- 2990 - SPACETIME - at the micro-level? Space and time change at the macro-level to keep the velocity of communications a constant. Take some time to think about that statement. At the micro-level space and time become lumpy with uncertainties and seem to avoid this limitation all together. We live in the middle of these extremes and only recognize them at the frontiers of physics and astronomy.
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- The previous Review #1241 “ How Can Space and Time be Related?” discusses space and time and their inter-relationship on a macro-scale. In order to keep the laws of physics the same for everyone, everywhere, we must keep the speed of communications at a constant.
- The constant is the speed of light which is 186,000 miles per second, or , 670 million miles per hour. As an object moves through space and approaches this limit of space divided by time, the ratio, cannot exceed this limit.
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- Therefore, time slows down so it takes longer to travel the same amount of space. Or, viewed from the point of view of time space is shrinking so during the same amount of time the object travels a smaller amount of space. This compensating behavior causes the speed of travel to stop accelerating and eventually to remain a constant velocity when the ratio reaches 640 million miles per hour.
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- That is what is happening at the macro-level of space and time. Space and time are both relative not absolute quantities, and, they can change relative to each other. What is happening at the micro-level?
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- At the smallest atomic levels space and time enter the world of “uncertainty”. (Refers to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Mechanics.) Just as particles behave more like waves of uncertainty, space and time behave like waves. The positions in space become a wave of probabilities of uncertainties. The velocities which are the ratio of space and time also become waves of probabilities of uncertainties.
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- At the smallest scales things do not become “points“. Certainties cannot be resolved. At the smallest scales they become bulls eyes of wave patterns that spread effects over a range of probabilities.
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- These waves can interfere with each other. They can reinforce each other. The waves are always present but they are only noticeable on the very smallest scales. When we get to the size of atoms energy, space, and time are waves of uncertainties.
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- In our desire to understand reality we need to measure the workings of the Universe. We need mathematics and hard data to define our theories so we can accurately predict a future outcome. Uncertainties are not what we ordered. Uncertainties muddy up the works. In contradiction the math for the micro-world has produced the most accurate theories we have ever produced.
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- Uncertainties are part of the math at the micro-level. What is even worse is that physics only involves things we can measure and when we measure something at the micro-level we introduce more uncertainty by measuring it.
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- If we measure position we change its velocity ( position with time ). If we measure its velocity we change its position (position within space ). If we measure energy we disturb the time of measurement needed to resolve the energy.
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- From the Review #1241 “ How Can Space and Time be Related?” we learned that space, time, matter and energy all contribute to the geometry of the gravitational fields. Just as space and time change in response to motion, space and time also change in response to matter and energy. This occurs at the macro-level as well as the micro-level.
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- In the big scheme of things we humans are right in the middle. Our 2 meters of height is half-way between the biggest things in the Universe and the smallest things in the Universe. We do not experience these strange behaviors of space and time until physics and astronomy take us to the extreme limits of these dimensions.
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- At the smallest levels things can remain connected even though they are separated in space. We normally think that things can not communicate over separations in space faster than the speed of light can cover that distance. However, at the smallest scales, where these uncertainties are noticeable, they seem to bypass these restrictions of spatial separation. They somehow remain connected regardless of separation
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- When quantum connections are measured on two separate quantum uncertainties a collapse of one measured uncertainty will instantaneously result in the collapse of the other exactly according to their connected uncertainty probabilities.
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- The uncertainties are “entangled” across space. Their communications are somehow not limited by the constant speed of light over distances of separation. Somehow space versus time is overcome at the quantum level for these entangled quantum effects.
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- At the micro-level space, time, and energy seem to exist as small bundles, or packets, or as they are called today, “ quantums”. The study of these has developed the math that describes their behavior which is called Quantum Mechanics.
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- Quantum Mechanics and Uncertainty Principles have allowed science to accurately and repeatedly explain what it sees. At the same time our science does not allow us to see what we explain. Once an uncertainty waveform is collapsed by a measurement there is not a way to run it backwards and return it to the waveform again. (This could be the arrow of time.)
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- Space, time, and energy become unavoidably wavy , bumpy and lumpy at the micro-scales. The uncertainty fluctuations remain inversely proportional to the time resolution of our measurements. The more we learn we find the less we know?
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- 2954 - SPACETIME - how did it come from math? - All measurements of space and time are only meaningful relative to the observer in question, and depend on the relative motion of the observer to the observed. The spacetime interval remains invariant. No matter who is doing the observing or how quickly they’re moving, the combined motion of any object through spacetime is something all observers can agree on.
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- 2792 - SPACETIME - Theory of Relativity. How it messed up geometry. Our Universe isn’t made up merely of three space dimensions, but of four “spacetime” dimensions. Three of them are space and one of them is time, and that’s where we get spacetime. The shortest distance between two spacetime events isn’t a straight line any longer. Why is that?
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- 2722 - SPACETIME - at the macro and micro levels.? How Can Space and Time be Related?. Space and time seem to be absolute quantities to us. It is hard to see their interrelationship until you take their ratio as velocity and extend that ratio to its limits. Velocity is space / time!
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- 2707 - SPACETIME - still a conundrum in science? Our universe that we know today is extremely unnatural. It is a weird permutation among countless other possibilities, observed for no other reason than that its special conditions allowed life to arise. The properties of the universe are inevitable, predictable, ‘natural,’ locking together into a sensible pattern. It is our challenge to make sense of it.
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- 2699 - SPACETIME - Einstein and the expanding Universe ? At what speed is the universe expanding? Until now, at least two independent calculation methods have arrived at two values that are different by about 10% with a deviation that is statistically irreconcilable.
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- 2567 - SPACETIME - creating new physics? Einstein invented spacetime to explain gravity. Gravity is bent spacetime. All objects, (ie:mass), move through gravity seeking the shortest distance and shortest time through the bent spacetime created by the mass. Before Einstein almost everybody thought Isaac Newton already had figured it all out.
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- 2523 - SPACETIME - Fast Speed and Short Time. You should be fascinated by time and space. Both seem so fundamental, yet, Einstein’s Theory of relativity proves that time and space are not absolutes. They are relative. They are one thing, not two things, spacetime is one thing. Space and Time bend and curve when they interact with mass. Mass tells spacetime how to bend and spacetime tells mass how to move.
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- 2522 - Space - curved or flat? Also, lists 14 more reviews about space.
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- 2271 - Hw can space and time be related? Also lists 13 more reviews about spacetime. Space and time seem to be absolute quantities to us. It is hard to see their interrelationship until you take their ratio as velocity and extend that ratio to its limits. In order for the speed of light to be a constant physical law in the Universe, regardless of the relative motion of all observers everywhere, then space and time must change in a compensating way to keep the velocity constant.
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- 2213 - Spacetime from atoms to blackholes.
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- 2180 - Velocity is space divide by time.
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- 2074 - Much todo about nothing, ie space.
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- 1790 - Space bends and time slows.
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- 1242 - How does spacetime change at the micro level?
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- 1189 - The beginning of time?
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- 1006 - Is time slowing down?
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- 910 - Time to think?
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- 854 - Time , GPS, and Entropy?
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- 842 - Pressed for time?
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- 830 - Why a 24 hour day?
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- 814 - Fast speed and short time?
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- 783, 784 - Time is what God crested to keep everything from happening all at once.
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- 747 - Why 60 minutes?
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- 590 - So you want to go into space?
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- 392 - Time dilation derived using the Pythagorean Theorem
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- 354 - The big picture using a universal calendar.
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