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It is a very suggestive idea but I’m not convinced that we can categorically affirm that the past and the future have the same real existence like the present (supossing that at this point of the course we still have a clear idea of what is real). May be the concept of simultaneity can not be extended in that way and only have local meaning. I still resist to the idea that the fate is already written.
Hi Bruce, It is possible of course to do the same analysis with a tilted clock but it wouldn’t be so easy because you should take into account the Lorentz contraction of the distance between the mirrors of the ligth-clock. Other issue would be the asymetric tick tock because one mirror would aproach and the other would escape from the light ball. It is much better for both visualization and calculation, to choose the mirrors paralel to the movement. Nevertheless with a tilted clock, no matter how much degrees, you would get the same time dilation.
If funding continues to be mainly based on the number of papers published, that number will necessarily grow massively and so, both the quality of the papers and the pair-review process will be much worse. This will progressively contaminate science with a growing noise of extremely speculative ideas bordering even on pseudoscience. In my opinion, it is already starting to happen.