Creepy, isn't it?
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Time Ending, Part II
Another way time could end is that the universe is really a membrane, or rather, a "brane", floating through a higher dimensional space. So imagine we are like caterpillars clinging to a leaf. sure, we are able to move around in our 4-D prison (the fourth dimension being time) but not off of it. Now imagine a giant hurricane hitting our leaf. We would have to cling on for dear life, not able to move at all. So what if our "brane" does the same thing? Galaxies would have to move faster and faster as the brane moved faster, to stay "within" time. Eventually, when the brane reaches over the speed of light, the galaxies will be frozen in time. We would have to move faster than light to be able to move at all, and, since that is impossible, we would be unable to move at all. Eerily, that is exactly what is happening as galaxies are moving faster and faster away from each other, which is usually related to some unknown "dark energy". Is this really the swan song of time?
Creepy, isn't it?
Creepy, isn't it?
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