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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."
Time is flat. It's been a well established fact for thousands of years. It relates to timespace in that when you fall off the edge of the world you also fall out of time. Einstein was right in that if you could make the sun rotate in the opposite direction around the earth you'd go back in time. The updated text books including Intellegent Design will also include a passage on Flat Time Theory. With the support of the current administration the US should once again be world leaders in science and technology. Now if we can get some of those pesky laws of motion and energy conservation off the books we might get a working perpetual motion machine!
Maybe in his version of the universe, The Author had Number of the Beast based on time as multi-dimensional/geometrical, and also made NotB not suck.
Hey - to the folks who modded the GP "informative" - what IS it like to live in a universe where that book didn't suck? Do you have Carrot Top? Do you want him?
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.