Einstein Said Time Is Relative To A Clock

   Einstein said time is relative. Did he mean to a clock or to what? Misled by time, Einstein thought that time had physical properties. We measure distances with time instead of using a measuring stick, but time has some limitations. 

Einstein thought events of relativity could stop time or change the rate of aging.  Perhaps you think that time is responsible for your birth and death? But the true power of time is much different than you have realized. 

Time is a personal history of your life in ways that you don’t know. Before I step into your personal life, let me mention what science knows about time.

The Definition Of Time

The scientific definition of time does not address the fundamental nature of time. Events can happen forward and backward in space, whereas events only happen in the forward progress of time. 

In physics, motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes its position over time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, or distance, using the measurement of an object’s speed per unit of time. 

Another great definition is that time is what the clock shows. Science has no definition of time except to say it’s based on one second. Before I explain what time is and how it works, let’s look at a short history of time.

Time and Motion

Most people seem to make the error of thinking that time is the same as motion. 

Let me explain. The first way humans noticed the movement of time was that they saw the sun move across the sky from sunrise to sunset. To measure longer periods of time, they used the motion of the moon. Each full moon to the next full moon took about 29 days. 

Thousands of years ago, Greeks used a water clock by measuring the flow of water into a container. This was the first way that humans used motion to make a simple clock. 

The next invention was an hourglass that used the flow of sand in a glass bottle to measure time. The saying “she has an hourglass figure” comes from the shape of an hourglass. 

In 1656 the pendulum clock was invented to measure time using a swinging arm attached to a weight. The pendulum clock was a fairly accurate timepiece until the 1930s. 

The quartz clock came out in 1927, it uses a current of electricity to vibrate a quartz crystal, and the frequency of the quartz moves the clock’s mechanism. 

Finally, the atomic clock measures the number of photons emitted from a cesium-133 atom’s orbital electron. The cesium clock is accurate within one second in 3 million years. 

Did you notice that none of these time measuring tools measure time? They all measure a type of motion and then convert that motion into time.

The Beat of Time

Music is universal and has been called food for the soul. If you are a musician, you are familiar with the metronome. A metronome produces an audible tick each second or fraction of a second. 

You can practice setting the beat of your music with a metronome. But if you set it to tick every second, it ticks the same rate as a clock. Then the sound of the ticking is the beat of our planet’s time. 

The sound you hear is the motion of sound waves entering your ears as each tick takes one second. A metronome ticking doesn’t give you the time of day. 

However, there are 86,400 seconds in a day, so if you count each audible tick of a metronome, it becomes an audible clock. What just happened? 

A constant beat was converted into a timekeeping tool, just like a constant moving pendulum became a clock. Now I ask you, what is time? 

Your Heartbeat

How do you experience time? Your heart has a beat that pumps blood into your veins. If your heart beats 60 times each minute, then your heart is like a timekeeping tool. 

Your beating heart.

You can hear and feel your heart beating, and it gives you a relationship with time. Humans experience time with the beating of their hearts.  Time in your life is something that happens to you. 

You have learned to measure time through your experience of living. How long does it take you to walk to school? How long until you finish your work? When do I go to sleep? I will earn enough money to buy a car next year, etc. 

Your relationship with time is as personal as your memories. What is time?

The Time of Your Life

 

I’m trying to understand time, but it’s strangely difficult. I have a timeline from birth to this moment now.  You and I have learned how to live with time by the experience of living. 

You experience time as happening to you. It takes time to walk to the bus stop; it takes time to make dinner, It takes time to eat. But time seems to happen even when you don’t do anything. 

How do you experience time? Things like clocks don’t experience time. You experience time with your beating heart and your curious and active mind. 

You dream about adventures and romantic relationships. You imagine winning the lottery and traveling to exotic locations. You let time govern your life and then feel powerless to govern your time. Does time control your life? What is time?

