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Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Alan McDougall on 29/11/2008 19:35:19
Hi,

A question,

Assuming what we call space outside the event horizon of the universe is a black void extending infinitely outward everywhere in every direction forever.

And you or I found ourselves alone in the unimaginable empty nothingness, inside a hypothetical spaceship that could speed up to an infinite speed in a pico second or less

We then start up our space ship and race into the dark emptiness at infinite speed and then stop.

Would we find ourselves following the image of ourselves?

Would we find ourselves back where we started?


Have we moved?

Have we stopped?

Is motion relative and can only exist if there in another object to compare our position with? 

Alan
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 29/11/2008 20:03:55
Quite lovely question that one.
How do we prove movement?
It's by comparison with another reference (frame), right?
So do motion exist in that 'sphere' at all as there are no reference frame?

But hey, how about acceleration then?
Well, now it hinges on if your friend have any way to look out.
If he/she doesn't, how will he/she separate a 'gravity' of one .G from a constant acceleration of one .G?
But in this universe he/she wouldn't be helped by any windows, would he/she?

So this person would no matter:) what acceleration constant, jagged or whatever still not be helped by looking out.
And if we assume that this spaceship is a unknown quantity to him/her.
Wouldn't it then be rather logical of him/her to assume that it is a form of 'gravity' no matter how it would act.
What do I win :)
Or?
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Bikerman on 29/11/2008 20:12:58
Well, this is the famous 'Mach' hypothesis.
Mach posited that without an external frame of reference then there is no motion (or no way to classify motion).
Newton's bucket was an attempt to clarify this. If you take a bucket of water in this scenario and you spin it, then does the water obey the normal rules of rotational dynamics (ie does the water climb the sides at the edges of the bucket or not?).
A similar example would be two weights connected by a string. If you set the weights spinning around each other then does the string become tight or does it not?
Mach said no. Einstein said (originally) no, but later changed that answer when he considered General Relativity in more detail....
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: LeeE on 29/11/2008 20:26:50
The term "event horizon of the universe" is unknown to me - what does it mean?  Did you mean to refer to the observable universe?  Another problem is that I can't relate to finding myself "alone in the unimaginable empty nothingness" because once I've imagined it it can't be unimaginable anymore.

Because the universe is empty there would be nothing to illuminate your spaceship, to produce an 'image' of it.  If you shone a light ahead of you it would be re-absorbed by the hull of your spaceship as you overtook it.

Whether you ended up back where you started would depend on where you steered.

If something could travel at infinite speed it could, like DNA's Infinite Improbability Drive, pass through every point in the universe simultaneously, and probably an infinite number of times too.  You say that the spaceship accelerates to infinite speed in a pico second, or less, but as long as it doesn't take infinite time it'll result in infinite acceleration, which will be a pretty positive indication that you've moved, seeing as there aren't any other masses in your universe to produce gravity.  The deceleration when you stop will similarly confirm that you've stopped.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Mad Mark on 30/11/2008 03:34:22
I think there is a property of matter yet to be discovered yet maybe never to be proven that prevents matter existing in the same location in space time.
It could exist in space but not time if you were not to move.So for you to exist from one moment to the next,even if your ship was the only thing in the universe it would create motion similar to a electron circling the nuclease of a atom but as you are the only thing in the universe you would move in ever increasing circles but never where you started.
Actualy circles is not quite what I was trying to describe because if you were the only object in the universe you would move away from your starting point but at any given point in time you would exist everywhere just not where you have been before.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: graham.d on 30/11/2008 11:23:00
This is quite an old question as has been alluded to already. It would not be the visulisation of the surroundings that much to do with the behaviour of your spacecraft. If it were just this you could be anywhere and simply close your eyes for the same effect :-) However I am sure this was not what was intended to be meant but more that you were to imagine that you and your craft were, effectively, the whole of matter within a (maybe) flat universe. As Lee implies, this may not be a possible allowable configuration with any physical validity, anymore than trying imagine the sound of one hand clapping. Nonetheless I suppose we can theorise (guess?).

In Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) Feynman proposed that action at a distance (fields) could be the sum of all interactions between objects in the universe. To get around the limitations of the speed of light he proposed a (normal) retarded wave and an advanced wave (going backward in time). Summing the relative effects of all these interactions gives a concept of inertia being related to all the other mass in the universe and potentially giving justification to Mach's principle. He only did the calculations for very simplistic cases, with some success, but I think got bored with the immensity of the mathematical task in trying to do it realistically. He believed it should be done, so for aspiring young theoretical physicists there is an opportunity...

