Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:686802 comp.os.linux.advocacy:452060 rec.arts.sf.written:492418 sci.physics.relativity:458969 alt.astronomy:298869 Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: The answer isn't meaningful to most people. Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:54:58 GMT References: <856a4c94-8427-4571-b1d1-004bccde00bd@googlegroups.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Lines: 42 In article , benj wrote: >On 5/23/2018 2:34 AM, Jeff-Relf.Me@. wrote: >>>> what is longer....the future or the past? >> >> The answer isn't meaningful to most people >> because, as the cosmos thins ( due to increasing entropy ), >> "the clock" speeds up ( time passes faster ). >> >> "The Cosmic Horizon" is like "The Event Horizon" of an ideal black hole; >> the clock's TickRate, some 13,800,000,000 years ago, >> at the cosmic horizon, was (virtually) zero >> ( the real, _precise_ TickRate is unknowable ). >> >> 13.8 billion years ago, everything in the (subjectively) Known Universe >> was in the same location; i.e. zero entropy and infinite density/exergy. >> [ eXergy is a type of energy that can do physical work, force * distance ] >> >> Eventually, this eXergy will be consumed away, replaced with entropy; >> leaving us with a uniform heat bath that has all of the energy >> but none of the eXergy. >> >> Gravity is the "memory" of where the stuff was. >> >> All of history, every lesson ever, every advance, tells us: >> Randomness is ignorance, nothing more. >> >> General Relativity's four dimensional TimeScape is static, eternal, >> perfectly causal... it is, at once, everything _and_ nothing. >> >"Nothing at all is Everything"!!!! > >There you go Rolf. You are really starting to "get" modern physics now. >Odd can explain the details to you of how nothing is everything. "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." --Niels Bohr to Wolfgang Pauli -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com