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Originally Posted by Tormod
Thelonious - don't demand proof for counterclaims if you do not provide proof yourself. The lack of evicende counter to your claim does not validate your assumptions.
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Of course, you are correct. I do not have any proof, only a rationale. But following through the thought experiment, and an exercise in dialectics, like this, may bring a better understanding.
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Originally Posted by Tormod
I have never seen a single piece of evidence that time slows down at colder temperatures. This shold be easily measurable. All we need to do is to add a digital clock to the outer wall of the space station and see if it slows down.
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One can imagine that, like time dilation at increasing speeds, the relationship would be very steeply exponential. So a "mere" 2.7 kelvins might not be enough to have a measurable effect, and considering that clocks lose time on their own, it would be hard to account for this.
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Originally Posted by Tormod
In fact, if stuff slows down the colder it gets, then time must be very different in different parts of the universe. It is extremely cold in interstellar space...
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Why would the time be different in different parts of the universe because of temperature? It has been cooling for sixteen billion years, so one can expect a high degree of equilibrium to have been reached. Certian phenomena seem to cause the temperature to deviate by up to something of an order of magnitude of a thousandth or so here and there, but other than that it is pretty constant at the aforementioned 2.7 kelvins.
