Comments on: Scientists Say Time is Slowing Down

By: Ted Seay

Ted Seay — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:36:33 +0000

Tom, you hit it on the nose. It is either time slowing or light acting strangely as it passes through the interstellar medium... Think about this: If we are measuring the speed of light always inside of the areas that dark matter exists, than how can know that light does not change states some way outside of the presence of some other particles/forces?

By: jlb

jlb — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:53:32 +0000

http://ldolphin.org/cdkgal.html read it!
Very weird. It is more Quantum Mechanics weirdness in the real world.
Projecting forward and backward gives some very disturbing images and implications.
Time past approached much faster and arrived much sooner than it would seem possible in our timeframe reality, and time future expires much faster and runs out much sooner than we would think possible in this timeframe reality.
The only way I can picture it, is like someone being in a moving river of changing speeds. Your speed relative to the water you are in is seemingly constant but your speed relative to your surroundings is a very different thing.
It seems to describe a scenario where time will essentially and for all practical purposes eventually flatline and end. Who knew that the hourglass really looked a bit like reality?
It gives new meaning the the phrase, the time is short.

By: jlb

jlb — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:34:58 +0000

Is light speed constant? We are told that it is. Is it? Check out this article about the changes in atomic clock time and the speed of light measurements. If they are right it changes everything and modern cosmology needs to be rewritten. http://ldolphin.org/cdkgal.html

By: tumokai

tumokai — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:10:53 +0000

what,you gonna blow it up or implode it ,nahh your gonna turn off time?

By: bakeingfoo22

bakeingfoo22 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:59:12 +0000

if time is slowing down then doesnt that mean that it use too go faster and if it did go faster then how fast did it go when the universe started and also if it did go faster back then, then the time we estimated how old the universe is not as old as we think it is.... so in fact it would be a lot younger then what we think of it now????

By: james morris

james morris — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:47:35 +0000

if time really slowing down doesnt that mean that it was going a lot faster in the past before so wouldnt the universe be alot younger then we think it is????

By: just a guy

just a guy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:40:55 +0000

I love how it declares "scientists" say this. Just because one group came out with a theory, doesn't mean that the entire scientific community is behind it (in fact, the scientific community is quite a contrary group of peeps).

Heh, it's kind of like scientist steriotyping. o_O

By: Louisa

Louisa — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:51:02 +0000

I don't understand any of this and I'm quite comfortable with that.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:10:47 +0000

I always had the feeling that time is speeding up...then again...it could possibly be just death quickening his pace behind me.

By: bengtl

bengtl — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:23:02 +0000

Interesting article except that they got the sign wrong. If ancient light appears more red-shifted, it means time is speeding up, not slowing down.

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:43:56 +0000

@doeth
"time and mass are equal"

Yes, it's approximately 1.4 kilograms past the hour when you should have paid attention to BASIC PHYSICS.

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:30:36 +0000

gonzo: my mother just got her knee replaced. my father had a large mass taken from his innards that was thought to be cancer (it wasn't). i have many friends that have survived things that would have been a death sentence even 100 years ago. if we just used our 'primate brains' to 'watch the wheels go round and round' then we would never have made any advances at all. we advance because we ask questions, and we try to come up with explanations of why things are the way they are.

By: doeth

doeth — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:16:58 +0000

I've always thought that time and mass are equal, therefore why should time be only 2 dimensional?

By: GonzoSharkHunter

GonzoSharkHunter — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:26:18 +0000

I'm open to "extreme possibilities", as they used to say on "The X-files", but no matter WHAT is or isn't happening in the universe, time is nothing more than our perception of it. We can TRY to quantify it and other things with it, but that is just our very new, primate brains, a mere 9 million years out of the African plains, trying to look and sound "smart". I prefer John Lennon's approach, in his song: "I'm just sittin' here watching the wheels go round and round." That, basically, is all humans are really doing.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:33:51 +0000

The problem is that we measure time independently of any other variable, that is, time is relative to time only. Probably a better way of explaining it would be to say that the speed of light is slowing down (this is an issue of the permitivity of space). Another possibility is that photons themselves slow as they go through space, but this slowdown is perceptible only over intergalactic distances.

There's still a lot to learn.

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:10:59 +0000

This theory appears every 5 years, i think. the basic idea is that the entire universe is growing/shrinking, but our measuring devices are also growing/shrinking so no-one notices. it gets boring after a while. *yawn*

By: emptymindedness

emptymindedness — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:53:11 +0000

Interesting. If this two dimensional aspect of time is correct, it would represent a fundamental shift of awareness in physics. Think about it - if time is not a constant, what then becomes possible?

What I particularly find fascinating is the repeating occurence in science of where one person thinking outside the conventional wisdom box promotes a hypothesis which eventually lays the foundation for the next generation's conventional wisdom (e.g. tectonic plate theory, evolution, gravity, the curvature of the Earth, etc.). To me, that's what makes diversity in all aspects of life so vitally important. Everyone's opinion matters, even if they are an absolute idiot.

By: Pena

Pena — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:11:08 +0000

No, no, no, It's fastening