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Primary asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 8 years ago

Einstein proved mathimatically that our "Now" is the vilocity of light?

Hi,

I read an article a number of years ago saying that Albert Einstein proved mathematically that what we experience as our "NOW" actually is "C" or the velocity of light.

I've been trying to find that article but have been having no luck.

Is anyone familiar with this article and know where to find it?

I think it is obviously a very important statement and would like to use it on my web site to support my own ideas about what Quantum Mechanics is telling us about US.

http://www.speciesuniverse.com/

If anyone can help me out here I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

John

Update:

Our "NOW" would be what we experience as the present, not the past or the future but the here and now.

If our "NOW" can be defined as "C" than the properties of "C" becomes our properties of the present or our here and now - our conscious experience!

This excerpt from a video Dr. Peter Russell speaks on the relationship between physics and US. At the 2:38 min point Dr. Peter Russell touches on my own thinking of what light can tell us about US.

http://www.speciesuniverse.com/consciousness-as-an...

Dr. Russell says for the light beam there is no time, no space and no mass. He equates this to our experience of consciousness.

My idea is that for the light beam the clock going to zero (or no passage of time) it experiences being everywhere all at once and everywhere in one location all at once.

In Quantum Mechanics this is called the particle wave duality.

It also experiences the duality in no time, no space or in nothing.

The light be

Update 2:

For some reason it didn't post my whole additional details statement.

Here is the completion of the statement above:

It also experiences the duality in no time, no space or in nothing.

The light beam then also points to “Nothing” as the source of everything as Quantum Mechanics does employing probabilities to describe the atomic world.

So, our experience in there somewhere should be discernible and describable and a part of the unity that physics is looking for and nothing different from this unity.

That is what I’m attempting to do with my background in Eastern culture meditation, a love of physics and use of my web site Species Universe.

That is my interest in finding this article. If it is right than Einstein may have helped us once more to better understand ourselves in possibly not so small of a way.

But I will research into the links you provided to see if I can find anything pertaining to this article I read a few years back. Thanks.

John

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    “To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.”

    —Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, September 18,1930. AEA 36–598

    “There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.”

    —Albert Einstein ---To Max Brod, February 22, 1949. AEA 34–066.1

    I believe you are mistaken, and Einstein said no such thing. It was probably one of the kooks that had an agenda that you agreed with.

    [EDIT:

    Dr. Russell is wrong, if you quoted him correctly. Photons experience no time because they are quantum objects, as there is no time at the quantum level. Light however ages. The formulas that apply to particles / objects with mass, CANNOT be applied to photons, or anything that moves at c.

    "That is what I’m attempting to do with my background in Eastern culture meditation, a love of physics and use of my web site Species Universe."

    This makes what you are doing an advertisement. You agreed not to do this, just ask questions, or answer questions. If you stop now, you will not be reported by me.

    ]

  • Navid
    8 years ago

    Dear Mr. primary

    i really got curious to read your ideas about quantum mechanics and how they're telling us about US.

    i'm a student of physics and should say that some ideas like Einstein's are more famous than they're realizable, so, many people may speak of them or even write articles of them according to what they have heard, not in detail. So i recommend you to find a newer and more reliable article about Einstein's relativity. Maybe Wikipedia's articles are very general. you can try it:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity

    Then you can read about general and special relativity:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity

    As for your question, i must say that Einstein asserted that no particle with non-zero mass can travel faster than light. But i can't get what you meant by "our now".

    i will see your homepage and you can send mail to me if can help.

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