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Guibord
Research and Development Laboratory, Inc. |
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Time There is no such thing as time, other than
as a purely abstract concept that
describes a quantity of motion as a function of a rate of motion; as an example,
time can represent the total displacement of the needles of a clock of which
the gears turn at a fixed rate, the total quantity of spin of atomic
particles as a function of a fixed rate (e.g., as a function of a time
measuring device, say an atomic clock as an example). There is no such thing
as time being a dimension, an entity (like 3D space for instance). Time is a
purely abstract concept. Time as such does not exist, in the exact same
manner that an abstract concept exists nowhere else but as a thought for the
amount of time that the thought exists in the brain of the person who
formulates the concept. An object that travels near the speed of
light does not experience a time flow different than a stationary object.
Time for the object traveling near the
speed of light only seems to vary
with respect to the stationary object; the apparent time difference is an
illusion that results from a misconception;
the only thing that varies for the traveling object is the velocity at which
its parts move (e.g., the velocity at which atomic particles spin around, so
to speak). The parts of the object move slower because of their interaction
with the field of gravity, much in the same manner that an object traveling
through air will have its moving parts, that are physically tied to it and
exposed to air, slowed down, as a result of their interaction with air.
Hence, a mechanical clock onboard a spaceship travelling near the speed of
light actually slows down; not because time varies, but because the atomic
particles that make up the clock interact strongly with the field of gravity
that permeates space. Hence, for a stationary observer, time seems to slow down onboard the spaceship because the clock
onboard the spaceship mechanically slows down; but in fact time cannot slow
down nor vary in any way, because time is a purely
abstract concept. If time is a purely abstract concept, then
it follows to reason that Albert (Einstein)’s vision concerning time was
erroneous. Albert Einstein having been mistaken about time does not make him
erroneous about everything else he said. "A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new" – A. Einstein Daniel Guibord |