In exploring the ‘now,’ new book links flow of time with Big Bang | Berkeley News
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Muller’s new idea: Time is expanding because space is expanding.
“The new physics principle is that space and time are linked;
when you create new space, you will create new time,” Muller said.
“Every moment, the universe gets a little bigger, and there is a little more time, and it is this leading edge of time
that we refer to as now,” he writes. “The future does not yet exist … it is being created. Now is at the boundary,
the shock front, the new time that is coming from nothing, the leading edge of time.”
Muller’s theory explaining the flow of time led to a collaboration with Caltech theoretician Shaun Maguire and a paper
posted online June 25 that explains the theory in more detail – using mathematics – and proposes a way to test it using
LIGO, an experiment that detects gravitational waves created by merging black holes.
If Muller and Maguire are right, then when two black holes merge and create new space, they should also create new time,
which would delay the gravitational wave signal LIGO observes from Earth.
“The coalescing of two black holes creates millions of cubic miles of new space, which means a one-time creation of new time,”
Muller said. The black hole merger first reported by LIGO in February 2016 involved two black holes weighing about 29 and 36
times the mass of the sun, producing a final black hole weighing about 62 solar masses. The new space created in the merger
would produce about 1 millisecond of new time, which is near the detection level of LIGO. A similar event at one-third
the distance would allow LIGO to detect the newly created time.
Why does time advance?: Richard Muller's new theory
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