GRAVITY AND ENTROPY
Time
The flow of time apparently goes in one direction only, namely 'forward' as in 'away from the origin of time - the Big Bang - into the future. At the same time (pun) it is the direction of causality. Light speed is not about light; it is in fact the speed of causality [1].As Earthlings, we perceive time as flowing from one second to the next, but a range of seconds tied to one specific event may be perceived as one 'moment' in the present. But our seconds derive from clocks, which are an arrangement of matter and thus of particles. 'The flow of time depends fundamentally on motion', says Matt O'Dowd in an episode of Space Time [2].
Speed
When some object moves faster relative to you as an observer, the slower its clock appears to tick, but the other way around: for the observer on board the object, it appears as though you are moving away from that observer end therefore your clock appears to tock slower according to him. At the speed of light, a particle or object would experience no time. So, the rate at which its clock ticks, depends on the object's speed. That implies that a stationary object would experience 'normal' time and a moving object would experience slower time.As motion gets slowed down the closer an object gets to a body with mass like a planet, the opposite will also be true: motion does not get slowed down when the object moves away from the massive body. Okay, only if it is not perceivably moving towards another massive body, but only if it is likely to find itself dispersed in space.
Mass
As a massive object slows motion down and at the same time (still punning) speeds time up, one might assume that speed and time are inverse quantities. One may therefore also assume that gravity counteracts motion and boosts time. It is supposed that gravity is an existing fundamental force of nature. Those who oppose the existence of the gravity concept, may want to propagate instead, that there's just the absence of motion, or perhaps low speed asymptotically tending to zero. For all others, there is gravity.Gravity
Gravity depends on mass. The more massive an object is, the more it warps the space surrounding it and therefore tilts the space so that less massive objects tend to move towards the more massive object. A dense object may be more massive than a less dense object with equal mass. The farther from a massive body, the higher speeds a moving object can possibly have. It is commonly accepted, that light speed is the maximum speed any particle can travel, and it has to be a massless particle, like a photon.Light
In a vacuum, photons can move at the speed of light. In a medium with higher density, even photons can't reach light speed. In extreme density, even photons may be slowed down, meaning that even photons, alledgedly massles, experience the pull of gravity as they can't escape a black hole. There, just beyond the event horizon, time and mass are leaning towards infinity, whilst motion and speed are zero (although the black hole itself might be spinning).Entropy
Entropy is considered the degree of disorder, the tendency of all things to fall apart over the course of time. The 'things' are presented as 'systems' in some definitions. The direction of time and causality point towards maximum entropy.However, if all matter which originated from the Big Bang could have dispersed orderly and undisturbedly through the vacuum of space, it would never have clumped together to form gas clouds, galaxies and stars. Therefore a proposed notion is, to declare clumping (i.e. gravity) the mechanism or series of events that created entropy, for it halted motion and speed, aggravated mass and the passage of time and thus worked against the pull of vacuum.
The heat death, big rip, ultimate dispersal of matter and energy are NOT entropy; they are the ultimate 'intended' order of the Universe.
What is your reaction to this proposition? Could we flip the notion of entropy and cheer natural causes of decay of matter and artefacts? I'd love to read your comments! Post your remarks please.
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[2] Watch this episode via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GguAN1_JouQ
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