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Time Dimension To Become Space-like
KentuckyFC writes "The Universe is about to flip from having three dimensions of space and one of time to having four dimensions of space. That's the conclusion of a group of Spanish astrophysicists who have calculated that observers inside such a Universe would see it expanding and accelerating away from them just before the flip (abstract, full paper pdf on the physics arXiv). 'We show that regular changes of signature on brane-worlds in AdS bulks may account for some types of the recently fashionable sudden singularities. Therefore, the fact that the Universe seems to approach a future sudden singularity at an accelerated rate of expansion might simply be an indication that our braneworld is about to change from Lorentzian to Euclidean signature. Both the brane and the bulk remain fully regular everywhere.'" Update: 10/09 16:06 GMT by Z : A few readers have written in to point out that the article is not peer-reviewed; your mileage may vary.
So that's whats going to happen when the Mayan calender rolls over in 2012.
Oh, I'm living in a tesseract,
a four dimensional box.
It's bigger on the inside,
what why my four-space rocks!
When you get on the inside,
the outside becomes the in,
Dimensionally speaking,
it's all about the spin.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
If only Einstein was around to see it :)
Avoid poetry, coastal cities, and the Catskill mountains. Seriously.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Nobody Expects the Spanish Astrophysicists! In fact, our two main weapons are theory and telescopes, theory and telescopes, and an insane amount of genius, wait that's three, our three main weapons are...
I first read this theory in Oolong Caloophid's seminal work: "Where God Went Wrong."
More of this is elaborated in his development of these themes: "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes," and "Who Is This God Person Anyway?".
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Jeebus will return ! Clean your browsing history and cache.
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"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
where the theories and calculations of the brightest brains in the room become indistinguishable from the random brainfarts of two stoners sitting on a smelly couch in a dorm room at 4:20 AM
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I'm guessing some time in the future.
Silly... obviously the question is NOT "When will this happen?" Without time there is no "when", and no "happen", and no "will". Only "this".
Should this research be correct, the only question left will be: "This?" Now and always and forever, this?
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
The peers are going to review this a few centimeters from now; give them time.
The real question is not "when is this expected to happen?", but where? I think it already happened on the NJ turnpike a long time ago
-- Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
All this talk about time becoming a spatial dimension and realities collapsing is making my brane hurt.
Yeah, I said it.
Life, the Universe, and Everything... in my image.
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In the future, time will become very confusing...
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Sandurz: Now, you're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happend to then?
Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Sandurz: Just now. Were at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Sandurz: Soon.
Dark Helmet: How soon?
Demented But Determined.
..maybe if I wait a few feet it'll feel better
Change requires time. It's a logical paradox.
You're assuming that there is only one time dimension. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
M-Theory was the brane child of a bunch of mathematicians
[tips hat]
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
overlords.
Breaking "time's arrow" will really fuck with our verb tenses.
But I worried about that tomorrow...
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May the Maths Be with you!
That means no movement and no thought.
Don't look now, but it's already happened in Washington, D.C.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
May the Maths Be with you!
Don't blink, don't turn away, don't close your eyes, and whatever you do, don't blink!
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