Physman Posted July 26, 2009 Posted July 26, 2009 (edited) How can anything cease, when you can ask what is beyond this point? If something as magnificent and grand as the universe was to cease, how, where and why? These are just some of the questions that become relevant when speaking of how can something or in this case anything end. When thinking of the beginning of the universe or the beginning of time you would imagine that it was to begin at the center and expand outwards into "Infinite space". Although, what if you were to imagine that it began at an arbitrary point in space and contracted to the center. The first disagreement you would probably think of is that it does not agree with the “Big Bang Theory”, although what if the big bang were to pull all existing matter to the center of the universe from infinite space. In this scenario you would have to imagine that the Universe is finite because when all points of the radius vector meet in the center the universe will be "complete". The immediate question asked is what was before the beginning, considering it contracted from an arbitrary point is what is beyond this arbitrary beginning? Now if you were to imagine a graph, with a vertical axis (Y) and horizontal axis (X) and a straight line running horizontally and could be defined as a line running and beginning forever, it would have neither origin nor end. So it would be illogical to imagine any end, or beginning. Another example of this would be if you were to imagine the same perpendicular graph and then imagined a half bell curve shaped line, the end of the curve could always come closer and closer to the horizontal axis so it is impossible to get a finite amount close enough to the axis. So in this case it shows that the fraction of how close you may come to the line will become smaller and smaller. At this point a quantum of space between the two points seems impossible. This would be known as the graphs asymptote or the point where it reaches an unreachable stage. At this point in our discussion one must ask what is beyond the end or what is before the beginning? I will start by saying that as the universe expands, the "Nothing" beyond the end will become something as it expands. This nothing will become something as time runs on, now we must ask at what rate will it do so. We can now assume that it will expand at the rate of an infinitely small rate of time or quanta. Any number as we have seen cannot represent the quantum of time because it is infinitely small, as presented by the asymptote of a line. So we must use a fundamental quanta correlated to the value of time, which can only be said to be now. Now is always and forever will be now, when you begin to say the word now it will not be the same now by the time you finish the word. That is the logic behind saying that two separate times cannot exist, it is now and always will be now... Although proven by General Relativity that this “now” can be altered and transformed to a point where two objects in absolute space and time become different because of time traveling a different speed in comparison (relative) to light. So light can be used as a constant of now, and can be used to compare two times at the same now that run at different speeds relative to it. So if you take the philosophical standpoint of this theory and translate it into mathematics you have “c”, the speed of light as a constant, “T” as time, and “x” as the coefficient variable to “T” representing the difference of speed of time relative to light (algebraic equations to find these results maybe more complex in these circumstances). Now, we cannot convert this into an algebraic function of c, because without proper experiments, the relationship of T and x is unknown. Now, that we have discussed how light can be a constant of time, we can now relate this fact to the to our prior discussion involving how now must be the quanta of the universes expansion. However, when the speed of light (186,000MPS) is related to the quantum of universe expansion you must assume that there is a directly proportionate ratio of the speed of light to the speed of time, which now makes the value of now definable. At this point we have agreed that now can be definable when related to the speed of a constant (light), but can this quantum be theoretically comprehensible, or for us to understand it must we use direct physical experimentation? Because observing this would be almost unachievable because of the speed of this occurrence, to bring the concept into experimentation we would need to use smaller simpler items that were analogues to this extreme situation. To finalize, the basis of my theory states that observing the rate of universal expansion in the smallest time interval possible identifies an infinitely small amount of time or quantum time. The term for the smallest possible time interval is “now”, which must be the building block of all change in time. This “now” is definable, because when the language of mathematics is applied, we can consider a constant movement that can be compared relative to “now” which in this case is light. In this scenario when light is applied a direct ratio of the two speeds is devolved, therefore making quantum time definable in respect to light. The possible results of this theory could make a proportional relative value of the first three dimensions to the fourth… Edited July 26, 2009 by Klaynos added paragraph spacing.
Martin Posted July 30, 2009 Posted July 30, 2009 Physman, please post your personal theories in the Speculation forum.
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