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07-31-2010 09:22 AM |
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Originally Posted by tm20
(Post 74664)
i just reread the first post and thought.... if time is exceeded by the expansion of space then it really doesn't end right? ofcourse, as we travel faster things will slow down so the tube growths slower in length but gets wideer in diameter. think of it as a vuvuzela (BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR) it started at a steady rate but as the universe expanded galaxies moved apart faster and the diameter got bigger so taking time = x and space = y we get this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nction.svg.png
and spin this 360 degress by the x aixs and we get
http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/vuvuzela.jpg
:D
but eventually y/x will get so steep that it will reach a limit right? so at this point time will be significantly slower BUT it wont exactly stop.... hopefully this makes sense. but let's say we do all freese, then i'm sure whatever applies to us also applies to any other physical body in the universe so planets and stars will freeze as well? the internal layers (core, mantle etc.) will stop moving around and we will eventually reach a point were we are preserved but drift further apart for ever or maybe up to a point where the universe collapses on itself (if this is possible)
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YES! thank you. that's exactly what I was going to explain. The outcome of the math on this theory, when it's all done, is basically infinitely close to infinite dilation, which means that time will get slower faster as the collapse of this "cylinder" of space collapses. But time will never stop completely, but will be infinitely close to doing so. Since time is relative, and the rest of the universe is moving at the same "speed", including everyone's thought processes, no one will notice, and life will go on like normal (assuming we are still around, which is extremely doubtful, based on the theory of entropy.)
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Originally Posted by tm20
(Post 74689)
oh right, because in highschool we discussed time slowing but the teacher never said it actually reaches a point where it freezes :P (he was a lazy teacher)..... could it be possible for time to go backwards? :O
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Nope. Think of a speeding car. To go in reverse, one must stop completely, even for a split second. Now imagine a car that couldn't ever stop completely. Would it be possible to go in reverse then?
Still, anything is possible due to multiverse theory, or at least interaction between universes with different laws of physics. A freak accident could occur due to another freak accident on a super-galactic scale... you get the idea. So sometime in the future I may end up eating my words. The only absolute truth is "Who knows?"
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