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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey  You could argue, well it just slows down those processes. But, if that's true, what regulates those processes that could be slowed down? If they always operated the same everywhere, you could kind of argue that it had nothing to do with time. But if you can slow them down and speed them up based on your rate of acceleration (or resistance to a very powerful gravitational field, which is the same thing), then clearly something is regulating their actions and that is being affected, which kind of has to mean it is some sort of separate entity. |
Yes, exactly -- processes may slow down under acceleration. It is the
processes that are warped; 'time' is merely a shorthand reference to a certain process. If you could find a practical way to warp specific processes selectively, (e.g., slow down your processes relative to everything else) you would not
travel forward in time; you would merely experience cause and effect. Conversely, slowing everyone else's processes, relative to you, would not send you
back through time.
Hmm... now I wonder... Does radioactive decay occur at the speed of light? I have somehow neglected to test this... Doh!
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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey Anyway, the whole thing is really up in the air, as far as I can tell. Whoever even comes close to really answering that one will be assured of fame and fortune, at least as far as such things go in the geeky physics world. I'm sure that there are some physics groupies. Feynman seemed to do ok. |
Physics groupies? Huh. I was told nothing of this... Is it too much to hope that they give satisfactory brainjobs?
