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Old 01-25-2005   #12 (permalink)
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Re: "Freezing" time

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Originally Posted by maddog
You have nothing to go on what before was like, vacumn or not. If you want to believe there was "vacumn before" -- fine with me.
Even if that assertion is not correct, it does not change the validity of the argument.

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Time does not exist except by its measurement. Time requires an observer.
Who are you quoting? One could reason that time is nothing more than a dimension, an intrinsic property of space-time. Other spacial dimensions do not have to be observed to exist. According to string theory they could be curled up and as small as the Planck length, too small to be probed, read detected, by anything.

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For the there to be a relationship, there would be an equation. You brought this up as a statement as though it was fact. I have been showing how it is fallacious. Your playing games by demanding "proof" of a lack of relationship between time/temperature is childish. The burden to corroborate is upon you, not me. I would like see how such a relationship could exist and agree with the Standard Model and Thermodynamics. I am not sure how. Please explain.
First of all, I have never asserted any of this as fact. These are just musings stemming from a hypothetical thought experiment. The fact that the possible equation is not known to us is irrelevant. Should I become convinced this is not worth further consideration, then I will simply move on to the next idea. However, in order to do so there must be some strong reasoning negating the hypothesis.

Now, consider this. A stationary observer watching an object accelerate towards the speed of light would see the object's activity slowing down. This is the same thing that happens as we freeze an object. An "observer" would notice decrease in activity of the freezing object. I realise that the circumstances and forces at play are different, but the way that both processes work is strikingly similar.
 
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