Time: A Man Made Concept With No Relevance To The Universe $

Posted on 2015/09/29 by Neil Howard Posted in Beginners Physics, Go Adventure in Space Leave a comment

Time Is A Man Made Concept

The writing of this article was prompted by a conversation that took place between myself and a very dear friend as we discussed making our way to a presentation, by Dai Chef, at Brynteg Holiday Park in North Wales. It was a glorious September day with no wind, a blue sky and the Sun shining strongly down on the Park. Of course, the Sun cast very distinctive shadows and one such shadow was made by the slim trunk of a tree which is growing outside of my Caravan.

The presentation was to be at 12 Noon and, as we stood outside of the caravan, my friend asked me did I know which way the caravan pointed. I understood, of course, he was asking in which geographical orientation the van was set. I replied that the Sun rises over to the left side of the caravan door which would be East. My friend, being one step ahead of me, said that the satellite dish on the caravan pointed to the South-East which he said was the direction of the satellite which was being picked up by the dish. I was stuck for a moment, then, I looked at the shadow of the tree , looked at his watch and told him that the direction of the shadow from the tree pointed North. He was happy with that and we started our short walk to the presentation. As we started to walk I asked my friend what he saw when he looked at his watch. He looked at me as to why I should ask such a question and then said “The time”. I replied “What if I told you that time does not exist and what he was seeing was a sundial showing his position on earth relative to the sun” That statement was taken in with a snort and no response by my friend. We, then, went on to really enjoy the presentation by Dai Chef and the offerings of his delicious cooking techniques.

Moving on, as we grow up we are all taught how to tell the time

This piece of knowledge has been handed down, from generation to generation, from the first human beings whose simple understanding of time was by observing that there was day and there was night.

As the human species developed the word “time” was brought into language . As the understanding of our very existence developed the need to organise our lives required a more accurate means of measuring time. Hence the invention of the sundial.

Most of the human race understands the operation of a sundial, where a shadow of a vertical set piece is projected onto the face of the sundial. A fantastic invention of its day but of little use when the sun set below the horizon or when, as in many parts of the World, the Sun is blotted out by clouds. These facts were a challenge to those that sought to measure time more accurately. The video below shows a very good understanding of how man kind has developed the measurement of time without knowing what time really is.

It has to be understood that our system of time measurement is having to deal with the fact that the Earth’s rotation is slowing down. In fact, at the formation of the World, it was spinning much faster where one Earth Rotation was made in, by today’s time cycle, of 6 hrs. With the new knowledge, that Mars has water, could we colonise Mars were our system of time would be very challenged.

Science is struggling with the issue of time and its very existence but, for the daily use of mankind, a system of time measurement, of this very elusive concept, has been devised over millennium. All mankind refers to time with respect to events in their daily lives, their birth date, how old they are, our Sun’s position , the duration of our Galaxy and the birth and death of the Universe.

Life has developed on Earth and, very likely, on other very distant planets. The distances between our closest planets are extremely difficult to overcome and the distances to other planets we may never have the resources or technology to overcome. However, should, by the remotest of chances, we were to colonise a new world, some billion, billion, billion miles away, what time system would we need to set up as Earth’s system would not cut the ice

Whilst we are contemplating our existence on earth , our earth is changing beneath our feet constantly. The Earth’s population is forever threatened with natural and, of late, man made catastrophes. It is ageing, its dynamo is slowing, its magnetic field will decay and from that moment life on Earth will decline. We, as a human race, will end and, eventually, all life will end and the Earth’s existence will end. Not to belittle the Human Race and its triumphs and tragedies, it has to be understood that we are an accident of nature. In the vastness of the Universe we are nothing, an insignificant blot. When we are gone forever, a in an instant, after the last human being succumbs to fate, a billion billion years shall go by, in an instant, as there is nobody to monitor our time pieces. Time as we understand it will have disappeared. Our measured time, only of use to us, is irrelevant to the Cosmos, the Universe and Nature.

