Why Does Mass Bend Space Time?

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It does not. Space has nothing to bend and time has constant rate and is omnipresent.

Like length, time comes from displacement(motion), not space. Time is the duration of length(motion).

Time-Length or Length-Time....is the correct concept. Motion. Any and all motion is energy. That's all energy is.........motion.

Space-time is necessary to explain light, not gravity. All of our science is based on the consensus of light velocity.

And that consensus is wrong, just like(centuries of observation and measurement) the consensus of elliptical orbits, is wrong and only apparent.
Nature does not use pi, for rotations.

Our reality has two parts. Nature(non-living) and Supernature(life).

Why and how nature came into existence can not be answered.

But WHY and HOW nature(light and mass) moves can be answered. With mechanics, and a little intellect.

Only intellect or intuition, can separate apparency from reality.

One hundred years is long enough for mathematical apparency.

Reality is all in your mind.

My mind is not that big.

Aspirin? Paracetamol? Cocodamol?

NO.Fookitall.

What is space time? Space is the inhabitant of an intellectual bankrupts head and the time is how long they speak before you become aware of their deficiencies.

So does that make space time a short term vacuum?

We do not know what is happening beyond outer edges of our visible universe are doing NOW(our local relative NOW),only what was happening eons ago.

Much of the whole universe is beyond our ability to see.

The expansion,as we see it now, may be a small segment of the process.

We are presuming that things will proceed at the current rate.

It may be collapsing and we would not be able to see it for millions or billions of years.

Of course,by then we will probably be extinct or will have evolved into a species that can travel faster than C,perhaps like entangled particles.

So in Deep Endless Time,we can comprehend merely a snap shot of the whole.

You are now diving into complete solipsism, where nothing can be known about now. That's right, one can never know about NOW. Everything you know is in the past, nothing can be known about the present. Everything your sensory organs detect takes milliseconds to reach your brain and if you're lucky the mind there will comprehend a few milliseconds later what once happened.

Milliseconds or millions of millennia the result is still the same. A mind can only comprehend the past. I guess one could call this a temporal solipsism. So why this lonely pursuit to accept only what happens NOW when you can never know NOW.

I find all of the forms of solipsism an interesting, amusing venture to delve into with an adult beverage but ultimately I find it to be nothing more than a self-indulgent waste of time. I'm certain many other professionals (psychiatrists, social workers, police, philosophers, bartenders, priests, etc.) do find the codification of solipsism and the many other studies of the mind to be highly useful and critically important to understand. From time to time I too find understanding many of the methods used by some minds to be useful. When that method prevents me or that mind to grow I avoid that method or individual whenever possible. Some aspects of solipsism seem to relish ignorance.

I have merely expressed one of many ideas I have contemplated,but have not made it a frame of mind,nor does it hinder or occupy my everyday life or thoughts.

I am very tolerant of other's opinions,regardless of how far strung or strung out they may seem.Even the wildest ideas may have some merit.Nothing is all bad or all good. most ideas fall into the giant gray area of unknowns.Certainly we are captive to our senses and our mental constructs of reality,and each of us see the world differently than anyone else.There are people that have more rods and cones in their eyes that allow them to see millions of colors that are invisible to ordinary humans.These abilities are testable,but there are also humans that can "see" beyond the accepted norms of perception in other areas as well,and these abilities are currently not testable,but that does not mean they do not exist.

I tolerate without contempt or distress even the most outrageous opinions,even those that attempt to belittle others for their non conformity.

IMHO:Intolerance is the root of most problems in our world.

"Imagine."-- RIP-- John Lennon

Hakuna Matata!

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I was hoping you'd be willing to explore my point and the implied question it asks. I guess I must explicitly ask the question.

What conditions allow us to accurately perceive what is happening NOW despite the delay of our receptors?

I'll give you an example that just happened. I know that I NOW have snail mail sitting in my mailbox. I saw the mailman stop at my mailbox for a brief period of time and then drive off. Before I get up to retrieve this mail I know that some mail is in this green box. Why do I know this?

IMHO:

There is no unique action.

All action comes in pairs;action/reaction.

Every action that we see in the universe was accompanied by an equal and opposite reaction.

The Big Bang is why you know this and the sequence of events that followed,even your thoughts,which you think you originated.

If you follow this line of thought objectively,without bias or subjectivity(which is not totally possible) trace back to the source,and you will see the light.

