Now, let us think of ourselves metaphorically as quantum particles that would be able to see a thin line. Note: There are no living things that small, and as I said before, in reality, there are no infinitely small lines. Yet, to show you what I mean, consider the analogy so that you may begin to understand my point. You are near the plane that defines the surface of where the line mentioned above will move. The line will only move in one directions. The line will not fidget. You are standing in the middle of the line's trajectory. As I said before, if the line's speed were to be .8c, the line would appear .6 of its actual length, according to a "stander by." Now if the object under observation were to be three lines this time that formed a thin "X" with a line thru the lengthwise (directoral) axis, and only the line that was perfectly lengthwise went exactly .8c, then only the directoral line would have a length of .6 of what it would appear if it were "standing still." (It would appear .6 of its original length to a "stander by.") Even if all three of the lines were to travel in the new shape as a unit, the speed of .8c is the speed of the object (phenomenon) along a given direction. So, here, only the directoral line has a velocity of .8c. The different directions that the other two lines go in cause their velocity to be different from that of the directoral line because velocity is speed in a direction. So, when the directions of the things of a given object are different, then, technically, the velocities of the different parts of that object are different.
I will let you ponder what I have written at this point, and I will later conclude this session.
It helps to use imagination to understand string theory. I hope you are learning what I am telling you conceptually.
Later,
Sincerely,
Samuel David Roach
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