If you are armed only with logic, facts, and common sense, your chances of being understood are practically nil.
So, to save my time and yours, I will list the most important points in thesis form.
Every emission of photons occurs before it is seen, because photons need a certain amount of time to reach the light-perceiving receptor cells of the observer’s eye.
That means the motion of photons from an event to the observer takes place in the ordinary positive direction of time - from earlier to later, from the past into the future.
Naturally, those photons that are not approaching but, on the contrary, moving away from the observer are not registered by vision at all. Unless, along the way, they encounter some object that reflects them and redirects them again toward the light-sensitive cells of the eye. The later, the farther from the observer such an encounter occurs, the more time the photons need to return to the recipient. That is, as they move away, photons find themselves in an ever deeper past relative to the observer, and this means that movement away from the recipient backward is movement BACKWARD in time. Whether it manifests only as a compression of positive time, or time is completely zeroed out, or even acquires negative values altogether, depends on the speed of the object moving in the light streams - the potential reflector of these photons.
If its speed is subluminal, the photons will catch up with the object fairly soon. It will become a source of reflected light and, as such, sooner or later will be registered by the observer. In this case the registered time, having slowed somewhat, will remain positive.
When the speed of motion is equal to the speed of light, the negative increment cancels out the entire positive flow of time. Time is “zeroed out,” stops, demonstrating the object’s manifestation of wave properties - the ability to be in several (many) places synchronously. All “massless,” energy-bearing particles possess precisely this speed.
Among them there are both visible particles and “invisibles.” Therefore massless particles can serve as antiparticles to themselves. The fact that under certain conditions annihilation between them is possible - why is that not an explanation of the nature of electricity?
And finally, for an object with a speed exceeding the speed of light, time is completely perverted - being directed from the future into the past, it acquires NEGATIVE values. All cosmic objects located in negative time are not visually registered. Antimatter constantly abides in negative time - in accordance with the rule of CPT symmetry.
The principle is lawful both for quantum mechanics and for cosmic objects; antiparticles have spin different from particles and are sometimes available for observation, because the observer of quantum particles is capable of being outside the system.
In any case, one must first of all realize that by changing direction in space, the traveler also changes the direction of motion in time.
Unfortunately, time flowing backward, from the future into the past, is still far from being recognized by all researchers.
And recognizing it would allow all unresolved problems of cosmology to be solved. For example, in the notorious twin paradox, the “there-and-back” journey is, as it were, movement in a loop of time - the difference between the readings of the traveler’s clock and the homebody’s clock, arising and increasing on the way “there,” decreases on the way back and disappears completely at the moment the brothers meet.
The logical error that led to the paradox consisted in ignoring the vector of motion and taking into account only the magnitude of velocity.
It is difficult to imagine a problem that would not be solved by recognizing the presence of invisible antimatter existing in the world of negative time and superluminal velocities (most likely, antimatter is the so-called “dark matter” of the universe).
In particular, the source of the Big Bang’s energy becomes clear. It is quite simply the energy of yet another annihilation of all the matter of the Universe with all its antimatter in an endless chain of mutual transformations of antipodal worlds obeying the Law of Conservation. That is, Friedmann’s first model works, but not as the end of everything, only as the beginning of a new cycle. The system is self-sufficient and eternal, like the “particle-antiparticle” pair in a vacuum.
Gravity, incidentally, is the natural attraction between antipodes.
Are you familiar with the theory of “Loop Quantum Gravity”? Okay. That is all for now. We will continue the conversation next Thursday. When pigs fly.
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