IS THERE A ZERO POINT OF TIME?
(maybe)
In the absence of velocity and gravity, you’d expect the passage of time reach a “minimum” or “baseline” or “zero-point” rate, just as we see a zero-point energy in the minimum energy of the quantum background.
This idea’s suggested by Minkowski spacetime (in special relativity, describing a flat, four-dimensional spacetime without the presence of gravity).
But the concept of time in quantum mechanics remains a matter of debate. Some theories (Wheeler-DeWitt equation in quantum gravity), suggest that time’s not fundamental at the quantum scale, but emerges from chaos of the quantum background.
I’m only interested in this question because the you’d think that time would proceed very rapidly at the zero point, and that only gravity and velocity (friction) would slow it down.
Source date (UTC): 2024-04-23 17:41:58 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782827265266458625
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