Time as an Emergent Phenomenon: Traveling Back to the Heroic Age of Physics by Elliot McGucken

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Thanks Brian,

Well, it is funny times that we live in in this realm of physics, in which the young are taught to approach physics, by their snarky antitheory elders, from the exact opposite direction that Einstein approached it,

Albert Einstein, "The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."

MDT asked its own foundational *physical* questions, listed above, and it resulted in a new *physical* equation representing a hitherto unsung universal invariant--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic. MDT answers such foundational questions as *why* relativity, *why* entanglement, *why* time and all its arrows and assymetries, *why* nonlocality, *why* the dualities (wave/particle, space/time, mass/energy), *why* free will, *why* is time not frozen, *why* entropy, *why* no block universe, *why* is time travel into the past impossible, and *why* the gravitational redshift and slowing of light and time?

"Truth is treason in an empire of lies, and poetically speaking that truth is called ranting." --Dr. E

As a *physical* theory with a simple mathematical equation, MDT is the kind of theory which hasn't been seen for awhile in the realm of physics. And in the absence of *physical* theories over the last thirty+ years, with simple postulates and mathematical equations representing *physical* truths, legions of antitheory bureaucracies have grown. They are the richest institutions of *physics* throughout all history, and they have to spend their money on something, so they spend it on PR, hype, trips to swanky conferences in Aspen and Hawaii, and groupthink youth camps, where they recruit those who lack physical curiosity for their regimes, where curiosity is dictated from the top from the Ministry of Curiosity.

You can tell who they are by the fact that they never want to discuss *physical* theories nor *physical* realities, but only snark and engage in sociological games, applying their elders' crackpot indexes to protect their elders' funding, and building communal consensus around meaningless math instead of pursuing rugged, independent character and *physical* law on the mountaintop of *physical* reality. It would have been cool to see you responding to the responses I made to your earlier questions, which I responded to (even though you filled them with snark and ill-intent and non-sequitirs and red-herrings) with answers representing the *physical* reality that MDT presents--the hitherto unsung universal invariant of a fourth dimension expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c: dx4/dt=ic -- but then again, I felt that you hadn't really thought much about your questions before asking them, nor really read my paper, as it seems that in this era of grade inflation and dumbing-down, physics students are no longer trained to read nor think in that classical, epic sense; but merely to engage in sociological assaults and random groupthink drivel, for that is how their elders gained tenure. You're familiar with the deconstructionist movement, I take it. Well, it wasn't contained in the humanities departments, and that is probably why you have never read one foundational paper in physics, nor Homer, just like many, many English majors will never read Blake, nor Shakespeare, nor Melville. Had you read a foundational paper, Brian, you would have seen that they were written by and large in beautiful, eloquent prose--poetic words expressing *physical* concepts and *physical* reality. It is a well-funded postmodern myth that physics must be about meaningless math, and that those who use words alongside equations to express deep physical ideas are crackpots.

Where you crossed the line was mixing the late J.A. Wheeler's name with your cheeky, ignorant, callow snark--in your snarky tone that reminds me of all too many anti-theorists these days, who couldn't hold a candle to the Heroic Spirits who furthered physics by good-will, humility, cheerfullness, and a genuine, shared sense of a common, exalted journey, where we were all going after the truth of *physical* reality together. They gifted us physics--the heroic spirits showed us that new ideas take courage, self-reliance, independent thought, the exaltation of the higher ideals over the bottom line, principle over PR, and rugged dedication to one's faith in the Truth, come hell (Bruno was burned alive) or high water (Boltzman was drowned by is contemporaries' snark and ignorance). They were heroes all--some were burned alive for their bold ideas, some were placed under house arrest, some were exiled from academia, some were driven to suicide. And to thank them all, John Baez created his crackpot index. "And yet it moves!" They always said, as they walked away from the Inquistion.

But riddle me this Batman--who has contributed more to physics, art, science, and philsophy--Baez or "crackpots" such as Boltzman, Bruno, Socrates, Dante (who wrote the Inferno in exile), Einstein, and Galileo?

Contrast the mean-spirited, snarky, arrogant tone of Baez's crackpot index and words to Einstein et al.'s exalted, humble, kind, humanitarian tone:

Albert Einstein, "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Albert Einstein, "The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them."

Albert Einstein, "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, felt that the pioneer scientist must have " a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

It is by intuition that we discover and by logic we prove.

--Henri Poincaré, Mathematician

Isaac Newton, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Yes--we must stand upon the shoulders of giants to see further, as the greatest mathematicians and physicists stated; and yet, Brian, the foundational papers in physics have been banned from the academy, along with Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare. Imagine building a new academy, which taught the Greats while encouraging innovation and creativity--while encouraging good-will, cheerfullness, and civil debate rooted in logic andd reason, as opposed to snark, arrogance, and deconstruction!

