Amateur mathematician's time theories published at last

New Zealand Herald ^ | 31.07.2003 11.04 am | NZPA

[JerseyHighlander]

It can only be hoped this man can shake up the "settled" field and give Prof. Hawkings a run for his money. Many pointy heads are questioning the diplomas and letters after their names at this moment. So, nothing is ever still, once once in motion.

[Consort]

"No matter how small the time interval, or how slowly an object moves during that interval, it is still in motion and its position is constantly changing..."

...and time is a measurement of the duration of that movement. It seems that matter and energy are more important than time and space.

[LibWhacker]

But Mr Lynds said some other physicists "sniggered" when he originally approached them with the work . . .

I can understand why. Sounds like another Archimedes Plutonium to me.

[JerseyHighlander]

Bump

[AdmSmith]

I can understand why. Sounds like another Archimedes Plutonium to me.

Yes, sounds like crap, the article is not posted yet:Foundations of Physics Letters

When it is posted we will probably have Fun time. (pun intended)

[RadioAstronomer]

Archimedes Plutonium

LOL! There is a name I haven't heard in quite a while.

[f.Christian]

pi is infinite and circles are just imaginary constructs ... everything moves --- science never changes !!

[LibWhacker]

Found a little bit more about this guy's "theory" here. Wonder if he wrote it himself? Never heard of Khrennikov, but throwing around Wheeler's name and the favorable comparison to Einstein is a bit much!

[LibWhacker]

LOL . . . I hold an honored position in the annals of Archy: He put me on his list of mortals whom he has condemned to cross the River Styx. LOL, the guy thinks he's God. (And all I did was suggest he see a shrink.)

[FairWitness]

Now a broadcasting school tutor, Mr Lynds said his paper established that there was a necessary trade-off of all precisely determined physical values at a time, for their continuity through time.

O.K. What I want to know is how many significant digits we have to go out to to notice?

[Jeff Gordon]

Archimedes Plutonium

LOL. Is the dishwasher still making noise on the newsgroups?

[jude24]

Archimedes Plutonium

I remember my dad complaining about him when I was a kid....

[George W. Bush]

We always should remember that Einstein was working as a Swiss postal clerk when he published his theory of relativity.

Actually, I'd enjoy it if some bright young mathematician came along and upset the physics world again. It does happen every so often.

As far as the academics trying to keep his work from being published because he isn't credentialled, it seems to me that in physics and math, the work should stand or fall on its merits alone, not on the opinions of the author's academic credentials.

[SauronOfMordor]

It seems that matter and energy are more important than time and space.

Neither can exist without the other. Matter-energy cannot exist without space-time to contain it, and space-time would not exist if it was not containing matter-energy.

Visualize a universe consisting of no particles. It would have no dimension, and no duration could be measured.

In a universe of only one particle, there could be no measurement of acceleration or rotation without a wider context of other particles to have that acceleration or rotation be relative to.

In a universe of only two particles, there could be measured motion, but which one was accelerating would be a matter of opinion.

The physical laws of our universe only become meaningful (or come into existance) in a universe of many particles

[SauronOfMordor]

We always should remember that Einstein was working as a Swiss postal clerk when he published his theory of relativity.

Actually, it was as a patent clerk, in the patent office

[js1138]

O.K. What I want to know is how many significant digits we have to go out to to notice?

I was just getting used to the notion that QM set a lower limit to units of time -- something to do with Planck length.

[Oberon]

The physical laws of our universe only become meaningful (or come into existance) in a universe of many particles.

You only say that because that's the only sort of universe you've ever lived in... You really should get out more, you know. =]

[mikegi]

His plans for the near future include the publication of a paper specificially on Zeno's paradoxes themselves in the journal Philosophy of Science, and a paper relating time to consciousness.

Where is that BS meter gif? Any physics paper that includes consciousness is bullsh*t.

[js1138]

Patent clerk doesn't sound like a job for a genius unless you think about it.

[Oberon]

O.K. What I want to know is how many significant digits we have to go out to to notice?

That's an empirical consideration of a fundamental theory... for this guy's purposes, he doesn't give a flip!

(Which, of course, is not to say it's a bad question...)