enord
20th November 2009 - 04:07 PM
QUOTE (light in the tunnel+Nov 13 2009, 07:38 PM)
Isn't time a dimension?
How can a dimension by "real?" Is length or distance the "reality" of linearity? It's just a method for measurement isn't it?
I've read that time stops at absolute zero, which is probably only approachable anyway not absolutely achievable. But would you say that linearity stops at an absolute point?
Is time a force? Is energy nothing more than a function of time? Would that be the same as calling linearity a force and calling distance a function of a line?
My opinion is that there are motion and energy transfers and that time is a dimensional tool to make these things measurable.
BTW, does time exist for a single particle in relation only to itself? Does an electron, for example, have time/motion in its own frame without measuring its motion in the frame of a nucleus or other particles? Maybe time is all it has within its own frame, since an observer situated in an electron would only experience energy changes as force changes through time.
time stops @ absolute 0?
time stops @ the speed of light?
interesting parameters if so!
flyingbuttressman
20th November 2009 - 04:14 PM
QUOTE (enord+Nov 20 2009, 12:07 PM)
time stops @ absolute 0?
time stops @ the speed of light?
interesting parameters if so!
Time does not stop at absolute zero.
Time does stop at the speed of light.
MjolnirPants
20th November 2009 - 05:15 PM
Time is my friend.
Me and Time used to go trolling for chicks downtown.
Time can beat up anyone here, myself included. (Time is one badass mofo...)
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