What is the fifth element?

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Thanks guys but that's not what I'm on about. I mean the the fifth element in quantum physics - the time delay. Can anyone explain it to me?

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love

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fifith element appear by the first time from Aristoteles thought. After, it reappears when they try to explain about the dark materia from space.

It is just an inspiration used sevral times as a reverence and reference from A. to explain subjects like he did (Essence fom Quantum Physics).

I've putted one link where you can find one of these subjects since the beggining, from where I've took paragraphs to explain it to you.

“The Shells of Air—Aristotle supposed the world to be made up of four shells, constituting the four elements of matter: earth (the solid ball), water (the ocean), air (the atmosphere), and fire) an invisible outer shell that occasionally became visible in the flashes of lightning). The universe beyond these shells, he said, was composed of an unearthly, perfect fifth element that he called ether (from a Latin derivative, the name became quintessence, which means ‘fifth element’). p.207.

“There was no room in this scheme for emptiness: where earth ended, water began; where both ended, air began; where air ended, fire began; and where fire ended, ether began and continued to the end of the universe. ‘Nature,’ said the ancients, ‘abhors a vacuum’ (Latin for ‘emptiness’).” p.207.

“Aristotle thought the heavenly bodies were made of a substance he called aether (from a Greek word for ‘glowing’ or ‘blazing’), which was fundamentally different from the materials that made up Earth.”p.105.

Answer 3

Their is no "fifth element" in quantum mechanics. The "fifth element" refers to ancient Greek philosophy, specifically Plato. He posited the world was made of five elements- Earth, Wind, Air, Fire, and Quintessence, the fifth element- which were each associated with the perfect Platonic regular solids- the tetrahedron, octahedron..ect. This was an attempt to mathematically define the entire cosmos in a harmonious, elegant "theory of everything"- not dissimilar from the goals of modern science. Quintessence, associated with the dodecahedron, or 12 sided regular solid made of interlocked pentagons (hence This was the fundamental aether, the very fabric of the cosmos, the ultimate ingredient of the heavens. Quintessence was later hijacked by alchemists as the fundamental substance from which all others could be made- and the elixir of spiritual enlightenment. Funny enough, Aether was centuries later considered the substance that filled space and which light travailed until Einstein correctly interpreted the Michelson-Morley's interferometer experiments of 1887.

OH you meant relatavistic time dilation- not quantum theory, exactly. .Both gravitational fields and acceleration affect the passage of time. Travelling at velocities near the speed of light, or entering into an intense gravitational field, such as that around a black hole, cause time to flow differently. If you were in either situation, your perception of time would not change, but an outiside observer would notice that time for your, relative to them, was passing slower. If you travelled in a near light speed spacecraft fon a 100 year round trip from earth, YOU might only age 10 years, while 100 years passed on earth. It has to do with the speed of light/information.

Why- Imagine you are inside a train moving near the speed of light, and you throw a ball at the train wall a meter away and measure how long it took to come back. You, as a stationary observer relative to the event see it as nearly instantaneous , happening in the same place inside the car, and you measure the time- (2 meters / foward speed of ball ) as Time1. An outside of observer would see you trowing the ball at a diaganol ( you and the ball are both MOVING FOWARD ALONG THE TRACK nearly at light speed , when you throw it it goes away from you and foward- a diaganol away from where you thew it) and it bouncing back at a diaganol. The observer would see the ball move hundreds of thousands of miles along a diaganol to the wall and back to you. The observer would measure a much different time than you- Time2 -because to them the ball moved much much more than 2 meters back and forth between the same two places during that interval- to them it travelled far through space- the thowing event and the catching event are very seperated in time and space, and they would calculate a much slower time and interpret the event as having taken place much slower than you experienced it! You would seem to be moving in slow motion- it would look like time slowed down to the outside observer. REALLY! Draw it out. Replace the ball with a beam of light/signal- an outside observer trying to communicate with you.

In gravity, time does the same thing- near the event horizon of a black hole, time literally stops to a halt!

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Refer source

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In the movie "the fifth element" with Bruce Willis....it is LOVE.
They are fire, water, wind, earth and the fifth..LOVE.

You should check out the movie..its really wierd. Its good if you like science fiction.

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Mila Jovovanovitch

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Love

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the fifth element is a movie about a girl trying to save the stones to stop a meteor from destoying her planet.it has bruce willis in it and chris rock those are the only two peole i know in the movie to me i'd rate it **** stars. it was awsome.

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Milla Jovovich as Leeloo

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without making reference to the film, is it Dark Matter the mysterious substasnce that has been used by scientific hacks who use it to explain everything from the acceleration of the universe to why when you put a pair of socks in a dryer only one comes out.

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time delay?..as in travel?...well i know that albert einstein explained one time that time was like travelling on a river in a boat. the past was behind you and the future up ahead. you could not see the future as there was a bend in the river. he said if you brought the boat ashore and walked ahead on foot ,you would be in the future....smart guy huh!!