Personal Time vs. Clock Time

A clock doesn’t measure time the way you do. A clock doesn’t even measure time; a clock measures motion. 

I know it’s difficult to explain, but when you wake up to see the sunrise, you look at the time. Do you think that the Earth just made another rotation around its axis? Do you think the sun is up and is moving across the sky? 

During your life, you don’t realize that you move with the motion of Mother Earth. How do you experience time? You experience time with your heart and your mind. 

You think that time has physical powers because your experience of living on our planet’s motion makes you feel that time is personal. You have memories of experiences and dreams of your past. You dream of experiencing your memories again. 

But when your beating heart stops, your time ends. We will remember your lifetime by the events you lived and measure it by the number of years. But you don’t die because of time. 

You die when your heart stops from the physical and emotional stress, accidents, and illnesses you experience.

What’s more real, your beating heart or time? The motion in the universe causes things to move, and we use clocks to measure the motion that we experience. 

The motion of your heart should tell you that the power of your heart beating is real, and the measurement of motion is a number. The power of life keeps you alive and takes away your life. 

Time is a measurement of things happening, but time is not the motion or your life. Time is our way of keeping track of our events.  We are fooled into believing that time is a real thing that causes things to happen. 

You are in charge of your actions and thoughts. Therefore, be in charge of your time.

Okay, what is time?

What Is Time?

Time is the measurement of the earth’s motion, and it measures the duration of a day and a year on our planet.  The confusion is that people think time governs motion, but it’s the other way around; motion governs time. 

A clock is used to measure motion and the time of day, while a calendar is used to measure days and months. Time uses three measurements; when an event happens, the duration of the event, and the rate or speed of the event’s motion. 

For instance, the 100-meter race is an example from the Olympics. The race takes place on Friday at 9 pm; during the 10-minute event, it takes about 10 seconds for racers to run 100 meters at an average speed of 10m/second.

Our planet spins for 86,400 seconds during one revolution. Time is the measurement of the motion that moves the earth. But time is not the motion or the cause of the motion.

We don’t know what causes the earth to spin, but the motion and the measurement of the movement are not the same. Most people don’t realize that time doesn’t move. 

Time moves only in the sense that the motion that we measure is moving. Time and space are measurements that together give us the speed of an object. But time and the distance traveled (space) are not the motion; they are measurements of the motion. 

Time is just one of the measurements that we use to describe our environment. Time is a misunderstood concept; it’s an invention to measure the motion of our planet using the units of seconds. 

Did Einstein Mislead Us?

Did Einstein think that time is real? He invented the idea that time is relative to a clock but did he realize that time is only a measurement? 

If Einstein realized that the time on a clock is just a number, he misled the truth. 

Einstein must have known that time is a measurement (a number) that a clock displays. Numbers are not real things that cause events to happen. Numbers are labels or measurements.

Did Einstein think that time is the cause of motion and events? We use time to measure a motion or event. Time is the date of an event or the duration of motion. 

The ultimate truth of time has arrived, and scientists should question if  Einstein misled the truth on purpose. 

I am working on my book Einstein: Misled By Time. In next week’s blog, I will continue to explore the meaning of time. 

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The 10 Commandments of Time

In physics, motion is a movement in which an object changes its position over time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement or distance per time. The existing definition of time does not address what is the fundamental nature of time. 

It does not address why events can happen forward and backwards in space, but events only happen in the forward motion of time. 

The relationship between space and time led physicists to define the spacetime continuum as having 3-spatial directions and time as a reference of when an event happened. This space-time is a description of events happening in a location at a specific time but it’s not a perfect description.  

It’s easier to see flaws in something than it is to see new ideas. 

Beware, read these 10 laws slowly or you will misunderstand what they mean. The idea of time has never been fundamentally described by science. Here are 10 laws that time must obey. 

