Essay Abstract

Physical laws are regarded as fundamental because they are valid everywhere and always, without exceptions. The type of physical laws is to a great extent determined by the properties of time and space. If these properties change, the type of physical laws will change. But the properties of time and space might not be invariable and most probably depend on the initial conditions of the creation of the Universe (the Big Bang). Under different initial conditions the properties of time and space may be different. The essay presented discusses the issue of the properties of time - how fundamental they are and how a change in them would affect the physical laws known to us. The connection between the one-way direction of time and the physical laws is examined as well as the dependencies between the thermodynamic and the information arrows of time. The essay also discusses how a change in the number of time dimensions would affect the known physical principles: the causal structure of a space-time, the Lorentz covariance, the principle of invariance of the speed of light, the CPT-symmetry, the existence of antiparticles, etc. The conclusion reached is that the fundamentality of the laws was largely determined by the initial conditions of the Big Bang.

Author Bio

Milen Velev is PhD and Chief Assistant Professor at University "Prof. Dr. A. Zlatarov" - Burgas, Bulgaria. He is the author of the papers "Relativistic mechanics in multiple time dimensions" and "Information and thermodynamic arrows of time". His research interests include applied mathematics, special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy of science, the nature of space and time, chaos theory, mathematical economics, micro- and macroeconomics.

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Good work ! Do you think or can you imagine that the initial conditions (vibrations) of the Big Bang had a foreplay, in sexual terms, concerning cosmogenesis/somatogenesis ?

Dear Professor Milen Velchev Velev,

You wrote: "Let us first clarify what is meant by the notion 'fundamental laws' - these are all laws which are generally valid, i.e. valid everywhere and always, without exceptions."

Reality must have only one law.

I have concluded from my deep research that Nature must have devised the only permanent real structure of the Universe obtainable for the real Universe existed for millions of years before man and his finite complex informational systems ever appeared on earth. The real physical Universe consists only of one single unified VISIBLE infinite surface occurring eternally in one single infinite dimension that am always illuminated mostly by finite non-surface light.

Joe Fisher, ORCID ID 0000-0003-3988-8687. Unaffiliated

Dear Milen Velev,

You observe that a large number of physical laws depend on the properties of space-time... "The law of conservation of energy follows from the homogeneity of time." You then note that "space and time are inseparable, viewed as a single unified space-time..." but observe that "time has some specific properties that make it different from space."

On page 4 you ask "is the Minkowski space-time real and should we accept time as a fourth dimension, given the fact that special theory of relativity can be equally formulated in a 3-D and 4D language."... "We have to solve this issue before seriously discussing a theory involving a large number of dimensions (of space or time)." You then proceed to analyze various cases multiple time dimensions. My essay takes a look at the history of special relativity and attempts to answer some of your first questions. I hope you will find it interesting.

Best regards,

Edwin Eugene Klingman

Professor Velev,

Might I offer up a basic observation about time? Hopefully yes....

As conscious beings, we experience reality of flashes of cognition and so think of time as the present moving from past to future, which physics has codified as measures of duration between prior and succeeding events.

A more efficient explanation is that it is change turning future to past, as in tomorrow becomes yesterday because the earth turns. Duration is this state of the present, as events form and dissolve.

Time is asymmetric because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth turns one direction, not both.

Different clocks can run at different rates because they are separate actions. A faster clock uses energy quicker, much as an animal with faster metabolism will age faster than one with a slower rate. Yet they remain in the same present.

The simultaneity of the present is dismissed by the observation that different events can be observed in different order from different locations, thus time must be extended like space, but this is no more consequential than seeing the moon as it was a moment ago, simultaneous with seeing stars as they were years ago. It is the energy that is conserved and thus only present, while the information is only what is stored by the energy. It is that events shed the energy manifesting them, that they can be observed and why they no longer exist.

As energy is dynamic, it is constantly changing form, which means it is only the energy which goes past to future, while the information goes future to past, from potential, to actual, to residual. So energy and form go opposite directions of time.

Proof of this dichotomy of energy and information is that after a few billion years of evolution, we developed a central nervous system to process information and the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems to process energy. So if you want to understand the past, study the information, but if you want to understand the future, study the energy.

While we are taught to think of the future as in front of us and the past behind us, as you state, this is only a Western tradition, because we see ourselves as distinct entities moving through our context, toward events. In the East, the past is considered to be in front and the future behind the observer, because the past and what is seen are known, while the future and what is behind are unknown. This is because the Eastern view is that the individual is part and expression of the context, so one sees events after they occur, then the energy moves on.

