Universe May Be Running Out of Time

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 21, 2007 @07:35AM from the ticking-clock dept.

RenHoek writes "With heat death, the big crunch and quite a few other nasty ways in which the universe could see its demise, we can now add "running out of time" to the list. A team of scientists came up with a new theory that would solve the problem of the elusive dark energy that seems to be accelerating the expansion of the universe. They figure that the universe is not speeding up but we are, in relation to the outer regions of space, slowing down. Tests with the upcoming Large Hadron Collider will give more insight if we're going to end up frozen in time."

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Changing Time Is an Oxymoron by MOBE2001 · 2007-12-21 09:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I've been saying this for years. Changing time is an oxymoron. Time dilation is an oxymoron. It's not time that slows down, it's the clock. In fact, nothing can move in spacetime at all, by definition. This is the reason that Sir Karl Popper (of falsification fame) called spacetime "Einstein's block universe in which nothing happens". In other words, all that nonsense about bodies following their geodesics through spacetime and about time travel through wormholes is all crap. Sorry. ahahaha...