Time-Space
not space-time.
Too bad I don't have the math skills (yet?) to prove it.
General relativity shows that as a physical object approaches 'c', the speed of light in vacuum, the energy needed to accelerate closer to 'c' become discontinuous and positively infinite at 'c', prohibiting velocities above 'c'.
Conventionally, an object traveling in a medium ( such as air ) experiences an analogous discontinuity at the speed of sound in that medium as a result of the medium compressing ahead of the object. Michaelson and Morley in the late 19th century showed that light does not behave as if it moves through a medium.
What if, we (the physical universe) is not the object, but the medium? And time is the object moving through us?
The nature of time is debated. I'm not skilled enough understand it enough to explain that debate. But, using the compressible medium analogy, we compress as we approach 'c', time appears to never do so, the rate of time is constant. This is parallel to an incompressible object moving through a compressible fluid.
Analogies are always inexact. Somehow, this doesn't feel far off.
Here's the real problem. What do I do, what can I do with this?
Too bad I don't have the math skills (yet?) to prove it.
General relativity shows that as a physical object approaches 'c', the speed of light in vacuum, the energy needed to accelerate closer to 'c' become discontinuous and positively infinite at 'c', prohibiting velocities above 'c'.
Conventionally, an object traveling in a medium ( such as air ) experiences an analogous discontinuity at the speed of sound in that medium as a result of the medium compressing ahead of the object. Michaelson and Morley in the late 19th century showed that light does not behave as if it moves through a medium.
What if, we (the physical universe) is not the object, but the medium? And time is the object moving through us?
The nature of time is debated. I'm not skilled enough understand it enough to explain that debate. But, using the compressible medium analogy, we compress as we approach 'c', time appears to never do so, the rate of time is constant. This is parallel to an incompressible object moving through a compressible fluid.
Analogies are always inexact. Somehow, this doesn't feel far off.
Here's the real problem. What do I do, what can I do with this?