Time

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Time

• Is there a clock anywhere?

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Yesterday is but a memory Tomorrow is but a
dream Today is the reality
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As you read this sentence, from start to finish,
you may or may not recognize the flow of
time. Did time really flow, or was that just an
illusion?
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Is the future open and changeable, until it
becomes the present?
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Is the past really fixed?
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J.R.R. Tolkien said that there were different
levels of reality. One level of reality is that
of a past which really did happen, even though it
may or may not be known.
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J.R.R. Tolkien said that there were different
levels of reality. One level of reality is that
of a past which really did happen, even though it
may or may not be known. Another (second) level
of reality is that which is known (or believed)
by everyone, even though conflicts with the first
level of reality.
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J.R.R. Tolkien said that there were different
levels of reality. One level of reality is that
of a past which really did happen, even though it
may or may not be known. Another (second) level
of reality is that which is known (or believed)
by everyone, even though conflicts with the first
level of reality. J.R.R. Tolkien believed that
the second level of reality was the only one
that had validity.
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Albert Einsteins theories of relativity suggest
that there is no one single piece of time, and
that all moments are equally real.
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Is time fundamentally real? An analogy is
thisis a chair fundamentally real?
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A chair certainly looks, feels, smells, and
acts real. Is is made of Wood and leather, which
is made of
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A chair certainly looks, feels, smells, and
acts real. Is is made of Wood and leather, which
is made of Starches, Proteins, Sugars, which are
made of
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A chair certainly looks, feels, smells, and
acts real. Is is made of Wood and leather, which
is made of Starches, Proteins, Sugars, which are
made of Polypeptides, which are made of
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A chair certainly looks, feels, smells, and
acts real. Is is made of Wood and leather, which
is made of Starches, Proteins, Sugars, which are
made of Polypeptides, which are made of Compounds
of elements, which are made of
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A chair certainly looks, feels, smells, and
acts real. Is is made of Wood and leather, which
is made of Starches, Proteins, Sugars, which are
made of Polypeptides, which are made of Compounds
of elements, which are made of Atoms, which are
made of Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, which are
made of
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A chair certainly looks, feels, smells, and
acts real. Is is made of Wood and leather, which
is made of Starches, Proteins, Sugars, which are
made of Polypeptides, which are made of Compounds
of elements, which are made of Atoms, which are
made of Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, which are
made of Quarks, and Empty space, which are made of
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A chair certainly looks, feels, smells, and
acts real. Is is made of Wood and leather, which
is made of Starches, Proteins, Sugars, which are
made of Polypeptides, which are made of Compounds
of elements, which are made of Atoms, which are
made of Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, which are
made of Quarks, and Empty space, which are made
of Strings of energy, and nothing . Which is not
a chair on a fundamental level
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This is another quark. This
is his glamour shot.
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• Make time, or get rid of it.
• Sir Issac Newton had three great laws
• Things like to keep doing, what they are already
  doing, in straight line.

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• Make time, or get rid of it.
• Sir Issac Newton had three great laws
• Things like to keep doing, what they are already
  doing, in straight line.
• Force equals Mass times Acceleration

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• Make time, or get rid of it.
• Sir Issac Newton had three great laws
• Things like to keep doing, what they are already
  doing, in straight line.
• Force equals Mass times Acceleration
• Each action has an equal and opposite reaction

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• Make time, or get rid of it.
• Sir Issac Newton had three great laws
• Things like to keep doing, what they are already
  doing, in straight line.
• Force equals Mass times Acceleration
• Each action has an equal and opposite reaction
• With thiseveryone had to agree that there was a
  sequence of events
• Example with the equation force mass x
  acceleration.
• An object is given a mass of 10 kg.
• The object is given a velocity (say zero)
• A force is applied
• The object accelerates
• There is a flow to the sequence of events. Time
  gives it an order.
• The object cannot accelerate BEFORE the force is
  applied

