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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Time as a method of physical propulsion
« on: 10/01/2008 00:17:49 »
Okay... regarding the FTL expansion thing... the analogy with the beetle and the bread STILL makes no sense, because both the beetle and the bread and the rasin are objects within our universe, that are physical... therefore they cannot move at FTL speeds. Either something is going FTL or not... distance has nothing to do with it at all... speed is speed, simple as that. If by suggesting that by the beetle burrowing into the dough of the bread... again... the dough cannot cause the bread to expand at FTL speeds, nor can the bread expand faster than the universe around it. It makes no sense. If the beetle has somehow entered another kind of realm, that it's not our universe, so the whole point is mute, anyway.
In regards to space without matter, I kind of illustrated that theory in an above post... imagine that the universe before ours, is a glass of water... in that case, OUR universe would be a drop of color dye in that already-present water, that expands outward... there was "stuff" here before us, just not us.
In regards to using temporal points as fixed physical positions, again, you CAN do that... vecause if a car goes from point A to point B, it takes a certain amount of time to make that journey... therefore, time DOES have physical reference points, for in a certain point in the timeline, a given object will occupy a certain point in space.
In regards to space without matter, I kind of illustrated that theory in an above post... imagine that the universe before ours, is a glass of water... in that case, OUR universe would be a drop of color dye in that already-present water, that expands outward... there was "stuff" here before us, just not us.
In regards to using temporal points as fixed physical positions, again, you CAN do that... vecause if a car goes from point A to point B, it takes a certain amount of time to make that journey... therefore, time DOES have physical reference points, for in a certain point in the timeline, a given object will occupy a certain point in space.