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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6766389" data-attributes="member: 177">No.&nbsp; Consider an image:&nbsp; there's a little guy with a photon gun standing on the proton, ready to fire the force-carrying particle at the electron.&nbsp; The electron is moving quickly across his field of view, right?&nbsp; So, even if his shot is moving as fast as the electron, he must aim at where the electron *will be*, not where it is.But, in reality, the proton has now way of knowing where the thing will be.&nbsp; It has no prescience.&nbsp; This will probably confuse you, but... In the traditional balloon analogy, everything you know in the universe is actually on the surface of the balloon.&nbsp; It is an example of what would seem to be a two-dimensional surface (the balloon material if it were laid out flat) being curved in a third dimension, and expanding.&nbsp; The air in the balloon is not in the universe.&nbsp; The better way to think of it is probably like this - when you, with your eyes, look up at the sky, you see stars.&nbsp; They all to your naked eye look like they are painted on a surface, the vault of the sky.&nbsp; However, in reality, they are spread through a volume.&nbsp; It is like looking into a fog - it all looks like it is at a distance, but really, it's everywhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6766389, member: 177"] No. Consider an image: there's a little guy with a photon gun standing on the proton, ready to fire the force-carrying particle at the electron. The electron is moving quickly across his field of view, right? So, even if his shot is moving as fast as the electron, he must aim at where the electron *will be*, not where it is. But, in reality, the proton has now way of knowing where the thing will be. It has no prescience. This will probably confuse you, but... In the traditional balloon analogy, everything you know in the universe is actually on the surface of the balloon. It is an example of what would seem to be a two-dimensional surface (the balloon material if it were laid out flat) being curved in a third dimension, and expanding. The air in the balloon is not in the universe. The better way to think of it is probably like this - when you, with your eyes, look up at the sky, you see stars. They all to your naked eye look like they are painted on a surface, the vault of the sky. However, in reality, they are spread through a volume. It is like looking into a fog - it all looks like it is at a distance, but really, it's everywhere. [/QUOTE]

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