The result for the loan spacecraft would be that the laws of physics would have different constants from what we experience in our universe. I imagine that (if it was possible for us or some thinking entity) to exist, that objects would have much less mass (even objects within the spacecraft) or, if you like, inertia. But there would be some because we are not talking about a single solitary particle so all the particles would still be interacting with the others in the craft.

This kind of addresses another thread on the site about what is inertia. It is, according to this theory, related to all the other mass in the universe.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Soul Surfer on 02/12/2008 23:17:26
The original question in the title is an impossibility.  If there is only one object there is no object to throw out to accelerate or retard the object and no object to make the observations.  once you have any of these the question does not apply because movement can be measured relative to the stuff you have thrown away.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 02/12/2008 23:29:47
Thinking again (well it do works at times:)
To me it seems that motion is a prerequisite for spacetime.

I can not see a 'frame' in my mind without it.
And as long as we introduce an 'observer' there will be reference frames to measure motion in.
I don't know of any observed 'system' (seen from the inside of it) that won't have some kind of internal 'reference frame'?

Or do you have a suggestion for how that frame should be constructed?
Something consisting of what?
Thought only?

And how c(w)ould one test for that?

do you agree?
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Alan McDougall on 03/12/2008 04:59:54
LeeE

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The term "event horizon of the universe" is unknown to me - what does it mean?  Did you mean to refer to the observable universe?  Another problem is that I can't relate to finding myself "alone in the unimaginable empty nothingness" because once I've imagined it it can't be unimaginable anymore.


I wrongly used the term event horizon, this term relates to black holes sorry.
I meant the edge of the universe assuming of course it has an edge.

It the big bang happened when it was supposed to have happened then this EDGE would be the distance the light from this primordial event has travelled from the birth of the universe to where it is now, some 14.5 billion light years.

My question was about the absolute black nothingness that might exist outside this EDGE extending outward forever and infinite in dimension

Would a single object move in this emptiness with no reference point whatsoever

Alan


Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Soul Surfer on 03/12/2008 23:32:21
You've got it fundamentally wrong where you say the "edge" of the universe must be the velocity of light times the length of time since the big bang. 

The big bang was NOT an explosion. This term was a derogatory name coined by the "opposition" Continuous Creation camp that stuck. The expansion is the expansion of space itself NOT the velocity of things thrown out from an explosion and as such does not actually involve things moving through space where the speed limit is the velocity of light. 

There is therefore no upper limit to the expansion speed of space and our universe could be many times larger than this.  If processes like inflation occurred it is probably very many orders of magnitude larger than the farthest distance we could ever see.

The actual velocities of all the galaxies THROUGH SPACE are probably similar to the relative velocities of local galaxies ie a few hundred miles per second or a fraction of a percent of the velocity of light.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 04/12/2008 12:49:30
reading you soulsurfer I start to wonder about mass and expansion.
Let's say that this expansion have no roots in 'c'.
How far might it have gone?
As mass is something created in 'time' which is something following 'c', if you follow me thoughts here:)

So do we have a sphere of spacetime, 'wrinkled' to mass that now are ever expanding into 'virgin' territiories?
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/12/2008 14:53:59

Whether you ended up back where you started would depend on where you steered.


It also depends on the geometry of spacetime. If you keep going in a straight line in a closed universe, you would return to your point of origin. In an open universe, you would just continue on forever.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Soul Surfer on 04/12/2008 23:18:28
yor on  I am sorry but I do not understand what you are trying to say.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: LeeE on 05/12/2008 01:35:04

Whether you ended up back where you started would depend on where you steered.


It also depends on the geometry of spacetime. If you keep going in a straight line in a closed universe, you would return to your point of origin. In an open universe, you would just continue on forever.

Just a nit-pick really, but that assumes that the closed universe is regular in shape and doesn't change size.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Alan McDougall on 05/12/2008 06:48:28
Soul Surfer,


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There is therefore no upper limit to the expansion speed of space and our universe could be many times larger than this.  If processes like inflation occurred it is probably very many orders of magnitude larger than the farthest distance we could ever see.

