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That's the same thing that's always bothered me. That physicists never seem to discuss global time dilation - which also to my layman's eyes seems like a simple
by BoiledCabbage 7y ago
That's the same thing that's always bothered me. That physicists never seem to discuss global time dilation - which also to my layman's eyes seems like a simpler explanation.
Time everywhere is slowing down (speeding up?) Which it's why the expansion of space seems so perfect to neither accelerate nor decelerate.
- igravious 7y agoThank God there's someone else. I mean, to me, the idea is so moronically obvious (I had the idea about 15 years ago) that there must be some obvious answer why space-boffins insist that it's space that's doing the jiggling rather than time -- even though we've been told that since Einstein we ought to view the dimensions we inhabit as the spacetime (time is just another dimension) continuum. My gut tells me that the layman's model I have of the universe precludes me from having a handle on why the idea is dumb. I console myself with the knowledge that at least I'm not so dumb that I think the idea is l33t and the whole scientific community are morons. Still, it'd be nice to have an answer.