On Saturday 04 February 2006 22:41, Jones Beene wrote: > http://www.stanford.edu/~afmayer/ > > > ...time is not a single dimension of spacetime but rather a local > geometric distinction in spacetime. While this may seem esoteric, > it is actually quite simple, according to the author of a new book > due out soon ... riiiight! > > Imagine that 'the arrow of time' in the Universe, like gravity on > Earth, is ostensibly the "same" everywhere, yet at the same 'time' > it is different everywhere relative to everywhere else. That means > that the 'arrow of time' points in different directions in > spacetime depending on where you are, so time has a geometry just > like space has a geometry. > > The idea is that there are an infinite number of time dimensions > in the Universe - which revolutionizes gravitational theory and > much of modern science with it. A number of outstanding scientific > mysteries are definitively solved, including observations...
Cool, I said this before about the multidimensionality of time in previous posts. Standing Bear
