Posted on 05/29/2015 2:32:28 PM PDT by lbryce
My “feeling” is that everything has always been around. The universe has been around forever. And many universes have been around forever. Creationism can exist within this. My opinion.
Hidden Time
Not to be confused with hidden fees.
You sure about that? Time IS money.
You guys need me to explain it to you?
=)
Mathematician and artist.
I would love that, if it’s short and sweet.
I had that same feeling.
yes. lol.
OK.
In the beginning, there was this Turtle...
Um, not exactly ...
Time IS money.
Thus the saying...Time wounds all deals.
: )
Was there also a Hare involved ?
You asked: "Who knew there was a hidden time?" And yet, I don't think Belbruno was explicitly arguing that there is "hidden time." What he's doing is using mathematical probes (if I might call them that) to test various hypotheses. As tremendously useful as mathematics is, it routinely uses concepts that are widely regarded as not physically constructible; e.g., the notion of infinity. The physical case — the "physical relevance" of t-prime — requires further study, just as Belbruno notes in the above italics. That will require the construction of relevant, replicable experiments. And that may be easier said than done.
What I find interesting is that mathematically-constructed cosmologies in general do not seem to be reconcilable with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, specifically with the problem of entropy. If the universe in fact "eternally" cycles between boom and bust periods, it's easy to see how the busts happen; but what reboots the next boom, the next big bang? It is widely believed that entropy necessarily increases, or at best stays the same, in a closed system. The problem is, there is evidently no way for human beings to tell whether the universe, as a global physical system, is open or closed.
But it's instructive to entertain the speculations of mathematical cosmologists nonetheless. Especially if they are also artists and regarded as exceptionally gifted in the intuition department.
IF the speed of light works as a clocking mechanism, what does it mean that the speed of light is slowing down?
ENTROPY - what a concept...
The metamorphosis of energy.. whether a chrysalis, worm or butterfly.. it’s just energy..
OR... energy as a commodity.. a thing.. whether a being or matter.. or even a “spirit”..
Light as energy.. leaves one fantasizing about Warp Speed..
Worm holes maybe even undiscovered Butterfly holes..
Oh! well.. back to my donut...
For openers, thank you so very much for sending me the Barry Setterfield materials, in which he argues that C — the speed of light — is not a universal constant, but has actually been slowing down in recent "dynamic time." I've only skimmed his paper so far. There is much of interest here.
But there is a nagging question that still remains, and it goes right down to the ground: How does a human mind detect a slowing down, or decaying, of C, when the human observer is ineluctably, completely a part of the system in which C is decaying, and therefore is completely implicated, embroiled in the process of C decay, which is presumed to be universal?
If the value of C is not constant, then how can it act as a "clocking mechanism" in the first place?
Are other universal constants subject to such variability? If so, how can we regard them as constants?
I'm just wondering here....
A clock runs faster or slower when deeper in a gravity well than it does outside the gravity well? Think about it. Dark energy is stretching the gravity well from the top down, so to speak, as if dropping a pebble into the well increases the amount of time needed to get to the bottom of the well because the bottom and top are moving away from each other.
A photon entering the event horizon of a black hole takes infinitely longer to 'fall to the center of the black hole' because of the gravity well increase the further toward the center one goes. It is as if the center is receding faster than the speed at which the light is traveling, netting the effect of the light speed slowing to near zero. Dark energy is stretching the surface of the bubble ever faster, taking objects further from each other, relatively speaking.
IIRC, this effect was noticed while studying Quasars.
That may all be a complete jumble, given the distractions around me, so take it with a grain of ... salt?
IMHO, MHGinTN pointed out that we have lots of "wiggle room", when he ended with, "relatively speaking"... '-)
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