Posted on 09/14/2009 4:04:35 AM PDT by decimon
Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This radical new theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists for years.
Scientists previously have measured the light from distant exploding stars to show that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. They assumed that these supernovae are spreading apart faster as the universe ages. Physicists also assumed that a kind of anti-gravitational force must be driving the galaxies apart, and started to call this unidentified force "dark energy".
However, to this day no one actually knows what dark energy is, or where it comes from. Professor Jose Senovilla, and his colleagues at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, have proposed a mind-bending alternative. They propose that there is no such thing as dark energy at all, and we’re looking at things backwards. Senovilla proposes that we have been fooled into thinking the expansion of the universe is accelerating, when in reality, time itself is slowing down. At an everyday level, the change would not be perceptible. However, it would be obvious from cosmic scale measurements tracking the course of the universe over billions of years. The change would be infinitesimally slow from a human perspective, but in terms of the vast perspective of cosmology, the study of ancient light from suns that shone billions of years ago, it could easily be measured
The team's proposal, which will be published in the journal Physical Review D, dismisses dark energy as fiction. Instead, Prof Senovilla says, the appearance of acceleration is caused by time itself gradually slowing down, like a clock with a run-down battery.
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I know time is disappearing from the universe! It’s been disappearing from my body for a long time!
Time keeps on slipping, slipping... into the future.
:-P
Oh stop it! You are making my brain itch;(
No kidding. The older I get, the faster it passes.
I think dark matter makes more sense than vanishing time. IMO.
All these guys with their PHD’s and assumptions are as blind as the moles that dig through the roots of my lawn looking for grubs.
How’s that for some Monday morning hiku... er... or what ever that meaningless babble some call poetry is...called.
I don’t know about the universe, but if we can’t get this Congress and this Administration the hell out of Washington, time is running out for the United States.
Logopolis will save us, by opening Charged Vacuum Emboitments...
I suspect some Hebrew Prophets might be able to give a little perspective...but i guess that’s not science right?
Paging Dr. Who.
Well, as Einstein showed, time is money, so ...
The quickening!
or time is a measurement of decay
We should use our rollover minutes...
Saving minutes saves money....
[help i can’t post a pic!]
With every Obama speech we lose precious centuries.
I’m surprised no one’s said it yet ...
“Bush’s fault!”
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