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."

Comments

Crap

[jayhawk88]

Don't tell me the TimeCube guy is right after all?

Re:Warning : possible silly science

[drDugan]

I would have to agree. on slide 23, of one of the PDF, his title is "Einstein's Mistake"

Sorry, but the theories of Einstein have revolutionized human understaqnding and withstood ? 80 years or so of tests. Until Alex has his face on the cover of Time magazine AND gives the plenary session at the APS meeting -- he can let other people say he found "the" mistakes in Einstein's work.

THIS IS THE SLASHDOT IMAGE I GOT TO POST THIS::::
http://216.218.240.161/files/e0aa215b.jpg
too funny

Re:Lorentz transform anyone?

[Feezle]

I think this guy was a patent examiner too.

Re:Point(s) of interest

[Poltras]

Further, 2+2=5.
Only for really big values of 2...