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Thursday, August 14, 2003

ZERO TIME

New theory of time rattles halls of science

A radical new theory of time and motion has some of the world's physicists doubting the claim while others laud the 27-year-old college dropout who came up with it, Peter Lynds.
In a paper published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters, Lynds claims to see time and motion with unprecedented theoretical clarity.
Lynds refutes an assumption dating back 2500 years, that time can be thought of in physical, definable quantities. In essence, scientists have long assumed that motion can be considered in frozen moments, or instants, even as time flows on.
n the paper, "Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity", Lynds establishes that there is a necessary trade off of all precisely determined physical values at a time, for their continuity through time, and in doing so, appears to throw age old assumptions about determined instantaneous physical magnitude and time on their heads.
A number of other outstanding issues to do with time in physics are also addressed, including cosmology and an argument against the theory of imaginary time by British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. more...

[The Chief Editor of Foundations of Physics Letters (FPL) is Alwyn van der Merwe, a listed member of the Alpha Foundation Institute for Advanced Study. This may point to a conflict of interest. In a recent email to an associate the deputy director of AIAS, Lawrence Crowell, admitted that even if he knew AIAS's physics and math is a nonsense, being associated with AIAS helped him to get contracts from government labs.]

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