Part 2
Time Machine
Is its existence feasible? What does the notion "Time
Machine"
mean? Machine - it's clear. But what about Time? None of the
encyclopaedias, no philosophy give clear definition of time, except
dialectical materialism, where Time is declared as a form of substance,
but it hasn't been verified yet. Let's ask just a few out of
"everlasting" questions:
1.Is Time a material category?
2.Is Time monoplex or multiplex?
3.Do we pass Time by or Time passes by us?
4.Time is a relativistic category - what does it
mean?
5.Why Velocity has a limit? One of its components -
length
has no
limit, does it mean the other component has it? Does
Time really has a
limit?
6.Why is velocity a vector quantity? One of its components -
length is
not a vector, does it mean the other one -Time is a
vector, or
not?
7.Can one reduce speed or accelerate the flow of time?
8. Can one stop the flow of time?
Can you answer these questions? Let's try to answer them together.
Let's start from prehistoric times. It goes without saying the notion
of TIME had appeared long before the notion of 2 x
2= 4, in other
words long before real science arose.. Any life on
the
Earth is adapted to the change of a day and a night . Animals
synchronize their actions according to their instincts as to
dark
and light periods of time. Homo sapience needs to act
reasonably.
Of course, he didn't know the Earth was rotating , but he guessed some
srtrict rhythm in the change of a day and a night - it was
already the notion of TIME. So it happened the
Earth
presented primary standard of time to mankind, and then the
man
himself created secondary standards: clocks, chronometers, etc. Please
pay attention to the fact all the standards and the Earth
itself
are moving!
And what will come out when mankind is deprived of these
standards? Such experiments were carried out. The man as well as
animals stop feeling if it is a day or a night (under
artificial
light).
What can happen if a large meteorite crashes against the
Earth
tangentially? Obviously the Earth will change the period of its
rotation, let say for 0,1%. It'll be 1,5minutes in 24 hours
and
45 min. in a month , it means that in a year day will be
changed by
night(according to timepiece). All timepieces, a lot of
devices
and equipment should be remade or discarded. Let's compare with other
standards, for example with international standards of a meter or a
kilogram which are now in Greenwich. In case they are destroyed all the
secondary standards are active, even your ruler.Time is considered to
be one of the dimensions. Let's correspond it with the system
of
dimensions created by us in Part 1. So zero-dimension: it's clear it
has no Time. First
dimension also has no Time. Second and third
dimensions have no Time. Fourth dimension
has no Time. In 5-6-7
dimensions we used the notion of a coefficient
of processes intensity (vectoe
coefficient) and having used it we were able to describe motion. Let's
agree to the fact there is a basic difference between the notion of Time
and the notion of a Coefficient.
If you understood it we can answer the above mentioned
"everlasting"questions:
1. A Coefficient isn't material by any means.
2. We know the Coefficient is multiplex.
3. In general the processes can move in one direction and in
opposite one.
4. The motion itself is relevant.*
5. The Coefficient is known to have a limit.
6. The coefficient itself is vector quantity.
7-8. The intensity of a process can be changed (within the Coefficient
, when K=0 the process is interrupted)
* To begin with let's come to understanding not to overuse the
expression "Time is a relative category".
It was Einstaine (who liked playing tricks) who cast a slogan to
tiresome journalists.(In advertising business a slogan is a bright,
easy-to-remember expression actually not having some deep
meaning
. For example, "Cleanliness is cleanly Tide").
Let's consult an explanatory dictionary and get convinced that Time
can't be a notion (but
it's a notion itself that can be Time). The word "relatively"can
be used only with reference to something (water has
risen relatively to
ordnance-datum,etc.)
And now let"s imagine there is only one body in infinity-dimensional
space. Can we define if it is moving or not? By the way, we can measure
the size of this body, to determine its mass, temperature, composition.
But what can we determine with the help of a timepiece? And only if
there is another body we can speak of possible motion. Motion is a
relative category.
