Welcome to Gaia! ::

Yup, I imagine it would. lol It's the principle that was in the book featured in the film. I would go on to explain but I would spoil the film! I'll take it to PMs. 3nodding


It took me a couple of viewings. Whenever it's on TV again, I still notice things I'd forgotten or hadn't realised the first few times. It's a cool film like that. Frank freaks me out, though. eek


*adds another entry in his 'Books to Read' list* crying

*Note* This is Fushigi na Butterfly's Post from the First Page~!*

I disagree. Time is one of the major dimensions. (Along with Space, etc.)

If Time is merely a human concept, then why does Time move slower among large bodies of mass that contain great amounts of gravity? (Example - Stars.) Because stars make such an indent on the area of space, time itself is bent around the star. Time exists, yet the word "time" is a human concept. Time exists, seeing as it can be bent and altered along with other objects~

Along with that, if time is merely a human thing, how can God be outside of time?

Time is not just a human concept. It is a physical aspect of the universe. It is be slowed (or bent). The two primary ways for time to be slowed is by high speeds or gravity. It can get complicated rather quickly, but the main point is time does exist.

This can be seen in a number of ways, and without understanding this GPS systems and satellite communication would not work.

Actually, scientists have a pretty good idea of what is in the center of the Earth. It is pretty much just solid iron. Outside that (outer core) is liquid iron, with some sulfur. Outside that (the mantle) it gets far more mixed, with about five or six main components.

There is quite a bit that is not known about the Earth, but scientists have a pretty good grasp on the generalities. While there is still much to be learned about the Earth, we certainly do not have, "no idea what's past the surface layer."

Well, that's what they consider to be most LOGICAL, but then again, there are a lot of things in the universe right now that don't seem that logical at all. Like how science has told us there must be SOMETHING everywhere, and that giant hole of NOHTHING out there. But as no one's ever been to the center of the earth, there's no way to really tell. I mean, the mantle might be solid. The center of the earth might be Twinkie's cream pudding. They can guess, and they can think their guesses make sense, but all in all it's really just shots in the dark.

I doubt any explanation I could provide would do the subject justice. It is an intricate subject, and I am not that good at making things simple. The best approach I can think of is to provide examples of time being affected by speed/gravity.

A common experiment is to take two synchronized atomic clocks and place them at different elevations. We know the Earth is constantly rotating. With any rotational object, things located further from the center travel faster than things nearer to the center. This means the atomic clock placed at a higher elevation will travel faster than the atomic clock placed at a lower elevation. After a period of time, you can compare the two clocks, and you will see a discrepancy. The clock that had been placed at a higher elevation will show less time has passed than the clock that had been placed at a lower elevation. This is because time slows as objects move faster.

Time being affected by gravity is far harder to demonstrate. There are unfortunately no simple experiments like the former example. Instead, consider GPS systems. These are systems which use satellites to determine exact locations on Earth. When designing these systems, the makers have to adjust for gravity's affect on time. The reason for this is satellites are located quite a distance above the Earth. Because they are farther from Earth, they are less affected by Earth's gravity. Since gravity exerts less force on them, time moves slightly faster relative to a person on Earth. Signals sent between Earth and satellites experience a certain amount of "drift" due to this difference. The need to adjust for this has been well known the entire time satellites have been used.

One thing that is extremely important to point out here is time is only relatively moving faster or slower. In the example of the atomic clocks, neither clock would notice the time dilation. Indeed, to each clock time was completely normal. It is only when comparing two different reference frames the affect can be observed (which is part of why it is so hard to grasp). As for why time is affected this way, it is largely one of those things of, "That's the way it works." There are possible explanations, often combining time and space into a single thing, called spacetime. What is important is we know how it works, even if we do not necessarily know why it works.

I am not sure how clear my explanation was, so feel free to ask questions. The examples I provided are just a couple of hundreds that could be provided. For example, most of what is known in astrophysics depends upon time being real to make sense.

Edit: Another approach to explaining why gravity must affect time is if it did not, it would be possible to create a perpetual motion machine.

Okay, I get how it can be demonstrated, but I guess this just one of those things that I don't get. Cuz I'm still thinking I disagree with it (mostly because I don't understand it). I'm just ... I don't even know. I think my brain might melt if I try to think about it. sweatdrop Thanks for trying to explain it to me though. 3nodding

Haha, yeah, understanding they why probably would have been helpful. Oh well. 3nodding