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A Brief Analysis Of Time
Are there 6 or 7? There can't be both.6/7 aspects of regular time:
Time did not begin with the Big Bang, that is just the point from which we can start measuring time. In any action, t>0 is a basic premise. If time did not exist before the Big Bang, then t=0 or t<0 would have to be possible. Such a thing is clearly impossible, however, because in order for the Big Bang to happen time had to already exist. If time does not exist, then nothing can happen. Time has to be infinite, it cannot begin or end.(A) beginning - the Big Bang/Bit Bang
Who can say what will happen after the Big Crunch or if anything will? A long-standing theory is that the universe constantly expands and retracts. What you refer to as the Big Crunch is simply the start of another Big Bang. We won't exist, but time always will.(B) end - the Big Crunch
As in time that has already been measured? Okay, I can go along with that.(C) past
An aspect, perhaps, but one so small it is immeasurable. Any moment of the present becomes the past in less than a dodecatillionth of a nanosecond.(D) present
Too much of a variable to be measurable. How do you measure the infinite?(E) future
You're on tricky ground here. If time is void then nothing exists, and no one really knows what exists beyond the event horizon of the expanding Universe and beyond the event horizon of a black hole.void - beyond the event horizon of the expanding Universe and beyond the event horizon of a black hole?
The speed of light is only a constant in a vacuum. Light is made up of a spectrum of colors traveling too fast for the naked eye to see. Shine the light through a crystal or a prism and it bends, slowing it down just enough for us to see the spectrum. "The only thing that affects the speed of light is the refractive index of the medium through which it moves, and for empty space, this number is 1.000000 and gives you the maximum possible speed of light. In glass, it is 1.3333 times smaller since c/n = c/1.333 = 300,000 km/sec/1.333 = 225,000 km/sec. The invariance of the speed of light in all uniformly moving reference frames is a postulate of special relativity, it does not derive from special relativity, which only then states how observers will experience/measure space and time given the invariance of the speed of light." (https://einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/q1917.html)(G) a constant - the speed-of-light.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
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