** For example: a kettle is on the stove - we can
icrease
or reduce the coefficient of intensity of heating process by just
changing the head of gas. Turning off gas we'll stop the
process. Have you
noticed questions 7-8 are actually about time machine?
Regulating
the head of gas you handle a real time machine . Look around yourself :
a refrigerator, a car and so on are such machines.
Everywhere where you can start or regulate a
process
you control time. Actually a man himself can be such "time machine",
for example changing walking into running.
Let's consider travelling to the future (past) citing a specific
example: there is a glass on your table. Let's
assume its
future is to be on the other side of the table. Remove the glass - by
this action you have sent it to the future. Now let's put it at its
previous place - by this action you have sent it to the past. Let's
assume the glass' future is to be at another place of the table, where
temperature is higher than now. Let's heat the glass and remove it - we
have sent it to the future.Let's complicate the example: in future it
will be heated and filled with water. Having the possibility to control
the processes ( to remove, to heat or to cool, to fill or to
empty) we send the object to its future as well as to its past
.
But having assumed that in the next removing the glass will be broken,
we'll have the situation when it's impossible to control the process.
Such reversion or non-reversion of the processes
stipulate
possibilities to travel to the past.The same situation is
with
the future: we can purposefully reach the future only with
the
help of some available today's methods of processes' control. In
ordinary life: if you want to become the World champion in
running you must control some available( for you)processes:
do
training, give up smoking, etc. If you want to travel to the past,
there
is no problem, but actually you can travel only to your own
past.
You should reverse all the processes which took place
during your life and in the Universe.If you can do it
we advise you not to be so enthusiastic about it and to
remember that your
body consists of atoms and where each of these atoms
was
many years ago nobody can imagine.
Well, we have discussed "Time Machine" and as a result we have come to
understanding the notion of Time.
In everyday life the notion of Time gives the man the possibility to
synchronize the events (processes). For all that he orients
himself with respect to the accepted primary standard (that is the
Earth"s rotation).For example he can make an appointment at 5
oçlock, orienting with respect to the secondary standard
(timepiece) or to agree to meet in the evening - here we
use "primary standard". Let it be so as it's convenient and
habitual but for Physics this notion only retards its development.What
about the theory
of relativity and its conclusions? For example,
by approaching
the light velocity time is flowing more slowly. What does it mean "by
approaching"? Has a hare running past a snail already approached the
light velocity in snail's opinion? We should consider the
theory
of relativity in a new different way. By the way, we havn't contended
that the coefficient of motion intensity is linear.
Just on
the contrary - being linear it seems strange in dimensions where
everything is depicted with sinuses and cosinuses.
The coefficient is represented by
a line of tangences (see fig.). The range of velocity which is
available for us are at the lower part of the curve, almost
near
zero , where the rising of the curve is so small, that we even don't
feel it. Moreover our devices can't measure the
change
of quantity t. We see abrupt rising of the
coefficient
values at the upper part of the curve. Here we can observe explicit
effects which follow from the theory of relativity.
Well, the accuracy of our devices, our standards are by several orders
of magnitude less than we'd like to have. It should be admitted they
have exhausted their possibilities.While measuring time of 100 meters
running accuracy up to 0.01sec. appeared insufficient.Then accuracy up
to 0.001sec was achieved. But it appeared insufficient, too. The winner
is determined with the help of photo finish. This fact is very
symptomatic. Have you understood what happened? We have abandoned our
standards de-facto and changed over to measurement of motion by motion
itself !
Well , how about the promised hysteresis loop?
Let's come back to our still unbroken glass. Its future is to be on the
other side of the table. So if you take the glass, go around the room
and place the glass where it should be - it means you placed
it
in the future. Now simply move it along the table - (you
placed
it in the past). It means you have cut hystresis loop.
So pondering over "Time Machine" we discovered something much more
important.
Good luck to you !
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