spatially-hexaxial, with time as the seventh dimension
Tag Archives: space-time
In 10 Words, or Less… the most logical structure for (single-body) space-time
Physics. Alternative definitions…
Wikipedia:
Physics is the study of matter, motion and energy.
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alt.S.defs:
Physics is the study of natural abiotic dynamics.
Physics is a plot to expose every universal law, true constant, and eternal ratio.
Physics is an ongoing effort to write a technical user’s manual for the universe.
Physics is the contextual study of matter and energy moving in time and space.
Physics is the rationality of actuality.
Physics is the study of inanimate behaviours.
Physics is a science in search of its own meaning.
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unrelated rant:
I think it’s unfair that Space gets three dimensions, while Time gets but one.
What is Space, anyway? A whole lot of nothing! And it’s like that in every direction, as far as the eye can see — or the mind imagine. Even if you fill it up with stuff, without time, nothing will ever happen there. And yet, man, in his ‘wisdom’, has seen fit to confer upon this vast and virtual wasteland the lavish gift of three full axes!
To its credit, though, Time takes no offense, seemingly secure in the knowledge that its unitary comportment is perfectly the match of its partner’s triplicity.
In 10 Words, or Less… space-time
the multiplicative inverse relationship
between
spatial context and temporal continuity
Filed under 10 Words or Less, Reason, Science
What the… ?
A beam of light travels from Point A to Point B.
You, a scientist, measure its rate of progress on that journey and aren’t surprised to find that it agrees precisely with the universal standard, just as it did countless times before. But you verify it anyway because you’re diligent – and there’s always that slim but tantalising chance that you might find a cool anomaly.
And then it happens.
You glance up from your computer screen and your eyes come to rest on a poster of Einstein that one of your co-workers has crookedly taped to the wall above his workstation.
The moment passes and you look away, but something seems changed. It’s nothing you can define. Everything just ‘feels’ different. You smell your coffee to make sure the cream hasn’t gone bad. You’re slightly concerned, but decide to carry on because you’re diligent – and there’s always a chance that your boss might pop in… and you still owe him a report. Okay, so maybe you’re not that diligent, but at least you’re earnest.
So, you continue working on your report. It’s difficult to stay focused, but you doggedly persist. After 20 minutes, you stop short.
You check to make sure that no one’s around – and then you say out loud what you’ve been thinking for the past half hour:
“If time slows down as you approach c and theoretically stops there, then how do we account for light’s measured progress through our space/time-frame?”
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