| What is time?
The easiest way of explaining time would be in our model to assume that
the expansion of the radius of the torus skin equals time, which is not
the whole truth as we will see later...
.
According to this we are able to look back into past from every point
of our surface along this time axis when we meet a lightbeam.
Because we know about the exact speed of light, and that it is obvious
that light travels from the past to the future as everything, we can define
any point of the timeaxis of our torus like a calendar or a diary of the
past.
If we now reassume that our
torus or sandpaper in the model consists out of some fancy particles we
assume furthermore that it might have a certain grainity forming a gigantic
mesh.
So
according to this theory any mass should cause a fault of time bending
the torus skin to the future.
In other words travelling from space to earth would be a travel to the
future.
And again there is a funny phenomenon encountered some decades ago. Two
precise clocks one installed in space and one on earth start to differ
in time immediately. Comparing both after a while shows that time on earth
seems to pass faster than in space. This happens, because the torus expands
in time as it does in size and all its projections do as well. Assuming
that the expansion in time is constant, and the number of mesh particles
stay the same, the mass would grow in size as well causing a constant
increase of the “timefault” imposed by the mass, that we would
recognize as a growing timedifference.
To put it all in a
nutshell, mass seems to be proved to have an influence on time, and this
model can explain it.
It can also explain
the funny phenomenon Einstein encountered while he was thinking about
travelling with relativistic speed (more than 10% of the speed of light)…
Einstein postulated
that mass and energy ( e=mc² as we have heared before) but also space
and time are equal. Maybe even something like two aspects of the same
thing.
To illustrate this,
look at the extension of Pythagorean theorem for the distance, d, between
two points in space:
d^2 = x^2 + y^2 +
z^2
x, y and z = the lengths,
or more correctly the difference in the co-ordinates, in each of the three
spatial directions. (This distance remains constant for fixed displacements
of the origin.)
Einstein altered the
same equation to remain constant with respect to displacement (and rotation),
but not with respect to motion. For a moving object, at least one of the
lengths from which the distance, d, is calculated is contracted relative
to a stationary observer.
The equation now becomes:
d^2 = x^2 + y^2 +
z^2 (1-v^2/c^2)^1/2
The formula shows
that the distances shrink as one moves faster.
We will dive more and more into time condensing the “room vector”
more and more (as seen on the bycicledriver below) and so in fact for
us the room-vector (what we have thought of being the distance before)
becomes smaller!
Of course a distance can not be different for two observers so if the
room changes, the time has to change too!
Einstein now uses the new "Spacetime" s to prove that distances
ARE remaining in fact constant, for all who are in relative motion.
s^2 = x^2 + y^2 +
z^2 - ct^2
This distance is said
to be a Lorentz transformation invariant and has the same value for all
inertial observers. The real distance though is the combination of time
and space as we have prooved above! Since the equation mixes time and
space up we have to always think in terms of this new concept: space-time!
 Estimate
a bicycle driver in a round elastic looping.
Up to a certain speed he will be able to drive in a normal way around
the looping (1% s.o.l.) [s.o.l = speed of light]
Then, if he constantly increases his speed there comes a point, where
the looping will start to deform, forming a little time-hollow under his
wheels (remember time is the vector describing the expansion of the torus!)
. The faster he goes the deeper the hollow. After some time he will come
to a point where increasing speed will only increase the depth of the
hollow but not increase rotation speed (100% s.o.l.).
Projecting the picture to the torus model the effect on the torus will
be the same that a bigger mass would have. So according to Einstein we
would encounter an increase of mass or something that looks like it. Additionally,
because the hollow forms out in the time axis, our bicycle driver seems
to move more faster through time, the more faster he goes which again
is a phenomenon that Einstein described and which is visible, when one
is travelling with relativistic speed bigger then 10% s.o.l.
So it seems that there
is no way to go as fast as light in the first place.
But maybe there is one:
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