You can't think of it in terms of area. That doesn't mean anything. You have to, instead, accept that Einstein didn't invent E=mc^2 out of nothing. There was a natural progression of thought using math that already existed. It was derived, not invented. As an analogy, consider the example of...
I would go so far as to say time is axiomatic. You couldn't prove the non-existence of time any more than you could disprove the communtivity of the integers under addition. It's there, and we have to deal with it. Instead, we should be discuss the nature of time, i.e. is it discrete or...
First, time is not measured relative to motion... motion is measured relative to time. v=dx/dt. Secondly, your artifical universe disallows knowledge of any physical quantity. You can't measure anything, thus you don't know if gravity even exists. I presume we both agree that there is enough...
In this system, you have no idea if time flows or not because nothing changes. You cannot argue for or against time in this example. However, if in this universe you have a ball NOT at 0k, then one can assume the molecules of the ball move in some fashion. One can therefore distinguish between 1...
But a shape change is fundamental. If the shape of spacetime changes, but the 3 spatial dimensions remain the same, the 'shape' of the universe must have changed in the time coordinate... in accordance with the known laws of entropy.
No matter how you mix it, if one can distinguish the...
Your analogy is interesting, but not what I was getting at. Granted, you don't need time for thermodynamically reversible processess...ideally... but that doesn't change the fundamental nature of causality of events. To use your example, if time did not exist, all events happen simultaneously...
You know, if all it took to discount a theory was the statement "I'm right and you're wrong, nanny nanny boo boo", we really wouldn't get much accomplished. For those of you who appear to be staunch anti-timers, let's hear an argument for the cauality of the universe. Presumably, if there is no...
I've noticed a lot of people have issues with time. It's enigmatic, to be sure, but surely it must exists. The analogy of a rotating rod in a car is an oversimplification, probably. Instead, consider more regular phenomina like the period of atomic radiation.
If time did not exists, all...
I think the question you should be asking is what is the
distrubution of the universe. If one assumes the extent of the universe is infinite, and that galaxies are relatively uniformly distrubuted, then it must be safe to assume the number of galaxies infinite (in so far as it makes sense to...
Personally, I think asking questions pertaining to 'what is time' and 'what is matter' are particularly prevelant to Physics. If we did not ask such questions, would we have ever discovered the quark? Now, who's to say if we'll ever find out what the answers to these questions are, but we have...
It sounds like you're asserting some kind of QM/GR gap bridging. What is this quantum vacuum, and how does matter wave refraction create the gravitational field?
It could be something as trivial (Ha!) as interaction with an exotic manifestation, like the theoretically predicted but as of yet undetected superluminal 'tachyon'. Time reversed calculations indicate there would be no impossibilities associated with time travel with objects already moving...
I don't see how you can assert that our 'telling' time isn't a measurement of 'Time'. Hours, seconds and minutes are just as arbitrary as meters and yards, yet you have no problem with that.
Further more, I think you're making too big a distinction between Time and Space. The more we learn...
I'd say hours, minutes and seconds are particularly measurable. As was stated earlier, we are traveling through time constantly. The question is can we go in a different 'time direction'. As far as I've seen, there is no literature that shows it as an impossibility. Now, what happenes once you...
I, Brian! We meet again! Here again, you are a bit hasty. In you're analysis, would it not be true then that people on the other side of the Earth would fall towards OUR surface? Gravity is directed towards the center of the earth, and that's the direction in which objects fall. Granted, the...