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The Weight
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elduderinoTF
Sweatin' Bullets
Einstein did the heavy lifting for you. After seven years, he came up with E=MC2. Energy equals Matter squared by Light. I would explain it to you, but I have to understand it first. In his Second Theory of Relativity, he postulated that the faster you travel, the slower time will go, meaning you could return to Earth younger than when you left.
Obviously, I'll leave it up to you to join the dots, but I think time could indeed have a weight. I look forward to reading a paper on this...
StratUp
Most Honored Senior Member
Further: Weight is a aspect of gravity but gravity doesn't actually exist. The mass of (large) objects bends space-time to make it appear so. It's why a plan can fly in a straight line at 35,000 feet, yet circle the earth instead of heading out into space. So time has no weight but it's an aspect of it.
albala
Dr. Stratster
the older I get, the heavier I get
Eat that, Einstein!
Eat that, Einstein!
Kerry Brown
Senior Stratmaster
Made me think which lead me to this.
Is Time Real?
Physicists have been pondering this quagmire for a century, and they’re no closer to the truth than when Einstein first challenged our notions about time.
Which lead me back to philosophy 101 and Descartes.
Baelzebub
Dr. Stratster
It's not so difficult to understand. It simply states an equivalency. Basically matter/energy, they're just different forms of the same thing. Sort of like water and steam.
The equation itself just tells what the conversion rate is. The amount of a E(nergy) contained in any quantity of matter = it's m(ass) multiplied by the (c2) the speed of light squared.
c2 provides a constant. c is equal to 186000 miles per second. Square that and it's 34,596,000,000 miles per second. (In kilometers that's 55,353,600,000 per second).
This is why they use various plutonium and uranium isotopes for the big booms. Greater mass = bigger explosions.
As far as time? My personal view is that it's merely an abstraction which allows the human mind to organize the world in a linear fashion because that's the way it works.
In reality everything is happening at the same time. It's only once it's observed that it has to be measured or quantified. (thing Schroedinger's cat).
As far as having "weight" I'm not sure it does, why it would, or what useful purpose it would serve if it did.
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Go trolling in the lumber yard???
See what it gets ya
Baelzebub
Dr. Stratster
Sorry Thom. Ya lost me there. I don't troll anywhere. And all I do in the lumber yard is buy lumber.
El Gobernador
fezz parka
Time weights for no one.
Jimbo99
Senior Stratmaster
The waiting is the hardest part, at least that's what Tom Petty believed. Just don't live like a refugee in the process.
Nadnitram
Most Honored Senior Member
Time has wait.
crankmeister
Most Honored Senior Member
Time is in the realm of chaos.
Lists, chronicles, narratives and other symbolic acts are ways that we attempt to give (what we perceive as) time weight and meaning that we hope will be mutually intelligible.
Lists, chronicles, narratives and other symbolic acts are ways that we attempt to give (what we perceive as) time weight and meaning that we hope will be mutually intelligible.
s5tuart
Perfecting time travel since 2525
One day of sorrow is as long as one month of joy.
When you're sad the sadness is heavy.
When you're joyful the joy is light.
When you're sad the sadness is heavy.
When you're joyful the joy is light.
ukoldgit
Dr. Stratster