You Don’t need Time to have Motion

When you look at the clock this is a type of personal time. You feel that you don’t have time to go to the gym. You feel that you can relax and not move. But your heart keeps pumping blood and you keep breathing. Time is a measurement of your beating heart, the motion is the action. Motion never stops.

You need Motion to have Time

The universe must have the power of motion that moves not only matter and energy but thoughts and dreams. This movement exists before it can be measured. A clock is used to measure that motion and the measurement is called time.

You can see Motion but you can’t see Time

This seems like a simple idea. We can see physical things like our hands and when we move our hands we see the motion, but not the time. We could measure how fast we are moving our hands by using a clock and then call it an amount of time. Time is a measurement of motion but the measurement is not the motion.

You can Touch Objects but you can’t Touch Time

Sure we can touch physical things. We can touch our smartphone and we can see the reading of time but we can’t touch time. We touch a number that displays the measurement of motion. This measurement isn’t the motion of time, it’s a measurement.

We Measure Motion Using Time and we Measure Time using Motion

The measurement of motion isn’t the motion and the measurement of time isn’t the time. 

Time and Motion are related because you can’t have time without motion (atoms are always moving and so is light). But we don’t know what is causing the motion. 

We measure the motion using tools that use motion. The standard time of one second is defined by the rate of motion in a Cesium-133 atom. 

When 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the atom are counted by an atomic clock it’s the duration of one second. So you can see that time is a measurement of motion.

The speed of light has been measured as 299,792,458 m/s and then the distance of one meter is defined as how far light travels in 1/299 792 458 of a second. 

And the speed of light is used to measure the time to travel to faraway places using light-years. 

It’s a circular system and it shows how motion uses time and time uses motion. Time is a man-made motion measuring system based on our day that has 86,400 seconds.

Time doesn’t Make us Old

Time is a measurement of motion and on earth, we use the motion of a cesium-133 atom to measure motion.

We can measure our age using a clock and calendar to count the years we have lived. But this is only a measurement of our age and not the cause of our biological age.

We get older because of unseen things that affect us. The biggest thing is stress, caused by physical and emotional reasons, illness and injury. Our age is a measurement of motion.

Time is Ruled by Gravity

We don’t know what causes gravity but I think gravity is what causes motion.

During the Big Bang event, energy entered the universe with kinetic motion. After the energy changed into matter gravity became the energy of motion. 

The motion of the cesium-133 atom happens because of the frequency between quarks and gluons using the strong nuclear force during quantum fluctuations that I call quantum gravity.

We measure this frequency and call it time but the problem with this method is that an external force of gravity will change the frequency in atoms. 

A cesium atomic clock will change its rate of timekeeping if the environmental gravity changes. This effect has been experimentally and mathematically verified. 

The change to the clock’s time is called gravitational time dilation. But I have never heard of someone claiming that it’s caused by gravity slowing down quantum fluctuations. Am I the first?

Time Dilation On Planet Earth

Now that we know gravity causes time to slow down we must be aware that the standard time on Earth of one second has time-dilation built into our second. 

The gravitational force on Earth is keeping the frequency of a cesium atom at 9,192,631,770 oscillations per second. The clock will only be accurate if it remains in the same gravity.

Experiments have proved that if an identical clock is placed at a higher elevation it will tick faster than the reference clock at sea level. 

The GPS system proves that a satellite clock ticks 45 microseconds faster per day because of gravitational time dilation and 7 microseconds slower due to the force of acceleration. 

Therefore, time is accurate only if the force of gravity remains the same as on Earth. 

The Problem with Numbers

The problem with numbers is that they aren’t real. If numbers keep going on and on into infinity then at what point of infinity do the numbers stop? Never? 

Never is another kind of infinity (time). Always is another type of infinity of time. Never is zero and always is infinite. 

The problem with numbers is that they are only measurements of something and a measurement of a thing isn’t the thing. The map isn’t the territory.

That brings me to the measurement of motion. A measurement of the speed of light is a number to describe the motion of light but it doesn’t explain why the motion moves. 

