Posted on 06/18/2012 3:20:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
People often say that time speeds up as we age, but if the latest scientific theory is true the opposite could well be the case.
The radical theory by academics suggests that time itself could be slowing down - and may eventually grind to a halt altogether.
The latest mind-bending findings - put forward by researchers working at two Spanish universities - proposes that we have all been fooled into thinking the universe is expanding.
In fact, they say, time itself is slowing down until eventually, in billions of years time, it will cease altogether.
Although the findings might sound worrying, however, it's probably not worth losing any sleep over, or indeed spending too long mulling over.
According to scientists, the gradual loss of time is not noticeable to the human eye. And anyway, they say, we'll all be long gone by the time time really does end.
Professor Senovilla told New Scientist magazine: 'Everything will be frozen, like a snapshot of one instant, forever.
Scientists have previously measured the light from distant exploding stars to show that the universe is expanding at a rapid rate.
The accepted theory is based on the idea that a kind of anti-gravitational force - known as 'dark energy' - must be driving galaxies apart.
However, the scientists working on the latest theory say that we're looking at thing backwards.
And Senovilla proposes that the current assumption has got it all wrong - with the appearance of acceleration instead caused by time gradually slowing.
It might sound difficult to believe, but a cosmologist at Cambridge University, says the idea is not without substance:
'We believe that time emerged during the Big Bang, and if time can emerge, it can also disappear - that's just the reverse effect.'
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Where’s that graphic, “We’re All Going to Die?”.
Stop the world and let me off.
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.
Yep, it’s going to be a gnab gib.
Yay! I’m not aging as fast!
Thank God we’ll already be dead - so that we won’t have to worry about being killed.
Soon, I hope.
That’s it !!
I will not be responsible for my actions tonight !!
There is a good SF story on this theme, about 10 years old. I’m going to try to look it up. (If I get the time. )
Obama will stop at nothing to extend his presidency. Clearly he is slowing down the universe to prevent a Romney victory.
Wait for it..........”Global warming linked to Universe slowdown.”
Let me guess...It’s Bush’s fault?
How does the scientist know time started with the big bang. Time may have never stopped or started. It just took a licking and kept on ticking.
Oh, please. At least this helps undermine the silly "there they be dragons" of our time, dark energy.
A very accurate description of our perspective.
What we call the present is actually the immediate recent past.
What day is it? What day is it after sun rise.
PS the sun doesn't actually rise, and it's still the same day it was yesterday. Just because every human perceives it that way does not make it a fact.
Time is stretched space filled with matter. It is a plaything of the Creator.
The first time I heard this theory, I was a freshman in college. The guy spouting it was an economics major who read SciAm while puffing on self-rolled tobacco-less cigarettes.
I’d rather one of these super smart assholes who’ve figured out time is going to end would instead discover a way to fix my friggin’ prostate.
Get to work on your bucket list....
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