Since space is expanding and is linked to time, isn't time expanding as well? (Strange Universe Series, 2011)
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If you could arrange for a object with a fixed period of varying luminosity to be present in every galaxy (think of it as a clock), then I’m pretty certain we would observe a lengthening in that period which would be a function of the velocity the galaxy appears to be receding from us, which in turn one would compute from the degree to which the object’s spectrum is redshifted (and this in turn being a function of distance). The farther a galaxy is from us, the faster it appears to be moving away from us due to metric expansion, the greater the redshift and the greater the dilation we observe in their clock.
Terrence McKenna covers this with Novelty Theory. I’m pretty much aligned with him.
We aren’t being pushed away from a singularity. We’re being pulled towards one.
If space were shrinking, would time shrink as well? (big crunch scenario)
No. Time only goes one direction, which is why it’s called the “arrow of time”. If space were to shrink (or be static), time would still go forward.
Time is simply a method that humans have created to remember when to eat lunch. I’m no astronomer or physicist, but heres what I think: Time is not really a universal measurement, one meter is one meter on Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto. So to say something that isn’t tangible and is completely relative, is actually expanding is some what preposterous. If you say that the distance between to given points, planets, galaxies, is getting larger than it is hard to say that “time” itself is actually expanding. Say your in a space ship traveling at a constant speed between two very distant planets, if the planets are growing farther apart while your at you constant speed, you end up with a simple algebraic equation. I hope that that was in some way or shape and answer to the question.
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