We measure one second of motion using the same instrument (atomic clock) that measures the number of vibrations of an atom’s motion. 

The only way to measure motion accurately is to use a photon clock that isn’t affected by gravity. 

However, we don’t have a photon clock that works without using a standard Earth-second.

A pendulum works using the force of gravity and gives you a visible motion of time but it’s not accurate. I don’t know how to measure motion without using a clock.

Infinity of Time

Heat is energy and temperature is the measurement of that energy which is the measurement of the motion of atoms. But these measurements are not the atoms. 

If you keep taking away all the heat and the energy you have to take out all of the atoms, then what is left, nothing?

In mathematics, nothing is zero but in reality, nothing doesn’t exist. Nothing is an abstract amount of something. 

If the universe disappears will there be nothing? Where did the energy go? It must have gone to the other side of nothingness which is infinity. 

What happens if the universe is gone forever? My answer is that infinity always exists outside of the universe while the universe is finite. 

The universe came from that infinity and the universe goes back to infinity. Infinity is the only thing that exists infinitely.  

The time in a realm of infinity is eternal. 

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Living By The Numbers

Living by numbers is what we do. We use the numbers on a clock, the numbers of our identification and the numbers of our address to describe us. What are numbers and how do they describe our life and give us time to live our lives?

What are Numbers

 

A number is a mathematical object that is used to count, measure and label things. Common numbers are written as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. We define our age and birth date using numbers. 

Numbers aren’t real things like people but we need numbers to explain things about us. 

Numbers are abstract entities created by people, and formalized by mathematicians, to have useful properties. Numbers are not real things!!! 

Nothing is a mathematical point between positive and negative numbers. Numbers aren’t real things and numbers only represent how many items are being counted. 

If you have several marbles and you give some away until you have none left or zero that’s still a number and not a marble. Marbles are real and numbers are not.

Your Space and Your Time

 

You live your life in a location in space for an amount of time. The space you occupy can be described by GPS positioning numbers. 

You can move from location to location and back again. But time is different.

You can only move forward in time which is not an accurate way to say it because time is not a real thing like the space you live in. 

Space is a physical thing such as the place you call home. Time is an abstract thing that we can’t see or touch. Time is a number and numbers are not real.

What is Time 

We don’t know the fundamental meaning of time. The following is my best attempt to describe time and how it relates to our life. 

Time is an abstract thing that doesn’t exist outside of this now moment. Time is a measurement using a clock that counts and works by using numbers. 

We don’t live in time or move in time. Time is the measurement of motion. Everything we do with time is based on the motion, duration or rate of motion of an event. 

Time is not the event. We don’t count numbers and grow old and we don’t get old by looking at our watch.

Physical stuff has 3-spatial dimensions that describe the shape and size of matter.

Time also has 3 dimensions to describe an event or motion. The 3 dimensions are the past, present and future. 

The past is becoming now, the present is happening now, and the future is beginning now. That means all 3 dimensions of time are happening at this now moment. 

Counting The Measure of Time

We use a tool like a clock to keep track of time but a clock is a motion measuring system. The clock is made to tick 86,400 seconds every 24 hours of an average day. 

A clock just keeps on ticking at the same rate if it’s resting in the same location. The rate of ticking will change when a clock is moved if the force of gravity changes.

We use the number of ticks from a clock to measure the movement of motion or the duration and start of events. 

We measure how long it takes to walk to work. We measure how long until we get out of work. We call this number time. 

Most people make the error of thinking that time is the same as motion. Motion is what we measure with a clock and then call it time. Time is the measurement of motion.

Counting the Measurement of Motion 

It takes 86,400 seconds every 24 hours for one revolution of the earth. Time is the measurement of the event or motion of the earth but time is not the motion.

We don’t know what causes the earth to move but the movement and the measurement of the movement are not the same things. 

