New Theory Nixes "Dark Energy": Says Time is Disappearing from the Universe

The Daily Galaxy ^ | September 13, 2009 | Rebecca Sato

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks GeronL.

Says Time is Disappearing

Ah ha! I thought I'd merely *misplaced* my Franklin planner...

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[TheOldLady]

Counter-intuitively, it's sRC, not sCR.:

<img SRC="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/133702/rollover_mom.jpg>

Gives you:

[sodpoodle]

I’m OK. In the future I will remember that everything happens all at once.

That is why we have d’eja vu.

[Adder]

I really appreciate your time... lemme try again: [oh hurrah!]

[TheOldLady]

Yay! Awww, shucks. You’re welcome.

[Reeses]

This theory reminds me of a story from the early days of personal computers. A scam company sold an expensive PC expansion card that dramatically boosted a computer’s performance. All benchmarks improved and customers were happy. The only thing was it did not really boost performance, it only slowed the system’s timer chip down. More operations completed for the same measured time creating the illusion of a faster expanded computer.

[SuperLuminal]

"Says Time is Disappearing "

So at 75 I didn't know this for a fact already?!

Sheesh....Freedom & Liberty are disappearing too! Let's hurry up and get the revolution started....

The goal of the "new" theory has to be our goal.

[Kevmo]

Finally a cosmology that can explain why time flies.

[tdscpa]

THE GUESS WHO lyrics - No Time

(No time left for you) On my way to better things
(No time left for you) I found myself some wings
(No time left for you) Distant roads are callin’ me
(No time left for you) Da-un-da-un-da-un-da-un-da

[samtheman]

In billions of years, time would cease to be time altogether.

But as time slows down, we'll never actually reach the point where it stops. Our approach towards the Stoppage of Time will make an asymptotic curve.

[LTCJ]

Finally a cosmology that can explain why time flies.

Not only why but how.

The First Postulate:
Time flies like an arrow.

... leading to the Second Postulate:
Fruit flies like a banana.

[LomanBill]

>>Time is a human perception.

Time is a derivative function based upon the observable rate of state change.

While humans do perceive that state change from within the context of their own temporal experience, the state change progresses regardless of whether or not it is observed by a human.

[LomanBill]

>>But as time slows down, we’ll never
>>actually reach the point where it stops

Presuming progression of the universe towards complete entropy; when the universe is reduced to a state of complete entropy, state change will no longer take place.

Without state change, time will no longer exist.

[mad_as_he$$]

Are you sure?

[LomanBill]

Per Special Relativity, the progression of time is consistent only within the context of the observed inertial frame.

[SunkenCiv]

Of course, it may all be a bunch of Bulova.

[mad_as_he$$]

Key being “observed”. I submit that humans are incapable of making valid observations about “time” because they have assigned an arbitrary value to change. Hence my original statement. Any “time” observation by humans is contaminated by their perception of change which they equate to “time”.

[LomanBill]

Human constructs are not prerequisite for the existence of physical reality.

The progression of state change existed long before humans articulated their abstract constructs of “time”; and I expect it will continue long after we, and our observations, vanish with the wind.

[toast]

Yet another scientific theory floats off into the aether.

[RC one]

if the universe is closed, time will not cease, but it will eventually reverse itself as the second law of thermodynamics is violated. If it is open, time will never stop but will slow down to a state of “nearly stopped but never quite being stopped”. That’s my hypothesis at least. I could be wrong and probably am.