NaturalPhilosopher
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"You cannot necessarily compare time to distance. They are related, but not necessarily the same at all. I can measure the distance between two points, for instance, by starting at one point and counting my steps to the second point. When I reach the second point and sum all my steps to come up with some measure of distance, the first point still exists. I can easily walk back there."
Now let's be specific here. I'm not referring to time travel in the sense of time travel. I'm talking about our normal everyday observation of time in the macroscopic sense. In that framework, all time is comparable motion. All motion has distance(space) and duration(comparison of two moving things).
Now in the sense of time travel, what we do know is if you are near a large object like a planet time slows near it. Same with moving really fast. Imagine yourself near a blackhole. There's a thing where if you get near it without touching it all motion stops. Looks like a time machine was activated and froze everyone.
So, using deductive reasoning, what could suddenly reach out and stop all motion like magic?
Is there an intervening medium of material that mediates all motion that we can't see?
Now let's be specific here. I'm not referring to time travel in the sense of time travel. I'm talking about our normal everyday observation of time in the macroscopic sense. In that framework, all time is comparable motion. All motion has distance(space) and duration(comparison of two moving things).
Now in the sense of time travel, what we do know is if you are near a large object like a planet time slows near it. Same with moving really fast. Imagine yourself near a blackhole. There's a thing where if you get near it without touching it all motion stops. Looks like a time machine was activated and froze everyone.
So, using deductive reasoning, what could suddenly reach out and stop all motion like magic?
Is there an intervening medium of material that mediates all motion that we can't see?
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