> Trust me, there is nothing "apparent" about it. The worst thing you can do when trying to understand Relativity is to fall into the "it only *seems* that way" trap.
>
> Again I point you to the two web links I posted earlier in the course of these threads.

I was *this close* to posting a message to this
thread myself. It is very confusingly worded.
I think people are agreeing with you. Both *are*
true. But that doesn't make sense, so it *seems*
like a contradiction. Therefore, it's paradox --
an apparent contradiction. If both *aren't* true,
and the pitfall of relativity ("it only seems
that way") were true, then it wouldn't be a
paradox, because it wouldn't be an "apparent
contradiction" it would be a "*real* contradiction."

But...now that I look up the word in my dictionary,
I note that the definition of "paradox" is "a
statement that appears to contradict itself but
that may be true." So I guess a paradox is a
contradiction that's apparent regardless of
whether or not it's true.

So what that means is...it's a paradox anyway.
In fact, an "apparent paradox" is itself a paradox.
And I am so tied up in degrees of apparentness and
truth a contradictions upon contradictions that
I'm going to have to mull this over in bed
tonight so that the answer can come to me just as
I'm waking up tomorrow morning.