If matter and energy are just variations on the same thing (ie you can convert one into the other) then doesn't it follow that time and space are just the same thing? It gets a little hazy here but couldn't we convert time into space and vice versa? I can't help thinking about these things. I need a life.
2006-12-10 05:17:21 · 5 answers · asked by kevpet2005 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
well the real trick is understanding Time. That has a lot of these eggheads baffled. What is Time? Why does Speed and Gravity change it even stop it. There is no time in a "gravity well" such as a Black Hole. If you fell in as your body past the "event horizon" an observer would see you image stop and red shift. eventually you would slowly disappear as though you were dissolving. It is just that the energy of your image would slowly dissipate and change but for you Time would have stopped. (not fully understood by anyone). Then If you could whip around and tour the known Universe at the speed of Light It would take you Billions of years as observed from earth, but You and your body would only perceive it as 56 years. (read that somewhere). Fascinating I must say. Space-time can not be separated as you must define what space at what time or it is meaningless, per Albert Einstein. The space time conversion is not like matter and energy which are totally equivalent in a ratio of the square of the speed of light. The original subatomic particle that emanated the entire Universe was thought to be about 10 lbs in weight. The space-time it created has two components or its reality, Space and Time. They are not equivalent, but rather two different dimensions of the same entity. Whew! That took a lot of thinking...
2006-12-10 06:06:04 · answer #1 · answered by arnp4u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time is the measurement of passage from one event to another.
space is what encompasses everything we know.
are they same? in theory but since we have not been out there enough we will never know for sure.
What happens in a black hole? only guesses that everything is sucked in, how are they sucked in? Laws of physics state that no two items can contain the same space, matter can neither be created no destroyed. So.......things are sucked thru as fast and as much as the size of the black hole will allow.
2006-12-10 16:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by orion_1812@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can. You know, there once was a very smart guy named Albert Einstein. He figured it all out. Just read through his theories. They are called the "special theory of relativity" and the "general theory of relativity".
His theories show that time and space are actually two sides of the same thing called the spacetime.
2006-12-10 13:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by Voice of Insanity 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is probably what happens,when you get back to space-time the decline of the universe will be at hand.
2006-12-11 11:26:11 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same
2006-12-10 13:30:48 · answer #5 · answered by penguin, or maniacle evil genius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