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Hello all, I previously attempted to share my idea on time earlier last year. I have decided to have another go. Fair warning I am not well versed in mathematics and would kindly ask from refraining from such terminology. My ideas assume that from what I understand of Einstein’s math is that it is correct, but the interpretation of said math is incorrect. The intent of this forum post is to hopefully find someone or multiple people who are better educated than me that would be able to accurately disseminate the idea.
The idea is that there is no past, no future, there is only now; time is better thought of as relative motion. Relative motion in this instance is motion compared to some other motion. Here is an example. I perceive a moving object at a speed of one. You perceive the same moving object at a speed of ten. The moving object moves at a speed of one. This means that I perceive the object at a one to one ratio. You perceive the object at a ten to one ratio. This means that even if you and I are looking at the same object at the same time you will perceive the object moving ten times slower than I will. This is what creates the experience of the passage of time from a human perspective. When you or I see a moving object we are actually just comparing the motion of our perception to the motion of the object that we are viewing.
There is a term that is called relativistic mass. The idea is that when an object is moving it has an increased simulated mass because energy and mass are more or less equivalent in the realm of physics. I say simulated because relativistic mass is not the same as rest mass, when an object is not moving. Relativistic mass is why the faster an object moves the more energy it requires to increase its motion, the faster it moves the more relativistic mass it has and therefore requires more energy, a built-in diminishing returns in way. Relativistic mass and the ideas that make it up are a known phenomenon and now I will use them to explain the true nature of time dilation.
Time dilation is the known phenomenon that when an object is affected by high inertia or a strong gravitational field that its time becomes dilated or slowed. Well, what is inertia or a gravitational field? Both are forces that move an object in a given direction. This means that these forces increase an object’s relativistic mass. This in turn will increase the required energy the object must exert to further increase its motion. This is what causes time dilation. Here is an example. Let’s say a person is in a spaceship going fifty miles per hour. If the person were to walk around in the spaceship regardless of direction their speed would be that of the spaceship plus the speed at which they walk. Now if the spaceship were to move at half the speed of light and the person were to walk around the spaceship the person would be adding their walking movement to half the speed of light. This would mean that they would be experiencing a lot of relativistic mass and the motion of their walking would happen much more slowly as opposed to when the spaceship was moving fifty miles per hour. This may seem counter intuitive at first, but hopefully someone who is capable of doing math can better explain it.
Finally using this understanding of time and time dilation space time phenomenon can be understood without the need for space time. Einstein was able to properly predict Mercury’s orbit, seeing stars that were behind the Sun during a solar eclipse, and gravitational red shift.
Mercury’s orbit was before Einstein not understood because it happened slower than calculated. Einstein was able to properly predict it because the dip in space time was calculated to greatly bend space and time around the part of Mercury’s orbit that was very close to the Sun. What I believe is actually happening is when Mercury gets closer to the sun it experiences a great deal of relativistic mass and this dynamically slows its motion as it moves through different strengths of the gravitational field. This in turn causes Mercury’s orbit to be slowed.
Next is seeing stars behind the sun during a solar eclipse. The solar eclipse just makes it so the sun’s light doesn’t block the light of the stars that are behind it. The bending of the star's light again can be understood with just time dilation. Think of the sun’s gravitational field as varying densities of water. The water gets ever more dense as you get closer to the sun. Just like water can refract light by slowing it, the sun’s strong gravitational field dynamically slows the light’s trajectory bending it around the sun. Einstein being mathematically minded mistook this bending of light as the bending of space time, but with the understanding of what time actually is, relative motion, all that is needed to understand the bending of the light’s trajectory is the dynamic slowing of the light’s motion as it moves into different strengths of the sun’s gravitational field.
Lastly is gravitational red shift. The idea is that when light is affected by high gravity it becomes more red. Again easily understood with time as relative motion. The gravitational field slows or dilates the light’s movement by increasing its relativistic mass, drawing out its wavelength and this is what causes it to become more red. The color red is the longest wavelength of visible light.
If you made it this far thank you for reading. I would ask people that would like to discuss to please have some understanding of relativity. I have spent a long time researching this and God put it on my heart over four years ago. The puzzle pieces seem to fall into place leading me to really believe that the idea is correct. Again I am not mathematically minded, that’s why I am seeking help. I am sharing on this forum because I have no one else who will listen or who can do anything about it. Thank you all for your time (pun not intended).