Events have to occur, in order to fully compute the input into them, such as light coming from opposite directions. To assume there is some predetermined fourth dimension is to assume this computation has been made beforehand. The past is determined, by definition, because it has occurred. Like an unmarried man is a bachelor, to determine is to fully decide, or compute.

Hopefully this is not too irritating, but time has been a pet peeve of mine and the subject of various contest entries, but not this one.

4 days later

Dear Milen,

thank you for sharing your essay, it's very interesting and I rated it high. Sadly I've not the mathematical tools to evaluate the final parts, but your idea of changing laws along with different properties of space-time is very interesting - united with the evolving laws theorized by Smolin it gives an insightful perspective in the matter of fundamentality.

Since I touch something close in my essay, but more from a philosophical point of view, I'm interested in how the perspective on time changes depending on where you place the observer in the "whole space-time". Sorry if I quote from my own text to make myself clear:

> [...] Thus just like a certain physics process causes thirst and it is necessary to its existence, thus thirst as well is necessary to the physics process which coexists or precedes it. Thirst cannot occur without a certain physical process, but that certain process cannot occur without thirst. The concept of causality can be misleading, because it always brings us to consider only a small portion of the causal network in order to obtain a prediction. Water boils if I heat it on the fire, but not just because of it; the air surrounding it, my decision to cook a boiled egg, the influence of the sun which allows water to exist at the liquid state, the presence of a life form with the necessity to eat - more: my water needs my (future) partaking of a boiled meal, my turning off the fire, my being full - in short all the present, past and future relationships which define that exact phenomenon and are necessary to it. The boiling water which cooked my egg, indeed, is not the same boiling water with which, if I had made different choices, I would have brewed tea. It is placed in a different chain of relationships.

Best regards and good luck!

Francesco D'Isa

Hi Milen Velchev Velev

Very nicely said.... "Physical laws are regarded as fundamental because they are valid everywhere and always, without exceptions. The type of physical laws is to a great extent determined by the properties of time and space. If these properties change, the type of physical laws will change." dear Milen Velchev Velev Cpasibo esyo ras dlya xorosho slovo Milen Velchev Velev

In dynamic Universe Model, space is space and time is time, they don't change in the universe ....

I highly appreciate your essay and I request you please spend some of the valuable time on Dynamic Universe Model also and give your some of the valuable & esteemed guidance

Dynamic Universe Model says that the energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation passing grazingly near any gravitating mass changes its in frequency and finally will convert into neutrinos (mass). We all know that there is no experiment or quest in this direction. Energy conversion happens from mass to energy with the famous E=mC2, the other side of this conversion was not thought off. This is a new fundamental prediction by Dynamic Universe Model, a foundational quest in the area of Astrophysics and Cosmology.

In accordance with Dynamic Universe Model frequency shift happens on both the sides of spectrum when any electromagnetic radiation passes grazingly near gravitating mass. With this new verification, we will open a new frontier that will unlock a way for formation of the basis for continual Nucleosynthesis (continuous formation of elements) in our Universe. Amount of frequency shift will depend on relative velocity difference. All the papers of author can be downloaded from "http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.in/ "

By the way.....................

Main foundational points of Dynamic Universe Model :

-No Isotropy

-No Homogeneity

-No Space-time continuum

-Non-uniform density of matter, universe is lumpy

-No singularities

-No collisions between bodies

-No blackholes

-No warm holes

-No Bigbang

-No repulsion between distant Galaxies

-Non-empty Universe

-No imaginary or negative time axis

-No imaginary X, Y, Z axes

-No differential and Integral Equations mathematically

-No General Relativity and Model does not reduce to GR on any condition

-No Creation of matter like Bigbang or steady-state models

-No many mini Bigbangs

-No Missing Mass / Dark matter

-No Dark energy

-No Bigbang generated CMB detected

-No Multi-verses

Here:

-Accelerating Expanding universe with 33% Blue shifted Galaxies

-Newton's Gravitation law works everywhere in the same way

-All bodies dynamically moving

-All bodies move in dynamic Equilibrium

-Closed universe model no light or bodies will go away from universe

-Single Universe no baby universes

-Time is linear as observed on earth, moving forward only

-Independent x,y,z coordinate axes and Time axis no interdependencies between axes..

-UGF (Universal Gravitational Force) calculated on every point-mass

-Tensors (Linear) used for giving UNIQUE solutions for each time step

-Uses everyday physics as achievable by engineering

-21000 linear equations are used in an Excel sheet

-Computerized calculations uses 16 decimal digit accuracy

-Data mining and data warehousing techniques are used for data extraction from large amounts of data.

Have a look at

http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.in/p/blog-page_15.h

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Best Regards

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Dear Fellow Essayists

This will be my final plea for fair treatment.,

FQXI is clearly seeking to find out if there is a fundamental REALITY.

