RELATIVITY

If we were to note that, suddenly and in the same proportions,

the distance between two points on this earth had increased,

that all the planets had moved farther from each other, that

all objects around us had become larger, that we ourselves

had become taller, and that the distance traveled by light in

the duration of a vibration had become greater, we should not

hesitate to think ourselves the victims of an illusion, that

in reality all these distances had remained fixt, and that all

these appearances were due to a shortening of the rule which we

had used as the standard for measuring the lengths.--LUCIAN

POINCARE, “The New Physics and Its Evolution.”

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=Releasing the Word of Life=--See WORD OF GOD FREED.

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