Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / November 2006

Dear cex:

There is no time (or space) at the quantum level.  So 1 is
certainly different from 2 - 4.

The 2 - 4 are derivable from the same stochastic processes.  So
they are indiscernable from each other.  It is just a matter of
scale.

David A. Smith

Seldom does the loosing drag racer finish with less fuel than
the winner and this is the physicist's most fundamental
sense of time.
<< invariance with respect to time translation gives the well
known law of conservation of energy >>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether's_theorem

Imaginary time scales find application throughout physics,
one of the most common is the apparent power of an
induction motor or the apparent conflict with Maxwell's
equations and the principle of relativity. Both resolve
by putting time on an imaginary axis so electric and
magnetic components can be evaluated with a skew
between them.

To suggest Michael Jackson should set his alarm clock
different when he sleeps between capacitor plates or
inside an inductor is as much BS as the technician
who measures the current and voltage on an induction
motor and declares he has found some free energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_impedance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_impedance

Cosmological time has a slippery relationship
with the above that wasn't the same 20 years ago
and likely won't be the same 20 years in the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_time

Sue...

No.

that nature works by at least 3 time rates