Golmer's Blog

Relativity has been shown to work (at least in part) because of experiments performed with atomic clocks on earth compared with synchronized clocks that are sent up in space traveling at high speeds. It works. We get that. In essence, Anything traveling faster than your frame of reference is traveling through time. We are traveling through time too relative to other systems - the planet rotates at 1000mph at the equator, the earth revolves around the sun at several thousand miles per hour, the solar system revolves around the galactic core at over 100,000 miles per hour, the galaxy itself is moving at a phenomenal speed. All of those speeds are still mere fractions of the speed of light and other relativistic particles.

We base our measurement of the speed of light on what we can observe about it, and calculations we have made regarding cause and effect, etc. We base our observations of the known universe on the “constant” of the speed of light. And yet still we don’t understand vast problems of mass and energy. We still don’t understand what our universe is largely made up of. We still have many questions regarding unification of particle theories, etc.

So the question(s) is this. If anything traveling at relativistic speeds travels through time, aren’t all of  the particles of light and other particles traveling at relativistic speed also traveling THROUGH time also? Isn’t our ability to “measure” the speed of light skewed by the very speed of the particles themselves? Couldn’t it really be that our perception of a constant for the speed of light is really just a limitation on our ability to measure it because we don’t take into account their true speed? Couldn’t it be that it isn’t really even a given speed at all but the limit of our perception?

If so, if our paradigm for their being an absolute speed (or relatively absolute speed) for light could be completely wrong. The universe, time, and everything in it would be a completely different shape, with different properties altogether from the little bit that we are capable of perceiving. And you might just be able to solve some of the components we have been missing needed to unify our understanding of space-time (whatever that really means).