without getting all heavy on the math and terminology, EVERYTHING will naturally try to follow its geodesic path...
...you don't see an ocean going ship try to jump out of the water...it just follows a path around a curved surface...local direction changes notwithstanding...
...a force on that...
...the idea that the big bang emanated from a giant black hole appeals to me for a couple of reasons...
...firstly it dispenses with the problem of a singularity and secondly, matter either couldn't ever have existed, or previously had been reduced to pure energy by this big bang/big crunch...
hello all .. if a massless object doesn't have to recognise time as a component of its existence, we seem to be all on a road to nowhere, as the instant our universe went from pure energy (but no mass) to the state where matter formed and expanded (quantum fluctuation/s?) we have to invoke...
...warp has brought up a simple question...my simple thoughts are that gravity, being intimately related to mass, has the problem of allowing for the component of time...
...anything massive has a ''life''...and all things no matter how massive ''die'' or reduce...this exactly is the proper...
...thanks for the clarifications marcus .. could i pose this thought ...to a photon or any other massless object, time has no usefulness or relevance to their being, as their traveling at the speed of light renders time to stand still...
...when we start to include mass into the physics there...
...hello all...a most fascination take on time, and for simplicity's sake the theory of time will give me endless hours of enjoyable argy bargy...it's the mathematics that seems to have to creep in ...and we all know that mathematics are the tools for proving a theory, but once again time will...
i too suggest it should be locked...if only for the reasoning that freedom of thought, and the ability to convey that on this thread is being hampered... with the end result, accidentally or not.. ridicule for the unwary ...
hello all .. could time and space be tethered by this notion?
a simple model is a universe that is 186 miles in circumference and a photon (or a massless object that complies with the known laws of physics) has traveled back to exactly the same place it departed from...the time taken would...
yes i agree Drakkith .. the problem i find both with time and distance is the infinites (or infinities) the measurements thereof bring with them ..
problem being that we are repulsed mathematically and intellectually with the concept of something being infinite (we will never believe in...
if in fact the hurricane, or bath tub scenario is a good analogy, could the loss of angular momentum be reconciled by the infalling material orbiting faster as it drops down into the black hole...so as while the object is emitting emr and therefore expending energy, its descent is more gradual...
hello Drakkith and all .. sorry about the abstract nature of my posts...
..we experience the passing of time because it is important to our functioning and beyond that, to our ability to measure experimental data...but does the ''unconscious'' universe in the course of its function ''need''...
time is not a problem for the physical universe to have to grapple with...
time only becomes a problem when ''we'' invoke it with our conscious needs to reconcile a function or system that can't be understood...which then becomes a metaphysical issue
it appears that entropy and decay is not...
new here and just a closet theorist .. i have always liked einsteins thought experiments and this can help navigate a way through the deeper mysteries ...if applied locally and used as a tool we can try to understand a bigger picture...
...an expanding universe can be likened to a five year...