Do clocks speed up in an expanding Universe?

In summary, the conventional view is that this effect is only apparent and is the cause of the cosmological redshift.
  • #36
phsopher said:
However, since the actual clocks we are using in reality do not expand with the universe, those will always tick at the same rate. The rigid clocks measure the cosmic time ##t## and continue to do so at the same rate.

Thinking about it again maybe you're right.

I've been barking up the wrong tree!
 
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  • #38
conservation of entropy and the arrow of time, has been and still is a common argument for an evolving time. Or time reversal in some extreme cases. You didn't quite state that in the other post, however the similarity is there. The arrow of time argument in regards to the second law of thermodynamics has been around for as long as the concept of entropy was first introduced. To my knowledge though its never been universally accepted, nor proven. For one thing disorder to order does not mean time reverses, like the mathematics the model would have one believe. Entropy used as the measure of order.
 

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