
ReplyDeletea very good point Anonymous but were talking of up and down, not north and south or east and west, while left and right are on the same axis the go in opposite directions the same as up and down.
ReplyDeleteI Appreciate the post though Thank you for the view I hope to get more like it
I think the thing you are scratching the surface of is that everything is relative, and without someone first saying "this is here, and that is there," we wouldn't be able to diferenciate one thing from another. That's why Einsteins theory specifies "General Relativity." So your partially correct, you can say mostly anything and be corrected provided you define the relativity correctly.
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