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Time Is Universal
This book contains a series of essays considering how,when the effects of gravity and velocity on time are incorporated into the logic the perception of the universe might change.
The book presents an explanatory argument that following the big bang the period of of hyperinflation may not have broken the laws of classical physics by exceeding the speed of light. Rather as the universe expanded time dilated and consequently the speed of light increased.
There is a discussion which questions whether or not 174 years ago Christian Doppler was correct in asserting that light waves and sound waves are analogous and therefore light can be red-shifted by the recession of a light source just as the pitch of sound is altered by a moving sound source. And if not what other physical causes of red-shift exist.(Gravitational red-shift is obviously one but could rising entropy of light be another?) It is of note that Stephen Hawking is cited saying that Maxwell's equations demonstrate that movement of a light source does not change the frequency of the light emitted, he actually writes on page 25 of his classic "A Brief History of Time" that "if a pulse of light is emitted at a particular time at a particular point in space, then as time goes on it will spread out as a sphere of light whose size and position are independent of the speed of the source." A moving light source will thus produce a series of successive spheres of light each independent of the next. If that is the case it is difficult to envisage Doppler induced alteration of frequencies.
It is proposed that the dimension of time, as in space-time occupies a series of spherical "shells" in which the youngest shell is the most peripheral, next to the big bang and just inside Bryan Gaensler's wall of last scattering.The oldest will be a shell in which all real matter sits being 13,8 billion years inside the big bang.
Space-time is envisaged as being akin to an amorphous jelly which fills all aspects of the Universe occupying the space between galaxies, stars, planets and into the space which lies between the nucleus and electrons of atoms.
There is a proposal that as matter aggregated to form stars, galaxies and super-galaxies they sank further and further into the "jelly" of space-time and are continuing to do so, the core of the time spheres representing the future. Thus there is an arrow of cosmic time which flies through the spherical dimension of space-time from the past through the present and into the future.
As the essays progress through various aspects a question arises as to whether our perception of distant galaxies in times past which are flying apart in an expanding universe is of real events, or are those distant galaxies simply historical images of light created in past events and now virtual recordings demonstrating the maturation of the universe?
Perhaps this booklet will simply become a novelty item for students of cosmology but it might at least promote some discussion about perceptions.
As Bryan Gaensler says on page 138 of his book "Extreme Cosmos" we should be wary of "biased conclusions, based on the limits of our own perception."
The book presents an explanatory argument that following the big bang the period of of hyperinflation may not have broken the laws of classical physics by exceeding the speed of light. Rather as the universe expanded time dilated and consequently the speed of light increased.
There is a discussion which questions whether or not 174 years ago Christian Doppler was correct in asserting that light waves and sound waves are analogous and therefore light can be red-shifted by the recession of a light source just as the pitch of sound is altered by a moving sound source. And if not what other physical causes of red-shift exist.(Gravitational red-shift is obviously one but could rising entropy of light be another?) It is of note that Stephen Hawking is cited saying that Maxwell's equations demonstrate that movement of a light source does not change the frequency of the light emitted, he actually writes on page 25 of his classic "A Brief History of Time" that "if a pulse of light is emitted at a particular time at a particular point in space, then as time goes on it will spread out as a sphere of light whose size and position are independent of the speed of the source." A moving light source will thus produce a series of successive spheres of light each independent of the next. If that is the case it is difficult to envisage Doppler induced alteration of frequencies.
It is proposed that the dimension of time, as in space-time occupies a series of spherical "shells" in which the youngest shell is the most peripheral, next to the big bang and just inside Bryan Gaensler's wall of last scattering.The oldest will be a shell in which all real matter sits being 13,8 billion years inside the big bang.
Space-time is envisaged as being akin to an amorphous jelly which fills all aspects of the Universe occupying the space between galaxies, stars, planets and into the space which lies between the nucleus and electrons of atoms.
There is a proposal that as matter aggregated to form stars, galaxies and super-galaxies they sank further and further into the "jelly" of space-time and are continuing to do so, the core of the time spheres representing the future. Thus there is an arrow of cosmic time which flies through the spherical dimension of space-time from the past through the present and into the future.
As the essays progress through various aspects a question arises as to whether our perception of distant galaxies in times past which are flying apart in an expanding universe is of real events, or are those distant galaxies simply historical images of light created in past events and now virtual recordings demonstrating the maturation of the universe?
Perhaps this booklet will simply become a novelty item for students of cosmology but it might at least promote some discussion about perceptions.
As Bryan Gaensler says on page 138 of his book "Extreme Cosmos" we should be wary of "biased conclusions, based on the limits of our own perception."
56 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 9, 2017
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