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The new essay contest "What is possible and impossible in physics?" suggests an essay titled:
"What is possible in physics? Physics!"
Or "Physics is possible in physics."
Or "Physics: The New Frontier of Physics!"
Right away the essay, by devoting itself to physics and physical reality, would debunk strings, lqg, wormholes, time machines, multiverses, the anthropic principle, the gravitgon, giant voids which are unmistakable imprints of universes just beyond our own, and geometric langlands, amongst other well-funded "proifessional" research.
What would be left?
Physics!
*Physical* theories celebrating hitherto unsung *physical* features of the universe such as a fourth expanding dimension, unifying disparate physical phenomena in simple physical model, would become the focus, as all the flotsam and jetsam sank away into time's grey.
"A physical theory can be satisfactory only if its structures are composed of elementary foundations. The theory of relativity is ultimately as little satisfactory as, for example, classical thermodynamics was before Boltzmann had interpreted the entropy as probability. -Einstein in a letter to Arnold Sommerfield on January 14th, 1908. CPAE, Vol. 5, Doc. 73:" "When two systems, of which we know the states by their respective representatives, enter into temporary physical interaction due to known forces between them, and when after a time of mutual influence the systems separate again, then they can no longer be described in the same way as before, viz. by endowing each of them with a representative of its own. I would not call that one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought. By the interaction the two representatives [the quantum states] have become entangled." -Schrödinger
Moving Dimensions Theory's simple postulate, physical model, and equation account for both "relativity's elementary foundations," which Einstein stated we yet needed, and Schrödinger's "characteristic trait" of quantum mechanics--entanglement.
MDT: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, or dx4/dt=ic.
"Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics." --Erwin Schrodinger
MDT provides a physical model for qm's characteristic trait. The fourth dimension's expansion distributes locality; so that two photons separated in the three spatial dimensions may yet be connected in the fourth dimension, provided they were locally connected in the three spatial dimensions to begin with. For all entanglement must derive from a common locality in 3D in the past. And too, it is no mystery that photons never age, as they yet retain a locality in the fourth expanding dimension, where they are yet stationary, as they propagate at c through the three spatial dimensions.
"The discovery of the quantum of action shows us not only the natural limitation of classical physics, but, by throwing a new light upon the old philsophical problem of the objective existence of phenomena indepedently of our observations, confronts us with a situation hitherto unknown in natural science." --Niels Bohr
It is not our observations so much as the independent collapse of wavefunctions that define reality. The fourth dimension distributes locality, and matter caught in this appears as photons. When a photon is measured, or when it blackens a spot on a photographic plate, or when it hits a wall, it is localized as it is no longer in the fourth expanding dimension. There is no need for us to participate in this.
"After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalised by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons." --de Broglie
As the fourth dimension pervades all, all matter interacts with it, thusly inheriting wavelike properties. Indeed, all movement derives from momenergy's existence, at least in part, in the fourth expanding dimension. Photons alone exist entirely in the fourth expanding dimension,
exhibiting zero rest mass.
"The properties of elementary processes....make it seem almost inevitaebleto formulate a truly quantized theory of radiation". --Einstein
This is because all radiation is but matter caught upon the fourth expanding dimension which also distributes locality, exalting probabilistic measurementments via the creation of nonlocal probability ditsributions that expand at the rate of c, determined by dx4/dt=ic.
"For me, then, this is the real problem with quantum theory: the apparently essential conflict between any sharp formulation and fundamental relativity. It may be that a real synthesis of quantum and relativity theories requires not just technical developments but radical conceptual renewal." -John Bell
MDT is based upon the radical conceptual renewal, derived straight from Einstein's 1912 Manuscript. Time is not the fourth dimension, but rather a phenomenon that arises because dx4/dt=ic--because the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions, which aslo accounts for entanglement, thusly uniting relativity and quantum mechanics with a common physical model, while also provideing a physical model for entropy and time and all its arrows and assymmetries.
"The conclusions from Bell's theorem are philosophically startling; either one must totally abandon the realistic philosophy of most working scientists or dramatically revise our concept of space-time." -Abner Shimony and John Clauser
Moving Dimensions Theory provides this new concept of space-time. The vast ambitions of most tenure-track physicists, including string theorists and LQG hypers, causes them to focus on irrelevant, minute questions, and thus, though funded by millions for over thirty years, have not yet been able to string the bow. Deeper, true physicists, such as Abner Shimony and John Clauser are alert to the fact that physics need news ideas.
The expanding fourth dimension gives rise to non-local phenomena and quantum entanglement, as the expanding fourth dimension means that two events separated in the three spatial dimensions can yet appear to be at the exact same place in the fourth dimension. MDT thus provides the new concept of space-time.
"Bohr had an intuitive feeling that Einstein's position, taken serioulsy, would conflict with qunatum mechanics. Buyt it was Bell's theorem which materialized this contradiction." --Alain Aspect
MDT resolves the contradiction. dx4/dt=ic distributes locality, thusly causing qm's nonlocality and probabilistic nature, while also underlying time and all its arrows and assymetries, entropy, the contsancy of c, entanglement, relativity; while also being the foundational cause of all motion; and limiting all motion to but one velocity of c through space-time.
In the next 300 years of fqxi contests, the hopes are that one fqxi insider may read and comment on MDT, instead of exalting multiverses, anti-theories, and giant voids (which suck in funding) which suppodedly offer "unmistakable imprints" of universes just beyond the edge of our own.
The new MDT paper will also focus on how MDT accounts for the time dilation in GPS--something which Chris Kennedy has shown is yet to be accomplished.
Everyone should read Chris Kennedy's awesome paper and discuss! http://www.cheely.com/second_T.pdf