And so it is that you criticized the use of words and prose, and demanded only math, like your elder antitheorists might, as thought and ideas have been divorced from their antitheory regimes. Well, you will find no better mechanism for expressing ideas than words and prose, and it saddens me that your generation is being taught to ignore the prose of the foundational papers (Bohr, Faraday, Einstein), while exalting in snark-a-lark and cheeky games--like all too many of the antitheory elders, who have brought progress in physics to a halt, replacing it with anti-theories founded upon snarky, indecipherable math and handwaving, which neglects the *physical* reality, *physical* models, and physics that MDT exalts.

The great irony, which you must admit, is that while String Theory and LQG and your theory don't have any actual equations representing *physical* concepts, MDT does: dx4/dt=ic.

Well, no man is an island, and physics has ever been advanced by cordial conversation in the context of rigorous honesty and a humble acknowledgement of empirical facts. Einstein and Bohr disagreed often, but yet they had a deep respect for one-another, and I highly recommend the perusal of their conversations (which are penned in prose)! Where would be be without the disagreements between Einstein and Minkowski, between Bohr and Einstein, and between Pauli and just about everybody? Contrast their exalted dialogues to the snarky, underhanded dialogues in the modern string-LQG wars, and the perhaps even more troubling complete *lack* of dialogue for topics and approaches transcending those two groupthink "theories" which might not even be successful theories after all, but only twin towers of the quantum gravity myth, built on the blind faith that two must always be one.

"New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment." --Max Planck

And yet today's science is dominated by "communal" theories bolstered by multi-million-dollar media teams. More money is spent on Kaku's PR and Baez's plane tickets than MDT. Indeed, more money is spent on Baez's crackpot index, which is hosted on the servers of a taxpayer funded univeristy, than is spent on new ideas such as MDT, or a site devoted to foundational papers in physics. And thus I propose that Baez replace his cracpot index with foundational papers in physics, for all of their writers were classic rebels.

Is it any mystery physics has ground to a halt, as snark and anti-theries are funded as opposed to physics, as snark and antitheories are better suited to building cash-cow groupthink regimes, than is physics? And again, their theories aren't really theories. They are often merely "not even wrong," and always "in their infancy," even as they tehmselves prepare for retirement, with a rich pension purchased by the the exile of physics and physicists from the academy.

Planck wrote, "Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, daß ihre Gegner überzeugt werden und sich als belehrt erklären, sondern vielmehr dadurch, daß ihre Gegner allmählich aussterben und daß die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut geworden ist."

Translation: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

Once upon a time new theories were opposed by established scientists and established science. But today, new theories are mostly opposed by established bureaucracies and established bureaucrats, which have done little, if anything, to advance or contibute to actual science. So it's more akin to Galileo standing before the Inquisition.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." --Joseph Campbell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

And the Nobel Laureate eocnomist F.A. Hayek agrees!

"The tragedy of collectivist thought is that, while it starts out to make reason supreme, it ends by destroying reason because it misconceives the process on which the growth of reason depends. It may indeed be said that it is the paradox of all collectivist doctrine and its demands for "conscious" control or "conscious" planning that they necessarily lead to the demand that the mind of some individual should rule supreme--while only the individualist approach to social phenomena makes us recognize the superindividual forces which guide the growth of reason. Individualism is thus an attitude of humility before this social process and of tolerance to other opinions and is the exact opposite of that intellectual hubris which is at the root of the demand for comprehensive direction of social purpose." -F.A. Hayek, The End of Truth, The Road to Serfdom

Along comes a scientist who agrees with Einstein and Max Born and Planck. Along comes a physicist who agrees with Wheeler, and Feynman, and Glasgow, and Godel, and Bohr, and Gamow--wishing that he could watch old Westerns with Bohr and Gamow. Along comes a scientist who agrees with Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin and Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek, with Newton and Dirac, with Heisenberg and Minkowski, with the great mythologist Joseph Campbell. Along comes a scientist with simple theory that has a simple postulate and equation from which all of relativity may be derived; from which entropy naturally arises, and which accounts for time and all its arrows and assymetries across all realms, while also providing a *physical* model for entanglement and nonlocality, as well as a *physical* model for Huygens' principle and the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. Not only does the multi-billion-dollar physics establishment ignore it, but they have so much funding, that they can hire grad students and profesors to snark the theory, so as to defend their perptual-motion NSF money mahcines and religions of wormholes, time warps, quantum gravity, multiverses, tiny, vibrating strings, and geometric mysticism/PR/hype, which Moving Dimensions Theory has no need for, as it concerns itself with physics and physical reality--with logic, reason, and simple postulates and equations that represent a hitherto unsung universal invariant--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c.

What we have here is a modern-day Inquistion.

Check out:

http://www.jklarsen.com/myblog/index.php?blog=6&title=confession_of_galileo_galilei&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Where it is reported: "In 1633, physicist Galileo Galilei was brought before the Roman Inquisition. Tried on "vehement suspicion of heresy," Galileo was forced to swear that he "abjured, cursed and detested" the errors of his work, which extended the findings of the Polish astronomer Nicholaus Copernicus that the Earth Moves."