Time is motion.No motion,no time.Time cannot be measured without motion on some level,even atomic clocks.Time is simply our attempt to quantify motion.

As a result of that train of thought,nothing is truly random,not even atomic decay.

Sunspot activity affects atomic decay,a supposedly random event which has been proven recently.

At the same time as the BB explosion there was a Big Implosion(BI);Another universe where the laws of physics are reversed from ours.

When quantum particles "pop into existence" in our universe,opposite particles "pop" into existence in the other universe.

Nature seeks balance.Charges tend to even out.

Water seeks it's own level.So it is with all things.

And like water,space is a medium which matter moves through.

Without motion,it is simply space,not spacetime.

And motion is a change in the relative position,or space between,two or more items.

There are no truly stationary observable objects in our known universe.

Gravity is the wake generated by matter or energy moving through spacetime.

The more concentrated the mass or energy,the bigger the wake.

As for what caused the BB and the BI,I don't know,but I wonder.

Why?

Why?

Here's why:

You still evade my question. You have spouted a stream of related only to each other conclusions but none of them relate to my question. I'll paraphrase my question for clarity.

How can we know anything about what is happening NOW when everything we perceive is in the past?

There is no absolute "Now" as Albert said, time is relative.Even two people passing each other on the street going in opposite directions will have different relative time as they approach,and as they depart,reference to a "stationary" object.

But as a general reference,I use the term to refer to what we generally consider as contemporaneous "Now".

You are trying to pick apart the language because you cannot answer the real question,but instead try to divert it to a question of semantics.

WHY do you do this?

Are we having fun yet?

Yes, as Einstein pointed out there is no unique NOW. Everyone has their perspective of what is NOW. But that construction does not apply to my mailbox scenario for I am the only one concerned with that NOW.

I've stated my question fairly clearly. I even paraphrased it in the hope you'd consider the simple poser. The semantics matter when there are multiple meanings for a word. (I'm not sure which real question you are referring to but that's another story.)

The fact that there are so many meanings and perspectives for NOW proves the point I was hoping to get to with my question answered. We do know many things that are happening NOW in interstellar and even intergalactic space. Regardless of your personal, solipsistic understandings of space or now. We don't know everything that is happening out there. We don't know everything that is happening here. Many of the things we know have codified uncertainties to our knowledge but this doesn't negate our knowledge of now. It enhances our knowledge.

Ok,I will accept that it is presently not testable,so it does not fit the scientific definition of hypothesis.

Just call it a fleeting thought,or a passing idea,like passing gas,a "brain fart" if you please.Whatever makes you feel warm and fuzzy is ok by me.

I believe that time, is the most NON precise entity that we measure. All of our clocks use oscillation for tic rate. Atomic clocks do. Electronic clocks do. ANY clock.

A pendulum oscillation changes with height too.

This error about time......carries thru all science that follows.......any requires foolish explanations about time being a variable. Or local.

In any oscillation, we have an increase in velocity, a decrease in velocity to a full stop, and then another increase in reverse velocity, a decrease in velocity to a full stop again.

Check that out. A speed up...a speed down to stop....reverse.....speed up again....slow down again til stop......reverse......and repeat.

Two forces to swing in one direction....a reversal force.....and two more forces to swing back the other way.

Think about how all those dynamics.....have to stay matched.....to give you a constant tic rate.

ANY acceleration......or a gravity gradient.....will throw that match off......and vary the tic rate.

Many, many education people believe that the change in that tic rate.......proves that TIME itself is changing.

Let's take a vertical shaft or axle.......and attach gears at every one hundred feet......10 gears for a thousand foot vertical shaft.

Set an atomic clock beside every gear to measure the rotation rate. Spin shaft at constant rate.

What do your clocks tell you? Your clocks will tell you that each gear is moving at a different RPM.

Now, do you believe your clock?........or do you believe the physical mechanics? Turn the shaft to the horizontal......now, they all have the same RPM.

Some educated people......actually believe that each gear IS rotating at a different rate!!!!!! That's how delusional our science is.

If you want to measure time.......USE a rotational time piece. A rotation only has one direction, one acceleration and both are constant. A rational clock, properly oriented, is immune to acceleration and a gravity gradient. Immune to SPACE-TIME.

Don't ever let math, or science, over ride your common sense.

This mis-conception about time, comes from the mis-conception about light.

But that's another failure of science.

You really are easily confused.