Well, physics obviously speaks about physical time that can be measured by a light clock which is invariant regardless of frame of reference.Because Time is not an objective phenomenon? In this I completely agree with Bergson. — Hachem
Yes, but if materialism were true (which is what we have to assume for their explanation to make sense), then your subjective experience of time flowing at such and such a rate is created by the correlation of the speed of movements in your brain with the speed of movements outside your brain. If both of them increase at twice the speed, your subjective experience will not perceive the increase.Time, even as objective phenomenon, is never neutral. When you make biological processes run at two times their normal speed, your are not effectuating an algebraic process, like multiply both the nominator and the denominator by the same number, and the original number will not change.
Biological, and certainly psychological processes are what they are because of their rhythm, change the rhythm, and you will make organs work two times harder, age two times faster, and emotions completely change from quite to frantic. — Hachem
So our entire assumption about the universe expanding is based on one interpretation of a bit of red in a telescope when there seems to be other interpretations for that bit of red? — MikeL
[Scratches arse and reaches for tin foil hat....] — apokrisis
You are convinced of the veracity of the whole story, while others in this discussion are not. Again, I could buy into the idea of an expanding universe. What I do not buy in are the current cosmological theories. — Hachem
As T Clark points out back at the start, if the red shift was just us moving towards some mythical centre, then we would also be approaching other galaxies, creating a blue shift. And even if they were moving faster ahead of us for some reason, the resulting red shift would not be as red as galaxies in the opposite direction. — apokrisis
The resultant red shift intensity would be relative to the speeds of objects. It could be that they are both red shifted equally, one is blue one is red, or one is more red shifted than the other, surely. — MikeL
Poor fool, I would tell him, that curvature is just a quamtum holographic projection of your own mind field. You can live in your reality and I'll live in mine. — apokrisis
But that would predict the sun and the milky way stars all receding from us too. Every point in space would have to be contracting inwards .... at lightspeed .... to invert the same physical picture. — apokrisis
In the everyday world, a hologram is a special kind of photograph that generates a full three-dimensional image when it is illuminated in the right manner. All the information describing the 3-D scene is encoded into the pattern of light and dark areas on the two-dimensional piece of film, ready to be regenerated. The holographic principle contends that an analogue of this visual magic applies to the full physical description of any system occupying a 3-D region: it proposes that another physical theory defined only on the 2-D boundary of the region completely describes the 3-D physics.
http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~bekenste/Holographic_Univ.pdf
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