Can We Measure Time?
Can we measure time? In my book Einstein: Misled By Time, I conclude that Einstein made a mistake in Relativity by measuring time.
Here is another attempt to show that Einstein misused time in his theory of Special Relativity.
He measured time using the speed of light and claimed that fast-moving objects get shorter. And that time stops at the speed of light, but the object's mass is infinite.
We know that light has mass and moves at the speed of electromagnetism, yet it is almost massless and doesn't stop or have a greater mass.
Light is not massless. Look it up on Wikipedia. E=mc2, energy is also equivalent to mass.
Einstein’s math shows that he's correct, but his math has mistakes, and his results don't happen in reality.
Science doesn't prove anything. It supports what we experience, but Einstein's results can't be experienced.
My point is that time cannot be measured by any means.
WTF, you say. "That's what clocks do. We measure the time of everything."
No! You're as wrong as Einstein. All clocks measure motion, and we convert it into "time." Thus, time only exists on clocks and our thoughts.
The cesium-133 atomic clock measures the oscillations (frequency) in the cesium atom and counts the correct number of oscillations.
A clock shows one second, and we call it time.
Using this type of clock and a laser beam focused on the mirror placed on the moon in 1969 takes 2.56 seconds to return.
Thus the distance to the moon is about 1.28 light seconds. This value is the distance to the moon, not a measurement of time, just like a light year is a measure of distance, not time.
Long story short, the speed of light has never been measured with a single distance.
It's always reflected from a mirror. It's challenging to get the laser focused, and measurements will vary, but the definition of the speed of light is set and agreed to be 299 792 458 m/s.
Light moves faster in space because we measure it with clocks on Earth.
The correct definition is that light travels at a constant speed, but on Earth, we have measured it with clocks subject to Earth's gravitational time dilation.
Time is the measurement of motion, and the motion of things can go faster or slower compared to the speed of a clock.
Clocks tick 86,400 seconds each day, but clocks can tick faster or slower depending on the force of gravity.
A person would also run faster or slower if the force of gravity were different.
Clocks can measure the speed (motion) of light, but the motion of light isn't time.
It takes "time" for light to move from a source of light to a destination (distance).
If you measure the distance the light traveled, you can calculate the time it took for the motion of light to reach its destination.
But we can't measure the distance light travels in one direction. It's always measured as a return trip.
Time is the measurement of a cesium-133 atom's motion, but time isn't measured. A clock shows the time from a measurement of motion.
It’s difficult to say and even more difficult to understand.
Einstein used the distance light moves from an event to an observer to show that the faster an object moves, the shorter it gets and the slower time moves.
Basically, he measured time by the speed of light's motion, but as I said, it's not time. It's a duration of motion. Time cannot be measured.
Time is already the measurement of a cesium atom's duration of motion. Einstein used distances as a duration of time without measuring the distances.
It's like saying I ran a distance in 12 secs and another distance in 12 secs. So which distance is shorter? His error of distance was based on imaginary times on imaginary clocks.
The speed of light moves at a constant rate, and it takes longer to move a farther distance, but the duration of motion moves at the same rate.
You can say the distance is greater but don't say the clock was slower or the time was slower.
Time dilation happens because of acceleration and not from faster or slower speeds.
There's no evidence of time changing by speed alone. Einstein made the mistake of measuring time.
Now the GPS shows us that time dilation comes from the force of gravity and acceleration.
Einstein didn't believe the universe could expand and didn't know the energy inside atoms.
Yet we continue using his false relativity to explain gravity and time dilation.
His math still gives the correct values for time dilation because we still use a false idea of time.
Time is the measurement of motion, but it's not the motion. Time is the duration of motion and not the motion itself.
A duration of time or "elapsed time" is a duration of elapsed motion. We measure motion, not time.
A clock shows a measurement, and we call it "time." However, time doesn't exist except on clocks and in our minds.
Thanks for using your time to read about time. The concept of time is multidimensional, but so are we.
Next time you measure an event by time, think about the duration of the event (motion) as the time, not the numbers a clock shows you.
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