An example is always given that when we travel at speed of light we age slower as compare to the people travelling at slower speed. How does biological cycle gets affected by increase of speed?
see this, https://www.researchgate.net/post/Twin_paradox_Measurement_of_time_in_special_relativity
Dear Nikhil;
If an object can move at the speed of the light, its mass will reduce to zero, therefore; the biological cells will almost vanish as there mass will be zero. The question is if after reducing the speed to normal, will this cell's components re-assemble in the original form?
Nikhil,
Everything starts in the Big Bang, here is where the second law of thermodynamics is born. This law basically states, that in all thermal system, its atomic disorder tends to increase. For that this disorder, called entropy, increase its value, it is necessary that the volume that contains to it, increases. Then, a change of entropy and volume is equivalent to a dilation of events in one direction, this dilation is called time. So time is the separation between 2 events in a thermal system. Insomuch as both, the universe and us, also are thermal systems, our atoms will be affected too, i.e., to the speed of light, separation between events is zero, therefore the time stops, and the entropy stops too, for us.
It is necessary to differ the velocity and the acceleration. It is a very old problem from the times of Aristotle...
The relativity principle says: all inertial systems are equal. There is not an "absolute velocity". All processes (chemical, biological, etc.) in all inertial systems are equal. It is a very profound statement with some consequences: there is not an absolute time, there is not a dedicated reference system like the World Ether or other universal static material filling the whole world.
In other words - the velocity doesn't have a sense without the reference system. Relatively some objects in the Universe the Earth has a very high speed, but we don't have any problems :)
The acceleration, obviously, influences to the all processes. We can feel it directly every day in an elevator. If the system moves with an acceleration, it is not an inertial system. It is important for the well-known sophism named "Twin Paradox".
Best regards,
Denis
"The Time is the measure of motion", there is movement, there is time.
Sorry for the incorrect statement about a solution of the "Twin Paradox". Acceleration is not a solution in a direct sense, it is just an illustration of an asymmetry: one of the twins must have an acceleration and for a little time his system will be noninertial. It destroys the basis of a paradox - the twins were not in the inertial systems all time.
The problem is more difficult, but the "forgetting" about the acceleration is very widespread mistake in the criticism of the relativity principle.
First of all you need to understand that there is a limit to cosmic speed i. e ; speed of light 2.99*10^8(approximately).To put it in a broad sense, time is the measure of difference in happenings of any two events in spacetime. Light is an electromagnetic disturbance in spacetime. If you consider all biological systems even there, the biochemical interactions take place due to exchange of virtual particles photons which represents the field interactions between the system of particles under study. So there is a limit to the speed of these interactions because even these have electromagnetic waves as their tool for interactions. Now if you try to move at velocities near to cosmic speed limit, the time it takes for the particles to interact (time taken for electromagnetic waves to get exchanged between interacting particles increases thus slowing down the rate of biological clock. From this you can also infer why it is impossible for normal matter to travel at speed of light and also you can infer why the speed limit is not infinity, if it was the case there won't be any distinguishable line between future, present and past, speaking more properly, there won't be time itself, time itself becomes a point. To add one more extra interesting point, if you travel at the speed of light (hypothetical) you won't be able to see or feel anything to simply put any system of interacting particles would become static (there interactions are suppressed. I hope this answers your question . Thank you for your wonderful question. If you have further queries you may feel free to ask.
Dear Nikhil,
Einstein's theory of special relativity is not a complete theory about time, therefore it can not provide you with a satisfactory answer. Like space, time is just a background for physical processes and can be affected by the amount of matter and energy contained in space-time. Biological processes can not give you an answer either because time in biology is only a relative concept. The only problem that I am concerned is why space has 3 dimensions but time only one. It is possible to develop a 3-dimensional temporal manifold so this discrepancy can be avoided and it can provide you an absolute answer about time. I agree with Kaddour Chelabi that we need movement in order to be conscious of time and I myself have developed such theory about time that can be derived directly from special relativity. I posted it on RG entitled: A TEMPORAL DYNAMICS: A GENERALISED NEWTONIAN AND WAVE MECHANICS.
Kind regards,
Vu.
