Recent content by ewoodlief

It's about time someone explained it; keep up the good work.

It need not be only acceleration because gravitational propagation is finite, and so even when an object travels at constant velocity it is running into more of its own propagating gravity towards the direction of motion than in the direction away. It would seem that the rate of time (or change)...

The model for spacetime is not mine alone; it is the model generally accepted by contemporary physicists. In the model, t does not stand for time--unfortunately, that is what most people get confused about and where they go wrong--it stands for the rate of time (or change) observed in a system...

There seems to be a misunderstanding of the fourth dimension that many people suffer from. Obviously, the three spatial dimensions are a result of matter and energy being in a certain place. But most people tend to think that just as one can travel the first three dimensions, they can also move...

Backward time travel is virtually impossible even if one were to "step out" of the universe. That is because even if one is outside of the universe, changes still occur on the inside. By realizing that time is not a dimension, one can begin to see why a time line is merely an accumulated...

Contemporary proponents of time travel make the erroneous assumption if B occurs after A then B is caused by A; or more specifically, time is caused by velocity/motion. I will elaborate: as the velocity of an object increases, time decreases to the point which when velocity becomes c time...

And your calculations are most likely correct. Light, and everything else, is governed by gravity because it is unable to overcome its own propagating gravity wave front. So mathematically, light should be slightly slower (even if infinitesimally) than the speed of gravity, but for the purposes...

Actually, Michael is correct in his understanding of the movement of massive objects as they travel through time. He has just restated one of the principles of Einstein's theory of relativity. And one of the underlying implications to his theory is that energy and time are equivalent, at least...

Keen observation! And that is exactly what some have done with appending relativity theories.

Gravitational influence is calculated from mass and distance. Distance is discrete only if space (the realm in which we measure distance) is discrete. In your above reasoning, you wrote "... move from one discrete unit to another" which is in direct conflict with "infinite forces". So if...

Technically, a "digital" world would have precision errors if you classify a precision error as a situation where some quantity required more precise specificity. However, if reality were discrete and the precision of such a digital world were matched to that of reality, then any precision...

"Force" was meant not only in the sense of a fundamental force, but to frame the answer in a similar form to which the question was asked.

Yes! That is a great way to look at it.

I seem to remember yet another example of how theoretical mathematics can vary from its applied counterpart. It was once mathematically reasoned that a particle could achieve faster than light travel only if it initially started out at such speeds--disregarding the "how". Upon slowing down, the...

True, I was merely adding to the discussion as to another repercussion of said travel--should one figure out how to achieve such an improbability.