Let us put “time” in the pigeon hole were it best sits. It is a human concept and plays no role in the physical laws of Nature and the Universes.

Many scientists now believe that time does not exist and an “instant” may be defined as the relative position of every particle ( which covers every physical mass) in relation to every other particle. There is no past or future just this “instant”. We are the product of constant change at varying rates of change. however, to have a “rate” of change man devised time otherwise we could never set a time (a grand GPS) to meet at the pub

There is one consolation. We may fear death and believe that we shall miss an awful lot after the very moment of our last breath. However, in an instant, after your last breath and as far as your life is concerned, a billion years will have elapsed and everyone will be dead, that’s for sure.

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Beginners Physics- Understanding What Your Time Piece Is Really Showing ? $

Posted on 2015/07/08 by Neil Howard Posted in Beginners Physics, Go Adventure in Space Leave a comment

What is your Watch or Mobile Really Telling You ??

The World News, of Tuesday the 29th June 2015, was dramatic. Time was to stop!!!. It was stated that the World Clocks would be adjusted by one second. The reason being that the Earth’s rotation is slowing down (and always has been from the moment the Earth’s journey was accompanied by the Moon). So, why did a fact of nature have to be matched by man made atomic clocks et al. Had time changed or had the basis, on which we have based time, changed. The World News outlets BBC,CNN, Fox etc and International News Papers all gave an account, before the event, of why the time had to be changed.

So, would that mean that each mechanical clock would have to be adjusted and, for complete accuracy, should people who have a wristwatch adjust their watch by one second.

In this blog there is a series of posts which carry the message that time does not exist so let an observation be made.

At all New Year celebrations, you will recall noting that Islands in the Pacific had their celebrations of the New Year first and then other capital cities followed with their own celebrations for their New Year. This occurs because the World Clock shows a different “time zone” for different capital cities. Larger counties with a great East to West distance eg the USA and Russia, have multiple time zones but a country, such as Norway. which has a very small East to West width but a great North to South Distance has only one time zone. All these time zones are there to have the Sun overhead, at 12 noon. By overhead is meant the Sun being half way across the Sky from an observers view.

When each person in the World opens their eyes, at the start of their waking day, one of the very first things which is done is to check the time. For many people the time shown may be 6am. However, the following day, the same person, following their same routine, will open their eyes and see 6am. This infers a day has gone by but that person is back at the same time. What every person in the World sees, on their time piece, is not “time” but an indication where they are, on the Worlds circumference, relative to the Sun. For our convenience this is shown on a scale of 1 to 24 (or 1 to 12 for am and pm) and we know this as our local time.

It has to be understood that each person has their own exact locating position relative to the Sun, our GPS if you will, but using that would lead to chaos in our lives and on the stock markets. To overcome this mankind invented the concept of time. Further, to enable the Worlds population to have a “time” that is useful the World is divided into segments. Think of segments of an orange, in this case 24 segments, and each segment is given a “time zone” between 1 and 24. In the USA, due to the great distance from the East coast to the West coast their are three “time zones”. Accordingly, even though we have a unique locator, our GPS, the land and sea surface that we are located on, have a general “time zone” to be able to organise our lives.

Many scientific people are coming to the realisation that “time” does not exist. One question that is challenging the scientific community is the duration of the Universe. Of course, everyone does not like uncertainty and, at this time, the scientific community believes that the Universe had a “start date” and therefore must have an “end date”. Whether the Universe started with a big bang and will end with a big rip or expand forever is still to be proven. Scientist have given a “time” in billions of years since the start of the Universe but what if the Universe just exists and there is and never has been, no such thing as a “non-existent Universe”.

If the Universe exists, always has done and always will exist, what length of time, in Earth years, has this been the case??

