PSI Blog 20240108 Why it is so Difficult to Understand Time is Motion
How
Einstein’s Relativity obscured a simple concept.
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Despite one of my most popular posts, “Time is
Motion,” folks still seem to have a great deal of trouble
understanding what is really a simple concept. Many seem to think time is an
illusion or a measurement or a dimension or a substance or an object or a
mystery.
A lot of the modern-day confusion stems from
Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory in which he erroneously and
surreptitiously substituted length, l, for time, t. This initiated a tendency
that became overt when he declared time to be a 4th dimension in
General Relativity Theory. The resulting curved 4-D spacetime is supposed to
cause gravitation. Those of us with any lick of sense have trouble with that,
being told repeatedly in school to abandon our common sense.
But it goes deeper than Einstein’s confused math. It
involves fundamental assumptions, which can never be completely proven and
always have opposites. I think I should have done a better job of explaining
this with respect to time in "Religious Roots of Relativity." If you
have read that book, you will be reminded that the First
Assumption of Religion is immaterialism (Material things have no
objective existence, strictly being products of consciousness). Thus, if one
denies the existence of matter, then one also is denying the occurrence of the motion
of matter. For those who cannot stomach a wholesale belief in immaterialism,
there is a way out. It is the subdued, contradictory variation I call the
Fourth Assumption of Religion, separability (Motion can occur without
matter and matter can exist without motion). Many folks do not think deeply
enough to recognize these fundamental assumptions. Nonetheless, they still may
be influenced by them or their derivatives.
Even our “smartest genius” was oblivious to them.[1]
As you may know, Einstein’s “immaterial fields” were an example of assumed
“matterless motion.” With the E=mc2 equation stolen from Maxwell he
claimed matter could be converted into energy, which could fly from the atom as
a sort of ghostly matterless motion. As part of “feral mathematics[2],”
he could get away with that without complaints from folks well-trained in
accepting religious assumptions. Since most of us were brought up religious, it
is not surprising we have difficulty understanding both matter and the motion
of matter. Both of those are outside our Dreams and Imaginings,™ which
we subconsciously try to keep separate from the reality staring us in the face.
Sophisticated theologians and our own “reformists” in the dissident movement
try to handle the contradiction with embellishments that are anything but
simple.
The Infinite Universe involves the motion of each thing
with respect to other things. We measure specific time with various clocks,
while “universal time” or “absolute time” never can be measured due to infinity.
Above all, time is not the measurement, but the motion of
matter that allows the measurement and the math that goes with it. If you still
have trouble realizing time is motion, just consider it so and you will never
be wrong. You might want to read some of the comments of others struggling with
this simple concept:
https://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2011/11/time-is-motion.html 102 comments
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[1] Borchardt, 2020,
Religious Roots of Relativity.
[2] What I consider
as mathematics gone wild. Math is an imaginary model of reality, but it is not
reality. It is indispensable in science and engineering for understanding what
amounts to the collisions of one thing with another. When math hypothesizes
events that make no sense, common or otherwise, it becomes necessary to recheck
the assumptions underlying the math. Math that assumes the entire universe
exploded out of nothing is wild. A reality check is necessary.
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3 comments:
Glenn,
With regard to materialism, I'm a hard atheist because I'm a hard materialist.
I watch some of the atheist podcasts on YouTube, and those atheists are scared to say that they are materialists. They say, "I don't see evidence for a god, but I can't say for sure that there is no god". If they would only admit that they are assuming that there is nothing outside of our material universe, that's all they would need to say for certain that "there is no god".
These defenders of atheist logic also love to rattle on about the Big Bang and Virtual Particles, all as a counter to the religious claim of God the Creator.
Although I sometimes can't help but add a comment, I know that there isn't much I can do if these smart atheists enjoy using modern physics and cosmogony as a counter to belief in God. They are just trading one regressive indeterminist view for another equally regressive indeterminist view.
In the YouTube comments section, I recently got a reply to my simple explanation that "the only thing that exists is matter and the only thing that happens is the motion of matter". The reply said, "Prove it". That's funny, but I don't think the guy was trying to be funny.
Cheers,
Rick Doogie
Allegan, Michigan
Thanks, Glenn for the excellent blog. Because your significant statement: “Time is motion” is an idea that I held before ever encountering your work, it is not difficult for me to understand. It was the phrase that I searched on the internet in 2014 that led to the discovery of your scientific blog, papers and books. A modification to the statement that I made for clarity that you have agreed with is: “Time is the motion of matter.” This is to reinforce the understanding that motion never occurs without matter, unlike Einstein’s absurd view that motion and matter can be separate. In my book I found it useful to differentiate between time as the motion of matter and the measurement of that motion, so I coined the term “nadal” to refer to the measurement of it, which is what clocks do with varying degrees of accuracy.
Because I feature your theories with citations in my 408-page scholarly book “Notfinity Process: Matter-In-Motion Second Edition”(2021, 2023), I am certain that your readers would find it useful and interesting. I am most grateful for the blog that you published about my book and your positive comment about it that appears on the back cover.
https://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2021/07/george-coynes-notfinity-process-is.html
The newest version of the book with the revised back cover and additional content came out in September 2023.
https://www.amazon.com/Notfinity-Process-Matter-Motion-George/dp/1775158802/ref=sr_1_1?crid=34UKYABLMTCFV&keywords=notfinity+process&qid=1704731077&s=books&sprefix=notfinity+process%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C163&sr=1-1
Glenn, when evaluating any proposed scientific theory with religious roots, such as the Big Bang theory proposed by the Roman Catholic priest and physicist Georges Lemaître to conform with the Bible, and Einstein’s relativity, as written about in your 2020 book "Religious Roots of Relativity," it is important to understand its connection to religious belief. When realizing that awful things are ordered to be done in the Bible, there is no basis for using it in devising science theories. Here is a brief list of some of the horrendous things instructions found in the Bible. It commands us to Kill witches, adulterers, blasphemers, prophets, fortune-tellers, non-Hebrews, sons of sinners, gays, non-believers, anyone who curses God, all males after winning battles, disobedient children, strangers close to a church, those who work on the Sabbath, any bride discovered to not be a virgin, those who curse father or mother, those who worship the wrong god, and anyone who kills anyone.
When attending public elementary school I was required to listen to passages from the Bible, but fortunately I never thought it was worthy of being believed.
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