posted on Nov, 8 2012 @ 09:17 PM
I think I mentioned the idea before somewhere, but I feel it relates to this topic too.
The thing with the speed of light as a constant measure... An analogy is to say that using it is like measuring a brass bar with a brass ruler, and
saying the length of that brass bar is constant even as the temperature changes greatly. Except with the speed of light, it's gravity instead of
temperature and time dilation instead of length. Now if somebody can interpret that the way I meant, I suspect this might be where some of the
Some other things also seem related to energy density per unit of time. So energy needed to approach the speed of light works out as an increase in
mass. However if mass was to be kept constant, its also likely the time factor could be made variable to reach that same enegy density. Wouldn't this
also work out to help explain relativistic time dilation? (I'm sort of curious how they'd work out if some variables and constants traded places.
Instead of assuming that some things are always one way or the other.)
This also seems to present some interesting problem outside of FTL or time travel, and may present quandaries for subjects such as astrophysics.
Can't date objects or events in the universe without a "universal clock" but if energy density and gravitational effects makes time progression
relative and non-uniform then it might break some aspects of current models of the universe. Light years don't help much as a measure if they mean
your ruler is wibbly-wobbly as the flux of the gravitational gradients they pass across. (Pardon how I said it, but it seems appropriate.) However I
suspect if somebody thought to compensate for this in the right way, it might be a very good way to explain that whole "dark energy/dark matter"
problem and perhaps nip it in the bud.
Or am I completely out of it considering how I abstracted some of this stuff from my limited perspective on the subject?
And on another side topic, although photons don't technically have mass, they do have quantum packets of energy and since mass and energy are
technically the same - photons could be said to be a mass carrier under certain circumstances. They can impart momentum. Otherwise things like solar
panels, radiant heating phenomena, chlorophyll, and optical tweesers wouldn't be able to work the way they do.