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The Constant Velocity of Light in All Inertial Frames:
The velocity of light is always measured relative to the velocity of
time, and the velocity of time is always measured relative to the
velocity of light. This tautology assures us that the velocity of light
will always be the same for all observers in all inertial frames, as
the velocity of light is being measured relative to the velocity of
light in that frame. However, as demonstrated by experiments, time and
light travel slower close to gravitational masses, when measured from
distant frames.
What is Time?
Time is an emergent property of the underlying reality that a fourth
dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. All
our measurements of time are based on the emission and propagation of
photons, and all photons propagate by surfing the expanding fourth
dimension. So it is that time inherits properties of the fourth
dimension, but time is not the fourth dimension.
Too many physicists have extended dimensional properties to the notion
of time, rather than realizing that time is an emergent property tied
closely to a fourth expanding dimension. Because our notions of time
are linked to change, and because all change is linked to the emission
and propagation of photons, and because all photons propagate in the
expanding fourth dimension, time has naturally been confused with the
fourth dimension. Because the fourth dimension is expanding in
quantized units, macroscopic objects never make it any deeper into the
fourth dimension than a quantum unit.
Einstein On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
In On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, Einstein wrote, "Examples
of this sort, together with the unsuccessful attempts to discover any
motion of the earth relatively to the 'light medium,' suggest that
the phenomena of electrodynamics as well as of mechanics possess no
properties corresponding to the idea of absolute rest." There is no
frame of absolute rest, because the fourth dimension is expanding at a
constant rate equally in all directions. No relative motion of the
earth was ever discovered relative to the 'light medium,' because
the light medium is the fourth dimension which is expanding equally in
all directions. All of our notions of velocity are measured with
respect to time, and all our notions of time are wed inherently to the
propagation of energy, which is only propagating because it surfs the
crest of the expanding fourth dimension.
Einstein continues, "They suggest that, as already has been shown to
the first order of small quantities, the same laws of electrodynamics
and optics will be valid for all frames of reference for which the
equations of mechanics hold good. We will raise this conjecture (the
purport of which will hereafter be called the "Principle of
Relativity") to the status of a postulate, and also introduce another
postulate, which is only apparently irreconcilable with the former,
namely, that light is always propagated in empty space with a definite
velocity c which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting
body. These two postulates suffice for the attainment of a simple and
consistent theory of the electrodynamics of moving bodies based on
Maxwell's theory for stationary bodies. The introduction of a
"luminiferous ether" will prove to be superfluous inasmuch as the
view here to be developed will not require an 'absolutely stationary
space' provide with special properties, nor assign a velocity-vector
to a point of the empty space in which electromagnetic processes take
place." Again, there is no ether in the classical sense, but there is
a fourth dimension that is expanding relative to the three spatial
dimensions at the constant rate of c in units of the Planck length.
Time Dilation
As one approaches the velocity of light, one catches up with the
fundamental expansion of the fourth dimension, and there is a smaller
chance for a photon being emitted without being reabsorbed in any
process. The expanding fourth dimension is what carries photons away,
allowing the electro-chemical transitions that underlie all clocks, be
they mechanical, biological, or electronic. Thus time slows for the
moving clock, as all time, be it an unwinding clock spring,
oscillations in a quartz crystal, or a beating heart, rely on the
emission of photons. All photons propagate by surfing the crest of the
expanding fourth dimension, and as any object catches up with the
expanding dimension, as it is rotated more into the expanding fourth
dimension, there is less of a chance that a photon can be emitted to
foster the physical change that constitutes aging, and time slows.
Surfing the Fourth Dimension:
A Photon as a Spherically Expanding Wavefront:
A photon expands through space in a spherically symmetric manner
because the fourth dimension is expanding through the three spatial
dimensions in a spherically symmetric manner. A photon "surfs" the
crest of the expanding fourth dimension.
Time is not a Dimension:
In certain cases Einstein and other physicists extended the metaphor of
dimensions too far to time. For time is not a dimension. Time is
consciousness of change, replete with past, present, and future, and
cause and effect. The past and future exist only in our minds, one the
record of events, and the second a creation of what could be, based on
our powers of inductive reasoning, inspiration, and dreams. There is
one present for the universe, and although it might be measured
differently, there is one absolute present. At every point throughout
the universe the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three
spatial dimensions. Every tiny point of the fourth dimension is
becoming a tiny sphere with a radius of the Planck length, and every
tiny point on that tiny sphere is becoming a tiny sphere in its own
right. A photon surfs the edge of this expansion, riding the crest,
appearing as a spherically-symmetric wavefront, expanding throughout
the three spatial dimensions.
