Epoch of Time

[Meowzltov]

Due to the inherent expansion of the universe I am inclined to postulate that the continental drift was more than the result of a great earthquake, but by an earthquake which was caused by the Mantle snap, crack and popping from under the pressure of the inherent (universal) firmament which (for the moment) continues to expand, thus causing the continents to continue to drift apart.

Yes, there was an earthquake. There were a great many earthquakes. It's not like the continents snapped apart in one day.

A good thing to examine is the mid-Atlantic ridge. It's the line of undersea volcanoes that pretty much is exactly midway between the Americas and Europe/Africa, and you can visually see how the continents once hooked up there. What happens at the ridge is that the lava comes out of the volcanoes and forms new land, pushing the crack apart. Indeed you can see the rows of successive volcano flows in mirror images on either side of the ridge. It's pretty doggone cool.

Meanwhile, over in the Pacific, you have these deep sea trenches near the coastlines. These are the subduction zones, where the ocean floor is getting sucked under the continents, so that the earth stays the same size.

 

[BukiRob]

I'm just saying, in all the definitions I've read, including those quoted here in this thread, time dilation is a comparison of two different clocks simultaneously going at different speeds. If that's not true, then it's not time dilation.

We know for certain based on the redshift that expansion is accelerating. Meaning that expansion was both slower in the past and the universe was smaller. Spacetime CAN NOT be separated. In other words, time is relative to space in which it exists. 1 minute in a universe the size of an apple is still one minute relative to the space it occupies, but when you are looking BACK through space that is 4 times the size that minute will have occurred much longer ago than 1 minute. Hence, time dilation is occurring and is why the universe from our point of observation in space APPEARS to have been created billions of years ago.

 

[Meowzltov]

We know for certain based on the redshift that expansion is accelerating. Meaning that expansion was both slower in the past and the universe was smaller. Spacetime CAN NOT be separated. In other words, time is relative to space in which it exists. 1 minute in a universe the size of an apple is still one minute relative to the space it occupies, but when you are looking BACK through space that is 4 times the size that minute will have occurred much longer ago than 1 minute. Hence, time dilation is occurring and is why the universe from our point of observation in space APPEARS to have been created billions of years ago.

I'm sorry, but this does not qualify to be time dilation, and your argument is therefore fallacious.

 

[Laureate]

Yes, there was an earthquake. There were a great many earthquakes. It's not like the continents snapped apart in one day.

A good thing to examine is the mid-Atlantic ridge. It's the line of undersea volcanoes that pretty much is exactly midway between the Americas and Europe/Africa, and you can visually see how the continents once hooked up there. What happens at the ridge is that the lava comes out of the volcanoes and forms new land, pushing the crack apart. Indeed you can see the rows of successive volcano flows in mirror images on either side of the ridge. It's pretty doggone cool.

Meanwhile, over in the Pacific, you have these deep sea trenches near the coastlines. These are the subduction zones, where the ocean floor is getting sucked under the continents, so that the earth stays the same size.

So then it is both expanding and contracting in a breathing fashion, the first thing that popped in my mind is, could this be a significant factor to Earth's wobble?

 

[Meowzltov]

So then it is both expanding and contracting in a breathing fashion, the first thing that popped in my mind is, could this be a significant factor to Earth's wobble?

I didn't do a good job of explaining if you think it's expanding and contracting like a lung. What going on is that it's expanding in the Atlantic ocean at the same time that it's contracting in the Pacific ocean, simultaneously. Think of a pan of boiling water. In some places, where the the water is hottest and turning to steam, the water comes UP from the bottom of the pan. Other places, where it gets cooler where it hits the air, it sinks back DOWN to the bottom of the pan. And around and around the water goes. But the surface area of the water stays the same. It's still the circle area of the pan. This process is known as convection, and its the same process active in plate tectonics, except that the heat source is at the center of the planet instead of below a pan.

 

[BukiRob]

I'm sorry, but this does not qualify to be time dilation, and your argument is therefore fallacious.

You're wrong but that's okay...

 

[pat34lee]

We know for certain based on the redshift that expansion is accelerating. Meaning that expansion was both slower in the past and the universe was smaller. Spacetime CAN NOT be separated. In other words, time is relative to space in which it exists. 1 minute in a universe the size of an apple is still one minute relative to the space it occupies, but when you are looking BACK through space that is 4 times the size that minute will have occurred much longer ago than 1 minute. Hence, time dilation is occurring and is why the universe from our point of observation in space APPEARS to have been created billions of years ago.

Speaking of time...

Is Time Literally Slowing Down and Disappearing From the Universe? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Why is Time Speeding Up?

 

[Meowzltov]

Speaking of time...

Is Time Literally Slowing Down and Disappearing From the Universe? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Why is Time Speeding Up?

So one link is saying time is slowing down and the other says it is speeding up?????

There is no truth to time changing at all. Time dilation is only possible when you have TWO objects and their speeds are relative to each other.

 

[BukiRob]

So one link is saying time is slowing down and the other says it is speeding up?????

There is no truth to time changing at all. Time dilation is only possible when you have TWO objects and their speeds are relative to each other.

100% wrong but at least you're consistent!