I know space without mass or energy is mass less and it is this mass less infinite eternal space that might have existed before the creation event into which the universe evolved.

Or at the moment of creation ,if there were a creation, or big bang, that was not an explosion as you said, but it is the term nearly all physicists use.

Space having no mass therefore not under ant constraint could just have expanding into infinity at infinite speed.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2008 01:58:32
Well Soulsurfer:)
I was thinking of that BB and the 'instant expansion' of spacetime it created.
What stops it from still expanding?

Thinking about it again:) the question seems two folded here.

1. Either this expansion has an 'motion' over 'c', and may still be 'creating' the right 'properties' for our spacetime.
2. Or the 'expansion' propagated by means unknown to us, not involving the concept of 'motion' at all

In either case the 'possible' size of the universe might be limit less.
How w(c)ould we proof it not?
As gravity is curved around 'our spacetime'.
Those thirteen billions something light-years we can see.
How would one test for such a proposal?

That the 'edge' of spacetime is in fact 'outside' both spacetime, and gravity too, at least as I envision it:)
As gravity to me is an all encompassing 'dimension' or 'field' even if it has a propagation to it at ('c').
Sort of like time:)

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And if i traveled to the 'interface' between our space time and the 'edge' and turned on my flashlight pointing away from 'us'.
Would I then see a beam propagate in that 'nothing'.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Alan McDougall on 09/12/2008 03:27:51
Anyway,

In an totally infinite void of absolute black nothingness, you simple "can not move" and time would have no meaning.

Time and movement are linked

That is my answer for what it is worth

Alan
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Soul Surfer on 09/12/2008 20:56:04
yor_on I still dont understand what you are trying to say. I understand that your preferred language may not be english but please try to explin your thinking simply without missing out any stages in your thinking.  Until I can clearly understand your questions I cannot determine if they are sensible answer them or show where you are wrong in your thinking.

There is one fundamental feature in all our current models of the universe and that is it is not possible to ever get to the edge of them because there is no edge to the universe.  it is like trying to travel to the edge of our world you would either travel for ever or cross your original path somewhere
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 06/01/2009 14:09:53
Just using it as a 'frame' of comparison to our spacetime, I think?

"That the 'edge' of spacetime is in fact 'outside' both spacetime, and gravity too, at least as I envision it:)
As gravity to me is an all encompassing 'dimension' or 'field' even if it has a propagation to it at ('c').
Sort of like time:)"

It just means what you say, that we don't know the 'outside' of our spacetime.
If there is any?

I don't really use 'edge' when trying to decide whatever enclosure spacetime may be.
But I do like the word 'interface' :)

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Sorry Soulsurfer, I missed that first question you wrote.

I was thinking (mass=space='c'='spacetime')
Which differs from before inflation, where the only mass was 'quantum sized'.
Therefore freed from the arrow of time (new 'hobbyhorse' of mine I'm testing:)
And therefore from 'c'.

We could see the 'inflation' as growing in a 'time' flowing any which way (arrow:)
Which would allow for an infinite inflation.
Until what we deem matter started to bind our time into a 'time-wise' arrow again.

The only question to my mind is where space gets created from 'matter'.
soup (QM)-Inflation -- Matter <--> SpaceTime (Arrow) ..

And if I will be seen as truly 'certified' after writing this:)

But on the other tentacle?
ah well
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 13:28:50
Well, this is the famous 'Mach' hypothesis.
Mach posited that without an external frame of reference then there is no motion (or no way to classify motion).
Newton's bucket was an attempt to clarify this. If you take a bucket of water in this scenario and you spin it, then does the water obey the normal rules of rotational dynamics (ie does the water climb the sides at the edges of the bucket or not?).
A similar example would be two weights connected by a string. If you set the weights spinning around each other then does the string become tight or does it not?
Mach said no. Einstein said (originally) no, but later changed that answer when he considered General Relativity in more detail....

Bikerman, thinking of it again:)

That has nothing to do with 'gravity' as a phenomena.
It doesn't really matter if the 'gravity' will affect the bucket 'this or that way'.

When we say that we will notice a difference that is from a preconceived perspective in which we 'go out' from a rotational not accelerating object in space and compare the gravitational effects from that to the gravitational effects of an accelerating object.

So it doesn't really discuss the 'matter' in question, 'gravitation'.

Or should we split up 'gravitation' in uniformly accelerating 'gravitation'.
Unevenly accelerating 'Gravitation'.

