Time as a Dimension

In short, while we all wring our hands and cringe about who will be the next prez, more and more knowledge is being found.  If you don't support government funding of science, then you are a fuckwad asshole motherfucker dumbshit.  Fuck you.

Otherwise, please, enjoy this weird post, full, I'm sure, of inaccuracies...

Oh that rascally dimension Time, intertwined with such mundane and classically predictable dimensions such as up or down (yawn), to the sides (ho-hum) and out in front or back...

It happened when someone was smart enough to figure out that the most basic constant in this world (and any other) is neither death nor taxes (though those are pretty close to the top), but in fact the speed of light.  The speed of light is this existence's constant.  There are other constants.  And they're cute!  Like pi and e and slashed h plank's constant.  But what makes me shiver is a constant like the speed of light, which is politely called "c".

That "c", it's the cosmic hem.  It cannot be overcome (like what goes up, cough, must come down).  And to top it off, "c" when it's squared is the philosopher's stone between energy and mass.  You wanna make mass into energy? That's a tall order, but know when you do, the mass you have will be multiplied by the square of the speed of light before you get the equivalent energy.  Which means you shouldn't be anywhere near the transformation.

So the speed of light is cool.  And it means that the geometry of our little height, width and depth is pathetically unrepresentative in our world.

Time though, ugh.  What a bitch.  I can't say I understand it.  It progresses at different rates according to the gravitational field of where I am?  Really?  Time moves more quickly the farther I am from the center of the Earth?  Great.  What does that mean?  What does it mean to move through different rates of time?

It means that the geostationary satellites over our heads have to be "calibrated" for relativistic effects to let us know precisely where we are when we look at our phones to know.  And that's because the "gravity" up there is "less" than it is down here.  Really.

What the fuck does that mean?

There are smarter people out there that are suspending photons to motionlessness while doing the math.  There are those that claim to have found the particle equivalent to the field that bestows on us fat-asses the mass we so desperately need to lose.

I don't mean to add to the knowledge.  I guess I just had to get out what I knew, fearing a new administration that could hate science for the fact that it is also true.