a controversal mathematical results by A group of physicists from the United States and Japan predicts that the time will literally stop completely after about 3.7 billion years.
so if this happens suddenly then everything will freeze even the fire of the candle, a parachuter who jump from airplane will never reach the ground. but suppose the time resume running again then we will not sense this and a tourist who look at Big Ben clock saying :[[ a v.....1 billion years time stop.... ery impressive clock ]] he will not sense that one billion stop wich will be relative to another universes time coordinates.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/04-10-2010/115192-time_universe-0/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/3319218/Time-is-running-out-literally-says-scientist.html
http://informsciencenetwork.com/raphael-bousso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9rgV0nf4Vc
Charles Pegge
29-08-2011, 15:16
I remain sceptical that the red shift seen in light from distant objects is entirely due to the Doppler effect. There are simply far too many anomalies and wierdness to make all the other astronomical observations fit with this Doppler effect on which the theory of an expanding universe depends.
Charles
danbaron
06-09-2011, 07:38
Sophism in the modern definition is a specious argument used for deceiving someone.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sophistry
specious (comparative more specious, superlative most specious)
Seemingly well-reasoned or factual, but actually fallacious or insincere; strongly held but false.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/specious
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/specious)
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Rafael Bousso of the Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Berkeley and his colleagues rebelled against the
idea. In their article posted in the electronic library at Cornell University, they claim that the infinitely expanding universe
cannot exist because the laws of physics do not work in infinite space. For these laws to make at least some sense, the universe
must be finite, and they calculated the most probable date when it will end.
Endless inflation (expansion of the universe) has several important consequences. Any event in it, which has non-zero probability, will happen an infinite number of times, the scientists say. But if there is an infinite number of each possible observation, it becomes impossible to determine the probability of any event. The laws of physics simply do not apply to this situation.
The only way out of this conundrum, the authors of the article say, is to assume some type of disaster that would end the universe. Then all the probabilities again become meaningful and the laws of physics will regain power.
Other theorists are extremely skeptical of this work, as well as other works of Bousso. "He is a fan of sophistry, a modern
Zenon," said Alexei Starobinsky, chief researcher of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of Landau. According to him, the
statement of the authors that if there is the end of time, it cannot be observed in normal human understanding means that there is
no end of our time there.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/04-10-2010/115192-time_universe-0/
I think the first paragraph above makes no sense. Something that begins as finite can expand forever, and, it will remain finite. (Otherwise, let me know when it transitions from finite to infinite.)
I think the second paragraph, without saying so, has shifted from a universe infinite spatially, to a universe infinite with respect to time. And, if something has a beginning in time, then, even if it never ends, its age will always be finite, yes or no?
In the third paragraph, I think the authors, "make the jump", that "someone" will intervene to insure that the laws of physics are saved.
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"We do not say that the expansion of the universe itself is an illusion," he explains. "What we say it may be an illusion is the
acceleration of this expansion - that is, the possibility that the expansion is, and has been, increasing its rate."
Instead, if time gradually slows "but we naively kept using our equations to derive the changes of the expansion with respect of
'a standard flow of time', then the simple models that we have constructed in our paper show that an "effective accelerated rate
of the expansion" takes place."
If time is indeed slowing down, so that according to this new suggestion our solitary time dimension is slowly turning into a new space dimension, then the far-distant, ancient stars seen by cosmologists would therefore, from our perspective, look as though they were accelerating.
"Our calculations show that we would think that the expansion of the universe is accelerating," says Prof Senovilla.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/3319218/Time-is-running-out-literally-says-scientist.html
This, I think could absolutely make sense.
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Physicists are having problems with the Higgs boson, too.
http://news.yahoo.com/cern-higgs-boson-god-particle-likely-does-not-172205263.html