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By G.M. Jackson
Abstract:
1.
According to equation 1, the faster you travel, the slower your proper
time. The fast-moving mu-mesons aged more slowly than they would
have if they were at rest. This raises a question: did Frisch and Smith
also age more slowly? If the mu-mesons were considered at rest, then
Frisch and Smith were the ones traveling at a high subluminal speed as
they and the mu-mesons passed each other during the experiment.
If Frisch and Smith did in fact discover the fountain of youth, then a
person would never age if that person allowed a light beam to run past
him at all times and considered the light at rest and himself in motion.
His proper time would always be zero:
The truth is Frisch and Smith did age normally. That suggests they were
the ones at rest, not the mu-mesons:
2.
From the spaceship twin’s perspective, time is running normally. When
she arrives back on earth it is as if she traveled into the future. Not only
is her sister older than her, the universe is older too. If the universe
expanded in x amount of light-years in time t, then it also expanded x
light-years in time t’. To the twin on earth, the universe’s expansion
was normal, but to the spaceship twin, the expansion was rapid.
3.
Sid sees Alice and Bob moving apart, each at a velocity of distance D per
time t. But Alice and Bob are experiencing proper time, so they each
have a velocity of distance D per time t’:
Since time t’ is less than time t, Bob and Alice will increase the space
between them by a distance of 2D in less time. In fact, according to
Alice and Bob, they are moving apart faster than light!
Sid, of course, objects to such a claim. It is clear to him that Alice and
Bob are moving apart no faster than light speed. However, this is a
fictitious thought experiment. At the time before our universe’s rapid
expansion, there was no observer named Sid. In fact there were no
outside observers we can empirically verify. That means the only time
that was available was the proper time of the stuff moving apart.
If we go back to our toy universe and remove Sid from the picture, we
just have the following:
4.
If Alice and Bob are massless particles, time t’ could fall to zero, which
would enable Alice and Bob to create space between them at a speed with
no upper limit. Their universe would rapidly expand!
Conclusion:
5.