A radical new theory of time and motion has some of the world's physicists doubting the claim while others laud the 27-year-old college dropout who came up with it, an unknown big thinker named Peter Lynds. Lynds says he's no Einstein. In fact, he is not a fully trained theorist. He has no real academic credentials. But he does appear to have a new career, now that one other theorist compared his work to the groundbreaking ideas of Albert Einstein. In a paper published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters, Lynds claims to see time and motion with unprecedented theoretical clarity. Lynds refutes an assumption dating back 2,500 years, that time can be thought of in physical, definable quantities. In essence, scientists have long assumed that motion can be considered in frozen moments, or instants, even as time flows on. In an e-mail interview from New Zealand, Lynds told SPACE.com how he sees the physical world:

"There isn't a precise instant underlying an object's motion," he said. "And as its position is constantly changing over time -- and as such, never determined -- it also doesn't have a determined position at any time." Nor does time flow, Lynds says. More on that later. Importantly, Lynds claims his theory solves Zeno's paradoxes, which have frustrated creative brains for millennia.

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I think this guy's theory makes a bit of sense. Besides, I'd like to believe that I can actually reach my goals, the other theory sounds really pessimistic and bitter to me.

Time puzzles me.
Liked reading it...but got me even more puzzled

It was never really explained in detail what his new theory is.
Personally, I agree with the old theory, that time is incremental. If time were to freeze, it would freeze at a specific instant. In that instant, everything in the physical universe would be in a specific location.
I just don't see it any other way, but I enjoy reading about new ideas and theories

yay for New Zealanders!

Peter Lynds is not a hoax.

The physicist Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel laureate in particle physics and considered the most great physicists since Einstein said, in a recent TV-interview, that Lynds’ ideas “was very interesting” and that some of the ideas of the new theory “were investigated by itself” before Lynds!

Lynds is doing impressive advances in theoretical physics without an academic background in physics. In fact, it was to university only for six months and achieved an understanding of quantum physics and relativity comparable to that of Gell-Mann. Lynds also has done a criticism to the Stephen Hawking theory of imaginary time. It is unnecessary said.

Other of the fascinated by Lynds theories is the recognized John Wheeler, a physicist who actually worked with Einstein.

Without any doubt, the young professor Peter Lynds is the new genius of XXI century.

Stropowich,
Peter Lynds has a lot to prove before he can be considered the new genius. In fact, most physicists are still at odds with his thoery, which isn't even his theory. This theory is over a thousand years old. What Lynds did that was quite impressive to physicists was his explanation of Zeno's Paradox of the Arrow.

That being said, I was never comfortable with Stephen Hawkings theory on imaginary time.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying Peter Lynds is wrong, and I'm not saying I fully understand time. I'm just saying I agree with the overwhelming majority of the scientific community, and that I think there are 'instants' in time, and 'locations' in space. Keep in mind, 'his' theory also suggests there are no locations in space.

Just make sure you have fresh batteries, or.... Time Stands Still...