Lorentz Contraction:
Relativistic length contraction (Lorentzian Contraction) is always
accompanied by an increase in velocity, as the probability that each
quantum of the object resides in the time dimension is increased.
Relativistic length contraction can be accounted for by the fact that
as an object gains velocity its probabilistic wave function, is rotated
more into the time dimension, and thus it appears shorter from the
persepective of the three spatial dimensions. At the speed of light the
object would have to be a photon, so as to be completely orthogonal to
the spatial dimension, as any presence or probability that a particle
is in the spatial dimnsion means that there is a probability that the
time dimension will expand without carrying it along, in essence
leaving it behind for that moment it exists in the spatial dimension.
QFT:
The Equivalence of Mass and Energy:
Energy and mass are equivalent, expressed by E=mc^2, because the only
difference between mass and energy is the degree to which the matter
exists in the fourth dimension that is expanding at the rate of c
relative to the three spatial dimensions. When matter is rotated into
the expanding dimension, it is carried along at the velocity c relative
to the three spatial dimensions, and appears as photons. Thus all rest
mass has the potential to liberate immense amounts of energy by
existing in the expanding fourth dimension, surfing the expanding
dimension as photons.
Wave-Particle Duality:
Wave-particle duality is the result of the universe's existence upon
a reality that has three stationary spatial dimensions and one
expanding dimension. Freely traveling photons are the extreme case of
matter that exists completely in the expanding fourth dimension,
orthogonal to the three spatial dimensions. When a freely traveling
photon interacts with a measurement device in the stationary
dimensions-when it blackens a grain in a photographic plate-it
ceases being a wave and is manifested as a particle with a definitive
locality as its wave function collapses. When matter exists in the
expanding fourth dimension, it is seen as wave, or a photon, or energy.
Depending how and when we choose to observe matter determines whether
we observe its wave or particle properties. Photons are quantized
bundles of energy that propagate at the velocity of c-this is because
photons represent matter rotated into the fourth dimension which is
expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions in a quantized
manner, in units of Planck's length at the rate of c.
Philosophical and Physical Barriers to Moving Dimensions
Many trained physicists have a knee-jerk reaction that the time
dimension cannot be moving because "dimensions cannot move." First
off, since the universe is expanding, space-time is also expanding,
demonstrating that dimensions are moving and expanding. Secondly,
general relativity demonstrates that massive objects warp space-time,
meaning that as a massive object moves though space-time, it stretches
space-time, showing again that space-time in one area can move, or
deform, relative to space-time in another area. GR is a sound theory,
backed up with multiple high-profile experiments, including the
demonstration that starlight is bent by the sun and the verification
that orbiting stars radiate energy in the form of gravity waves. Thus
there exist neither philosophical nor physical barriers to the concept
of moving dimensions, but for artificial ones within lazy minds.
A curious sign of the times is that physicists will accept on blind
faith the existence of ten, twenty, or thirty dimensions, dimensions
that are curled up, or too small to measure, and yet they will reel in
shock and horror at a perfectly obvious postulate-the fourth
dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions.
They are to be forgiven-it has been a long time since a simple
postulate has been offered in the realm of physics, and the foreign
nature of truth's simple beauty is seen as a violent affront to the
String Theorist's convoluted sensibilities.
The Mysterious Minus Sign in The Metric
Consider the metric for a space-time interval:
x^2+y^2+z^2-c^2t^2=s^2
Consider the metric for a photon, which travels at the speed of light.
x^2+y^2+z^2-c^2t^2=0
Supposing that it is traveling along the x direction, we can write:
x^2-c^2t^2=0
x^2=c^2t^2
x=ct
Now let us ask a question, as we must certainly be free to ask
questions if we are to further physics. For a photon, how is the x
coordinate changing relative to the time coordinate? Would not the
answer just be the slope of the line in x=ct?
dx/dt=c
And so it is that for the photon-for all photons-the x coordinate
is changing at the rate of c relative to the t coordinate.
But no matter how far the photon travels in space, it will have moved
the same distance in space-time-0-not at all-the null vector.
This is because the time coordinate itself is moving, or more correctly
I should state that this is because the fourth dimension which carries
photons at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions is
expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions,
and the propagation of photons/energy gives rise to our notions of
time. Remember that all time is based on the transportation of energy,
or the propagation of photons, so that our notion of time and clocks is
inherently wed to the fact that photons propagate at the rate of c
relative to the three spatial dimensions, which is inherently wed to
the fact that a fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three
spatial dimensions. Thus it makes sense that time does not pass for the
photon, and too, it makes sense that the distance a photon travels
through space-time is defined as the null vector.
