Time\'s Arrow (General)

by David Turell @, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 14:32 (3621 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: B meson study shows a quantum preferred direction:
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121119094627.htm
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> Also:"The laws of relativity have changed timeless existence from a theological claim to a physical reality. Light, you see, is outside of time, a fact of nature proven in thousands of experiments at hundreds of universities. I don't pretend to know how tomorrow can exist simultaneously with today and yesterday. But at the speed of light they actually and rigorously do. Time does not pass." Richard Swenson ... More Than Meets The Eye, Chpt. 12
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> dhw: David, I need help with this. I don't understand how "the speed of light" can be reconciled with "time does not pass". Surely you cannot have speed without time, and we all know that whatever we see is past, because it depends precisely on the speed of light. If I look at a star, I will see it as it was x light years ago. Can you please explain, then, how light can be called timeless?-Einstein imagined moving away from a clock at the speed of light. The hands never changed position. Time is stopped. Proven in satellites.


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