Slashdot Mirror
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 Update: 10/09 16:06 GMT by Z : A few readers have written in to point out that the article is not peer-reviewed; your mileage may vary.
Halle-friggin-leuyah! Sing it brother! I am so fed up with people treating this parlor conjecture as if it amounted to more than a tediously-written scifi blaster.
Repeat after me -- math describes reality, it does not define reality. Just because you can make numbers dance, in no way does that mean said dancing jiggles anything other than your dendrites.
a) who gives people science degrees b) who publishes this dribble (the enquirer I presume?) c) do they make money off of it? (I AM greedy...) Honestly, what's with the doomsday people getting publicity nowdays?
an insane amount of genius
Funny but does it require genius to understand that nothing can move in spacetime, by definition? It's just simple logic, IMO. This is the reason that Sir Karl Popper called spacetime, Einstein's block universe in which nothing happens. Don't take my word for it, look it up! Apparently, our brilliant Spanish astrophysicists don't understand simple logic. Otherwise, they would have figured out that a time dimension is nonsense to start with. The universe is 4-dimensional and it is already spatial. A time dimension is crackpottery.
Read Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics and get the facts.
You still haven't produced the code for COSA, its been more than a month. Do you have it?
You still haven't stopped kissing ass?
Albert Einstein
Oh, the physics god, eh? Sorry, I don't worship time-travel-believing crackpots. ahahaha...
Are you a quack?
It's better to be a quack than an ass kisser, any day. ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...
Whose ass am I kissing?
ahahaha... You're just an ass kisser in my book. I know. I meet ass kissers like you all the time. Kissee, kissee... Haysoos Martinez! The time traveling crackpot's been dead for a while, now. Stop kissing his ass. ahahaha...
PS. Nothing can move in spacetime. You can pack that up your ass. How about that? ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...