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Re: No time for the Universe - - 10-23-2007, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by NotStein View Post
It's known that time slows to a stop/ceases to exist at the speed of light.

Inflation is also pretty well accepted, i.e. the universe expanded much faster than 'C' just after the Big Bang. Would time have raced backward during inflation? Does that mean that when the universe winds down to an end, that time might just be winding forward back to zero?
Wow ... if time stops at the speed of light and this is 'known' then its not known to me. I would have thought that our measurement of time would register at the normal rate regardless of speed. An observers perception of our speed may differ accordingly. I don't visualise this as time stopping. I think that our measurement of time is just our perception of order/disorder?

Second point is that if you chart space/time on a X-Y graph then you end up with the speed of light at 45 degrees to both. This does not allow for any backwards/forwards or you would be exceeding the speed of light?? Once again a different observer may see things differently, but these are relative perceptions.

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