What is time?

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  1. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Not only is it news you, but you still haven't understood it - or you would realize that it does not apply here and thus not help your case.
     
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    The essence of time is the movement(s) of physical objects , measured .
     
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  5. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    I haven't read that article, but I assume this is talking about how things would look if it were possible to view things from a photon's reference frame.

    Why do you think this has any relevance beyond that specific context?
     
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  7. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    And, for Michael's benefit, the de rigueur answer to this is "you get unicorns".


    Photons cannot have a valid reference frame in mainstream physics.

    Postulate: "Photons move at c in all reference frames."
    Definition: An object's reference frame is one in which it is, itself, stationary."

    These are mutually exclusive.


    So, if you ask the question "What would happen if the laws of physics were not the laws of physics?" the answer is: "Anything you want could happen, since you're free to make up any laws you want.
    Thus unicorns, if you choose."
     
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  8. BdS Registered Senior Member

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    Cosmic or Universe Time (Cosmic/universe time scale)
    Galactic Time (our time scale)
    Atomic Time (atomic time scale)

    Photons may not experience atomic time on the atomic scale due to their motion c on the galactic scale causing dilation on the atomic scale, but on the cosmic/galactic scale frame of reference they do change their location over an interval. The Cosmic scaled frame of reference is the only absolute frame of reference for the galactic scale. Maybe the galactic scale is the only absolute frame for the atomic scale? Is the cosmic/galactic scaled frame of reference a valid frame for photons to experience time, as they do still move on those scales? Photons would experience cosmic and galactic scaled time but not atomic time?


    Do all the time scales experience the same "NOW" simultaneously?
     
  9. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    You have given various descriptions of various types of what time is known as

    I am looking more for what TIME is

    ie the PROPERTIES of TIME

    Such stuff as
    • atomic weight
    • waveform
    • smell
    • colour
    • detectability
    • position on the periodic table
    • and any other property I have missed
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  10. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Time is a logical progression. There are five points of sin, just as we have five fingers:

    Murdering your Father
    Getting your Mother pregnant
    Having intercourse with the child
    The child offers oral sex
    The child murders their Father

    That's ALL there is. However, you must have nothing. You must divide by 0.

    To divide by 0 you add 1 to what your dividing, add 1 to what your dividing by, and subtract 1 from the total.

    Thus:

    (((n+1)÷(0+1))-1)=
    (((n+1)÷1)-1)=
    ((n+1)-1)=
    n

    To have nothing, you must divide 0 by 0, which equals 0:

    (((0+1)÷(0+1))-1)=
    ((1÷1)-1)=
    1-1=
    0

    Now, divide 5 by zero, so you have everything (all 5 points of sin.)

    (((5+1)÷(0+1))-1)=
    ((6÷1)-1)=
    6-1=
    5

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  11. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    This thread is just repeating itself and filling up with off-topic nonsense. So, closed.
     
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