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Time must also have an idea, or a notion, or
duration. An example is that Tony and Tina both
left home for 3 hours. In order for them to
meet back at the same time, an hour has to mean
the same thing to both of them. An example is
that Tyson is going to eat 25 chicken wings in
one hour. Time has to endure for an hour to find
his wing eating rate. In order to find the rate,
time has to endure, even though it is in the past.
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Newton said (but not in so many words), that the
world exists within the confines of an enormous
clock, and everybody works within that
clock. That clock said, if Newton is correct,
that time a. Has order
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• Newton said (but not in so many words), that the
  world exists within the confines of an enormous
  clock, and everybody works within that clock.
• That clock said, if Newton is correct, that
  time
• Has order
• Has continuity

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• Newton said (but not in so many words), that the
  world exists within the confines of an enormous
  clock, and everybody works within that clock.
• That clock said, if Newton is correct, that
  time
• Has order
• Has continuity
• Has duration

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• Newton said (but not in so many words), that the
  world exists within the confines of an enormous
  clock, and everybody works within that clock.
• That clock said, if Newton is correct, that
  time
• Has order
• Has continuity
• Has duration
• Has simultaneity

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• Newton said (but not in so many words), that the
  world exists within the confines of an enormous
  clock, and everybody works within that clock.
• That clock said, if Newton is correct, that
  time
• Has order
• Has continuity
• Has duration
• Has simultaneity
• Has flow

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• Newton said (but not in so many words), that the
  world exists within the confines of an enormous
  clock, and everybody works within that clock.
• That clock said, if Newton is correct, that
  time
• Has order
• Has continuity
• Has duration
• Has simultaneity
• Has flow
• Has duration
• Taken as a whole, this is
• called time.

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Assaults on the castle time. Ludwig Boltzmann
(an Austrian) reasoned, and proved, that Newtons
equations worked equally well going forward or
backward in time, so time must not have a built
in arrow.
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• Assaults on the castle time.
• Einstein showed, in his special theory of
  relativity, that
• What two people are doing at the same time
  depends upon the speed at which they are moving.
• Events dont happen in a place or at a certain
  time, but they happen in a union of space and
  time, called spacetime.

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• Assaults on the castle time.
• Einstein showed, in his general theory of
  relativity that .
• If the theory of special relativity, and
  spacetime put a heavy load on the idea of a
  master clock, called time, then the theory of
  general relativity crushed it.
• The introduction of gravity as a distortion tool
  for time makes it impossible for any two clocks
  to be synchronized, even if they started out that
  way.

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• A summary of time, according to Einstien, would
  say that either
• There are no clocks in the universe
• or
• b. There are many clocks, and each works with
  only a very small part of the Universe, or to a
  particular object.

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• Quantum Time
• Quantum Mechanics says that, there are
  probablilities of different outcomes.
• Time is that thing that makes the contradictions
  of probabilities happen.
• A rolled dice cannot have both the 3 and the 6
  showing.
• Changes in quantum fluctions must be chromatic.
• Quantum mechanics provides for quantum
  probabilities and possibilities for all of space
  at the same time.
• Entanglement implies spooky action at a
  distance, and is dependent upon a master
  universal clock.
• This is why Einstien hated, hated, hated quantum
  mechanics

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• Quantum mechanics, which is
• Tested
• Proven
• Gives unerringly correct results
• The basis for computers, light science and
  statistical experimentation
• needs for the Universe to have a Master Clock
• General relativity, which is
• Tested
• Proven
• Gives unerringly correct results
• The basis for nuclear physics, astronomy
• expressly forbids a Master Clock

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Do we really need time? Time is a placekeepper,
like dollar bills. Our class will let out in 375
heartbeats. Light travels 240,000,000 meters per
beat
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• Schrodingers Cat
• If we get rid of time, it can be
• Dead with respect to itself
• Alive with respect to the person in the room
• Dead with respect to another person in the
  hallway
• The situation (life and death) of the cat is
  never resolved.

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