Can clocks really run backwards?
| dc.creator | Leffert, Charles B. | |
| dc.date | 2002-08-12 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:04:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:04:40Z | |
| dc.description | In an apparently unexplored region of relativistic spacetime, a simple thought experiment demonstrates that conjoined Lorentz transformations predict a proper clock at rest will run backwards and that prediction violates the logical principle of causality. Shown first in a modification of the standard clock paradox thought experiment, this fault carries over to finite accelerations of the moving observer. After re-examination of the standard clock paradox, a logical fault was also found in the concept of spacetime. A two-dimensional treatment of the Earth orbit predicts that our astronomers should measure proper time on distant variable objects in our own Galaxy as impossibly running backwards on approach-then-recede trajectories. The excellent record of relativity aside, we still have much new physics to learn about our spatially three-dimensional universe. It is suggested that space is not a freely stretching medium but is something that is substantive and is being produced. | |
| dc.description | 28 pages, 10 figures, PDF, Submitted to MNRAS | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208234 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208234 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/4842 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Can clocks really run backwards? | |
| dc.type | text |