04-22-2019, 06:10 AM
(04-21-2019, 06:17 PM)Shannon Wrote: So if there is no time for a photon, there is no space either, because time and space are parts of the same thing. As stated in the one post on the other forum.
This would mean that we have found the limits of our understanding because we are either missing something or misunderstanding something. Remember that it is entirely possible to "empirically prove" something and have the logic be in error, but that error isn't caught because we are close to the limits of our capacity for comprehension.
Quote:The Lorentz factor for time dilation is sqrt (1 - v^2/c^2). For v = c, the Lorentz factor equals zero!
If v = c then we get sqrt(1 - x/x) = sqrt (1-1) = sqrt (0) = 0. So it's not a very small t value, it's literally 0 unless the formula is wrong.
That means that light must exist outside of space and time, thus meaning it must be existing in a higher dimension and it is a warped experience of light that we get here as a result, since that would mean we could not perceive light as it actually is, but as we experience it being within the reference of and limitations of time and space, which it would exist outside of and beyond.
To understand light, then we must consider it in higher dimensions. Unfortunately, this is where my ability to continue stops, because I don't know how to work with dimensions above 3+timespace.
But this is indeed very interesting, and it strongly implies that superluminal travel is possible, as long as we interact with enough dimensions in the right ways. Maybe superluminal travel is traveling interdimensionally.
Sure, superstring theories have been attemtping to reconcile just that I think. They are, as far as I can tell, unfalsifiable as of yet for the most part, but appear to be logically solid (again, as far as I can tell, lol). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory
I learned this from "True Detective", lol. Matthew McConaughey seems to be travelling through higher and higher dimensions as his acting oeuvre expands, because in "Interstellar" he was messing around with potentiality itself!
Now that I think about it, I do not think light can be considered stationary as in order for something to enter stasis it must be confronted by something that has enough energy to keep it in place (which has actually been done experimentally with light). Were it not so, everything would just keep moving and expanding, I guess? I'm not quite sure on the physics of this.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley