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The Spacetime Present.

The realization that the time "dimension" is what may be described as a universal "now" calls for a more appropriate understanding of space-time as being the scene for the 5.4 x 10ˉ⁴⁴ s long duration of reoccurring simultaneous events.


Posted November & December 2014.

From "Our sense of Time":
"So, if our sense of time is real and space-time does not exist, then what is it that our senses detect? Oscillations. The elastic fabric of space, our complete universe, is still oscillating radially as a result of the Big Bang event. Each of these pulses of radial oscillation constitutes a present moment. -A "now". Because the entire volume of space oscillates radially between two extremes where one is larger then the other, the transit in volume between the extremes is interpreted as duration by our senses. In other words, as time. The duration of this present moment would be very short and could well correspond to the rather brief duration of Planck Time, about 5.4 x 10ˉ⁴⁴ s."

In order to give you a better idea of what motion in the oscillating fabric of space would look like I've made up a .gif file that is running here below. In this gif the frame-rate is only 24/s as opposed to the actual 1.875⁴³/s (C/ℓP) of our universe. However, the slower rate better show the rather violent "quantum" oscillations of the fabric of the universe that the specimen particles resonate with and consequently is driven by. This state of affairs is otherwise hidden by the incredible frame-rate of the universal oscillations. The specimen particles in turn are actually just quite ordinary longitudinal oscillations, similar to sound-waves. As they resonate with the surrounding oscillations they obtain, unlike transverse oscillations, the ability to resonate as a standing wave that does not move.
The standing wave mode is represented by the left specimen in the gif below. The right specimen could be moving at any speed, but here it is moving at the speed of light, oscillating in the direction of motion at the maximum amplitude of one Planck Length each Planck Time duration of the present, eventually leaving the picture at the right edge. After a few more frames the gif start anew. Using the actual scale of things, the left specimen will be doing all its resonating at the same spot. Each of the 1.875⁴³ frames of oscillation during one second may therefore move the arms of a local clock a full Planck length distance around its face each frame. The right specimen is however using all of its available Planck length every frame in order to move 299 792 458 m to the right rather then moving the arms of any co-moving clock, thereby causing its local "time" to stop when traveling at the speed of light.

The amount of time-dilation of the right specimen at other speeds would confirm to the calculations of special relativity. It should however, as you may understand from the example on hand, be noted that traditional Minkowski space-time does not exist. Especially not in the sense of any 4th dimension that one may travel in or as a "block" of space-time. Minkowski space-time and all dimensions above three belong to the fairy tale category! They are simply not any necessary ingredient.
I do however propose that the universal oscillations each 5.4 x 10ˉ⁴⁴ s exist as a real phenomenon and that the "quantum realm" is, correctly interpreted, the oscillating proof thereof. Each oscillation still reusing the universal instant of simultaneity, the present, just as it has been doing ever since the Big Bang, thereby forming a live "space-time present" that keeps the universal clock ticking.

I suppose Newton would have liked this...








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