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.