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SPACIALMATTER a personal view of various things by David Geoffrey Yelen October 11, 2004 I belive that if something simply doesn't make sense, then it's probably not correct. The whole concept of the theory of relativity, and how time progresses differently for every object in the universe just doesn't make any sense to me. This has been bothering me for a very long time. If you take one moment in time, lets call that moment Time(1) and second moment in time, and call it Time(2), then the difference between those times (DELTA Time(1)Time(2)) becomes a an actual direct value, and not a function based on complicated mass/gravity/speed calculation. This constant DELTA time value remains the same regardless of where it is measured, or who or where you compare it to. It has been said that the faster an object travels, the slower time progresses for that object. A typical example that is commonly given is when an astronaut is orbiting Earth, he ages more slowly than someone on Earth. This is crazy! If x amount of time passes for me, then that same amount of time passes for EVERYTHING. Now, you want to tell me that this time difference has been scientifically measured and proven. Well, keep in mind that almost all scientific facts we think we know today have almost always been preceeded by some other fact that scientists all once agreed on. As we learn new things, we rewrite the rules. There is no reason to think that the rules we think are correct today, wont be rewritten in the future. So how do I account for this disagreement? Simple. Our method of measuring time is based on chemical (or other) [particle] reactions. The aging of living organisms are based on the "time" it takes these reactions to occur. I believe that TIME doesn't change based on speed of an object, rather, internal [chemical] reactions SLOW as the speed of a body increases, eventually splitting the molecules and atoms into separate parts, and finally, light energy. Light, which so far we believe to be the smallest known "particle", travels at 299,792,458 meters per second. Objects that are larger than light particles are limited to the speed at which they can go by their mass and the particles that make up the molecules, etc. of the object. In order for an object to retain its properties, the particles that make up that object have to remain stable, and once accellerated past the speed at which they can remain stable, they will break apart--which is what happens when an object enters a black hole as the object is accellerated toward the speed of light. One last note regarding the apparent time-distortion effect that occurs when an object increases its speed: For example, when you speed up in a straight line, object perpendicular to the direction you are going appear to thin, yet the height of the objects remain the same. This can be explained simply: SAMPLING RATE. Once again, our measuring equipment is not accurate. If the sampling rate remains the same, as you accellerate past something, the vision samplings you are taking cannot keep up with the moving objects and you miss data, thereby appearing to have a thinning effect. The same would happen in reverse. If you oversample a reading, the objects would appear to thicken in the direction you are travelling. Human brains have an incredible ability to "normalize" sampled input, given relatively normal sampling conditions. Once you stray away from normal experiences that your brain is used to processing, errors will occur in the interpretation. CARBON DATING ISSUE AND TIME RELATIVITY Scientists say that time progresses slower at the poles of the Earth due because at the poles, the Earth is moving relatively faster then at the equator. This time difference is so small that it doesn't seem to affect us in "real time". However, given my ideas about chemical reactions slowing as speed increases, this concept will also affect the rate at which isotopes decay which in turn means that you need to consider the Latitude on the Earth the object came from when you carbon date it. When you are talking about objects thousands and millions of years old, this small difference can add up to a lot. We also need to "standardize" time measurement, for comparison purposes. Probably it should be based on the average speed of all the circumference of the Earth, or the speed occurring at the equator. Otherwise, we are comparing apples to oranges. |