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Old 01-24-2005   #7 (permalink)
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Re: "Freezing" time

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Vacumns per se aren't pure, though.
The vacuum of space from the moment of the Big Bang henceforth has not been a perfect vacuum. However, at a moment before the Big Bang, "space" would have been a perfect vacuum.

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However, I remember one experiment (published in either Science, later Sci Am or Physics Today) that talks about Bose-Einstein Condensate. Basically the researchers were able to cool down a few atoms so close to 0 that they behaved as though the expression of 1 atom (synchonized wave function). Another form of entaglement. This was close to a micro-Kelvin (10^ -6). There was still activity. This does not mean that clocks would slow down.
I know about the Bose-Einstein Condensate, but I fail to see how it has any bearing. The activity of the atoms was very slow. It would be interesting to perform an experiment of this nature on a radioactive molecule and seeing how it affected the half-life or doing the same on an atomic clock. I have not really thought this scenario through yet, as I just thought of it, so it may be a rather poor idea.

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Time is a constuct we invent.
Man invented the means to measure time, but to say the concept of time is a fabrication is erroneous.

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No paradox and no need to invent one. There is no relationship. You can believe as you wish. Doesn't matter.
If there is no relationship I expect there to be incontrovertible proof to corroborate. You have not yet met the burden of proof to say there is no relationship.
 
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