http://ahole.org/2006/07/arr-the-laws-of-science-be-a-harsh-mistress/ ahole.org Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:20:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://ahole.org/2006/07/arr-the-laws-of-science-be-a-harsh-mistress/#comment-3299 hollowex Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:19:20 +0000 http://ahole.org/?p=48#comment-3299 Sorry Paul, but you're incorrect. The "slowing down" of time based on the model in your comment would occur both coming and going. If acceleration is indeed the cause of "physical reactions" that govern his "perception" of time slowing as you state. The point to my post was that "perception" and "reality" are two different things. It was mostly meant as an argument against time travel. What you are forgetting is, Relativity states that given two bodies neither can ultimately be determined to be at rest. So while the traveler is traveling at the speed of light to or fro, The Earth is also potentially the one moving to or fro. Given that is true, acceleration vs "perception" is technically overruled. Both would perceive the same thing. Now too mechanically age less than Earth is another thing. This aberration occurs because of a misinterpretation of the mechanics of space. It was believed at the time that space was a vacuum. From calculations it was extrapolated that atoms age less as they accelerate and would stop aging altogether at the speed of light. There were tests done in which seem to show that speed does indeed slow atoms. Again this was framed with the belief that space was composed of nothing. What in "reality" is occurring though is that as the atoms travel at greater speeds they undergo stressing interaction with space itself. It's not the speed that is slowing the atom but rather the interaction. I know this is not the old model but this is what is occurring. The universal speed limit is set because of this mechanism. An atom will, after a certain degree of interaction, or speed if you will, begin to decay quicker than normal. (maybe two-thirds or three-fourths the speed of light) At the speed of light the atom no longer contains it's formal information. it effectively has been split. Yet the entire time the atom existed in the same time frame as the rest of the universe. I could be wrong though. Sorry Paul, but you’re incorrect. The “slowing down” of time based on the model in your comment would occur both coming and going. If acceleration is indeed the cause of “physical reactions” that govern his “perception” of time slowing as you state. The point to my post was that “perception” and “reality” are two different things. It was mostly meant as an argument against time travel. What you are forgetting is, Relativity states that given two bodies neither can ultimately be determined to be at rest. So while the traveler is traveling at the speed of light to or fro, The Earth is also potentially the one moving to or fro. Given that is true, acceleration vs “perception” is technically overruled. Both would perceive the same thing. Now too mechanically age less than Earth is another thing. This aberration occurs because of a misinterpretation of the mechanics of space. It was believed at the time that space was a vacuum. From calculations it was extrapolated that atoms age less as they accelerate and would stop aging altogether at the speed of light. There were tests done in which seem to show that speed does indeed slow atoms. Again this was framed with the belief that space was composed of nothing. What in “reality” is occurring though is that as the atoms travel at greater speeds they undergo stressing interaction with space itself. It’s not the speed that is slowing the atom but rather the interaction. I know this is not the old model but this is what is occurring. The universal speed limit is set because of this mechanism. An atom will, after a certain degree of interaction, or speed if you will, begin to decay quicker than normal. (maybe two-thirds or three-fourths the speed of light) At the speed of light the atom no longer contains it’s formal information. it effectively has been split. Yet the entire time the atom existed in the same time frame as the rest of the universe. I could be wrong though.

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