It becomes a problem in Physics when we run up against misguided conclusions founded on such statements. Hawking claims that time points or flows in the ‘forward’ direction and depicts this parameter with a straight axis capped by an arrowhead that he says points towards the ‘future.’ If the future is the ‘direction’ in which an object moves when it moves forward, do flanking motions to the left and to the right qualify as directions towards the present in his model? Is backward motion a direction into the past? Is my future direction your past direction when we meet head on? If a balloon expands radially, which part of the surface is moving in the direction of the future?
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:44:06 +0000
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