Reliable evidence exists that proves that the surface of the earth was formed millions of years before man and his utterly complex finite informational systems ever appeared on that surface. It logically follows that Nature must have permanently devised the only single physical construct of earth allowable.

All objects, be they solid, liquid, or vaporous have always had a visible surface. This is because the real Universe must consist only of one single unified VISIBLE infinite surface occurring eternally in one single infinite dimension that am always illuminated mostly by finite non-surface light.

Only the truth can set you free.

Joe Fisher, Realist

24 days later

Dear Milen

If you are looking for another essay to read and rate in the final days of the contest, will you consider mine please?

A couple of days in and semblance of my essay taking form, however the house bound inactivity was wearing me. I had just the remedy, so took off for a solo sail across the bay. In the lea of cove, I had underestimated the open water wind strengths. My sail area overpowered. Ordinarily I would have reduced sail, but this day I felt differently. My contemplations were on the forces of nature, and I was ventured seaward increasingly amongst them. As the wind and the waves rose, my boat came under strain, but I was exhilarated. All the while I considered, how might I communicate the role of natural forces in understanding of the world around us. For they are surely it's central theme.

Beyond my essay's introduction, I place a microscope on the subjects of universal complexity and natural forces. I do so within context that clock operation is driven by Quantum Mechanical forces (atomic and photonic), while clocks also serve measure of General Relativity's effects (spacetime, time dilation). In this respect clocks can be said to possess a split personality, giving them the distinction that they are simultaneously a study in QM, while GR is a study of clocks. The situation stands whereby we have two fundamental theories of the world, but just one world. And we have a singular device which serves study of both those fundamental theories. Two fundamental theories, but one device? Please join me in questioning this circumstance?

My essay goes on to identify natural forces in their universal roles, how they motivate the building of and maintaining complex universal structures and processes. When we look at how star fusion processes sit within a "narrow range of sensitivity" that stars are neither led to explode nor collapse under gravity. We think how lucky we are that the universe is just so. We can also count our lucky stars that the fusion process that marks the birth of a star, also leads to an eruption of photons from its surface. for if they didn't then nebula gas accumulation wouldn't be halted and the star would again be led to collapse.

Could a natural organisation principle have been responsible for fine tuning universal systems? Faced with how lucky we appear to have been, shouldn't we consider this possibility?

For our luck surely didnt run out there, for these photons stream down on earth, liquifying oceans which drive geochemical processes that we "life" are reliant upon. The Earth is made up of elements that possess the chemical potentials that life is entirely dependent upon. Those chemical potentials are not expressed in the absence of water solvency. So again, how amazingly fortunate we are that these chemical potentials exist in the first instance, and additionally within an environment of abundant water solvency such as Earth, able to express these potentials.

My essay is an attempt at something audacious. It questions the fundamental nature of the interaction between space and matter Guv = Tuv, and hypothesizes the equality between space curvature and atomic forces is due to common process. Space gives up an energy potential in exchange for atomic forces in a conversion process, which drives atomic activity. And furthermore, that Baryons only exist because this energy potential of space exists, and is available for exploitation. Baryon characteristics and behaviours, complexity of structure and process might then be explained in terms of being evolved and optimised for this purpose and existence. Removing need for so many layers of extraordinary luck to eventuate our own existence. It attempts an interpretation of the above mentioned stellar processes within these terms, but also extends much further. It shines a light on molecular structure that binds matter together, as potentially being an evolved agency that enhances rigidity and therefor persistence of universal system. We then turn a questioning mind towards Earths unlikely geochemical processes, (for which we living things owe so much) and look at its central theme and propensity for molecular rock forming processes. The existence of chemical potentials and their diverse range of molecular bond forming activities? The abundance of water solvent on Earth, for which many geochemical rock forming processes could not be expressed without? The question of a watery Earth? is then implicated as being part of an evolved system that arose for purpose and reason, alongside the same reason and purpose that molecular bonds and chemical process arose.

By identifying process whereby atomic forces draw a potential from space, we have identified means for their perpetual action, and their ability to deliver perpetual work. Forces drive clocks and clock activity is shown by GR to dilate. My essay details the principle of force dilation and applies it to a universal mystery. My essay raises the possibility, that nature in possession of a natural energy potential, will spontaneously generate a circumstance of Darwinian emergence. It did so on Earth, and perhaps it did so within a wider scope. We learnt how biology generates intricate structure and complexity, and now we learn how it might apply for intricate structure and complexity within universal physical systems.

To steal a phrase from my essay "A world product of evolved optimization".

Best of luck for the conclusion of the contest

Kind regards

Steven Andresen

Darwinian Universal Fundamental Origin