Wm. Scott Smith said on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:24:21 -0700 We need to keep the time axis stationary and talk about a molecule's rate of Speed along the time axis. Setting up the math any other way would be a tough task! Scott, I should not have said "time axis" but rather "Time Stream" which has a certain ambient rate when it crosses the spatial axis - we, like 2D flatlanders are unaware of what that rate is because it is the stream that turns our gears with which we observe time and is therefore always in the same proportion regardless of what inertial frame we are in (so we label it C and say it is a constant from our perspective ). Christian Beck and Michael Mackey are investigating the gravitational activity of vacuum fluctuations above 2Thz vs below 2 Thz but I suspect their results are going to be relativistic. We know both gravity increases and time slows in a deep gravitational well like a dead star -but - we also know from the Twin Paradox that the twins are unaware of any dilation from within their inertial frames which leads me to suspect any measurement of the ratio of short /long vacuum fluctuations would remain constant unless observed/measured from a different inertial frame. This also makes me wonder if the spectrum shift of f/h is due to our observation from outside the cavity and if an observer inside the cavity would see any shift at all . The rate of "speed" you mention on the time axis is obviously in units of time not space and the displacement is measured in contraction but unlike time dilation due to spatial acceleration we are changing the speed of the time stream inside of the cavity so the contraction may be totally uniform like we see in f/h instead of Lorentzian where only the dimension moving across our field of observation is effected. (or like UFO's that seem to veer off into the distance but may be contracting through a local time window which chase aircraft blow right past and lose visual :_) Regards Fran