Think about your heart beating and you measure it has 72 beats per minute, the beating heart is motion, time is the measure of the motion. 

Time is also a number and numbers are not real. You can’t touch time, smell time, or see time, but you feel time because you have a heart that beats.

To measure a race we use a stopwatch to see how many seconds it took. We measure the duration of movement and then we call it time. 

Time is a motion measuring system based on the motion of the earth. But we don’t know what causes the motion of events. 

We don’t know what force makes the Earth rotate at the rate of 86,400 seconds each day.

 We just measure events using the seconds of the earth’s motion. We call these seconds time but time is an abstract thing and the motion that moves the earth is the cause. 

Time on a clock is how we keep track of our daily events and calendars are used to track past events.

Time Dilation Counted

Time is a number on a clock that seems real but time dilation can change a clock’s ticking rate by the force of gravity. 

The force of gravity also acts on our biological age but not because a clock’s time changes. 

We live and move in our earth’s field of gravity and our clocks are standardized to the gravity on Earth. 

A clock outside of Earth’s gravity will change its rate of keeping time but this time dilation doesn’t change the age of Earth or the universe.

We don’t understand time and fundamentally science has no definition of what time is except to say it’s based on the unit of one second on earth. 

Since 1967 the second is defined by the oscillations of a cesium-133 atom. One second happens when the atom has completed 9,192,631,770 oscillations.

So time is defined by the motion of an atom. The measurement of the cesium-133 atom’s motion is translated into time by counting with numbers.

Time is counted by how many times an atom moves (its frequency) but time isn’t the motion of atoms. Time is the measurement of motion.

What came first time or motion? I hope you know the answer.

Measuring Time Dilation

 

Time is counted by how many seconds of motion have been measured. The problem with this method is that motion can change and then the time will change.

The force of gravity changes time because the vibrations (frequency) of matter will slow down and then counting the number of seconds will change. 

A perfect example of time dilation occurs with the GPS system. The atomic clocks in all the satellites must be updated every day to keep the same time as the reference clock. 

GPS system of satellites

The reference atomic clock measures the motion (frequency) of a cesium atom that is experiencing the force of gravity on earth and this clock is used as the real-time.

In space, the gravity is so weak that the frequency of the cesium atom increases and the clock will count more seconds than the reference clock on earth. 

Each day the satellite clock counts 45 microseconds faster than the clock experiencing the gravity on earth. Therefore, time moves faster in space.

But the gravitational force of acceleration on a satellite slows down the frequency of atoms and time goes slower than the reference clock on earth. 

Each day this acceleration force slows down the clock by 7 microseconds so the total time dilation is 38 microseconds slower than the reference clock on earth. 

Time dilation in the satellites must be adjusted by 38 microseconds each day or the GPS tracking system will not remain accurate. 

The frequency of matter depends on the force of gravity and this will change a clock’s time. Time depends on the force of gravity that a clock experiences.

But remember that time isn’t a real thing. Time dilation is a false time on a clock and it doesn’t change the speed or age of earth or the satellite.

However, if the force of gravity is extreme like inside stars or black holes then a clock’s time will stop and maybe the frequency of quarks will transform matter into a plasma.

Counting Our Age

Time is a measurement of motion using a clock that works by counting numbers. 

We don’t live in time or move in time. Time is the measurement of motion and age. 

Everything we do with time is based on the motion, duration or rate of motion of an event. Time is not the event. The action or movement is the event. 

We don’t grow old by counting numbers and we don’t get old by looking at the time.

We get older because of unseen things such as gravity, stress, injury or illness. 

Time is just the measurement of getting older and losing our marbles. 

My Last Words About Time

We can keep using our clocks and phones to keep track of time. Gravity and frequencies move the universe and our lives but we measure it as time. 

We use the time on a clock to measure and document our motion. Understand that time is only a measurement of our beating heart but it’s not our beating heart. 

Time is a measurement of our life but it’s not our life. You get it?

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