¶ Nonsimultaneous
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Cross Reference
Until the present age, people thought that all of their faculties were simultaneously and instantly coordinate and operating at equal velocities. Einstein showed that neither ‘simultaneous’ nor ‘instant’ are valid, i.e., experimentally demonstrable. Observe that when we send up four rockets one-half second apart, their afterimages are approximately simultaneous. So we say that we see four rocket bursts ‘at the same time.’ The illusion of simultaneity is one of the most important illusions for us to consider. Musicians may be able to comprehend nonsimultaneity better than others do. Einstein emphasized the importance of attempted spontaneous comprehension of the nonsimultaneity of all events of Universe—a concept akin to our discovery that in our Universe, none of the lines can ever go simultaneously through the same points (See 517.00517. What Einstein is telling us is that there is no conceptual validity to the notion that everything in Universe is actually in simultaneous static array.
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