Telescopes Are Time Machines
Some scientists say telescopes are time machines because they look into the past, but I have an issue with that.
I think the future doesn’t exist. The past has happened and doesn’t exist. If that’s true, you can’t see the past even with the most powerful telescope.
For instance, consider that reflected light from objects such as the moon is too dim and can't be viewed from far away.
With telescopes, we can view a light source, such as stars, but we don’t see beyond the light to view where the light comes from.
Telescopes also use microwave and other frequencies to detect the composition of things. But again, they can’t see the items and details in the galaxies.
We know it takes about 8 minutes for sunlight to reach us. Scientists claim that we are seeing the Sun as it was 8 minutes ago.
However, we do not see the past. If we could see the past, we would see the sunlight leaving the surface of the Sun.
But we aren’t looking at the Sun’s surface. We are witnessing sunlight that has been traveling for 8 minutes, entering our eyes in this present moment of the universe.
The measured distance to the Sun calculates that light takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth.
We can't accurately measure the distances to stars, so we don't know how far away they are.
The point I’m making is that we don’t see the past. All we can see is light from a source entering our eyes at this moment.
The universe has one moment of existence, the exact moment we all experience.
Time Cannot Be Measured.
I claim that Einstein made the error of measuring time by using the speed of light.
Time is what a clock shows, so time isn't measured.
We can measure the duration and speed of things using clocks and claim that the measurement is time.
But time itself can’t be measured.
When you use these terms correctly, most of the science of relativity and cosmology may contain serious errors.
I was astonished to learn that time isn’t what we think it is. My new book explains relativity in different ways that make more sense.
Can We See The Past?
There’s a popular misconception about seeing the past.
The past doesn’t exist and can’t be seen.
Light from millions of light years away is indeed reaching us, and astronomers say they see the past, but at the same time, our sunlight is traveling to that location.
Astronomers from millions of light years away might be looking at our Sun and thinking they see the past. That’s not seeing the past.
The universe is full of light from every star and galaxy; the farther we look into space, the more we see. Why is that?
It seems like the universe is a sphere-shaped container, and light can circle the universe several times.
Almost all of it is just light, and the stars and galaxies don’t exist anymore.
The correct way to think about the motion of light is to stop thinking in terms of time.
Time doesn’t exist in the universe.
The motion of photon radiation exists, and when we measure this radiation, we shouldn’t give it an age.
Time has no power to make light older, and time cannot make people older.
The universe has one present moment, and no place is older or younger during this moment.
It's incredible how we have been thinking about time as if it has the power to create the universe and cause things to happen.
I think that most people don't believe what I'm saying because we have been conditioned to read a clock's display as time.
However, time is the measurement of motion that we witness.
A clock ticks with the rate of Earth's rotation, and we use that speed to measure every other speed.
But a measurement has no power to cause events.
We give power to time and say it takes time to heal, time to bake, just give it time.
Meanwhile, the motion keeps moving as we focus on the time. To learn every aspect of time and how it affects you, read my book Einstein: Misled By Time.
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