Heh, you could have shared the info and talked in english though...
Time and distance are continuous quantities, so in order for us to measure them we first need to define some kind of scale unit. Unlike with discrete quantities; i.e. if we're counting apples it's obvious that there already is an elementary unit (which can be described by using simple natural numbers).
Absolute time doesn't exist. And when time gets 'dilated', we don't notice because our personal time scale changes proportionally. The best analogy can be made by using the spatial equivalent: imagine being shrunk to the size of an ant. The ruler you had in your backpocket shrunk along with you. Now you take a few steps forward, until you measure to have walked a distance of 50 feet. According to yourself, you have indeed walked 50 feet, but according to someone who did't shrink you have only walked a few inches forward. The funny thing is no one can claim to have made an absolute measurement, because the measurement itself is always made relative to the observer, and all (non-accelerating to be precise) observers are equal.
Maybe I should teach this stuff to kids.
