RE: "Time" not a dimension.
June 7, 2011 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2011 at 6:18 pm by Zenith.)
I've read that article - it was pretty hard as my native language is not english, I am not accustomed with physics terms in english and my physics knowledge is pretty limited to high-school level.
I'm curios of some things, if you can tell me:
1. where did Einstein (I guess it was Einstein) said that this effect should be expected? (just curios, and curios about some more details about it, if I can look upon that)
2. isn't the "time" (as an entity) something hard to really imagine? I mean, if we imagine something like a god (for the sake of explanation) - invisible and who cannot touch objects or have any other effect upon the universe, perhaps omnipresent or something (just to be big and be able to watch everything happening), and sees the entire universe all at once, doesn't that mean that there would also be a 'global' time? Also, if we also imagine a 'time' that represents the order of events, shouldn't it really exist, and if it does, wouldn't it differ significantly from the "local time"? or how can you tell that two things happen at once, yet one after another?
3. The experiment didn't prove that time is indeed an entity - perhaps the most obvious way to do it is if one goes in space and returns after 1000 years but he's still young, or he returns on earth and sees the most evolved creatures being the apes (though in this latter case he may wonder if a 3rd world war happened![[Image: Laughing.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=msnsmileys.net%2Fy%2Fsmileys%2FYahoo%2FLaughing.gif)
) of if a time portal would be created, but in this case, teleporting people in past may be very dangerous (a little event may have grave significances after 1000 years, and so, many people of the future would disappear)
By the way, doesn't the teleporting through time imply another "time"? i.e. the first time he traveled in that moment, the second time he teleported in that moment. And, for instance, if someone of the year 2500 would teleport in 2011 and appear on news everywhere and tell the world, should that happen now or after we reach 2500? (year 2500 when he is teleported, so that the universe would 're-start' from the year 2011)
Yeah, perhaps this current theory would be changed once. But we can't tell, and unfortunately (in a manner of speaking, unfortunately) we don't live a thousand of years to watch if this scientific theory will ever be changed or ever be dismissed.
I'm curios of some things, if you can tell me:
1. where did Einstein (I guess it was Einstein) said that this effect should be expected? (just curios, and curios about some more details about it, if I can look upon that)
2. isn't the "time" (as an entity) something hard to really imagine? I mean, if we imagine something like a god (for the sake of explanation) - invisible and who cannot touch objects or have any other effect upon the universe, perhaps omnipresent or something (just to be big and be able to watch everything happening), and sees the entire universe all at once, doesn't that mean that there would also be a 'global' time? Also, if we also imagine a 'time' that represents the order of events, shouldn't it really exist, and if it does, wouldn't it differ significantly from the "local time"? or how can you tell that two things happen at once, yet one after another?
3. The experiment didn't prove that time is indeed an entity - perhaps the most obvious way to do it is if one goes in space and returns after 1000 years but he's still young, or he returns on earth and sees the most evolved creatures being the apes (though in this latter case he may wonder if a 3rd world war happened
) of if a time portal would be created, but in this case, teleporting people in past may be very dangerous (a little event may have grave significances after 1000 years, and so, many people of the future would disappear)By the way, doesn't the teleporting through time imply another "time"? i.e. the first time he traveled in that moment, the second time he teleported in that moment. And, for instance, if someone of the year 2500 would teleport in 2011 and appear on news everywhere and tell the world, should that happen now or after we reach 2500? (year 2500 when he is teleported, so that the universe would 're-start' from the year 2011)
Quote:The precession of a gyroscope in the gravitation field of a rotating body had never been measured before GP-B. While the results support Einstein, this didn’t have to be the case. Physicists will never cease testing their basic theories, out of curiosity that new physics could exist beyond the “accepted” picture.
Yeah, perhaps this current theory would be changed once. But we can't tell, and unfortunately (in a manner of speaking, unfortunately) we don't live a thousand of years to watch if this scientific theory will ever be changed or ever be dismissed.
