Lurqerdude,
When you return from where ever you went remind me I want
to discuss Einstein's Theories of Special Relativity,
General Relativity, and possibly by then a touch of Quantum
Mechanics.
Right now I'm sort of in awe about this stuff as I try to
grasp some of the concepts. My mind hasn't been able to
fully wrap itself around all of the ideas I've begun
reading, but my brain is holding onto enough to give me
goose bumps.
Anyhow, one thing that I'm sort of stuck on is that
supposedly our universe is expanding. Possibly it is
expanding around in incredibly dense black hole. The
Mother of all black holes perhaps. Or I suppose it is the
opposite of the black hole because it isn't sucking
everything in. Instead it might be the origin point of the
Big Bang. But that is not what I'm focusing so much on
just yet.
Right now I'm stuck on an anology of relativity that deals
with the fourth dimension, time.
Einstein was basically saying something to effect that if
we were on one of those amuzement rides that spin in a
circle where the centrifical force sticks you to the wall,
time slows down the slightest bit for a person riding it
compared to a dude standing in the middle of the large
spinning wheel. It is a miniscule amount. Unreadable
perhaps. But if we were able to travel close to the speed
of light the difference would be greater. So picture
ourselves in Polvie's space ship doing laps around the
earth or the sun. We go faster and faster and faster and
at the end of the day we go back to the NNBM and discover a
few hundred years have gone by.
Would this work in theory? What I mean is, do I have the
theory all screwed up?
Anyway this isn't even what is bugging me out this morning.
This is:
So now the fabric of our universe is expanding, thus making
us stretch further out from the center of the universe as
we sort of do revolutions around this center point
(perhaps). Time keeps ticking away and possibly speeding
up because we are further away from the center. The
further from the center you are the faster you have to
travel (I'm thinking). This might be wrong. Anyway what
I'm getting at is that eventually the universe will stop
expanding (in theory). It will then reverse and begin
contracting. The center point will be a humongous black
hole sucking everything back into it at the same rate it
initially expanded. So in theory would time be going in
reverse?
What I'm getting at is, I wonder if there will eventually
come a day where we live our lives in reverse.
Like, will I some day be typing this message to you in
reverse? Will the letters be dissapearing with each
keystroke?
Will we be born of the dust being old and live our lives in
reverse? And eventually die by entering a womb?
It has my head spinning.
I suppose the answer is no. I'm probably missing something
like time is only relevant in comparison with what time it
is at the center of the universe or something my brain
hasn't even fathomed yet. Or maybe, time won't reverse
because in essence we are still in motion even though we
are moving the other direction.
I bet Wharf Rat knows the answer...
If not, perhaps polvie will find the answer while floating
along in his sailboat one starry night. But then he'll
probably forget the answer... Or not tell us because it
requires too much typing...<g>
Anyway, I would try to ask Stephen Hawking but I haven't
found his e-mail address. Do you know it?
-CosmicQuestionBuoy
P.S. I hope you aren't on one of your two year leave of
absences again. It seems you only just came back.
Hopefully you are just climbing a rock with your wife or
walking your parrot or possibly developing a quick and easy
computer software program.
P.P.S. I don't have time to spell check. Sorry about that. |
