Falling into time?

Bill DeWitt · science forum beginner Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 3

Just as an exercise, I have been working through some scenarios of time. I
have come across one that works pretty well, although I am sure others have
worked it out further than I, so I thought I would ask.

I was looking at time as if we were falling down through it. That would mean
as we pass the seconds, we would move from a higher chronometric state to
lower ones, losing chronometric energy.

Now if we move to the "side" (any of the three spatial dimentions) it takes
us a little bit longer to fall (towards whatever the center of time might
be). If we travel fast enough, we go sub-orbital, and we seem to travel
through time quite slowly. At the local speed of light, we orbit the center
of time and stop falling through it at all.

Just a sort of literary gimmick, since I can't do the math, but I would
appreciate seeing anything similar if someone has seen it.

TIA

Dave · science forum Guru Wannabe Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 191

falling implies some kind of velocity relative to something else, how would
such a velocity come about? could the big bang have given us the push in
the time dimension and we are now coasting for ever? or is there a
time-like gravitational force and something is sucking us in, perhaps
accelerating through time? does this mean we exist at only one point in
time and if we did travel forward or backward in time there would be no
trace of us? would we find other 3d worlds falling parallel to us at the
same rate? what would happen if something was falling at a different rate
and passed through our time, could we perceive it as it went by? would it
create a disturbance in our 'universe', perhaps gamma ray bursts are from
higher (or lower) 'speed' objects falling through our time? if indeed we
were getting sucked in to something and accelerating through time such that
the speed of light was changing, could we detect it? or would everything
scale accordingly and everything that 'depends' on the speed of light, or
the speed of time, would change such that the difference couldn't be
measured??

just some things to think about...

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Bill DeWitt · science forum beginner Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 3

"Dave" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote :

gb6724 · science forum Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1119

Time based on rest mass, but the environment changes
the rest mass. If the rest mass becomes negative
kilograms, time may flow backwards. Measuring
someone in negative kilograms means his body
is not attracting other matter gravitationally, but
repelling other mass.

Mr Clarke · science forum beginner Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 36

Yeh, I`m working on this one too (not as though anyone would notice)...
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