Is there a universal scale of time?
Abstract
The assumption that the same universal scale of time applies for different physical laws depends upon the hypothesis that there is a unique universal scale of time in the universe. Intrinsic to that hypothesis is the assumption that if extraneous factors that affect physical clocks and processes that run on different physical principles could be removed, all clocks are synchronizable with one another. The consequences of that hypothesis not being true are considered. It was found that clock asynchrony implies that: (1) a mass variation theory is probable; (2) there is a need for multiple clocks; and (3) t in the equations of physics is referring to clocks rather than time such that the properties of time are reduced to its direction (as characterized by thermodynamics and cosmology).
- Publication:
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Foundations of Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF02186689
- Bibcode:
- 1994FoPhL...7..385G
- Keywords:
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- time;
- mass variation;
- clock asynchrony;
- ideal clocks;
- synchronization;
- geometrodynamic clock