Holographic Time
This blog is probably not of interest to everyone, but is a paper that I wrote some time ago and which needs to be published for the few that will find the work informative.
The major problem facing an understanding of the true nature of time is simply our inability to envisage or explain in plain language that which we can easily model mathematically.
From Mohrhoff U. arXiv:quant-ph/0703035v1 (footnotes 8-11)
“The flaw in this concept is that if we imagine a spatiotemporal whole as a simultaneous spatial whole, then we cannot imagine this simultaneous spatial whole as persisting and the present as advancing through it. There is only one time, the fourth dimension of the spatiotemporal whole. There is not another time in which this spatiotemporal whole persists as a spatial whole, and in which the present advances. If the experiential now is anywhere in the spatiotemporal whole, it is trivially and vacuously everywhere—or, rather, everywhen.
The flaw in this conception is that simultaneity is a feature of the “language” we use to describe a physical situation, rather than a feature of the situation itself. For any two events A,B there exist two reference frames FA and FB and a third event C such that C is simultaneous with A in FA and simultaneous with B in FB. Presentism is incompatible with this “simultaneity by proxy” of A with B. The calculation of classical electromagnetic effects, for instance, can be carried out in two steps: given the distribution and motion of charges, we calculate a set of functions of position and time known as the “electromagnetic field”, and using these functions, we calculate the electromagnetic effects that these charges have on another charge. The rest (viz., that the electromagnetic field is a physical entity in its own right, that it is locally generated by charges, that it mediates the action of charges on charges by locally acting on itself, and that it locally acts on charges) is embroidery, in the sense that it adds nothing whatsoever to the predictive power of the theory.
If the synchronic (e.g., EPR-Bohm) correlations defy mediatory accounts, we have every reason to be wary of mediatory accounts of the diachronic correlations. But this does not imply that quantum states “represent the temporary and provisional beliefs a physicist holds as he travels down the road of inquiry” (Fuchs and Schack, 2004).”
I agree with Mohrhoff who says, “…ultimately there exists a One Being, of which the world is a manifestation”, in other words the entire universe is a singularity. It exists as a single point in a single instant of time but although we can express the concepts mathematically we are generally unable to perceive the structure in a physical sense, compatible with experience. The aim of my various books, papers and videos explaining how past, present and future all occupy the same moment of existence has been to introduce concepts that suggest that there is nowhere in space or time that we cannot visit.
Others are also apparently reaching similar conclusions that the universe is holographic in nature and inter-dimensionally connected, where reality emanates from a source outside our own dimension. The interference detected by the GE0600 team matches observations recorded by Professor William G. Tifft, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, and imply that time is quantized. This supports a view that I first published in 1989.
In a 4D universe the only way that all time could physically exist in a single unit is if each unit of time was different in some way, two identical objects can not occupy the same position in the same dimension at the same time. I concluded that as we know from Einstein time can progress at different rates depending on motion or gravity then each second must be of a slightly different duration to those preceding it or those following it. Planck explained that E=hν and that only very specific quanta react one with each other and it is this that allows past, present and future to occupy both the same space and the same time.
From there it is a small step to consider,
a) the universe is expanding,
b) it is entropy that generates the concept of time,
c) the universe is becoming less dense, so its overall gravitational field must be decreasing,
d) In accordance with relativity theory time must accelerate under these conditions.
e) The universe will appear to expand at an accelerating rate as our units of time measurement decrease.
f) Historic mass appears greater due to the overall greater density of the earlier universe, when we look at distant objects we are looking back in time.
g) The passage of time is illusory the past still exists and we detect it as dark matter (it is actually a little more complex but too long to explain here), the future already exists but we only perceive it as dark energy.
h) Quanta vary from second to second because time itself varies; the quanta we detect at any one moment are surrounded by the energy of countless past and future quanta. There is nothing between them all are interconnected but only detectable as discrete packets of energy as described by Planck so many years ago.
From “Physics God and the End of the World” © 2006
The Gravitational constant appears to be varying at a rate of the order of Hubble’s constant (G Barber arXiv:gr-qc/0405094 v5 22 Dec 2005) indicating the possibility that a large part of the constant is actually due to expansion and its effect on time, rather than simple expansion. In other papers I have presented concepts that show that although the universe’s gravitational field may appear to be changing the force (G) is constant.