Dear Nikhil,
One of the best discussions of this difficult and fascinating subject is
presented at:
http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf
Best regards,
Janusz
If we go into metaphysics, the mechanism causing relativity of time and its effects i.e. on humans could be a denser conditions near and inside atoms. Density of what? For example superfluid-like aether. Particles' interactions (like electron - nucleus) takes more "time", even though in particles' rest frame everything look the same, time ticks "normally" and the speed of light stays the same.
Biological time has only to do with the succeeding events we are experiencing. Biological, we do not have a feeling of absolute time. We are just educated to that. And because relativistic velocities do not belong to our experiences, our biological clock does not feel the difference.
A very good and importen question.
Our answer will be a little hypothetic.
We think time only a is a measurement size,measuring energy changing´s .
If You have a subject, constant in all physical ways, no processes is going on,and the energy changing´s is a big zero.. You will not be able to measure time in that system.
So time is a human related practical size to describe processes in the nature.
We already use constant processes to describe time in atomic clocks as well .
Nature don´t care about time.
Looking on Einstein´s theories of relativity, from this sight of view , You will be very surprised.
What is time? To quite R. Feynman, "Time is what a clock measures". As regards special relativity theory, the 2nd postulate of the theory is that the speed of electromagnetic radiation is an absolute constant. This is experimentally false. By bouncing radio or microwave radiation off of the moon, and knowing the distance to the moon, and measuring the down and back time, the speed of such waves can be calculated. Depending on the material used to create the e.m. waves and the energy input to the magnetron, the resulting e.m. waves can be orders of magnitude greater than or lessor than 3(10^10)cm/sec. Thus special relativity theory is false.
When these notions can be properly defined only in framework of the “The Information as Absolute” conception – as well as the concrete application of the conception, including concretization of these notions in physics – see links in the SS post on 1-st page here
(though by some unknown reasons some threads in the RG appears, after opening the thread, as a random mix of posts; so is necessary a few times to address to the thread to see it correctly)
“…We think time only a is a measurement size,measuring energy changing´s…
- that isn’t so, when we measure, say, an changing [from an initial value ] angle when Earth moves around Sun, and so measure an corresponding time interval, we don’t measure energy changing – it is practically non-detectable for such purpose (and, for example the Earth’s kinetic energy changes at motion in+/- directions). Or we can measure time intervals counting number of flash light reflections between, say, two mirrors; again practically without photons’ energy changes, etc.
“….What is time? To quite R. Feynman, "Time is what a clock measures"…”
- yea, that is indeed rather popular “definition of the time”.
But all the rest in this post isn’t correct, besides “…special relativity theory is false” – what is indeed correct,
but not because of that “the speed of light isn’t const”, that is true just because of the SR’s “fundamental” interpretation of the quoted Feynman’s (Einstein’s….) “definition”:
in the SR clocks measure/show the “time value” (the time changings) in a 4D Minkowski spacetime point – when in this point given value of time exists always, independently on there is or no a clock in this spacetime point in given inertial reference frame.
Moreover, if there is an other inertial reference frame that moves relatively to the first one, and a [second] frame’s clock is placed in the space [meets] near a clock of the first frame, this clock will show time, which [time] differs from the first frame’s clock’s showing. For such strange SR’s inference is necessary to make the corresponding and again strange suggestion – that in every inertial reference frame exists its own Matter’s spacetime (and so – how many reference frames exist so many different spacetimes – and, correspondingly, Universes exist); what seems again as rather strange.
- etc.
In the reality the notion “Time” – and notions “Space”, “Matter” (and a number of other notions) are Meta-physical and Meta-mainstream-philosophical notions, which thus cannot be properly defined/ understandable inside these sciences; many thousands of papers, books, etc., where the ontology of these notions is considered without any concrete result, quite naturally are useless (and senseless, though).
When these notions can be properly defined only in framework of the “The Information as Absolute” conception – as well as the concrete application of the conception, including concretization of these notions in physics – see links in the SS post on 1-st page here.
Cheers
Time is a dimension that we cannot perceive. Just like a microorganism can only perceive two dimensions and we can observe it form the third dimension, we may become the observed from the dimension of time.