Rather than just accepting the minus sign in front of the c^2t^2 as
being there because it "just is there," MDT aims to look at the
deeper reality which gives rise to the minus sign. A physicist's job
is not to accept things on blind faith, nor only ask questions that are
allowed to be asked, but a physicist's job is to wonder freely-to
roam and range upon the frontiers of logic and reason. And that wonder,
which seems all but forgotten in the bureaucratization of modern
physics, with its billions of dollars for elegant fabrications woven
from string theories which yet leave the Emperor naked, leads to the
deeper beauty. "Imagination is more important than knowledge," was
how Einstein put it.
The Collapse of the Wave Function:
The collapse of the wave function is also known as an irreversible
process, or a measurement, akin to a photon blackening a grain in
photographic film, or a photon being measured in front of one slit or
the other in a double-slit experiment, whereupon the interference
pattern disappears because the slit is ascertained, the wave has
collapsed, and the matter exhibits particulate behavior. Before it was
measured, the photon expanded through space as a spherically-symmetric
wave front, as it was matter surfing the expanding fourth dimension,
which is expanding through space in a spherically-symmetric manner.
Until the photon interacts with matter, or a measurement device in the
lab, the photon has equal probability of existing anywhere upon the
crest of the spherically symmetric wavefront, and thus it appears to
travel all paths-a physical reality Feynman took advantage of his
"many paths" formulation of quantum mechanics.
As Huygen's principle states that each point on an expanding
spherical wavefront is itself an expanding spherical wavefront, the
photon also has a probability of appearing earlier along on its
journey, or somewhere upon a smaller sphere centered upon its point of
origination. But over time the probabilities average out such that the
photon surfs along with the crest of the expanding fourth dimension,
and it appears to travel at the constant rate of c.
The collapse of the wave function is what happens when matter changes
its rotation relative to the time dimension. All measurements entail a
transfer of energy, and all measurements thus entail photons leaving
the expanding fourth dimension and being trapped in matter that is
stationary in an inertial lab frame. Perhaps this is why photons exert
no gravity while propagating freely, but do add gravitational mass
after their wave functions have collapsed, when they are trapped by
electrons within lab measurement apparatuses or photographic film.
The EPR Effect & Nonlocality of Quantum Mechanics:
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect (EPR) effect, which calls
instantaneous action at a distance "spooky," can be accounted for
by the intrinsic nonlocality of an expanding fourth dimension. As a
point expands into a tiny sphere in the fourth dimension, it is yet a
single locale in that dimension, and hence though two initially
interacting particles are separated in the spatial dimensions, they may
yet exist in the same place in the time dimension, and hence be
connected before they're measured-before the wave function
collapses. Quantum Mechanics exhibits nonlocal properties because the
fourth dimension exhibits nonlocal properties, as it is expanding
relative to the three spatial dimensions.
Please see the dialogue with Penrose later on.
The Photon's Null Vector
The null vector of the photon, which remains 0 no matter how far or
fast the photon travels in space-time, may be accounted for by the fact
that the fourth dimension is moving, and thus the only way to stay
still in the four dimensions with an effective null movement, is to
move along with, or "surf" the expanding fourth dimension.
The Ageless Photon
A photon does not age. No time passes for a photon. This is because
although a photon travels with the velocity c, it stays at the exact
same place in the fourth dimension as it surfs the expanding fourth
dimension. How else, other than with a moving fourth dimension, can we
explain that the only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is
to move at the velocity of c relative to the three spatial dimensions?
And how else, but with a moving fourth dimension, can we explain that
any object stationary in the three spatial dimensions is moving with a
velocity of c relative to the fourth dimension?
Time is an Emergent Phenomena of Moving Dimensions-It is Not a
Dimension
Einstein's, Penrose's (and many leading physicist's) mistaken view
of "the future being out there" in a block universe arises because
physicists misleadingly label "time" the fourth dimension, thus
implying that just as we can move anywhere in the three spatial
dimensions, such as up and down and back again, so too can we move
anywhere in the time dimension, to the past, the future, and back
again, implying that both the past and future must exist, as sure as
New York and Los Angeles.
But time is not so much the fourth dimension as it is an emergent
phenomena that arises because a fourth dimension is expanding at the
rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions in a spherically
symmetric manner in units of the Planck length.
Einstein was Right:
Einstein proclaimed that all objects travel through space-time at c.