Now I have postulated that the fourth dimension expands relative to the three spatial dimensions, and not one person in the entire quantum gravity regime has ever, ever, taken the time to comment on my theory. It's not like MDT is a secret, so their silence puzzles the will. Carlo promised to look at my paper, but he has not yet commented on it.

I realized that perhaps before commenting on MDT, they are all waiting for a confession.

Well, here is my confession, based on Galileo's, which can be enjoyed here:

http://www.jklarsen.com/myblog/index.php?blog=6&title=confession_of_galileo_galilei&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

I, Dr. E, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei of Florence, aged 70 years, tried personally by this court, and kneeling before You, the most Eminent Antitheorists and Reverend Lord Cardinals of M-Theory Multiverses, Inquisitors-General throughout the Quantum Gravity Republic against heretical depravity, having before my eyes the Most Holy Gospels of an Elegant Universe, Not Even Wrong, and The Trouble With Physics, and laying on them my own hands; I swear that I have always believed, I believe now, and with Ed Witten's help I will in future believe all which the Holy Quantum Gravity and M-Theory Church doth hold, preach, teach, and hype to the press, including E-8 and next year's E-9 anti-theory.

But since I, after having been admonished by this Holy Office entirely to abandon the false opinion that the fourth dimension expands relative to the three spatial dimensions, and that quantum mechanics' entanglement, nonlocality, entropy, relativity itself, time and all its arrows and assymetries across all realms, the gravitational slowing of clocks and time, Huygens' Principle, probability, and all the dualities (space-time, wave-particle, mass-energy) derive from this simple principle of MDT and its equation dx4/dt=ic, and that I was neither to hold, defend, nor teach in any manner whatever, either orally or in writing, the said false doctrine; and after having received a notification that the said doctrine is contrary to the Holy Writ of Hyperspace, I did write and cause to be printed a blog and forum in which I treat of the said already condemned MDT doctrine, and bring forward arguments of much efficacy in its favour, without arriving at any solution: I have been judged vehemently suspected of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the fourth dimension's expansion is the universe's fundamental invariant, and that the block universe does not exist and time is not the fourth dimension, but that time is a parameter that emerges because the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c, that change is and ought be woven into the fundamental fabric of spacetime with dx4/dt=ic, and that the fourth dimension, like the earth, does move.

Nevertheless, wishing to remove from the minds of your Tenured Eminences and all faithful LQGers and String Theorist this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Quantum Gravity Regimes, and I am ready to foregt time, forget space, and forget physical reality, while embracing multiverses and tiny, vibrating stirngs. And I swear that for the future I will neither say nor assert in speaking or writing such things as may bring upon me similar suspicion; and if I know any heretic who speaks out against tiny, vibrating branes, anti-theories, or atoms of space and time, or one suspected of heresy, I will denounce him to this Holy Office of Time Travel, or to the Inquisitor of Wormholes and Ordinary of the place in which I may be, which will of course be in the block universe, which MDT falsely liberated us from, while falsely grangting us free will and free thought, as it falsely froze time. I hereby remit all future free will, as I return to the block universe with the hopes of receiving the funding that is a part of my pre-Ordained future, as a member of the Quantum Gravity Church.

I also swear and promise to adopt and observe entirely all the penances which have been or may be by this Holy Office of Tiny, Little, Loops imposed on me. And if I contravene any of these said promises, protests, or oaths, (which Ed Witten forbid!) I submit myself to all the pains and penalties which by the Sacred Canons of String Theory and other Decrees of D-branes general and particular are against such offenders imposed and promulgated. So help me God and the Holy Warped Passages/The Trouble With Physics/10^99 indecipherable arxiv.org papers--which I touch with my own hands.

I, Dr. E, aforesaid have abjured, sworn, and promised, and hold myself bound as above; and in token of the truth, with my own hand have subscribed the present schedule of my abjuration, and have recited it word by word. In America, at the Convent della Minerva, this 30th day of October, 2008, right before I go shopping for my Halloween costume in this parallel universe where physicists do not get tenure for studying parallel universes.

I, Dr. E, have abjured as above, with my own hand."

And as I'm walking away to serve out my house arrest after this confession, I turn to the crowd that had gathered to hear me read it and smile.

And I say, "And yet it--the fourth dimension--moves! Eppur si muove!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pur_si_muove

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Progress on the MDT front!

I realize that proposing a new physical invariant--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to three spatial dimensions at c: dx4/dt=ic--is no small endeavor, but what's really funny is that in this era of antitheory regimes, an added beast to battle, in addition to the commonly slow acceptance from the establishment, is the novel beast of today's anti-theory regimes' general rejection of classical truth, physics, foundational papers and methods, eloquent prose, the giants whose shoulders we ought stand upon, honor, logic, humility, kindness, and *physical* reality; and their accompanying exaltation of ad hominem attacks and namecalling, which keep the cash-cows of their rich antitheory regimes alive while physics dies.

Once upon a time new theories were opposed by established scientists and established science. But today, new theories are opposed by established bureaucracies and established bureaucrats, which have done little, if anything, to advance or contribute to actual science. So it's more akin to Galileo standing before the Inquisition, as their regimes are built upon Godless religions of this week's flavor of quantum gravity, tiny, vibrating strings, bouncing universes, multiverse magazine covers, parallel universe PR, and time machines which nobody has the time build--religions which have rejected the foundational papers and prose penned by physics' true prophets and poets.

But we press on regardless! For honor, for courage, for physics, we march!

Moving Dimensions Theory is the most-discussed and viewed theory in Dr. Michio Kaku's Forums:

http://www.mkaku.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=28

MDT is also way up there in his String Theory Forum:

http://www.mkaku.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=40

Rock on!

Here's some cool feedback on MDT!

http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blogspot.com/2008/11/tenth-dimension-polls-archive-23.html

":One of my most popularly viewed blog entries in the last couple of months here has been "Moving Dimensions and Synchromysticism", in which I talk about the mind-bending work of Jake Kotze, and the mind-bending Moving Dimensions Theory (MDT) of Dr. Elliott McGucken, the brief summation of which I will quote again here:

The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at the speed of light. Ergo the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of "c" relative to the three spatial dimensions.

This idea is easily related to my way of visualizing the dimension, I believe, and gives us an intuitive way to understand the quandary of why the speed of light doesn't change, no matter what direction in space you travel, and no matter whether you're traveling forward or back in time. Bravo, Elliot McGucken!" --http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blogspot.com/2008/11/tenth-dimension-polls-archive-23.html

And at:

"about time's arrow, one paper by McGucken points out that the fourth dimension in relativity is not time. it actually reads: x4=ict. that's different. we don't seem to actually have a word for what "ict" is. it imparts movement. expansion. it appears that time in this emerges naturally from this expansion. apparently so does light. it's lovely. myself, i have to try to picture this stuff happen, visualize the actual process. it occurs relative to the three primary dimensional vectors of space. it's a bit of an ethereal image for me, still thinking about it, but it seems this could also accommodate a directional tendency."

--http://fqxi.org/community/forum/category/10

And check out http://physicsmathforums.com

Best,

Dr. E (The Real McCoy)

Kavita Rajanna

Hello all,

FQXi currently has no way of verifying which of the comments posted are by the author. In future contests, we will make sure to have a method by which we can clearly see when the essay author is making a comment. Given that we cannot accurately determine who has posted the comments above, we have let them some of them stand.

In the meantime, we ask that you keep in mind the Community Forum terms of use (http://fqxi.org/community/forum/intro) and avoid language that is vulgar, offensive, inflammatory, or extremely lengthy. We have removed some comments that are excessively so -- not in any attempt to censor vigorous debate, but to protect forum readers from excessive irritation while maintaining a productive atmosphere.

Best,

K Rajanna

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Thanks K Rajanna,

Yes--a detractor was appropriating my identity, posting things I did not post, and also copying things I posted and reposting them under "Dr. E," while throwing in some libel, ad hominem attacks, and defamation for good measure. In a way, the posts and methodologies proved how the poster was out of ammuntion, as are so many in today's anti-theory regimes, which I oft criticize, thusly incurring their wrath. Their snarky posts, which are all to common thorughout the internet, could be of use in a historical context--shedding light on the fallen, diminsihed intellectual atmosphere of our day and age, but on the other hand, such posts don't serve much purpose in advancing physics.

A cool thing to do would be to allow people to register their identities.

Well, basically all the ideas supporting MDT above, rooted in logic and reason and physics, I support!

For some reason prose, as well as simple mathematical equations, expressing deep, *physical* concepts has been forced out of fashion. You're not even allowed to talk about such entities without the sycophantic anti-theory attack dogs being sent forth. The anti-theory elders, and their favorite grad-students, rush forth with reems of snarky, indecipherable math and fraudulent handwaving, en route to building PR-based consensus across a group that is large enough to show up on the NSF's and other foundations' radars, and then the fun begins--the creation of perpetual-motion funding and PR machines, all for the non-theories of the anti-theorists; while the foundational questions, and foundational papers, are pushed aside and labeled as "crackpottery." And of course, physics grinds to a halt, as the groupthink elders kill the goose that lays the golden egg--the rugged individual with their private passion and curiosity, who strives to stand upon the shoulders of giants, as did Newton, Einstein, Norn, Bohr, and Dirac; always believing in *physical* reality above politics. Such individuals do not necessarily bring instant cash and PR and magazine covers to the elder anti-theorists and the supremely rich in money (and poor in physics) institutions that they captain, and thus sycophants are generally preferred.

But a new day is dawning with MDT!

A new, simple, bold, postulate, and mathematical equation, dx4/dt=ic; celebrating a hitherto unsung universal invariant, underlying and unifying physical phenomena across relativity, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics--the fourth dimension is expanding at c, relative to the three spatial dimenions!

It's all about the Hero's Journey, really; as physics must always be rooted in the lone truth seeker's moral mythology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

"A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." --Joseph Campbell

Albert Einstein agreed about the value of this "mysterious adventure," guided by curiosity: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Imagine a book titled, AND YET IT MOVES: HERO'S JOURNEY PHYSICS: Finding Moving Dimensions Theory in Foundational Papers and Foundational Questions.

Also, imagine an institute which posted and encouraged discussion of the foundational papers!

Thanks again K Rajanna.

Best,

Dr. E (The Real McCoy)

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

dx4/dt=ic

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P.S. that is Einstein's quote: "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever." --Albert Einstein

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This is also posted in Doug's forum, but not everyone makes it over there, so I am posting it here too:

Thanks Doug,

You write, "What string theory did, though, was find a way to use the concept of vibration (i.e. motion) to overcome the problem with the particle concept. As Einstein said, it would be enough to understand the electron. The electron as a point particle is enigmatic, while the electron, as a vibrating string is not so much, at least in as much as the infinities are concerned."

Yes--I'll give you that--string theory at least tried to weave motion into the fundamental fabric of our universe, but where String Theory failed, MDT succeeded, by weaving change and motion into the fundamental fabric of spacetime: dx4/dt=ic.

The fourth dimension expands at the rate c, as a spherically-symmetric wavefront with a wavelength of Planck's length, alleviating us of the problems of point particles, and determining the following:

1. The value of Planck's constant.

2. The velocity of light.

3. The wave/particle nature of all matter/energy.

4. The maximum/minimum/only velocity of the universe.

5. The quantum nature of all matter/energy (comes from the wave-like expansion of the fourth dimension)

6. Nonlocality/entanglement--the fourth expanding dimension distributes locality, fathering time

7. Time and all its arrows and assymetries

8. Entropy

9. Huygens' Principle

10. Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle (comes form the fact that the fourth dimension itself has a wavelike character with a wavelength of the Planck Length, thusly limiting all measurements to an accuracy on the order of the Planck Length).

11. All of relativity is readily derived from MDT, as MDT provides the deeper, fundamental motivation for replacing x4 with ict in a 4D universe.

To keep this message short, attached please find figures which also show how MDT accounts for the gravitational redshift and slowing of light and time, while illustrating the fundamental universal invariant--the constant, wavelike expansion of the fourth dimension--that sets the velocity of light as well as the value of Planck's constant.

What's not to love about MDT's massive unification based on a simple/novel *physical* model and maverick concept which weaves change into the fundamental fabric of spacetime, while liberating us from frozen time and the block universe, granting us free will?Attachment #1: 4_MOVING_DIMENSIONS_THEORY_EXAMINES_THE_GRAVITATIONAL_REDSHIFT_SLOWING_OF_CLOCKS.pdf

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great paper dr. e.

i like the focus on a novel physical mechanism, the fourth expanding dimension, which gives rise to a broad range of phenomena in our physical reality, spanning all fields.

a simple postulate and equation with broad, far-reaching consequences.

heroic, indeed!

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thanks physics nick!

this competition has been great fun, like everyone meeting up at a great big showdown/poker game.

We've got our gamblers and bluffers, our highwaymen and mercaneries, our kid cowboys and hired guns, our veteran gunslingers and well-funded outlaws stacking the decks in the back rooms, and those of us strangers in town with no chips to our name, and our only friends our horse and peacemakers, and physical reality. And while everyone who plays honorably wins honor, there is but one hand that will win that higher honor of truth and beauty.

This contest reminds me of a toby keith song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q85rPq1u9sc

We got winners, we got losers

Chain smokers and boozers

And we got yuppies, we got bikers

We got thristy hitchhikers

And the girls next door dress up like movie stars

Hmm, hmm, hmm I love this bar

We got cowboys, we got truckers

Broken-hearted fools and suckers

And we got hustlers, we got fighters

Early birds and all-nighters

And the veterans talk about their battle scars

Hmm, hmm, hmm I love this bar

[Chorus:]

I love this bar

It's my kind of place

Just walkin' through the front door

Puts a big smile on my face

It ain't too far, come as you are

Hmm, hmm, hmm I love this bar

I've seen short skirts, we got high-techs

Blue-collar boys and rednecks

And we got lovers, lots of lookers

And I've even seen dancing girls and hookers

And we like to drink our beer from a mason jar

Hmm, hmm, hmm I love this bar

Yes I do

I like my truck (I like my truck)

I like my girlfriend (I like my girlfriend)

I like to take her out to dinner

I like a movie now and then

But I love this bar

It's my kind of place

Just trollin' around the dance floor

Puts a big smile on my face

No cover charge, come as you are

Hmm, hmm, hmm I love this bar

We got divorcees and a big bouncer man

An old jukebox and a real bad band

We got waitresses and we got barflies

A dumb-ass and a wise-guy

If you get too drunk just sleep out in your car

Reason number 672 why

Hmm, hmm, hmm I love this bar

Play it on out boys

Beer-thirty's over

Got to take it on home

Hmm, hmm, hmm I love this bar

I just love it

MDT, by treating physical reality as *real,* has found the mechanism for time and its arrows that Feynman had been seeking: "Now if the world of nature is made of atoms, and we too are made of atoms and obey physical laws, the most obvious interpretation of this evident distinction between past and future, and this irreversibility of all phenomena, would be that some laws, some of the motion laws of the atoms, are going one way - that the atom laws are not such that they can go either way. There should be somewhere in the works some kind of principle that uxles only make wuxles, and never vice versa, and so the world is turning away from uxley character to wuxley character all the time - and this one-way business of the interactions of things should be the thing that makes the whole phenomena of the world seem to go one way.

But we have not found this yet. That is, in all the laws of physics that we have found so far there does not seem to be any distinction between the past and the future. The moving picture should work the same going both ways, and the physicist who looks at it should not laugh.

(The Distinction of Past and Future, from The Character of Physical Law, Richard Feynman, 1965)"

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In order to develop a theoretical framework capable to account the Nature of Time, one can only start with a-temporal principles, wording and reasoning. In particular, one recognizes that the following concepts and words make direct or implicit use of the concept of time itself, so they must be avoided:

-propagation

-expansion

-time dimension, time arrow or direction

-before, after

-consecutive

-propagator

-evolution, Hamiltonian evolution

-motion

-period, periodicity, frequency

-Planck time

-speed of light, speed

-reversibility, irreversibility

-to increase/to decrease

-change

Any derivation of time which makes use of at least one of those concepts or definitions, cannot consistently explore the Nature of Time.

"Traveling back.." contains for sure a very interesting idea, but in my view the whole paper is affected by the critical use of the temporal concept of expansion and evolution, particularly attributed to the fourth dimension. It is not clear in terms of what such expansion is occurring, and consequently with respect to what, time is also expanding (it goes linearly with x4).

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Thanks E Prati,

Your problem is actually with the tautological definition of time that Einstein noted--a seeming paradoxical, circular definition which MDT resolves by postulating that dx4/dt = ic is a fundamamental invariant--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions, and t, or dt, is an emergent parameter that we measure on our watches and clocks, as timeless, ageless photons surf the fourth expanding dimension, giving rise to the oscillating change in our clock's cicuitry, which we tune to mark the propagation of time in seconds.

Please see MDT in the context of simple, tautological light clocks in the attached figure.

Our definititions of time are based on measurement, which is based on the propagatin of energy, which propagates at c, which is defined in units of m/s (distance/time)! So it is that the time measured on our quartz crystal watches and on our computers, which depends on the emission and propagation of photons, which propogate at c, which is measure in m/s or distance/time, is tautologically defined!

The great thing about MDT is that it also accounts for this tautology, with a deeper fundamental invariant--the fourth dimension is expanding at c--which sets the velocity of light to c, the maximum and minimum and only velocity through spacetime to c, while also weaving into the fabric of spacetime the fundamental rate of change--c. MDT postulates that the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c.

"My solution was really for the very concept of time, that is, that time is not absolutely defined but there is an inseparable connection between time and the signal [light] velocity." -Einstein

So it is that time rests upon the velocity of light, which of course is defined by units of m/s or distance/time, and this tautological definition and paradox is nothing new.

MDT takes the paradox head on and blows the tautological fog away, exposing a new fundamental universal invariant which weaves change into the fabric of spacetime for the first time in all of history, liberating us from frozen time and the block universe, while providing a physical mechanism for entropy and quantum entanglement and nonlocality--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c: dx4/dt=ic.

Best,

Dr. E (The Real McCoy)Attachment #1: 5_MOVING_DIMENSIONS_THEORY_EXAMINES_THE_GRAVITATIONAL_REDSHIFT_SLOWING_OF_CLOCKS.pdf

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought." -Edith Hamilton

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Dr. E,

I posted a reply on my thread.

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Dear Dr. Elliot, my first post on your essay. Let me start by saying that i personally could not digest yours and Dr. Merryman long posts on others essays. The same is the situation on your own essay too, while i could not have the privilege of your comments. You have a tremendous wealth of information both in Physics as well as the big personalities involved.But the points lie in brevity, relevance and clarity in expositions. Let me come to your essay and your view that Mathematical relations 'live' for ever! It is not correct if these are based on improper precepts and concepts after due analysis of observed data. Let me take your x^4=ict relation. What will happen to t if c is not a constant. Data exists that measured the value of c coming from a distant 12 billion years away object. It was found to be higher than the normally accepted value. In my essay, i have ventured to postulate what will be the situation for creation closure to 13 billion years back. The value of c can be far greater. Thus, the Physics of that time can not be discussed on the basis of 'c' constancy. Also, if there are multiple universes, one can not accept that fastest transmitting agent there will have the same value as in our universe. How will you then justify this mathematical relation.?

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Thanks Chris! I posted a reply to your reply in your forum.

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/308

Best,

Dr. E (The Real McCoy)

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Thanks Narenda!

You write, "Let me take your x^4=ict relation."

It is actually written x4=ict, and it is not my relation but rather it is Einstein's and Minkowski's. All that I am doing is noting what it really signifies--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, or dx4/dt=ic. Ergo all of relativity, quantum nonlocality and entanglement, entropy, and time and all its arrows and assymetries across all realms.

You write, "What will happen to t if c is not a constant?"

On page 9 of the MDT essay, I write, "The Cosmological Arrow of Time: As all motion derives from the fundamental motion dx4/dt=ic, the universe's general motion is expansion. If the absolute rate of c changes, the rate of expansion of the universe will appear to change. Hence an accelerating/decelerating universe."

If there are multiple universes, then I hope we are living in the one where time and progress will be unfrozen in theoretical physics, and it will soon be acknowledged that we have been freed from the block universe by MDT's natrual elegance and simple beauty, so that we might be able to ask and answer our own questions, as opposed to the non-questions shouted down from the top of the anti-theory regimes, where curiosity has been commandeered and centralized; and where in order to raise funding one must work on the anti-theories that ask the wrong questions so as to never find any answers and perpetuate the bureaucracy that opposes natural, individualistic curiosity, questions, and approaches; as progress in physics comes to a halt,.

"I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed." --Max Born (1882-1970) German Physicist. Nobel Prize, 1954.

Science is more of an art than a science, and it always seems to advance in manners never before anticipated by the establishment, as Planck stated. One cannot legislate, nor vote on, nor dictate the advancement of science by fiat. "One cannot pray a lie," as Mark Twain once said.

And again we see the primacy of the honest, rugged individual in the classic, epic hero's journey!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

And the Nobel Laureate eocnomist F.A. Hayek agrees!

Well, thanks for the exalted dialogue Narendra!

With our newfound freewill provided by MDT, which liberates us from the block universe while allowing us to keep all of relativity and quantum mechanics, we can become those things we seek!

Best,

Dr. E :)

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Just found this quote from Plato:

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."

It is hanging in the Boston Museum of Science, and it seems to agree with Albert Einstein, Galileo, and Max Born:

http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2008/04/12/plato-mathematician-quote/

"I personally like to regard a probability wave as a real thing, certainly as more than a tool for mathematical calculations. ... how could we rely on probability predictions if we do not refer to something real and objective? (Max Born on Quantum Theory)"

Max Born wrote, "All great discoveries in experimental physics have been made due to the intuition of men who made free use of models which for them were not products of the imagination but representations of real things."

"Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness." --(Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions)

To reject *physical* intuition and replace it with the nonsensical block universe MDT does away with seems to go exactly against the spirit by which physics has ever advanced, according to Galileo, Einstein, and other noble physicists.

It seems a preposterous conclusion that quantum mechanics, which works so very well, must be thrown out and reformulated for something which MDT shows there is no need for--the block universe.

"In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea ... gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage - if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries. I have had some experience of this myself. ... No good can come of dealing with such people, especially to the extent that their company may be not only unpleasant but dangerous."--(Galileo Galilei)

"my dear Kepler, what do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or Moon or my telescope." --Galileo Galilei

We must forver keep physical reality in the front and center, along with logic and reason and *physical* intuition--otherwise progress in physics will grind to a halt, as it has for the past thirty years.

"But before mankind could be ripe for a science which takes in the whole of reality, a second fundamental truth was needed, which only became common property among philosophers with the advent of Kepler and Galileo. Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts form experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics -- indeed, of modern science altogether." --Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

Math can be very pretty, but Einstein reminds us that physicists ought pursue *physics,* founded in a physical reality--"Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.""

"It is anomalous to replace the four-dimensional continuum by a five-dimensional one and then subsequently to tie up artificially one of those five dimensions in order to account for the fact that it does not manifest itself." -Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest. Just think what Einstein would have said about entire parallel universes we cannot see!

With an heroic spirit, MDT takes us back to origin of modern physics--to the original papers on relativity and QM, and it humbles itself upon that mountaintop. And when it comes on down, off the shoulders of relativity and QM's giants, MDT presents us with a fundamental view of reality that conforms to all experimental evidence, while not only resolving the paradoxes of the non-locality of the EPR effect and seemingly frozen time in Godel's block universe, but also unifying the resolution of both physical curiosities within a simple physical postulate--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt = ic. In a sense, this is the first theory to predict QM's nonlocality and entanglement, by postulating that the fourth dimension is inherently nonlocal via its expansion--an empirical fact that the timeless, ageless, nonlocal photon agrees with, as the photon surfs the fourth expanding dimension. And not only does MDT predict this, but it also provides a *physical* model for entropy and time and all its arrows and assymetries throughout all realms. And finally, all of relativity may be derived from MDT's simple postulate, as it is in my paper--the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions--dx4/dt = ic. A postulate and an equation representing a novel *physical* feature of our universe--a fourth expanding dimension--and the natural, subsequent prediction of all of relativity, qm's nonlocality, entropy, time's arrows and assymetries in all realms, and quantum entanglement.

I don't believe in mathematics.

Quoted in Carl Seelig. Albert Einstein.

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater. --Einstein

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. --Jules H. Poincare

Best,

Dr. E (The Real McCoy)

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Appreciated Dr. E.

Is it correct to say the following?

If dx4/dt=ic and E=mc^2 then dx4/dt = i(E/m)^(1/2)

And that this would be the proportion of space-time expanded due to the amount of Energy-mass implied? What other interpretation could be possible to give it?

Also, I would like a criticism about my essay "Time Traveling by Simuverses", at least the physics related point "1-Nature of time in the architecture of the universe". If it is deserved, and if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Venerando.

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Thanks Venerando,

I enjoyed your paper, but I am yet convinced that the block universe is a human construct--an artefact from glossing over the fact that Einstein never said the time is the fourth dimension, but rather he wrote x4=ict, implying MDT's central postulate of a fourth expanding dimension.

As Moving Dimensions Theory unfreezes time and liberates us from the block universe, it doesn't really support time travel into the past. However, it grants us free will while also providing a *physical* model underlying entropy, quantum nonlocality and entanglement, and all of relativity, as well as Huygens' Principle and the velocity of c, and time and all its arrows across all realms.

Not bad for one simple postulate and equation: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c: dx4/dt=ic.

The attached figures/paper show how Moving Dimensions Theory also accounts for the gravitational slowing of light and time, while setting constants such as c (velocity of light) and h (Planck's constant).

Enjoy!

Dr. E (The Real McCoy) :)Attachment #1: 9_MOVING_DIMENSIONS_THEORY_EXAMINES_THE_GRAVITATIONAL_REDSHIFT_SLOWING_OF_CLOCKS.pdf

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Dr. E,

On p 4 you write,

"Although having traveled 186,000 miles through space, the photon will not have aged one iota, for time stops at the speed of light. It will not have moved one iota in the fourth dimension."

Choosing the direction between source and detector as the dimension labeled by x1 means ds^2 = dx4^2 dx1^2 and, as you rightly observe, ds^2 = 0 for a photon, i.e., proper time lapse = 0 along a null path. Since dx1 is not zero, how can dx4 be zero?

Thanks,

Mark

P.S. Sorry if you already answered this above, I didn't read all the posts.

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Thanks for the question, Mark,

I am not sure how well the math will copy in this form, so please see the attached PDF document for an answer to your question above.

Note that in the above, Einstein never says that time is the fourth dimension. Rather he states that x4 = u = ict. Let us write the following:

Where s is the invariant interval. Then

If we take the distance in space as:

Then

We know that a photon does not age. When a photon has traveled a distance ﾆ'ﾂｴr, then ﾆ'ﾂｴs = ﾆ'ﾂｴr, or

And ﾆ'ﾂｴx4 = 0.

In other words, the photon has not moved at all in the fourth dimension. Anything that travels the speed of light remains stationary in the fourth dimension, as ﾆ'ﾂｴs = ﾆ'ﾂｴr. Ergo, the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. An object can travel the velocity of light through space in the x direction, the y direction, or z direction; or some combination thereof, but the only way it can ever travel the velocity of light in the x4 dimension is to remain completely still in the three spatial dimensions. It is possible to remain at rest relative to the expanding time dimension, but it is difficult to measure this, due to the principle of relativity which rests upon a tautological relationship between the measurement of time and velocity of light. This principle of relativity arises form a deeper universal invariantﾂ｡Xthe fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the velocity of c, or dx4/dt=ic, providing a physical model for time and all its arrows and asymmetries across all realms, nonlocality, entanglement, entropy, dark energy, Huygensﾂ｡ﾂｦ pervasive principle, and Heisenbergﾂ｡ﾂｦs Uncertainty Principle, while setting both cﾂ｡Xthe velocity of light, and hﾂ｡XPlanckﾂ｡ﾂｦs constant, as the fundamental wavelength of x4ﾂ｡ﾂｦs expansion is the Planck length.

An inertial frame is a frame that is defined by an object keeping its velocity components through space and time constant. An object which accelerates in the three spatial dimensions slows down in the expanding fourth dimension. And vice versa.

I am not sure how well the math will copy above, so please see the attached document for an answer to your question above.

Best,

Dr. E (The Real McCoy)Attachment #1: Photons_Remain_Stationary_in_the_Fourth_Expanding_Dimension1.pdf

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