Posted on 02/11/2017 7:10:41 AM PST by MtnClimber
The physicist and author argues that cosmologists should take the concept of time more seriously and talks about becoming a “converted skeptic” on climate change.
....MULLER: The flow of time does not exist in the usual spacetime diagram of physics. Time is mysterious; in any relativistic coordinate system, it is linked to space. And yet time is different—and I mean much more than simply a sign in the metric. Time flows. Choose any coordinate system and you can stand still in space but not in time. That different behavior breaks the otherwise glorious spacetime symmetry. Moreover, there is a special moment in time we call “now.” No such special location exists in the dimensions of space.
Einstein considered his inability to account for the flow of time and the meaning of “now” as a failure. Some modern theorists aren’t up to his standard; they think that anything they can’t explain with their current theories must be dismissed as illusionary.
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Does time exist independent of space? Is there any relationship between the two?
It’s time to cross the line from later on to way back when.
bump for later
He set up a ‘foundation’ to ‘examine’ it. Refuses to acknowledge that bad data produces bad results.
Theoretical physicists think they know everything....
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Yep. He’s past his prime and going outside his area of expertise.
Exactly.
Time and space are intimately locked together into what Einstein called "space-time". The distance one has yet to travel during a trip increasingly contracts with increasing speed. This is entirely apart from the obvious shortening due to their having already traveled some of the distance.
Uh, how about "here?"
...to put it another way, a moving clock ticks out time more slowly than a stationary one at your side. In fact, it has been experimentally verified that people aboard fast-moving air or space craft actually experience a shorter length of time than the counterparts on the ground. In other words, to a very minute degree, they’ve actually moved ahead in time, vs earthbound folks. They used an atomic clock to measure.
That ridiculously stupid show and Modern Family make me very happy I gave up popular television several decades ago.
Drunk goes to the doctor for a checkup.
doctor tells drunk, I have some good news and some bad news.
Bad News: your liver is shot and you have 6 months to live.
Good News: Your wife has joined Al-Anon. It’s going to be the longest 6 months of your life.
He’s going to create some time?
Wow.
When is he going to do this?
*** “It isn’t an illusion if it’s a shared perception” ***
Magic ;^0
Recto-cranial insertion should be renamed the Mullerian Here. Once he extricates himself, he’ll make time for it.
"Here", in relation to what? Everything in the universe is in motion, except perhaps for the Microwave Background Radiation, a supposed remnant leftover from the Big Bang which (more or less) uniformly fills the universe.
With respect to it, we can actually detect the motion of our Milky Way galaxy, as one side of the MBR map is redshifted, the other blueshifted. Redshifts indicates we are moving away from that portion, while blueshifts indicates the opposite, moving towards.
Now.
But “here” is a location. How can a location be defined in terms of absolute? You can only define a location in relation to something else. And there is nothing, except perhaps for the MBR I mentioned above, that can be considered stationary, in the grand scale of things. Ultimate absoluteness.
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