Comments on: The Pace Of Time

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 05:43:02 +0000

Isn’t time just a comparison of different changes ? Like a photon changing location from A to B – we love to call that change of location distance – and a point on the Earth’s surface changing location from C to D – a location change just like A to B but now we call it time ? And when we compare the two changes we call the result speed ?
How is that working ?
It sounds to me like different names for the same thing ,
And all the travelling back in time talks , do they make any sense at all ? Wouldn’t “reversing the arrow” of time go trough a zero point before the reverse ? Wouldn’t that mean an absolute no change situation ?
If the vibration of the strings would stop , would they still be vibrating strings ? If the electrons would stop spinning , would the atom still be an atom ? Wouldn’t most of it’s properties be lost ?
Would the universe still “exist” ,the way we define the existence now, the moment time would equal zero ?
What am I missing here ?
Thank Brian

By: Brian Koberlein

Brian Koberlein — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:35:11 +0000

There have been models involving “discrete time,” such as Planck time, but they aren’t particularly popular.

By: Cambria399

Cambria399 — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:29:25 +0000

Has there ever been a theory or observations that involve a minimum unit of time? this is not really directly related to your post but I have always wondered if research will someday reveal that time is a quantifiable property. Is time intrinsic or extrinsic? For that matter are the physical dimensions infinitely divisible or is there a limit such that you can only move say from point A to point B in discrete steps? Silly probably but i couldn’t resist asking. I love your posts Brian, thanks very much.