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Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry
sciencenews writes to tell us that a physicist at Stanford has just recently published a peer review website for several physics lectures focusing on a single underlying idea that "time is not a single dimension of spacetime but rather a local geometric distinction in spacetime." The science is presented quite clearly and originally uses GPS systems as a point of focus. From the article: "Not too long ago, people thought the Earth was flat, which meant they thought that gravity pointed in the same direction everywhere. Today, we think of that as a silly idea, but at the same time, most people today (including most scientists) still think of spacetime as if it were a big box with 3 space dimensions and 1 time dimension. So, like gravity for a flat Earth, the single time dimension for the 'big box universe' points in one direction, from the Big-Bang into the future. A lot of lip service is given to the idea of "curved spacetime", but the simplistic 3+1 'box' remains the dominant concept of what cosmic spacetime is like."
HEINLEIN'S WORLD-AS-MYTH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TIME YOU FUCKING JACKASS JESUS CHRIST
seriouly pay the fuck attention here the burroughs irrelevancy drive had absolutely nothing to do with time travel or anything related to this slashdot story. they guy who claimed it was related was completely wrong and so are you.
nothing to do with time
nothing to do with physics
the fucking engine ran on pure unadulterated philosophy and anyone who claims otherwise is a lying faggot
read the fucking book before you start spouting off about it