11.5 year old Zombie Relativity.
Hmm, let’s see the last activity date for everyone in this thread (including the one quoted in post 20):
12-17-2000
11-19-2009
03-24-2004
05-10-2011
Yesterday
05-24-2011
01-12-2011 (VogueVixen)
04-28-2000
11-26-2003
BleuXochitl, what your daughter noticed has nothing to do with either relativity nor the subject of this thread. It’s just a matter of perspective. Our eyes don’t directly observe positions, but angles. The cars you see out the side window are moving from one side of your field of vision to the other (that is to say, the angle from where the car starts to your eye to where it ends up is very large), but the cars you see out the front window aren’t changing angle very much (they’re mostly changing their distance instead).
Maybe in your frame of reference–according to mine, it’s 11.49999999999923 years…
Reasonable bump, though–the experimental results BleuXochitl read about seem to actually be the final, published results of the experiment voguevixen referred to. As usual, everything took a bit longer than usual to finish, it would seem. 
So I guess congratulations are in order to vogeuvixen’s husband!
An odd derivation of Schrodinger’s cat?
Schrodinger is blind and the cat is alive and dead still, after the box is opened?
Physics still happen if you don’t see them. A simple proof is right here.
Stand up. Close your eyes. Hop. Open your eyes. Your feet are still on the floor, unless you’re clumsy. Even though you didn’t see your hop, you made it, you felt the feel land back on the floor…
Even money, Alpha Centuri isn’t being observed right now, it’s still approaching the solar system, as it has been for billions of years. Even though nobody is watching it.
Of course, there is the quantum irrelevancy theory: If a tree falls deep in the woods, with no one to observe it, would anyone care? 