Speed of Light not Constant?

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Re: Speed of Light not Constant?

Post by astrolabe » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:06 am

Hello aristarchusinexile,

I don't think time can be extricated from the other three dimensions. I firmly believe it to be inexorably woven into the fabric that makes up our universe and everything in it- including living creatures. BTW:

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Re: Speed of Light not Constant?

Post by harry » Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:32 am

G'day

For anything to be woven needs to be some form of matter.

Time is a measure of motion etc, it has no "What ever" to be able to be woven.

You cannot change time.
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Re: Speed of Light not Constant?

Post by astrolabe » Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:08 pm

Hello Harry,

"Woven" was an unfortunate word choice for describing time's relationship to our three dimentional world, but I was trying (in an admittedly rather ineloquent way) to imply the spacetime idea. What can I say, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you :oops: IOW change space, change time, bend space, bend time etc.
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Re: Speed of Light not Constant?

Post by Qev » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:25 am

I don't really see time as any different than space, when it comes right down to it. Just as distance is an observer's measure of separation of position, time is an observer's measure of separation of occurrence. It's a direction, more or less.
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