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Posted on 04/20/2018 2:21:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker
What does it really mean to say that time ‘passes’? Why does time pass faster in the mountains than it does at sea level? The physicist explains in this extract from his latest book
I stop and do nothing. Nothing happens. I am thinking about nothing. I listen to the passing of time. This is time, familiar and intimate. We are taken by it. The rush of seconds, hours, years that hurls us towards life then drags us towards nothingness ... We inhabit time as fish live in water. Our being is being in time. Its solemn music nurtures us, opens the world to us, troubles us, frightens and lulls us. The universe unfolds into the future, dragged by time, and exists according to the order of time. What could be more universal and obvious than this flowing?
Reality is often very different from what it seems. The Earth appears to be flat but is in fact spherical. The sun seems to revolve in the sky when it is really we who are spinning. Neither is time what it seems to be.
Let’s begin with a simple fact: time passes faster in the mountains than it does at sea level. The difference is small but can be measured with precision timepieces that can be bought today for a few thousand pounds. This slowing down can be detected between levels just a few centimetres apart: a clock placed on the floor runs a little more slowly than one on a table.
It is not just the clocks that slow down: lower down, all processes are slower. Two friends separate, with one of them living in the plains and the other going to live in the mountains...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Regardless of where you are in the universe, the time is always now.
“That Einstein guy is so overrated.”
Einstein was hitting rock bottom in 1904/1905. He got his girlfriend pregnant and would have lost the only job he could get if his employer found out. His girlfriend had to leave the area and return home to her parents where she had a daughter, that disappeared from history. Whether she died or was put up for adoption is unknown.
During this time of emptiness, Einstein had his miracle year publishing 4 or 5 papers that were profound.
His increased popularity resulting from those papers caused Einstein to become full of himself and he lost his higher connection from which the knowledge flowed.
Thanks LibWhacker and GOPJ.
What is a party?
In 1883 a compromise is reached with the idea of dividing the world into time zones, thereby standardising time only within each zone.
Maybe for him.
“In other words, only a few years passed between the moment at which we agreed to synchronise clocks and the moment at which Einstein realised that it was impossible to do so exactly.”.........................It’s only a matter of time...................or is it a time of matter?.....................
The effect is real, not an artifact of our instruments. And it’s not really correct to say time slows down more and more as you get closer to the earth’s core. Instead it slows down as you move to regions where the gravitational field is greatest or strongest. At the core itself, the strength of the field is zero: you’d float at the core if you hadn’t been burned up and crushed by the conditions down there, and your clock would run as fast as it can anywhere in the vicinity of the earth. I’ve seen some really great quotes about this that makes this clear. I’ll try to find some of them and put them up here for you.
Posting this on 4/20 is no coincidence, right?
t is not just the clocks that slow down: lower down, all processes are slower. Two friends separate, with one of them living in the plains and the other going to live in the mountains. They meet up again years later: the one who has stayed down has lived less, aged less, the mechanism of his cuckoo clock has oscillated fewer times. He has had less time to do things, his plants have grown less, his thoughts have had less time to unfold ... Lower down, there is simply less time than at altitude.
Beautiful words.
ROFLLLL!!!
Thanks Civ
You’ve discovered what’s magical about life... thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting this LibWhacker - - I had the same reaction you had...
Since we can’t actually reach the core, I was using the core more as a reference point to distinguish between the high peaks & low depressions on the earth’s surface, and that the affects of gravitational pull was the real factor. Since the surface of the earth is the point of gravitational pull, then yes the gravitational pull would decrease as you continued towards the center mass of the earth and when you got to true center the gravitational pull left, right, up & down would counter each other to result in a net zero gravitational pull. As you are being puled in all directions at the same gravitation pull.
Time isn’t holding us/Time isn’t after us
Badboo, that was truly priceless. I salute you.
The sun seems to revolve in the sky
We sense the stretching of Present time. We cannot sense the past or the future expression of dimension Time.
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