In a real life incident, which demonstrates the difficulties of “time”, as a Senior Engineer on board a container ship, shuttling between Los Angeles to Keelung, Taiwan, I had a personnel problem. The International Date Line(IDL) is an imaginary line running generally North to South is in the Pacific Ocean. A traveller crossing the IDL eastbound subtracts one day, or 24 hours, so that the calendar date to the west of the line is repeated after the following midnight. Crossing the IDL westbound results in 24 hours being added, advancing the calendar date by one day. The IDL is necessary to have a fixed, albeit arbitrary, boundary on the globe where the calendar date advances in the westbound direction. The crossing of the IDL on one voyage, by my ship, resulted in a Sunday being followed by another Sunday. As the Deck and Engine room crew were paid overtime on a Sunday, this caused the crew to submit overtime for both Sundays. Time gave me a problem then and is giving science a very big problem now.

Beginners Physics – Time and Gravity ( Part 1 of 8) $

Posted on 2015/06/13 by Neil Howard Posted in Beginners Physics, English Leave a comment

The Rise Of Intelligent Life and How Time Has Slipped into Conciousness

This series of posts are written in lay man’s terms to encourage and help those who wish to enter into the World of physics. There is still much to be learned and understood about our World, the Solar system and the Universe. There are a number of attributes of the Universe that there is much debate about. Two of these attributes are “time” and “gravity”. Many eminent scientists have spent their lives attempting to understand these two attributes and with each passing century our total understanding of exactly the nature of these two attributes leads us to other open doors.

Those, with knowledge of the subject of matter, for the last hundred years have had, at the core of their understanding, Einstein’s work of General Relativity. The apparent problem is that the rules that govern the smaller particles and the rules that govern larger masses do not match and there has been much debate as arriving at a common set of rules that govern all things. However, the attempts at arriving at this set of rules always comes up against General Relativity to which Minkowski gave us “Space time” as a way out of the problem and Einstein rubber stamped it.

In these posts, the rise of intelligent life is understood, not to have taken place over millions of years, but over billions of earth miles in a never ending journey through space aboard spaceship earth. This way of seeing the rise of intelligent life is set against the only universal known method of arriving at means of measuring movement which is through an arc and that is the reference to radians, as no matter were life happens to be in the universe, the circle will always have a circumference, a diameter, a radius and thereby the circumference of the circle divided by the diameter will always equate to the same numerical number of 3.142. Our current way of measuring life is by a relative location in space to the sun and the rotation of a point on the earth’s surface relative to the Sun. This method of measuring life is based on the man made concept of “Time”. It will be shown. in this series of articles, that the concept we have of “Time” is only good for our local place in our Solar System. It will not apply outside our local place in the Solar System. Further, the concept of linking the Suns movement across the sky was brought into being, probably, by cave dwellers. They were happy with breaking down the Suns movement to give them “Daybreak”, “Morning”, Midday”, ” Afternoon” , “Evening” and “Sunset”. Those divisions gave the cave dweller all he needed to know, about were he stood, relative to the position of the Sun. In those basic divisions of the day, the cave dweller was not aware of the concept of time passing or of movement made. However, in retrospect, we know that movement, for sure, was happening and over thousands of years we have substituted that “movement is passing” for “time is passing”. This has led to the “the problem of Time” which has become a problem to Physics only in a relatively short distance of travel, through the universe, by the earth.

Apart from the earth rotation around it’s axis and the earth rotation around the sun. the whole Solar system with the rest of the surrounding galaxy is moving through space at 1000+/- miles every six earth seconds however, an alien in the Andromeda galaxy would give a different number for his “time”.

Within a very short period (of time) of the Earth’s past travel through space many are now questioning the very existence of time. Time has slipped into our vocabulary, is used every day as a way of indicating were we are relative to the Sun, used to explain the distance that light has travelled from distant starts to reach us, and to explain how long ago the big bang took place but mostly to enable us to coordinate our individual lives with he lives of others. This article seeks to replace “time passing” with “distance travelled”.

The video gives some indication of the argument that time does not exist

https://youtu.be/4BjGWLJNPcA

(To Part 2)