Question: Is it possible to destroy time of gravity

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  1. Hmmmm. I’ve had people ask about destroying and creating mass and energy and how the two are interchangeable. I could answer that. But can you destroy time or gravity? Well, gravity is just the warping of what we call space-time by a mass, and mass and energy can be interchanged, so the equivalent energy should cause the same amount of gravity. I’ll have to think a bit harder on this and maybe do some reading to check. But assuming that this is correct, on the basis that mass/energy causes gravity and you cannot destroy mass/energy, then it follows that you can’t simply destroy gravity. I think I’m at least half convinced. Time, however, is very curious. Time appears in the equations of physics, but there is nothing in those equations to say that it has to run forwards. The equations of physics work perfectly well when you run time in reverse. But can it be destroyed? Given that time does not exist in the same sense as mass or energy, but is simply defined as part of an interval between events (the other part is space), then I don’t think it makes sense to think about creating or destroying time. Can you tell I’m thinking this through as I type? A very tough question and good on you for asking it. I probably will not sleep tonight thinking about it.

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  2. If you have perplexed Steven then I certainly have nothing to add here 🙂

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  3. This is what happens when you dont do your homework

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  4. Hi ferara,
    That is certainly a very interesting question! You’ve even stumped Steven a bit!
    This is totally out of my field and I don’t have much to contribute, but one thing I could add is that the pull of gravity does decrease with distance (which is why astronauts float in space when they are no longer close to Earth), although, of course, it does still exist. This is definitely something interesting to think about and good on you for asking this question. 🙂

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