Coasting 'gravitation'(that would be, only that 'gravitation' created inside that frame by 'particles' residing there).

Earth (matter) defined 'gravitation'.

Its strange, it's like you have two (three? more??) different types that give the same effect.
One is definitely connected to 'matter'

The other one will also give you a 'gravitational' effect.
But it's created by transferring (transforming) more and more energy from an accelerating object.
The third one is the same but then transferring 'energy' to a stationary object (relative us observing)
Like Lightarrows 'black paper'

But if we had a cube that we heated to the same energy amount as what a comparable object 'starts with', when accelerating it, the 'gravitational' effect of that cube would be of a greater magnitude for the accelerating case as compared to a 'stationary' object heated.

Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 14:19:28
I see in several posts here that we seem to accept the idea that space is expanding everywhere without question. It seems to me that to accept that notion requires some exceptions that I can't visualize happening. For example, if all space is expanding the space inside atoms must be expanding, and if that is so every thing must increase in dimension right along with space.

How can we measure the expansion; our measuring devices should have expanded also. I am sure someone has thought this out; I have never seen that thinking.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 14:55:57
I see in several posts here that we seem to accept the idea that space is expanding everywhere without question. It seems to me that to accept that notion requires some exceptions that I can't visualize happening. For example, if all space is expanding the space inside atoms must be expanding, and if that is so every thing must increase in dimension right along with space.

How can we measure the expansion; our measuring devices should have expanded also. I am sure someone has thought this out; I have never seen that thinking.

Yes Vern, I wondered the same.
I've seen a definition that separates matter from space.
But as you say, an atom is 99,99~ space?

Why shouldn't that be affected too?

How about this then:)

According to my new hobby horse 'matter' is some sort of 'symmetry break' which have/creates 'space'.

In that 'symmetry' if there is an 'expansion' it can't affect 'matter' as the force/'energy' creating 'matter' needs to be of a very high magnitude.

Also quarks is said to be bound by an 'inverse' force holding them together.
Getting stronger the more apart they get.

'Space' though, as it is said to allow spontaneous 'particle' creation, as well as 'virtual' particles, might be easier to influence?

That is if you by expanding, sees it as transferring more 'potential energy'.
And something that might be seen as 'work'

Or maybe not 'work' at all?
If we mean something transforming easily by our manipulation.
Space seems rather difficult to transform into energy by us:)

Then that 'space/energy' won't disturb our 'zero' balance as it, just as virtual particles, exist for such a short moment that it doesn't violate HUP (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle)
(as well as Planck time?)

Awh, just a thought.

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Is there any way to explain an 'expansion' from your photonics?
(I know that you don't see it as a possibility, but could it be in cooperated if you wanted?)
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:03:01
Quote from: yor_on
]Also quarks is said to be bound by an 'inverse' force holding them together.
Getting stronger the more apart they get.
Yes; someone told me that QM just keeps getting weirder and weirder; and he was a physicist studying string theory. Remember my twin Mexican hats. [:)] They explain the inverse force so that it fits in my mind without pain.  [:)]

The circles are shells of photons bound in resonating patterns to form protons. They are to scale except for the dot in the centre which would be too small to show at this scale. Red is positive charge; blue is negative charge; the shells represent speculative protons each composed of three electromagnetic shells. From the New Theories Forum (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=19935.0)

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fphotontheory.com%2Fpr05.png&hash=c6a7f870055cad8eb38772d9cd544e8b)

 
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 16:14:37
So, if there was an 'expansion' your photonic atoms would be unaffected too?
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:21:04
Someone tried to explain the expansion in another forum as being between galaxies only. Local space was not expanding. That just seemed two weird to be real for my thinking.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:24:38
Quote from: yor_on
So, if there was an 'expansion' your photonic atoms would be unaffected too?
I think the atoms as I visualize them would be affected the same as atoms composed of quarks and gluons as in QM theory.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:28:44
yor_on; you are a fast editor; I must go back and re-read your posts to be sure I didn't miss something [:)]
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:32:51
Quote from: yor_on
But if we had a cube that we heated to the same energy amount as what a comparable object 'starts with', when accelerating it, the 'gravitational' effect of that cube would be of a greater magnitude for the accelerating case as compared to a 'stationary' object heated.
I'm not sure I get your reasoning here. I don't see why the accelerating object must have a greater gravitational magnitude. Now I'm even having trouble making sense of what I wrote [:)] What is a gravitational magnitude?
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 16:33:38
Why would it be only between galaxies?
Like the Universe would have 'weaker' points?
Geometrically seen.

