Suggested Universal Time Definitions

[Dov]

e-mailed to Scientific American in Oct 2002, not published.

 

 

(1) Time : One of the dimensional axes along which action, process, or condition occurs; it is evident and expressed by change of ambience.

 

(2) Absolute Time : Measured from extrapolated start of the Big Bang event.

 

(3) Relative time : Measured from an arbitrary occurrence.

 

(4) Units of Time : Defined arbitrarily, per Universe spatial locations and circumstances.

 

DH

[Dov]

Suggested modification of the earlier version:

 

(1) Time : The length of a specified section of a specified spatial axis of our Universe along which an event occurs or exists.

 

(2) Absolute Time : Measured along the specified Universe spatial axis from start of the Big Bang event.

 

(3) Relative time : Measured along the specified Universe spatial axis from an arbitrary occurrence.

 

(4) Units of Time : Defined arbitrarily, per Universe spatial locations and circumstances.

 

DH

[Dov]

And still another modification, following a look at

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101shape.html

according to which the geometry of the universe appears

now to be flat.

 

In this case, if the location of the Big Bang has become

the center of the expanding universe, the spatial Universe

axes are three and the location of events in the Universe

might eventually be stated and distances between locations

might be determined, and Universal time is then proportional

to the distance between events, and:

 

(1) Universal Time : A Term proportional to the distances

between events.

 

(2) Absolute Universal Time : The Term applied to the distance

of an event from the location of the Big Bang.

 

(3) Special Time : The Term applied to distance between specified

events.

 

 

Biological Time is a Special Time specified within a location since

Life, being a bubble of energy, originated and evolved under an

energetic system unique to each location, the characteristics of

which are set by the nature of its source of originating energy.

 

DH

[swansont]

AFAIK it still holds that there is no "center" to the universe, and the measurement of time depends on your kinetic and gravitational potentials. And the kinetic term depends on your frame of reference.

 

I don't think you will get very far with defining things this way, especially since the definitions are vague to begin with.

[Dov]

You are right, Swansont. Even as I was writing I felt that I was becoming increasingly incoherent.

 

My original urge to tackle the subject of time was a vague idea that whereas Time is a real factor for living entities, in the case of Universal entities Time is proportional to distance and does not warrant a separate dimensional term...