Blog 20150415
Dave
had this comment on my “Time is Motion” Blog:
“I've
always thought of time as a camera recording everything coming to be and
ceasing to be, the ceaseless movement of matter. The camera being this precise
moment -- now - a fixed point. If there was no movement down to the atomic and
sub atomic levels the very notion of time would be irrelevant.”
Thanks
Dave for your insight. Although time is really not a camera, I get the idea. In
a sense, a picture freezes motion, which is time. The corollary is that if all
motion stopped, all matter would disappear. This is another way of stating the Fourth Assumption of
Science, inseparability (Just as there is no motion without
matter, so there is no matter without motion).
This
should help us confront the silly idea of time dilation. We might “dilate” the
photo we took through enlarging it, but we could never do that with the motion
that the camera cannot photograph. We can dilate the photo and the matter it
depicts because those items have xyz dimensions. They exist, but motion does
not. This “connection” between matter and motion is a necessity for the
existence of the universe. This is also why a finite particle cannot exist.
Such a particle would have to be filled with “solid matter,” which could not have
anything within it that was in motion. Such a particle
would defy the rule that motion is required for matter to exist. That is why we
define matter as that which contains
other matter, ad infinitum, per the
Eighth Assumption of Science, infinity (The universe is infinite,
both in the microcosmic and macrocosmic directions).