Even though we perceive a ruler along the x axis to be stationary, it
is yet traveling through space-time at the fixed speed of c, implying
that it is moving through time at the rate of c. Rotate it towards the
y axis, and its projection upon the x axis shortens, yet it still
appears to be stationary, and it is still traveling through space-time
at the rate of c, meaning that it is still traveling at the rate of c
through time, as it is stationary in space. Rotate it into the time
dimension instead of into the y dimension, and its projection along the
x axis still shortens (Lorentz contraction), but now it begins to move
through the three spatial dimensions, while maintaining the fixed speed
of c through space-time. Again, we see it propagate faster through the
three spatial dimensions as it is rotated into the fourth "time"
dimension (via a boost) because the fourth dimension is moving relative
to the three spatial dimensions.
Simply put, it is not possible to rotate an object into the fourth
"time" dimension without that object's velocity through the three
stationary dimensions changing. Thus the time dimension itself must be
expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. Another way of
looking at this is asking, "Why must something always gain a greater
velocity through space when it is rotated into the fourth "time"
dimension?" If someone can conduct a Lorentz transformation on a
ruler, and rotate it into the fourth dimension without its velocity
augmenting through the three spatial dimensions, I would very much like
to hear about it.
Brian Greene's Treatment-The Time Dimension is Moving Relative to
the Spatial Dimension
As Brian Greene points out in the Appendix to Chapter 2 of The Elegant
Universe, we note that from the space-time position 4-vector
x=(ct,x1,x2,x3), we can create the velocity 4-vector u=dx/d(tau), where
tau is the proper time defined by
d(tau)^2=dt^2-c^-2(dx1^2+dx2^2+dx3^2). Then the "speed through
space-time" is the magnitude of the 4-vector u,
((c^2dt^2-dx^2)/(dt^2-c^-2dx^2))^(1/2), which is identically the speed
of light c. Now, we can rearrange the equation
c^2(dt/d(tau))^2-(dx/d(tau))^2=c^2 to be
c^2(d(tau)/dt))^2+(dx/d(tau))^2=c^2. This shows that an increase of an
object's speed through space, (dx/d(tau))^2)^(1/2)= dx/d(tau) must be
accompanied by a decrease in d(tau)/dt which is the object's speed
through time, which also may be considered the rate at which time
elapses on its own clock d(tau) or the proper time, as compared with
that on our stationary clock dt."
Here again we see that even a stationary object has the velocity of c
through space-time. How can a stationary object have such a high
velocity? This is because the fourth dimension is expanding relative to
the three spatial dimensions at all points. So a stationary object will
see photons being carried away upon the crests of the expanding
dimension, at the rate of c, and this will be interpreted that that
object is aging, or moving through time at the rate of c, although in
reality the object itself never goes much deeper than the Planck length
into the expanding fourth dimension. Again, time is not the fourth
dimension, but it is an emergent property of an expanding fourth
dimension.
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| User: "Bill Hobba" |
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| Title: Re: New Conception of Time: Moving Dimensions Theory |
15 Feb 2006 06:00:21 PM |
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<drelliot@gmail.com> wrote in message
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The Constant Velocity of Light in All Inertial Frames:
The velocity of light is always measured relative to the velocity of
time,
Seek help soon.
Bill
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| User: "AllYou!" |
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15 Feb 2006 01:48:22 PM |
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<drelliot@gmail.com> wrote in message
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What is Time?
Time is an emergent property of the underlying reality that a fourth
dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions.
Property of the reality? That's not a scientifically valid definition.
All
our measurements of time are based on the emission and propagation of
photons, and all photons propagate by surfing the expanding fourth
dimension.
All photons propogate by surfing a dimension. More nonsense.
So it is that time inherits properties of the fourth
dimension, but time is not the fourth dimension.
Too many physicists have extended dimensional properties to the notion
of time, rather than realizing that time is an emergent property tied
closely to a fourth expanding dimension.
So time isn't the forth dimension, but just *tied* to it? Define
*tied*.
[snipped the rest for use at a later *time*.]
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| User: "rbcc" |
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15 Feb 2006 11:44:08 PM |
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| User: "Joe efischer@ig1oucom" |
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15 Feb 2006 11:06:51 PM |
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On 15 Feb 2006 07:51:28 -0800, wrote:
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The Constant Velocity of Light in All Inertial Frames:
The velocity of light is always measured relative to the velocity of
time, and the velocity of time is always measured relative to the
velocity of light. This tautology assures us that the velocity of light
will always be the same for all observers in all inertial frames, as
the velocity of light is being measured relative to the velocity of
light in that frame.
It is NOT a tautology, DOCTOR.
However, as demonstrated by experiments, time and
light travel slower close to gravitational masses, when measured from
distant frames.
That is one interpretation of the phenomenon, but there
may be a better one.
Joe Fischer
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