The Experience of Aging
Your chronological age measures the number of years you have lived. Have you heard the saying that the average 60-year-old person in Sweden is more fit than the average 30-year-old American? How can you compare 60 years to 30 years?
Your biological age is a measure of your health and fitness. The cause of aging is from the physical and emotional stress of living.
Your Relationship with Age And Time
Your age is the number of years that you have lived. You need to use a calendar and count the number of years and weeks.
The invention of timekeeping and calendars are the tools you use to measure your history.
Time is what a clock displays so that you can keep track of your daily events and durations.
The invention of clocks is the tool used to tell the time at your location on our spinning Earth. After one day has passed, you can add another day to your calendar.
Your chronological age increases each day, but your body can age faster because of physical and emotional stress.
Each time you have an injury or illness, you add stress to your biological age. The fountain of youth depends on how much stress you experience.
You use your time to keep track of the day’s events and to plan future events. Time is a measurement of the duration and rate of events, but it’s not the event.
Time is only a number on a clock. Many people want to know if it's possible to get younger using the science of time dilation.
The Twin Paradox
The Twin Paradox is a well-known mind experiment. A twin's spaceship clock slows down because of the force of gravity.
The popular answer is that space travel will make you younger because time slows down.
But the duration of the trip was the same duration that a twin experienced on Earth. How can the spaceship twin be younger?
Time alone doesn't age you. Traveling at almost the speed of light doesn’t make you younger. In reality, it’s the opposite. Speed can kill you!
Speed has a force of acceleration which is gravity, and it could kill you.
The force of gravity changes not only a clock’s time but also slows down the frequency of all matter in the spaceship and your body.
To accelerate to the speed of light puts gravitational stress on your heart and other body functions. You can die from an extreme force of gravity.
We measure our lifetime by the number of years we live, but the measurement isn’t our life. It’s just a number.
If you measure your heartbeat at 60 beats per minute. That’s a measurement of the heartbeat. But it's not your heart or the force that keeps your heart beating.
Time is a number or measurement of motion, but it’s not motion.
Time dilation is a number and it can’t make you live longer, but you can add life to your years by avoiding stress.
I conclude that time dilation doesn’t slow down motion or aging, and using a rocket ship to travel at light speed would surely kill you. Read the rest of this article if you are a student of physics...
The Motion of Things
The force of gravity is real, and motion is real. A clock measures motion, but gravity affects clocks. Thus, time is relative to the force of gravity.
The frequency of atoms is affected by Earth's gravity, so our clocks move slower because of the force of gravity.
In space, the lack of gravity moves the GPS time faster by 45 microseconds per day.
In a Black Hole with strong gravity, a clock would turn into a plasma, but before its destruction, the display of time would have stopped by the force of gravity.
The four fundamental forces of particles are electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, and gravity, but particles also have a frequency.
The motion of quarks in atoms creates gravity, and a measurement of the oscillations in a cesium-133 atom is called time.
Speed is distance per time, and it starts with the quantum motion of quarks and gluons in atoms. The complete description of gravity is in my book Einstein: Distorted By Gravity.
Frequency, Motion, and Time
Can we just measure the frequency of the atom (cesium-133) and know a clock's time?
We could know the speed of a clock's ticking by its frequency instead of counting oscillations of photons in its electron orbitals.
But I digress. It seems that we need a method of counting motion to convert it into time. Time is a measurement of the cesium atom's motion, but an atom's frequency has motion.
Can the frequency of an atom be measured and converted into seconds (time)?
To take this idea further, the force of gravity changes the frequency of an atom, so can the frequency of the atom also tell us if gravity is increasing? What a great idea!?
Instead of counting the oscillations of a cesium atom, measure its frequency. Don't ask me if it's possible or how to measure the frequency of an atom?
For example, scientists could compare the frequency of a cesium-133 atom when its photon oscillations equal 9,192,631,770, which is the standard count of one second.
When the atomic clock (cesium-133 atom) is at a higher frequency level as in the GPS satellites, then compare the frequency with the time.
Does the atom's frequency increase as the GPS clock shows that time moves faster?
Is Time Moving Faster?
Have you ever wondered if time is moving faster or if time travel is possible?
Do you know that a definition of time doesn't exist? My next book will attempt to explore and unravel the mystery of time.
My idea is that each time the atomic clock counts 9,192,631,770 oscillations, it registers as one second, so if the frequency of the cesium-133 atom is higher, then time moves faster.
Wait a minute that is already happening in the GPS satellite's clocks. Time is moving 45 microseconds faster per day because less gravity allows the atom to oscillate faster.
We have proof that atomic clocks tick faster when the force of gravity is less.
Can we measure the frequency of cesium-133 at different gravity levels to see if the frequency of the atom changes at the same rate as time changes?
Check the frequency at sea level and on a mountain top. Then we can find out if the frequency of matter increases at the same rate as on the clock's display of time.
Atomic clocks tick faster in less gravity, and if the frequency increases as time increases, then time is also relative to frequency.
We could measure over a year if a standard atomic clock at sea level is slowly increasing its frequency which means time is actually moving faster.
We know that the motion of the universe is accelerating faster. What if time is moving faster, and the days are getting shorter?
What about using a set frequency of light (its color and wavelength) compared to the number of oscillation counts on atomic clocks?
Light has a fixed speed, but its energy varies with its frequency. Find out if a clock's time is moving faster by measuring the frequency of light during one year?
Once scientists better understand time, they can investigate many different ways to measure motion into time.
The arrow of motion should replace the arrow of time.
New tools could measure the frequency and take time dilation into account automatically, making the GPS satellite's time even more accurate.
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