timeline

tanzanos

1st December 2006 - 03:39 PM

Pardon my ignorance but! Is time linear or stepped? How is LINEAR possible?

movement can only exist if it can be defined, and in order to define it one must prove change. Change means two or possibly infinite variations of the original be it concerning its position in spacetime or physical state or both in any dimension. If this is true then movement is stepped and since timeline is movement then time is stepped. If time is stepped then what lies in the gap between steps. I say this because I feel that no movement means non existance (this is not possible os is it).

I know this is very phylosophical but I am after all a humble human who as yet cannot have the answers he seeks in order to comprehend his existance. (forget religion it has no answers).

Zephir

1st December 2006 - 04:26 PM

QUOTE (tanzanos+Dec 1 2006, 06:39 PM)

Is time linear or stepped? How is LINEAR possible?

By the Aether Wave Theory the time is defined by the wave frequency/energy density of the underlying inertial environment, which defines the time measure. By such way, both these answers are possible, because such insight is solely recursive. The dense wave packets can be considered as the particle system, the dense particle system can be considered as the (nearly) continuous elastic environment.

But you're right, in principle such environment cannot be never fully homogeneous for the time concept working (and whole the recursive concept of Aether foam). By the similar way, the gradient (which is the fundamental concept of Newton-Liebnitz differential calculus) can be always formed just by density field of another gradients, so it can never be fully continuous.

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