There is something about relativity I don't understand. [**] I know that an observer who watches someone else in motion will observe time dilation, so the person in motion will appear to have slowed down, with time passing more slowly. I also know that there is distance dilation, so that the person in motion appears, to the stationary observer, to be compressed along an axis parallel to the direction of the motion. I also understand that there is mass dilation, so the person in motion appears to gain mass, as energy is added to accelerate this person, some of the additional energy takes the form of mass, rather than increasing the speed.

What I am confused about is post count. Would the person in motion appear, to the stationary observer, to have a lower post count? Or would the post count remain constant, and the individual posts be dilated? In curved space-time, would tidal forces cause the meaning of posts to change? Is it possible for a poster to be banned in one reference frame and not banned in another? Would the top poster vary by reference frame?

http://www.bautforum.com/off-topic-babbling/76725-relativity-question.html

[**] "There is something about relativity I don't understand."-- that's telling the relativists straight.

Anon: There is something about relativity I don't understand.

cinci: You mean beyond getting two out of three of technical terms wrong?
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The article being referred to was saying that not me. I understand relativity, because I understand it to be nonsense.

Anon: The article being referred to was saying that not me. I understand relativity, because I understand it to be nonsense.

cinci: You sometimes correct my typographical errors, but then you post something with obviuos technical errors in it that concern relativity. If you understood it and still believed it was nonsense, you shouldn't promulgate obvious errors about it. So my guess is you don't understand it at all.
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cinci: You sometimes correct my typographical errors, but then you post something with obviuos technical errors in it that concern relativity.

the technical errors are in relativity itself.