The Genesis Code Page #9
And time.
We all knew what time was,
it was the ticking of the clock,
always the same, one day to
the next, the same.
Here, on the moon,
across the universe, today,
Let's go!
And time.
Time was a constant that had
nothing to do
with anything else.
to tomorrow and on and on,
always forward
and at the same speed.
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Then along came Albert Einstein
and everything changed.
ooh...
I knew this was
gonna be a physics class.
I knew it, man.
Learning is rough.
Marc:
Does everyone knowThe Big Bang Theory?
- ooh!
- Yes, Tyler.
Um, it is a TV show about
who live next door to this
really hot chick who-
It's about these
two really nice guys
but I'm actually talking about
the other Big Bang.
We have a little computer
imagery to show you what it was.
In the beginning,
there was nothing.
The universe did not exist.
No planets or stars,
not even empty space, nothing.
J.T.:
Not even time.Marc:
And out of this completenothing was a flash,
and a speck was formed
no bigger than a mustard seed.
J.T.:
And in that tiny speckwas all of everything
that ever would be.
And that speck expanded
at hundreds of millions
of miles per hour.
It was a ball of pure energy,
dense and massive
beyond imagination.
J.T.:
And the temperature wasin the trillions of degrees.
Marc:
A mass of pure plasmaexpanding at the speed of light.
Everything that
ever would be, I mean,
the material from which
everything exists today,
the planets and the stars,
all living things.
Time and space itself
was created at that moment.
And this was good news for
Bible thumpers like me and Dad
because science was saying that
there was a beginning,
just like it says
in the Bible.
of course the bad news was,
is the Bible said this
all happened in six days.
This idea of the Big Bang
all came about
as a result of Einstein's
theories of relativity,
where he established
that in the physical sciences,
nothing was absolute.
Everything was relative to
everything else.
- Even time.
- Time is relative to speed.
It's a concept in physics
we call time dilation.
I'd imagine you've
all heard this example.
Imagine Lin and J.T. are twins
living here on Earth.
I know, weird, right?
Lin boards a spaceship
and flies off traveling
near the speed of light
to some faraway star.
J.T. stays here on Earth.
Now for Lin, the trip takes,
oh, about a year.
But when she returns to Earth,
she finds that J.T. has aged
nearly 20 years.
oh no.
For me, traveling at
near the speed of light,
time passed more slowly
than it did for J.T.
waiting here on Earth.
ooh, like that-
Like that one W.C. Fields joke
where he's like-
"Philadelphia,
it's a wonderful town,
spent a week there one night. "
- Right?
- No.
It's not something that
seemed to be,
and it's not that her
clock just ran more slowly.
It's that less actual time
elapsed for Lin
as she traveled
near the speed of light.
J.T.:
Think of it this way.For an object at rest, time
passes as we are accustomed.
As the object begins
to accelerate
and as its speed
approaches the speed of light,
the amount of time that passes
decreases.
The passage of time
is relative to speed-
as Lin said, time dilation.
Um, are we- Are we done
with all the physics stuff?
You'll like this next part,
Tyler.
Yes.
So this time dilation thing
is just like
in "Star Trek," right,
is that what he's saying?
Like when young Spock
meets old Spock.
Just like that,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That was weird,
- That was so weird.
But I didn't think that
was a real thing,
that's a movie thing, right?
- No, that happens.
- oh.
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the planetarium.
Please have a seat over here,
remain seated!
Permanecen sentados,
por favor.
J.T.:
To gather another visualto show you what we mean
by time dilation.
We took some footage
from an old sci-fi movie
and created this
little clip.
Please, enjoy yourselves.
Get comfortable and lean
your seats back.
Imagine this is the bridge
of a starship on a mission
of deep-space exploration.
A mission at the very center of
our Milky Way Galaxy
where most scientists
now believe
we will find
The black hole at the center
of our Milky Way
was once a star
with a mass estimated to be
some 2.5 million times
that of our own sun.
Lin:
When that star collapsed,all of its mass was condensed
into a tiny spot in space
of infinite density.
The size on the
scale of a grain of sand.
Marc:
This is calleda singularity,
and the gravitational attraction
it exerts is so powerful
that nothing, not even
light itself, can escape.
Hence the name,
"black hole. "
Lin:
The commanderof the starship
has sent one of his smaller
survey craft
Let's call the commander of
the survey craft Captain Chen.
Can I be the commander
of the starship?
- Sure, why not?
- Cool.
Commander Chase on the starship
on the bridge
of the survey craft
as it approaches
the event horizon.
J.T.:
That's the edge.Lin:
The edgeof the black hole.
helmsman look across
at the bridge of the survey
Looking into one frame of
reference from another.
That's right, yes.
Lin:
Chase and his helmsman seethe movements of
Chen and her crew
are slowing down.
They now seem to be in slow
motion, but for Captain Chen,
everything is normal.
She will log the results of her
mission into her ship's computer
and then take her survey craft
back to the coordinates
where she expects to
find the parent starship,
but it's not there.
J.T.:
They will hail anotherpassing ship and experience
a startling revelation.
Lin:
Those to whom Captain Chenwill ultimately give the report
of her one-hour survey at
the edge of the black hole
will be the distant descendants
of her starship mates.
During the one hour
described by Captain Chen,
the clocks of these
descendants
will have recorded the passage
of thousands of years.
During what Captain Chen
and her crew experienced
as the passage of one hour
at the event horizon,
thousands of years
have elapsed in the space
they occupy prior to their trip
to the black hole.
As I said earlier,
this is time dilation.
The effect of increased gravity
slowing the passage of time,
just as does speed.
For an object in a zero-
or low-gravity environment,
time passes as we are
accustomed.
As the force of gravity
on an object increases,
the passage of time narrows.
Time slows down.
To sum it up,
time is not fixed or constant.
Lin:
Time orthe passage of time
is affected by speed
and by gravity.
greater the force of gravity,
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