Time of everything has fractal structure: it consists of times of all its parts (in the scale from the atom to the Universe). The fractal structure of Time is proved by the experiments conducted by Simon Shnoll [1]. Studying different processes such as alpha-decay, biochemical reactions etc. he concluded that form of time-shaped histograms does not depend on the kind of process. It depends only on the moment of time and the geographic coordinates of the observation. The same form of registered histograms is repeated (registered for any interval of time) answers the cosmic cycles of the Moon, the Sun, etc. But there is not the duirnal cycle at the North Pole. Shnoll discovered this effect fist time when registered the repetitions with two main daily cycles different by four minutes: the solar day and the stellar day.
Time spreads instantly. This is shown by Kozyrev's astronomical observations. He discovered specific radiation coming from any astronomical object located at the position where the object (a star, a star cluster, a galaxy) stays in the moment of the observation (the present position). Coordinates of the position were calculated for the objects, knowing distance to the object, its velocity and direction of its motion. Radiation coming from the present position is not electromagetic, but it affects on a resistor in the focus of a telescope by changing its structure. These experiments manifest Kozyrev's theory of Time [2], where Time tansfers long-range action. Because long range action is impossible for material and light-like particles, it is possible: 1) to extend General Relativity to a generalized space-time which permits it [3]; 2) to build a theory of fractal structure of Time, where the fractal structure of the material Universe is a consequence of the fractal structure of Time.
The idea of long range action is verified by Nikolai Morozov. Studying the galactic effects in the world-weather, he discovered a connection between the weather and the culmination moments of distant galactic sources. The distance of these sources is measured in thousands of light years, while the effect of them appears instantly after the culmination [4].
[1] Shnoll S. Cosmophysical Factors in Stochastic Processes. American Research Press, Rehoboth (NM), 2012.
[2] Kozyrev N. Possibility of experimental study of the properties of time. The Abraham Zelmanov Journal, 2012, v.5, 188-220.
[3] Rabounski D., Borissova L. Particles Here and Beyond the Mirror. American Research Press, Rehoboth (NM), 2012.
[4] Morozov N. On the possibility of a scientific prognosis of the weather. Bulletin de l'Academie des Sciences de l'URSS, Serie geographique et geophysique, 1944, t.VIII, no.2-3, 63-71.
Can refer the time in terms of constituent of universal wave function.
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Dear Amrit;
The clock is moving, therefore time is relative to motion (action) consequently we can say that time is a criterion to describe the motion of an object
For some understanding in time understand the relation x^2+y^2+z^2-c^2 t^2
Prof Rath
Further one should read Lorentz Transformation and understand the same
Prof Rath
Time and space are relative to each other . Its understanding is not easy .In our naked
eye we are under the perview of space-like system .If we understand it ,there is hardly
point in getting woried about our ageing process.In order to give a concept of : t : clock
is the best way to visualise the same .. Further some deep thinking is necessary to
understand time in simple day to day events . For example when we run .
Prof Rath
“…For some understanding in time understand the relation x^2+y^2+z^2-c^2 t^2…”
- if x, y, z, t in the Eq. above are some coordinates of some point in a 4D space, then in this space the coordinate “t” is imaginary; when:
“…Further one should read Lorentz Transformation and understand the same…”
- the Lorentz transformations don’t contain imaginary spatial and temporal values; and the Matter’s spacetime, which is [5]4D Euclidian manifold, has no imaginary coordinates, points, distances between points, etc., as well. Besides, at any observations till now nobody experimentally observed some imaginary space or time.
“…Time and space are relative to each other …”
- both – time and space [and spacetime] are absolute and fundamentally different; so by any means they cannot relate to each other.
- Etc.
Again – before discuss something [here about the notion “Time”] is necessary to define – what is something, here – what is “Time”. In other cases at a discussion any arguments and conclusions are possible, at that any of them will not have any relation to the correct answer.
The notions “Time” (and at least notions “Space” and “Matter” that must be preliminary defined in this case also) are Meta-physical and Meta-mainstream-philosophical notions and so can be properly defined only in the “The Information as Absolute” conception https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260930711_the_Information_as_Absolute ,
Though in this case, i.e. in application in physics, is enough to read https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273777630_The_Informational_Conception_and_Basic_Physics
Besides in this case it is rather desirable to be able to think non-standardly, though…
Cheers
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