kalesh

The assumption is made that the spacecraft does make a turn to move back to the same point in space, however that was left out intentionally to reduce confusion. Thanks I will look into that and see how it fits. Your assumption is correct, Right now I want to know how much is compactiable with mainstream relativity and to see what changes need to be made. If it seems compatible enough then I will later try to get it out into the world.

Yes they do change but I haven't heard anyone say space moves. I will come to length contradiction and gravity increase that are connected to this theory later on. I have said in my previous post and say again. I am NOT trying to dispute that time dilation does not occur. What I am trying to do is to explain HOW and WHY time dilation occurs. Hey cool it. This is a theory in development, and is not complete yet. I posted part of it to see reaction of people here and to get ideas on it.By the way what I meant by "not accurate" is that the numbers I am using for explanation has just been picked and not calculated. If someone is so inclined to make the calculations then he can make accurate calculations and check. Thanks for your comments. Any more replies anyone?

Hi all, I hope this is the correct place for posting this thread, if not could someone move it please. There are a few things that I have been thinking about, these may reform the way we look at time and hopefully someday will enable faster than light travel and maybe time travel as well. I am only posting a part of my thoughts in this post, more will come either as replies to this post or as new topics. I am posting here so members of this forum may help me unravel the jumble of thoughts in my head and also help with some eguations I get stuck with. Time as a fourth dimension. Time is now generally taken as the fourth dimension of spacetime. Now has anyone ever heard of speeding up one of the three dimensions of space? I think not. Cars speed up, spacecraft speed up, everything may speed up(or slow down) but space itself never speeds up or slows down. Now space makes up three dimensions of spacetime, so if three dimensions of spacetime can never speed up or slow down, why should the fourth? This tells us that time never speeds up or slows down. Now I am not arguing with the results of so many experiments that have proved that "time slows down". In fact my arguments go hand in hand with all of them. I'm just trying to give a new viewpoint on time and time dilation. So if time doesn't slow down then what causes time dilation? Well the person travelling speeds up. Let me explain this more clearly. Imagine a 2-D senario as below. A person is travelling with velocity V in dimensions x and y.The velocity has two components Vx and Vy. Now if the person accelerates from V to V1 both the components Vx and Vy also increase. Now lets adapt this to 4d spacetime. For ease of understanding I am combining the three dimensions of space into 1 dimension namely space and leaving time with one namely time. The same applies to objects starting from rest but it is much easier to understand it when assuming it already has a velocity. Using the diagram above imagine a spaceship travelling at velocity V through spacetime. The components of velocity V are Vspace and Vtime. Lets assume Vspace=0.1c and Vtime=1second/second. Now the spacecraft exerts energy to accelerate from V to V1. Lets assume at V1 Vspace=0.2c and Vtime=2seconds/second. I know isn't accurate but you get the idea. Now to elobrate on that look at the diagram below. The spacecraft in the paragraph above travels from point A to point B at speed V1 (lets forget about space and work only on time). At speed V1 Vtime=2seconds/second. and the distance as seen in the diagram is 90s (90 seconds). since time=distance/speed T=90/2 = 45 seconds. So it takes the spaceship 45 seconds to travel from point A to B in time. Now consider a "stationary" object (its still travelling in direction of time). its Vspace=0 but Vtime=1second/second. so using time=distance/speed it takes the stationary object 90 seconds to reach point B from point A. Since we can only see something that is at the same time as we are (just as we can only see something within our visual range in space). Since the spaceship takes 45 seconds to reach point B and stationary object takes 90 seconds, when they meet at point B a watch on the spaceship will measure 45 seconds and one on stationary object will measure 90 seconds. I have more ideas and discussion both about time and or items related to relativity, I will see responses to this post and decide if I should post the rest in this forum. I'll highly appreciate it if someone who can understand what I have said above can elobrate on it so other readers can also understand it, as I am not very good at explaining things. Waiting for your replies, comments, questions. Regards Kalesh.