We are but mere ants...

"The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life -- much less intelligence -- beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime."

Arthur C. Clark

Some More TIme

In a previous blog post I suggested the Time was an underlying extra-dimensional condition. Today (ironically) I propose that there is no such thing as Time.

Time is just an aberration due to the constraints of our limited physicality. It doesn't exist. It just our perception.

Thousands of years from now our descendants will look back on these days of physics and find them just as quaint and naive as does the concept of the crystalline spheres does to us now.

Time For Time

Time is the 0 dimension. It exists before/with everything else. That is to say- as soon as you have at least one spatial dimension there is also time.

Time is not the fourth in a sequential procession of dimensions. The 2D Flatlanders perceive time. As I said as I began a previous blog entry it would be incorrect for the Flatlanders to pronounce that time was the 3rd dimension. And so it would be just as inaccurate for us to say that time is the 4th dimension. Time can not be a higher dimensional order since we are physically incapable of perceiving the higher orders of dimensions.

Therefore, time has to be a separate function or condition. Perhaps an underlying extra-dimensional condition.

Time can be defined as the perception of a change in condition. It is only just that. And only just that important. Nothing more, nothing less. If absolutely nothing changes- then there is no time. There are implications for Einstein or String Theorists. That is inevitable, but by of the basic assumptions about time that are incorrect.

Everything is everywhere at anytime as observed at the quantum level. This is correct. Infinite numbers of realities before and after is correct. Time is the perceived construct of moving from one conditional change to another, both forward and back.

Of Bagpipes and Black Holes

I'm picking on those poor Flatlanders again!
Try this one on for size:

Parallel Flatland Universes:

Gravity - the elastic surface tension of the balloon.
Dark Energy - the force of our breath that is inflating the balloon.
Dark Matter - the air inside of the balloon.

Crisis Averted?

I'm still on the fence about the whole "dark matter" thing, as well as "dark energy." Not to mention "dark flow" which is a silly mash up of the two. I think it feels a little like Einstein's Regret: the Cosmological Constant...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21843-crisis-averted-dark-matter-was-there-all-along.html

I truly believe we are overly complicating the whole problem.

...dark matter is simply a classical physics solution for a classical gravity problem. It is hoped that once a testable quantum gravity theory emerges, one of its side benefits will be to explain these various gravitational mysteries from first principles rather than through empirical methods alone.

Some Superstring/M-Theory cosmologists propose that multi-dimensional forces from outside the visible universe have gravitational effects on the visible universe meaning that dark matter is not necessary for a unified theory of cosmology. M-Theory envisions that the universe is made up of more than the observable 3 spatial and 1 time dimensions, and that there are up to 11 dimensions altogether. The remaining dimensions are hidden from our full view and only show up at the quantum levels. However, if there are particles or energy that exist only within these alternate dimensions, then they might account for the gravitational effects currently attributed to dark matter.

I have issues with the String and M-Theories also. Again, I feel these are a matter of over complicating things. But in this previous except from the Wikipedia article it suggests that dark matter is a result of a system rather than creating a phenomenon to produce an affect.

A study at the University of Mainz, Germany in 2004 stated "it has been found that if one applies just a standard quantum mechanical approach to Newton's Gravitational constant at various scales within the astrophysical realm (i.e. scales from solar systems up to galaxies), it can be shown that the gravitational constant is not so constant anymore and actually starts to grow. The implication of this is that if the gravitational constant grows at different scales, then dark matter is not needed to explain galactic rotational curves."

As much as this approach appeals to me (K.I.S.S.), this doesn't sound relativistic. Since it was just a straight adjustment of the older Newtonian account of gravitation, it doesn't account for an application of the newer Einstein's general relativity.

Any way you approach it, my belief is dark matter comes down to a fundamental misinterpretation of the nature of the universe we live in. Our perception is limited by our inherently limited physicality. Much like those Flatlanders who were incapable of perceiving the nature of our universe due to their limited physicality.

Making Plans For Nihilist

Time is NOT the 4th dimension. It is just as inaccurate for us to say that as it would be for the Flatlanders to pronounce that time was the 3rd dimension. Time is a separate function or condition.

This shouldn’t affect Einstein’s or String Theorist’s views of the Universe. The net result is the same. It just clears up our perception of the actual system.

The probability cloud of an electron about the nucleus of an atom is not representation of all possible resultant conditions. This implies time. It is the recognition that the electron actually occupies all space through multi-dimensions of space. Hence a condition of being.

So perhaps our Flatlander friends are not actually flat. It is just that they can only perceive flat (two dimensions). And so perhaps then we too are not just three dimensional. It is that we can only perceive three dimensions. We are only able to experience the three dimensional tip of a multi-dimensional iceberg!

The apparent dual nature of light is an example of this. Particle or wave? This is just the result of our limited ability to perceive the higher orders of dimensions. Just as our perceiving of time as linear is a misperception of the time “function”.

But what is time then? And how does it relate or interact? I feel another blog topic coming on...

A Motto

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
-Margaret Mead