What the NEW black hole discovery tells us!

I'm always playing with new ways to characterise general relativity. So, when something exists time must pass, it wouldn't exist if time wasn't passing so whenever you plop something in the middle of a field of space time must pass for that object to be there at any moment in which we can refer to as a moment. Now since a space has been defined by an object to exist within it the most unhindered rate for the passage of time would clearly be a postulation of the space in absence of  the object, therefore the rate for passage of time for the object, its frame of reference must be a dilation relative to its mass. Of course only one object would form a singularity with no way to balance the equation so let's just say there are several masses at the same time and for our purposes never a time where there were less than several objects at the same time. Each would dilate the rate of time relative to their masses as impact upon the space which they have defined. Now, take light as a propagation upon the space undefined by objects, being massless it has a constant velocity being its unhindered propagation upon the space. Having a constant velocity, nevertheless when passing close enough to fall within the frame of reference of any of these objects time dilates. How do you maintain velocity and yet take longer to get somewhere in a straight line? Take a curved path. The space isn't being warped, gravitation is simply the inconstancy of time. Anything travelling in a straight line, as all things wont to do must be affected in the same way. Why does everything have wont to travel in a straight line? When you stand still, in the middle of emptiness, time is still passing, therefore you are falling. Things always fall in a straight line. It is the wont of passing time.

Everything about relativity is about time, it was the entire key. It used to be time was a constant, this changed to make the speed of light a constant so everything became about time, all the changes to an intuitive view of physics became about time. Gravitation is time, it's basically conservation of energy related to time, of course things want to go slower, it conserves more energy. You're never actually floating in space, time is always passing so you are always falling, the only sense you get of not falling is if you're in a frame of reference not of your own but added to a greater mass so your sense of stability is to the frame of reference, but you are both falling. None of it is about space warping, all of it is about relative time. Kind of why space warp engines for interstellar travel are ridiculous, but at the same time interstellar travel is perfectly accorded by relativistic travel. Most of the sci fi hyperspace travel is actually depicted as relativistic travel for the craft and they just break the rules by combining this with a Newtonian set of rules for the rest of the occupied universe, so when you reach your destination the same amount of time has passed for everyone else, they use the one frame of reference so break the system there but the hyperspace travel itself is just relativistic length contraction. Again all about time.

Time is the centre of it all. It can't flow backwards and must pass without introducing a moment of total nonexistence of the universe. At least it means interstellar travel is certainly an accomplishment we can make with our current understanding of physics no problem. It's just a one way trip in terms of any relationship with beings which are left behind your frame of reference to accomplish the travel. It also means we could propagate humanity all over the universe but each group would accomplish such separation by relative frames that they would never coexist as an intergalactic spanning civilisation, they would each be unique ones separated by possibly millions of years. Maybe we are starfarers after all and all our cousins out there are separated by millions of years in the past and future, none existing remotely near the same frame of reference to ever know of each other.


Well that's me and my Yr10 education anyway 😅