kmguru
Staff member
I think, the numbers are messed up. Half life of proton has been estimated from 10^31 to 10^34 years. That makes the numbers 10 thousand trillion trillion (at 10^31) years. To compound the problem, no one knows what happens to time dimension itself in such a long time...here is some stuff from the net.
The entropy function of bound energy (matter) is the intrinsic motion of time. Because time is a linear, one-way dimension, there is no spatial dispersion of bound energy's potential for work; matter ages, but if it is tightly bound, as in the atomic nucleus, its energy potential can last without attenuation for many thousands of eons - the half-life of proton decay is so great it still has not been measured. The time entropy of the material system is associated with symmetry conservation (typically manifest as charge conservation), whereas the spatial entropy of free energy is associated with energy conservation. The absolute guarantee of charge conservation insulates temporal entropy from the immediate demands of energy conservation; the charges of matter are the symmetry debts of light, and while they must eventually be repaid, there is no time limit on the debt so long as gravity keeps making the interest payment which maintains the temporal dimension. Only if the time dimension ends do the charges have to be immediately redeemed. The time dimension is the entropy of the material system, replacing the intrinsic motion of light, safeguarding energy conservation through the secondary route of charge conservation, symmetry debts held securely through time, but always redeemable through charge annihilation with antimatter.
We need a physicist here to keep us straight.
The entropy function of bound energy (matter) is the intrinsic motion of time. Because time is a linear, one-way dimension, there is no spatial dispersion of bound energy's potential for work; matter ages, but if it is tightly bound, as in the atomic nucleus, its energy potential can last without attenuation for many thousands of eons - the half-life of proton decay is so great it still has not been measured. The time entropy of the material system is associated with symmetry conservation (typically manifest as charge conservation), whereas the spatial entropy of free energy is associated with energy conservation. The absolute guarantee of charge conservation insulates temporal entropy from the immediate demands of energy conservation; the charges of matter are the symmetry debts of light, and while they must eventually be repaid, there is no time limit on the debt so long as gravity keeps making the interest payment which maintains the temporal dimension. Only if the time dimension ends do the charges have to be immediately redeemed. The time dimension is the entropy of the material system, replacing the intrinsic motion of light, safeguarding energy conservation through the secondary route of charge conservation, symmetry debts held securely through time, but always redeemable through charge annihilation with antimatter.
We need a physicist here to keep us straight.