The idea is that there is no past, no future, there is only now; time is better thought of as relative motion. Relative motion in this instance is motion compared to some other motion. Here is an example. I perceive a moving object at a speed of one. You perceive the same moving object at a speed of ten. The moving object moves at a speed of one. This means that I perceive the object at a one to one ratio. You perceive the object at a ten to one ratio. This means that even if you and I are looking at the same object at the same time you will perceive the object moving ten times slower than I will. This is what creates the experience of the passage of time from a human perspective. When you or I see a moving object we are actually just comparing the motion of our perception to the motion of the object that we are viewing.
There is a term that is called relativistic mass. The idea is that when an object is moving it has an increased simulated mass because energy and mass are more or less equivalent in the realm of physics. I say simulated because relativistic mass is not the same as rest mass, when an object is not moving. Relativistic mass is why the faster an object moves the more energy it requires to increase its motion, the faster it moves the more relativistic mass it has and therefore requires more energy, a built-in diminishing returns in way. Relativistic mass and the ideas that make it up are a known phenomenon and now I will use them to explain the true nature of time dilation.
Time dilation is the known phenomenon that when an object is affected by high inertia or a strong gravitational field that its time becomes dilated or slowed. Well, what is inertia or a gravitational field? Both are forces that move an object in a given direction. This means that these forces increase an object’s relativistic mass. This in turn will increase the required energy the object must exert to further increase its motion. This is what causes time dilation. Here is an example. Let’s say a person is in a spaceship going fifty miles per hour. If the person were to walk around in the spaceship regardless of direction their speed would be that of the spaceship plus the speed at which they walk. Now if the spaceship were to move at half the speed of light and the person were to walk around the spaceship the person would be adding their walking movement to half the speed of light. This would mean that they would be experiencing a lot of relativistic mass and the motion of their walking would happen much more slowly as opposed to when the spaceship was moving fifty miles per hour. This may seem counter intuitive at first, but hopefully someone who is capable of doing math can better explain it.
Finally using this understanding of time and time dilation space time phenomenon can be understood without the need for space time. Einstein was able to properly predict Mercury’s orbit, seeing stars that were behind the Sun during a solar eclipse, and gravitational red shift.
Mercury’s orbit was before Einstein not understood because it happened slower than calculated. Einstein was able to properly predict it because the dip in space time was calculated to greatly bend space and time around the part of Mercury’s orbit that was very close to the Sun. What I believe is actually happening is when Mercury gets closer to the sun it experiences a great deal of relativistic mass and this dynamically slows its motion as it moves through different strengths of the gravitational field. This in turn causes Mercury’s orbit to be slowed.
Next is seeing stars behind the sun during a solar eclipse. The solar eclipse just makes it so the sun’s light doesn’t block the light of the stars that are behind it. The bending of the star's light again can be understood with just time dilation. Think of the sun’s gravitational field as varying densities of water. The water gets ever more dense as you get closer to the sun. Just like water can refract light by slowing it, the sun’s strong gravitational field dynamically slows the light’s trajectory bending it around the sun. Einstein being mathematically minded mistook this bending of light as the bending of space time, but with the understanding of what time actually is, relative motion, all that is needed to understand the bending of the light’s trajectory is the dynamic slowing of the light’s motion as it moves into different strengths of the sun’s gravitational field.
Lastly is gravitational red shift. The idea is that when light is affected by high gravity it becomes more red. Again easily understood with time as relative motion. The gravitational field slows or dilates the light’s movement by increasing its relativistic mass, drawing out its wavelength and this is what causes it to become more red. The color red is the longest wavelength of visible light.
If you made it this far thank you for reading. I would ask people that would like to discuss to please have some understanding of relativity. I have spent a long time researching this and God put it on my heart over four years ago. The puzzle pieces seem to fall into place leading me to really believe that the idea is correct. Again I am not mathematically minded, that’s why I am seeking help. I am sharing on this forum because I have no one else who will listen or who can do anything about it. Thank you all for your time (pun not intended).