Strange.

But we do have a difference between 'space' and 'matter'.
That give us a three dimensional space.
When 'time' comes into play.

Then we have times arrow.
That can go both ways quantum mechanically.
But macroscopically would create problems explaining how 'logic' and 'consciousness' might develop without it having a consistent arrow in time?

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And you're right, I never express myself clearly enough:)
So I edit...
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:38:28
You think much more deeply than I. I usually just dismiss that which I don't comprehend, like going back in time. Times arrow always points toward the future for me.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 16:42:28
You can look at it this way.
In the twin experiment you have one twin staying on Earth.
The other one will travel at a uniform acceleration of one G to some star.

Now both of those frames will have the same amount of 'gravity'.
Which one will be older?
Or??

And my idea about that cube is that I see it in both instances as the same 'system' containing the same 'energy'
But the amount of energy in the stationary cube (transformed into mass, sort of (Black paper)) even though having an effect (gravity well/time) will be less than the effect we will observe from our accelerating cube where the gravitational effects (time difference) will be larger.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:43:56
If you engage in a little thought experiment and consider that space-time is flat as in the classical sense; then try to explain relativity phenomena; you will arrive at the Lorentz transformations only when you consider that the final irreducible constituent of all physical reality is the electromagnetic field.

The only other way you can get there is to invent some new constituents of matter which must always move at the speed of light.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 16:46:57
It's you who have created a photonic universe Verne.
And then you have defined parameters that works for it.

I haven't created any universe:)

You're a 'God', or at least as near as we feeble humans might come::))
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 16:47:54
by 'flat' you mean two-dimensional?


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Or are you referring to 'Minkowski space'.
That is what we have here?
Three dimensions plus time

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Saying that spacetime becomes flat due to absence of gravity haven't been 'observed' yet?
That is a theoretical definition?

And 'flat' in what manner?
Two dimesions plus time or just not 'curved'??
If it's not curved then the universe would be transformed from 'infinite', as curved, to 'finite' when spacetime became 'flat'.
But I don't see how I otherwise would notice any difference?
As it would be 'invisible' to us.

To me it would become a very unique consistent 'frame of reference' all on its own though.
Without matter or motion.

As fast as you transfered in a motion/acceleration it would not be a 'flat' universe.
Likewise with gravity/mass.
And what about times transformations?
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 16:55:26
by 'flat' you mean two-dimensional?
No; I mean space that does not warp and an arrow of time that always moves toward the future at a constant rate in a special frame of reference that is at rest in the universe. I call that concept flat space-time.

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Or are you referring to 'Minkowski space'.
That is what we have here?
Three dimensions plus time

I mean classic space-time as opposed to Einstein-Minkowski space-time. Since we have completely abandoned the flat-space-time concept, we will never find reality if flat space-time is the reality.
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Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 17:01:41
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You're a 'God', or at least as near as we feeble humans might come::))
Gosh! I hope not! Just think of all the starving people of the world that I would have to feed [:)]
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 17:03:36
Do you see a 'golden standard' of time then Vern?
An arrow that is at rest with the whole universe and not frame dependent?
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 17:15:51
Do you see a 'golden standard' of time then Vern?
An arrow that is at rest with the whole universe and not frame dependent?
Time would not be frame dependent, but would seem to be by any observer in their frame. The reason is in the construct of matter.

In this thought experiment time is only frame dependent because matter must distort to move. The only way to force matter to do that is to consider it constructed of something that must always move at the invariant speed of light.

Einstein discussed this with H. Ziegler (http://photontheory.com/Einstein/Einstein06.html#Ziegler) back in 1909. The link points to the discussion.
Quote from: Zieger's Comments
H. Ziegler: If one thinks about the basic particles of matter as invisible little spheres which possess an invariable speed of light, then all interactions of matter like states and electrodynamic phenomena can be described and thus we would have erected the bridge between the material and immaterial world that Mr. Planck wanted.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 17:28:49
Yes, I read you stating that matter 'distorts' when traveling.
How would you describe that process without using your schematics Vern?

