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Old 05-July-2009, 05:34 AM
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Hi tusenfem
You said,
And again, I would never give that answer. Do you understand why?

Yes, because you understand the mainstream model, and you are not familiar with my model.

The example and questions were meant to illustrate structure. Let me rephrase them and introduce a few important terms.

The first series of 11 light clocks are separated by 1 million light years at T1.

The second series of expanded light clocks are separated by 2 million light years at T2.

(Capitol letters will be used to describe historical measures or as seen by an “Eye of God” perspective. Lower case letters will be used to describe relative or local measures of distance and time).

Questions
1. How far apart are each light clock at T1?
Answer. 1 million light years

2. What is the interval of time separating each light clock at T1?
1 million years

3. What is the absolute interval of time separating each light clock at T2?
Answer 2 million light years, based on an absolute or fixed measure of time established at T1

4. What is the absolute interval of time separating each light clock at T2?
Answer 2 million years based on an absolute or fixed measure of time established at T1



5 . At the historical temporal location a T1, Light from point 11 travels to point 1. How long does it take for light to reach Point 1?
Answer 10 million years. So an observer at point 1 seeing an event at point 11 is looking back into the past of 10 million years.

This is where the postulates of the model come in to play

6. After a long interval of time, the light clocks have expanded to as described at T2. What is the locally observed temporal distance between the points?
Answer. According to the proposed postulates, the light clocks define an interval of time which is locally invariant (c=1). Which means that the locally measured temporal separation between each light clock is the same as established at T1, which is 1 million years!

However, we can see from our “Eye of God” perspective that the light has to travel further therefore we conclude from our “absolute” perspective that it must take longer for light to travel.

However, while it true that the travel distance is further, the rate by which time passes is slower (longer path in the light clock means longer intervals of time), and the two effects cancel, preserving the relative, but not the absolute temporal separation between points.

Snowflake