The major problem facing an understanding of the true nature of time is simply our inability to envisage or explain in plain language that which we can easily model mathematically.
From Mohrhoff U. arXiv:quant-ph/0703035v1 (footnotes 8-11)
“The flaw in this concept is that if we imagine a spatiotemporal whole as a simultaneous spatial whole, then we cannot imagine this simultaneous spatial whole as persisting and the present as advancing through it. There is only one time, the fourth dimension of the spatiotemporal whole. There is not another time in which this spatiotemporal whole persists as a spatial whole, and in which the present advances. If the experiential now is anywhere in the spatiotemporal whole, it is trivially and vacuously everywhere—or, rather, everywhen.
The flaw in this conception is that simultaneity is a feature of the “language” we use to describe a physical situation, rather than a feature of the situation itself. For any two events A,B there exist two reference frames FA and FB and a third event C such that C is simultaneous with A in FA and simultaneous with B in FB. Presentism is incompatible with this “simultaneity by proxy” of A with B. The calculation of classical electromagnetic effects, for instance, can be carried out in two steps: given the distribution and motion of charges, we calculate a set of functions of position and time known as the “electromagnetic field”, and using these functions, we calculate the electromagnetic effects that these charges have on another charge. The rest (viz., that the electromagnetic field is a physical entity in its own right, that it is locally generated by charges, that it mediates the action of charges on charges by locally acting on itself, and that it locally acts on charges) is embroidery, in the sense that it adds nothing whatsoever to the predictive power of the theory.
If the synchronic (e.g., EPR-Bohm) correlations defy mediatory accounts, we have every reason to be wary of mediatory accounts of the diachronic correlations. But this does not imply that quantum states “represent the temporary and provisional beliefs a physicist holds as he travels down the road of inquiry” (Fuchs and Schack, 2004).”
I agree with Mohrhoff who says, “…ultimately there exists a One Being, of which the world is a manifestation”, in other words the entire universe is a singularity. It exists as a single point in a single instant of time but although we can express the concepts mathematically we are generally unable to perceive the structure in a physical sense, compatible with experience. The aim of my various books, papers and videos explaining how past, present and future all occupy the same moment of existence has been to introduce concepts that suggest that there is nowhere in space or time that we cannot visit.
Others are also apparently reaching similar conclusions that the universe is holographic in nature and inter-dimensionally connected, where reality emanates from a source outside our own dimension. The interference detected by the GE0600 team matches observations recorded by Professor William G. Tifft, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, and imply that time is quantized. This supports a view that I first published in 1989.
In a 4D universe the only way that all time could physically exist in a single unit is if each unit of time was different in some way, two identical objects can not occupy the same position in the same dimension at the same time. I concluded that as we know from Einstein time can progress at different rates depending on motion or gravity then each second must be of a slightly different duration to those preceding it or those following it. Planck explained that E=hν and that only very specific quanta react one with each other and it is this that allows past, present and future to occupy both the same space and the same time.
From there it is a small step to consider,
a) the universe is expanding,
b) it is entropy that generates the concept of time,
c) the universe is becoming less dense, so its overall gravitational field must be decreasing,
d) In accordance with relativity theory time must accelerate under these conditions.
e) The universe will appear to expand at an accelerating rate as our units of time measurement decrease.
f) Historic mass appears greater due to the overall greater density of the earlier universe, when we look at distant objects we are looking back in time.
g) The passage of time is illusory the past still exists and we detect it as dark matter (it is actually a little more complex but too long to explain here), the future already exists but we only perceive it as dark energy.
h) Quanta vary from second to second because time itself varies; the quanta we detect at any one moment are surrounded by the energy of countless past and future quanta. There is nothing between them all are interconnected but only detectable as discrete packets of energy as described by Planck so many years ago.
From “Physics God and the End of the World” © 2006
The Gravitational constant appears to be varying at a rate of the order of Hubble’s constant (G Barber arXiv:gr-qc/0405094 v5 22 Dec 2005) indicating the possibility that a large part of the constant is actually due to expansion and its effect on time, rather than simple expansion. In other papers I have presented concepts that show that although the universe’s gravitational field may appear to be changing the force (G) is constant.
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