1.03.2008

Time, in all of its intricate intricacies

Sorry for not writing in a while, all one of you who read this at all. I have been caught up in stuff, ranging from school, reading, Eagle Scout Project™, (potential) comic, and girlfriend. That about covers all of the current stuff. on to some other stuff.

I just read a article talking about a new theory stating that time is slowing down instead of the expansion of the universe speeding up. I would like to say one thing about this. They say that it is slowing down for no apparent reason. I think that there is a perfectly reasonable reason. Time and space are interconnected. There was no time before space. But when the "Big Bang™" occurred, stuff happened extremely fast, at least in our perception. But, if time and space are interconnected, then time was going infinitely faster because the the space was infinitely smaller, aka the more compact the space, the faster time goes. To the outside observer, stuff happens extremely fast, but in reality it is going at a rather reasonable speed for its "time-frame." Therefore, space may be expanding at a constant speed or even slowing, but either way it is still expanding and by expanding time flows at a slower rate then in a more compact space. We won't experience any changes because everything is effected, just as we wont necessarily notice if space expands 100 fold because if everything expands evenly, then the distance between atoms would also greatly expand, meaning that we would be 100 times bigger, as the atoms would also be 100 times bigger etc so that we would still be on the same scale.

Hopefully that made some sense. I just went on ranting and didn't pay attention to what I was writhing half the time. Maybe next time I will make more sense. See you next time for even more of…

LIFE
THE UNIVERSE
AND EVERYTHING

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That's not what they mean by space expanding, though. Stuff is getting farther apart, but mass etc. remains the same. Also, the "farther apart" doesn't apply on a molecular level or within things, just a general "everything is kinda going this way". If it DID expand like that, eventually we would all rip apart, because strengths of forces will not increase. In fact, they decrease with distance, and since mass is not added in this, we'd be doomed. That's not happening, though, so we can just go back to dying by entropy.