What do you see as the 'force(s)' acting on 'matter', when traveling?

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(Just as a 'by side'!
We seems to have a 'karma' residing at our 'controls'?)

Sounds dangerous:)
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 18:27:33
I like your new Avatar; I couldn't find out how to make one when I last looked at my profile.

To explain how matter must distort if space-time is flat and matter consists of a most elemental thing that must always move at the invariant speed of light; the constituents of matter would be moving in patterns. The constituents of matter couldn't move faster than light; the constituents of matter must squeeze together some to remain in the patterns when the matter moves.

I don't know if that is any more clear; it seems clear to me I guess because I have been thinking of it that way for so many years.
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Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 19:02:05
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(Just as a 'by side'!
We seems to have a 'karma' residing at our 'controls'?)
seems [:)] those pesky s's keep getting in the way of your perfect english [:)]

It would be: we seem to; but it would also be; it seems that; I can see how that can be confusing. But don't worry about it. It make no differences. [:)]

Yes; I noticed we are now getting karma. I looked around and the karma number seems to be related to the posts per day. And the avatar seems to be related to the total number of posts.

Edit: Okay; karma is a peer rating; the little buttons under karma are for voting. I thought it was an avatar at first.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: yor_on on 05/02/2009 23:35:53
And now they're gone again?
Karma?

Illusions all of it:)
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 05/02/2009 23:42:51
When did this karma business pop out of the blue?
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 23:48:18
When did this karma business pop out of the blue?
First I saw of it was today; you're doing well; seems folks like your posts [:)]
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 05/02/2009 23:51:20
It seems that you can only exercise your karma prowess once every hour (on one person that is)!
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 05/02/2009 23:52:47
Hmmm...it appears that my hour has worn off because I have just executed my karma prowess. But now I'll have to wait another hour (before I can rate your posts Vern)!
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 05/02/2009 23:57:12
Hmmm...it appears that my hour has worn off because I have just executed my karma prowess. But now I'll have to wait another hour (before I can rate your posts Vern)!
I too exercised mine twice within the last five minutes; I think it has to do with the post. Only one hit per post; but it is good; I find some very rewarding posts occasionally and it is good to be able to reward them.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 06/02/2009 00:00:26
I don't know why they decided to put this karma business in, copying from other forums perhaps? But at least they could have picked a better word than karma I think!
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 06/02/2009 00:04:16
Karma is probably built into the board software and they simply activated it. I used to host a few message boards using software I downloaded from the internet and all of them contained a karma button that could be activated by the administrator.
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 06/02/2009 00:07:50
Okay.
Anyway, I'd better let you get back on track (after this minor sidetrack). [:)]

Hmmm...I see the thread title is: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
I don't know, would it?
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 06/02/2009 00:09:47
I couldn't be bothered reading through all of the technical data, sorry [:I]
Would it move? Yes or no? Or is it yet to be proven?
Title: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Vern on 06/02/2009 02:18:40
There would be nothing to prevent it moving; but absent something to show it relevant to something else, there would be no way to measure the movement. I don't know what the point might be.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: SenseWise on 30/09/2022 18:35:34
I think that if there was only one object in an infinitely large universe of nothingness, it would cause something akin to the big bang. This is assuming that the infinitely large universe of nothingness is a void. If it is not a void, I think there would have to be gravity and/or an atmosphere.
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Kryptid on 01/10/2022 01:44:43
I think that if there was only one object in an infinitely large universe of nothingness, it would cause something akin to the big bang.

Why do you think that?
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: alancalverd on 01/10/2022 08:40:05
Apropos the question: it is meaningless!

Movement means displacement in space. Displacement from what, if there is no other object?
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Bored chemist on 01/10/2022 17:21:05
"If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?"
It would depend on what the scriptwriter said.
Can we put this thread back in its coffin now?
Title: Re: If the universe contained only one object, could that object move?
Post by: Zer0 on 05/10/2022 18:38:32
If Space is considered a Medium in itself, then Yes it would Move.

All Objects move thru Time.

So probably there aren't any Stationary Objects in the Space-Time Continuum.

I get that to measure Speed or Velocity, other factors other objects are Necessary.

But a Constant increase in the Rate of Acceleration in any direction should kinda produce a Artificial Gravitational Effect, Right?

P.S. - Perhaps Threads older than 5 years should be Locked Up.
(just a suggestion)