Recent content by dbecker215

That was a good article, thanx. A lot of philosophy for one night though... It's easy to see why time is still unresolved when so many won't even come to a common ground when trying to discuss possibilities. Philosophy's endless circles are daunting.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Distance, or length, doesn't change with relativity. Distance itself is defined as being a scalar quantity. Scalar quantities do not require direction therefore do not change in a coordinate system. (see Wikipedia for distance, scalar, and magnitude) This...

I don't believe what you're saying is correct simply because if it is 7 light years away then 7 years is the quickest you can get there. For something to be 7 light years away that means that if you were traveling at the speed of light it will take you 7 years to get there. If you are traveling...

In response to : 1. The concept of what is gravity is really still in the air. Most believe that the answer will come when physicists figure out how to connect Quantum Gravity with Classical Gravity. As far as gravity goes on a macroscopic level it is simply understood that it comes from...

I didn't say that I agreed with the original article any more, he did go on to talk about sential beings and stuff which is where I really started to turn away. I just thought that it was a bit ironic that the same day I saw this post on here I also stumbled upon the earlier one when rummaging...

You're right that you would be able to figure out whether it was spinning or not but the thing missing in all this is that your spin is still relative. The spin of the object is relative to the coordinate 0 at the axis of the object. So all the measurements that could possibly be done would...

Just wanted to say that this article seems to be a copy of an earlier one, almost plagiarized if no consent was given. The article referenced above was in 2003 this one I am mentioning was written in 1999 by Prof. David M. Harrison at the University of Toronto. Personally I think the original...

You wouldn't be able to tell whether the object is spinning or not unless you were on the outside looking in, but then it would be spinning relative to you. If you were on the object you would be rotating with in such a way that you wouldn't be able to tell. Take Earth for an example: you throw...

I understand what you mean here, but this is applying to a different perspective than what I'm talking about. The superluminal recession speed is referring to the expansion of galaxies and of space from our perspective, not necessarily the universe in its entirety. Because the universe is...

To grasp a little bit more on what we know, so far, about time you must first establish which time you are talking about. There are two main views that seem to try to explain time; the philosophical that says that time is nothing more than an illusion of consciousness, and the scientific that...

For further reading on the subject of time and it's complexities I would suggest "About Time" by Paul Davies. It's an excellent book and Mr. Davies is very good at explaining the complexities of time in an easy to understand writing style.

I don't understand how space could expand faster than light if there aren't any superluminal entities, superluminal in vacuo that is. I've heard of such things in theory but never with any valid proof existence. But how can a universe be finite and still expand. It can be finite in the...

Most models of space that I commonly see have space being flat, not spherical. They say that the over-all perspective of space is more like the "flatness" of a galaxy than it is of a spherical planet. This makes more logical sense b/c most objects that are expanding stretch out along a single...