We move through life at a rate of 1 second per second (1sec/sec).
This is an interesting statement when taken in the context of the theory of relativity...
Most people can not grasp the significance of E=MC2. It turned scientific thought on its end!
The speed of light is a constant...which means that if you were traveling at the speed of light and turned on a flashlight...it would still work...
Why?
Because the world around light varies! Distance, time, mass adjust accordingly.
Traditional physics held many of those components constant...meaning that they didn't change...
The theory of relativity and its confirmation tests says that the world around it adjusts to the light perspective...this is mind boggling...
This is most evident in the "warping" of space...
As light approaches a mass...it slows...but because it is a constant...the distance traveled actually shortens...to maintain the constant speed...so that the stationary calculation still appears the same...
Early tests using an eclipse showed that the light from stars bent...based on the apparent change in the stars' positions.
The comparison of two atomic clocks one moving and one stationary...showed that time actually changed...
Radio waves bounced off of the planet Mercury, as it moved behind the sun (in relationship to the earth) and the subsequent calculation of its orbit...showed that the planet's orbit appeared to jump outward...significantly...the change in apparent distance to account for the speed change...
Every time the theory is put to the test...it shows it is accurately describing the general nature of the universe...
Yet time intrigues me...
If the world acts on a continuum with the speed of light as the constant...no one has the same time...except two individuals standing perfectly motionless next to each other...and then there still is a small difference relative to the rotation of the earth...
Enter quantum physics...
it is the world of probabilities...and not of continuum...
it is a world of sub-atomic particles...that are temporal (existing for a moment and then gone)...
I find this an interesting thought...
Perhaps this puts time and reality into better perspective...
There have been many different attempts to put time and reality into perspective...
There have been the theories on multiple dimensions...
and strings...
and time travel...
But in quantum physics...reality exists for but a moment...
Think about the future...there are endless possibilities...probabilities...
Reality exists as a momentary accumulation of the quantum particles in a specific "probability"
And then it is gone (Past)
The future is all of the possibilities...but has no substance or reality...
The present is the combination and accumulation of those particles for that brief moment that quarks exist...
and then they fade and disappear...and become nothing more than a memory...
What this means that time travel is not possible...
Going back into the past...can't happen...the particles are gone...
The future...the particles have not yet combined and accumulated...
The significance it that what matters is the present...and the probabilities of the future...
This can be had with complete non-contradiction with the general theory of relativity...and answers the issues that arise relative to time and space...
Time and space...another interesting concept...
I love the thought of "warp"...
Mass warps the universe...but I believe that it is meager in comparison to the warp that occurs at the speed of light...
Although I am hypothesizing...
There is no distance at the speed of light...hence the universe become planer...perhaps better said...a point!
Transversing the entire universe with light takes no time at all...because there is no distance...
Mass and apparent gravity...are detractors from the real cool things!
I have to think about this...but I am considering that the "Big Bang" may not have been a "Bang" at all!
We have put the Big Bang in a mass and acceleration perspective...that is what a Bang is all about...
The twist may have been simply the interjection of light into the equation...or time...
And then what appeared is apparent distances...and the apparent fact that all of the stars are moving outward...(red shift)
And an apparent size of the universe of 15 billion light-years...when if fact...
There is no distance at all...
Just a rate of travel of 1sec/sec...
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We share inspiration on this subject, and I love it. About the following stements, we can't confuse the "dynamics" of the current stage or condensation of today's universe with prior phases where, for example, incomprehensible moments after the singularity "banged", the properties and components of matter are not what they are today, and behaved according to different "physics." We cannot make assumptions that hold today, about reality, then. Another quandrary in play...the inflaton (not inflation) during the BB does not compromise relativity when its expansion exceeded the speed of light...this is compounded by the bizarre theoretical total mass prior to the BB was a mere 22 pounds (yup, that's all that's necessary) to have produced the condensation of energy, at the inflaton acceleration, to produce all the physical matter, dark matter and dark energy we acknolwedge existing today. Gotta read Brian Greene's, The Fabric of the Cosmos, to taste current multi-verse, gallactic string, etc. theoretical flavors. And, yes, they only seem to increase the validation of what the faithful call Supreme Being and Creator, by eroding conflict with "science" in exchange for the increasingly elegant, practicality (for a diety) and brilliance of what essentially emulates a "full factorial", orthogonal design that includes, dare I say...multiple infinite universes of variables. I'm just saying....?!
ReplyDeleteKeep those cards and letters coming, Phil. Here's what you said, and I refer to above:
There is no distance at the speed of light...hence the universe become planer...perhaps better said...a point!
Transversing the entire universe with light takes no time at all...because there is no distance...