Is Time a creation of Life in response to Gravity?: This hypothesis suggests new ways for looking at extraterrestrial life

Is Time a creation of Life in response to Gravity?: This hypothesis suggests new ways for looking at extraterrestrial life

Ockels, W.J.

Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Design, Integration and Operations

2007-09-01

From his personal experience during a space flight (Challenger 1985) onward, the author has been struck repeatedly by the remarkable influence of Earth's environment on life, in particular by its most inevitable elements: time and gravity. Our life might be peculiar to the local Earth conditions, and not cosmic per se. In this article the hypothesis is postulated that our ‘speed’ of life, in relation to the speed of information (in this case the speed of light), is specific to humankind. Life is the process that ‘makes’ time. In this approach the constancy of the speed of light is not so much a property of the external world, but rather a consequence of our getting older at a fixed ‘time-speed’. We are sitting in a ‘time train’ and all the information that we observe from the outside world is travelling relative to us at the same speed as our train. The train speed is, in a sense, the speed of light. If that is the case, then the expanding universe is an illusion. The remnants of the ‘big bang’ are standing ‘still’ while we move away and see all distances increasing. It is also shown in this article that there is a relationship between this time-speed and gravity, and that it can be the result of a process in the brain. By interpreting gravity as the result of a rotating motion, rather than a linear upward acceleration, time is introduced. In today’s science we consider all universal processes in respect to our present (= now). In fact, we believe that the universe started 13.6 billion years ago. This approach to science is set against the history of centralism: from the geocentrism of Ptolemy to the heliocentrism of Galilei, extrapolated to the ‘chronocentrism’ of today. An intriguing consequence of this theory is that extraterrestrial life would have a different speed of light. To couch this in a metaphor: we are living in a green world and see only green, while the others live in a red world and see only red. Each of these worlds can be part of one system, but we cannot see each other. Ideas are presented on how one might be able to communicate with these extraterrestrial living systems. Based on the assumption that different time propagations are still made up from the same time quanta, but with different lengths of empty time in between, one can imagine that those time speeds could be transferred by a ‘replay’ at our speed, like the frames in a film. Following the same assumption, a Lorentz transformation could connect both worlds, implying that the signals from another world would, for us, be split into two signals, each with a different time speed and distance speed not corresponding to our speed of light. Detecting those two signals simultaneously could lead to an intriguing experiment.

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58th International Astronautical Congress, Hyderabad, India, 24-28 September 2007

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(c) 2007 Ockels, W.J. ; International Astronautical Federation ; International Academy of Astronautics