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is just with us, The form and appearance of time cannot be described, but it can be defined in terms of the sequence of events.
Therefore, time becomes the past, present and future in the perception of ordinary people. But Einstein broke this view. He said: "The difference between the past, present and future, although deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, is just an illusion."
In the minds of researchers, time can really be distorted, and a special "time distortion" Physicists later confirmed this phenomenon.
The Weird Bermuda Triangle
People who like to read strange things must be right "Bermuda Triangle" This area is no stranger. It is said that the magnetic field here is very strange. When planes and ships pass here, strange things happen. More people say that there may be time distortion within the Bai Mudda Triangle, which means that it is possible to "experience time travel personally." In the 1970s, an American aircraft lost contact while passing through the Bermuda Triangle. According to records, the plane landed within 20 minutes but suddenly disappeared from the monitoring range of ground radar.
About 10 minutes later, the plane reappeared and landed, 10 minutes earlier than expected. After comparing the aircraft clock with the ground clock, it was found that the aircraft clock was slowed down by 10 minutes.
It can be seen that maybe those disappearing planes and ships were really involved in a "time and space vortex" somewhere. Maybe at some point in the future, they will come out of it and appear out of thin air again. Those who think they are dead have actually experienced "time travel".
The possibility of time and space distortion
There have always been gaps between classes and between rich and poor in our society. It can be said that the world is full of so-called "unfair" phenomena. It is difficult for us ordinary people to narrow these gaps, but there is one thing that is fair to everyone. That's when time is fair.
Time passes at the same rate for rich people and poor people. Even if some people are rich and noble, their power cannot reverse time.
But this absolute fairness may only exist now. After all, with the development of science, everything is changing. If the rich in the future can travel in time and space on a super-light spacecraft, then his time will be several times that of the poor, and immortality is not impossible.
After discovering the characteristics of space-time distortion, Einstein said that there may be a tunnel in the special space-time structure, which runs through time and space. People who enter it can achieve "time travel" at will.
This tunnel is also known as Einstein-Rosen Bridge . Most science fiction novels now follow this design. Even the concept of "time tunnel" is studied based on this theory.
The success of the distortion experiment
In 1971, two physicists wanted to verify whether the space-time view of relativity was really what Einstein said. Therefore, an experiment called "Flight Clock" was set up. They put the atomic clock on the plane and let it follow the plane to fly continuously for several days.
They compared the time of these atomic clocks with the time of the underground atomic clocks, and the surprising results were that the flying clocks in the sky were slower than the clocks on the ground. What Einstein said about the "clock slowing down" effect is real, speed and gravity do affect time.
In other words, time is no longer quantitative in our inherent ideas.As long as external conditions are met, it can distort and change. If a human spacecraft sets off from the earth and goes near a black hole, while ensuring that it is not sucked into the black hole, you will find that the clock on the spacecraft has changed significantly.
It is supergravity that oscillates time, thus changing the moment of the clock. It is worth mentioning that this kind of experiment using atomic clock experiments to verify whether time can be distorted has been carried out many times. Take the British National Physical Laboratory as an example. They conducted such experiments in 1996 and 2010, and the final results were almost the same as above.
Physicists say that the phenomenon of "time warp" does exist in our lives after most of the experimental results are before us and after. However, it is really difficult for humans to sense changes of a few seconds or even a few milliseconds, so our perception of time distortion is really very limited.
The famous theory of special relativity confirms
The clock slow shrinkage effect is a famous theory proposed by Einstein in the special theory of relativity, which can also be called the slow shrinkage theory. Its definition is that if the object's movement speed is close to the speed of light, time around it will slow down rapidly and space will shrink.
When an object's speed truly reaches the speed of light, time will stop. However, we all know that an object reaching the speed of light means that its mass is 0. From the current perspective, no object can reach the speed of light.
So from this perspective, time is warped, where a person's time is in a "standstill" state meaning that a person riding a light speed spaceship may not age. "Twin Paradox" Someone mentioned . The brother who took the spaceship returned to the earth decades later. He is still as young as before he left, while the brother who stayed on the earth has entered his twilight years.
It is worth mentioning that the clock slowness and scale effect plays a key role in "speed". Einstein proposed the general theory of relativity on the basis of perfecting the special theory of relativity. In general relativity, gravity becomes a feature of influence.
This theoretical research is undoubtedly due to the "clock slows down and the ruler shrinks" plus one limitation, The gravity field becomes a new reason that affects time, which means that the greater the gravity, the slower the time, and matter may enter the "immortal" state after entering a black hole.
Because of the huge gravity of a black hole, the scale of "time" can completely disappear. It is difficult to say what the world inside the black hole looks like.
Conclusion
Scholars began to study and explore the contraction effect of clocks and feet, and they found that this principle is actually affected by many reasons. For example, the observer, the performance of the clock, and the speed of movement, but even if the final experimental results are biased, this does not mean that there is a theoretical error.
Einstein’s view of time and space is absolutely groundbreaking. He puts the concept of time in front of us. Even if most people don't understand it, it doesn't mean that "it" doesn't exist.
Whether time distortion can serve the development of our own humanity, still needs to wait.