WHAT TIME IS IT, REALLY ?
Back in the 1920`s Einstein fixed the
existence of time. Well, almost.
He , Albert, worked out a formulae that
we have come to live by, E=mclittle2.
Maybe that is supposed to be big M,big
C squared---but, you get the idea.
In this formulae of Albert`s, gravity is the
biggee and it explains the small stuff.
Now it has been postulated that there are
or may be other kinds and forms of time.
Suppose there is more than our universe,
well, there may be forms of time for those
other universes, so we have to think small
in quarks, neutrons, strings and a bunch
of little stuff.
The question is, how do we package those
little fella`s so that we can work with them ?
You know, measure them, weigh them, count
them and keep them in one place long enough
for all those operations to take place ?
So, along came guys like Edward Witten who
worked out this "Superstring theory". See, my
computer is so old it don`t know how to spell
superstring yet.
Anyway, old Ed and a bunch of other physicists
deduced that you can string these little fella`s
together in a string, then you can fold the string
and you will have this bunch in a manageable
package. The problem is time. Time does not
like to be put in a package, so another group
decides to put the two ends of the string together
and Wallah, time is now encapsulated so you
can work with it .
But----- we are just a figment of the creationist`s
nightmare and we have a lot of places where time
is not measurable yet.
So, we have the string theory, but we have to keep
the ends of the string open, so just as soon as
we plumb these other universes and figure out
what kind of clocks they have we will then be able
to finish our little package of little fellas.
------ Eagle Cruagh
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