The key in understanding how a meter of space is compressed, is by understanding Energy Concepts
The first thing we must consider is what is Energy?
I personally treat Energy as a dimension or a single reference.
Lets say this symbol or reference "-" is a unit of energy.
And lets say this symbol or reference is two "=" units of energy.
We could also have the two units of energy shown like this "--"
With the two formats as in "=" opposed to "--" we have the same quanta of energy and yet they differ, so what we need is two references so that should I state I have two units of energy I need to add or state how they are placed..
As in height by width or we can even refer to two units of energy as a Potential to do work for an amount of time..
For instance, if I defined height=Potential and width=Time and I said I had a quanta of energy that was one high by two wide you would immediately know I was implying to a quanta of energy that would imply "--"
You would also know we have two seconds of energy at a single potential.
Now lets say we compressed our Energy so we would have only one second of it, what do you think the result would be? a stronger and more solid force but for a shorter length of time?
Also:- Would I be correct if I implied Potential would have to have been increased?
Well lets consider it another way, say we compressed a whole lot of gas into a compressor, would I be correct if I stated:- what we would be doing is compressing gas into a liquid, and it should be noted the more we store in our compressor the greater our Potential Energy, and yes that's why compressors create that liquid..
So what has this to do with local space and or distances being compressed with the result that time and distances are shorter than they previously were?
Well everything! lets briefly consider our upper atmospheres Atoms and their expected and experienced compression to an atom of the same genre at sea level one should get a good idea what is entailed with compression, You see space as in the near vacuum is mass and in fact is not void and it should be noted the closer we position our selves to the core of our Earth and or galaxy or any other compression point, the shorter our percieved distances are..
And we can confirm much of this by considering the speed of light in a near vacuum and comparing it where there are many more opposing velocities such as a gas liquid and or solid..
If we refer to my previous model for our energy and imply each "-" is C^2 it is my hope you should understand how a rise and fall in Potential or a photon is propagated through space.
"----------" here we have a near vacuum
"=-------" And here we have the same near vacuum but now we have a photon in the model, please note how our initial model was a single potential and with 10 seconds of energy and now it has somewhere double the potential energy at the expense of one second of our systems energy is lost to this increase in potential. put simply our model has had some of the Kinetic energy and or time inferences passed on to imply compression and or an increase in potential energy and yes our model has been Blue-Shifted! As it only has nine seconds of change or Kinetic energy left to it, put simply the greater the magnitude of compression the greater magnitude of Blue-Shifting one should expect..
"-=-------" it is my hope that you are able to consider how we now have opposing velocities in our model and where the opposing velocities meet we have a photon, had our increased potential and or compression point been propagated within a solid then the photon would have to have been implied as a Electron, as it should be noted with a solid the potentials are higher via the many more opposing velocities involved in the makeup of the electron, so the quanta of the electron would be a dam sight slower only because in reality the space it has to be propagated through is compressed, even though it is compressed it still takes the same time whether it is compressed or fully decompressed to a near vacuum which is with very little opposing velocities, err at this point, I hope you understand that a solid is much the same as a near vacuum only its compressed a lot more due to its experience of many more opposing velocities to it!
Anyway..
Here are a few more frames of time taken at every second up to the point where the wave and or rise and fall of potential has been propagated.
"--=------"
"---=-----"
"----=----"
"-----=---"
"------=--"
"-------=-"
"--------="
"-----------" Note here, how the model has fully decompressed and if further change is required then our model must be open to changes.
So for our initial wave to be possible we needed to increase the near vacuums potential somewhere and the only way to do this was by compressing one of the dimensions..
It also should be noted the velocity must have been introduced via the compression of our first C^2 to which it simply passed it's increased Potential on to its neighboring Potentials, and had our model been a 3Dimensional model the wave would have been propagated as per how a radio transmission would have been propagated
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Does the space travel ?
All space, density and or Mass is with change due to the fact we are referring to Potential Kinetic Energy that is constantly changing its ratio/s of how dense or its state of Potential presents as..
I Hope I have clarified basic physics to you and perhaps even given you a massive edge over many so called experts who have never and never will understand Force and Motion and or Potential and Kinetic Energy Rules.. If not could you please let me know?
Cheers,
Peter J Schoen..