Time is running out

[Goswinus]

Time is running out - literally, says scientist

Scientists have come up with the radical suggestion that the universe's end may come not with a bang but a standstill - that time could be literally running out and could, one day, stop altogether.

Read further: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/3319218/Time-is-running-out-literally-says-scientist.html

Fascinating... whether this theory will be proven right or wrong, is not me to say, but it did prompt me to scribble down a passing vision that while bleak and austere contains enough alluring traits that it makes me wish to see it happen, albeit unaffected and on a safe distance... :)

'And the few of the latter days, dwelling under the pale frozen sun joining the moon in a sepuchral sisterhood, witnessed the oceans solidify to marble plains and the land turned into a gargantuan piedestal from which their bodies rose as headstones. Their bodies grew algid and forsook all motion. Their eyes now extinguished by the same canker that sentenced Time to perennial death, stared inured across an Universe turned to a graveyard.'

[Groenewolf]

I gonna trow my limited knowledge of physics against it.


However, the accuracy of these measurements depend on time remaining invariable throughout the universe.

Would that not mean that they no longer use the theories of Einstein (leaving the question whether or not he stole them out of it)? Because if I understand those correctly he did state that time and space are relative and therefor variable.


Prof Senovilla says: "One thing that is definitely not included in our models is the possibility of having more than one time dimension."

I once discussed this with a old friend of mine. I do not remember what would be the implications of such a model.

[Eldritch]

I don't understand that much about physics, but I've never gotten a satisfactory answer to one question: how can physicists talk about "time", if it isn't ever a factor in any of their equations?