2006-12-13 17:50:14 · 3 answers · asked by elwinwebb 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It really isn't correct to say that time is experienced in one dimension, because time is actually relative and it is a dimension.
Regarding how to change the way we experience it, well that isn't easy. If you could travel at speeds approaching the speed of light then you would understand what is meant by time being relative.
Now gravity is often considered as a wrapping of the space-time continuum. So as we increase gravity then this has the effect of slowing time. If you could visit a black hole where gravity is so strong that light does not leave it, then time, as we know it, wouldn't exist at all!! If you could visit a black hole and come out alive, then where you come out in time is any body's guess.
The same wholes true for traveling through worm holes and visiting parallel universe's. However, all these sound so impractical.
Okay, so lets go from the very very huge to the insanely small - the quantum world. If the fabric of reality is composed of energetic bits called strings, which are incredibly smaller than even a quark, then we would be talking about a reality composed of many more dimensions. We would also include our minds operating as a type of quantum consciousness. The energy that makes up exactly who we are in a quantum sense may extend beyond particle/physical. We can call this a soul. The soul would be affected by everything we do, everything we say, every thought that enters our mind. When we die our souls are freed and we experience these extra quantum dimensions where we can move freely in and out of the dimension of time.
2006-12-14 01:18:14 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as height or length or width are one dimensional, so too is time. One dimensional and very directional.
Time is also relative - it's pace changes with speeds that approach that of light, or acceleration or gravitational fields.
This "barrier" may be a fundamental law. Perhaps in the future, but at present, this barrier is insurmountable.
2006-12-13 17:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
is it a barrier? in what way?
2006-12-13 17:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by Babumoshai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