Thanks Jayakar,

The beauty of MDT is that it offers a *physical* model underlying QM and relativity and a *physical* theory, actually proposing a new fundamental *physical* invariant--that of a fourth expanding dimension which expands at c.

And all of a sudden, we have a *physical* model and *physical* reasons for entanglement, entropy, and relativity.

MDT is more fundamental than relativity and it also grants us entropy and QM's characteristic trait--entanglement.

An added benefit are all the other entities dx4/dt=ic accounts for with a physical model, ranging from entropy, to QM's entanglement and nonlocality, to time and all its arrows. MDT accomplishes a diverse array of physical feats:

∗provides the "elementary foundations" for Einstein's relativity and Schrodinger's "characteristic trait" of QM--entanglement.

∗unfreezes time & liberates us from the block universe, allowing for and exalting free will

∗weaves change into the fundamental fabric of space-time for the first time in the history of relativity

∗derives relativity from a more fundamental universal invariant: dx4/dt=ic

∗provides a physical model for entropy

∗provides a physical model for quantum entanglement (QM's characteristic trait)

∗provides a physical mechanism for nonlocality--the fourth expanding dimension distributes locality

∗provides a physical model unifying the dualities--space/time, energy/mass, wave/particle, E/B

∗provides a physical model for the invariance of c--both its independence of the source and its independence of the observer

∗provides a physical model for the spherically-symmetric expanding wave-front of probability that defines a photon's path

∗offers a resolution for both the EPR Paradox and Godel's problems with the block universe relativity implied

∗offers a physical model for why nothing can move faster than c.

∗offers an intuitive model for the length-contraction can accompanies all motion

∗accounts for both the agelessness (from relativity--nonlocality in time) and the nonlocality (from QM) of the photon

∗accounts for the gravitational slowing of time and light, as well as the gravitational redshift

∗provides a unique physical model underlying wide-ranging phenomena in quantum mechanics, relativity, and statistical mechanics.

*provides a physical model for time and all its arrows and asymmetries

Best,

Dr. E

Many of you would also enjoy my essay from last year, wherein relativity is derived form MDT's simple postulate and equation:

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/238

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

Essay Abstract

In his 1912 Manuscript on Relativity, Einstein never stated that time is the fourth dimension, but rather he wrote x4 = ict. The fourth dimension is not time, but ict. Despite this, prominent physicists have oft equated time and the fourth dimension, leading to un-resolvable paradoxes and confusion regarding time's physical nature, as physicists mistakenly projected properties of the three spatial dimensions onto a time dimension, resulting in curious concepts including frozen time and block universes in which the past and future are omni-present, thusly denying free will, while implying the possibility of time travel into the past, which visitors from the future have yet to verify. Beginning with the postulate that time is an emergent phenomenon resulting from a fourth dimension expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, diverse phenomena from relativity, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics are accounted for. Time dilation, the equivalence of mass and energy, nonlocality, wave-particle duality, and entropy are shown to arise from a common, deeper physical reality expressed with dx4/dt=ic. This postulate and equation, from which Einstein's relativity is derived, presents a fundamental model accounting for the emergence of time, the constant velocity of light, the fact that the maximum velocity is c, and the fact that c is independent of the velocity of the source, as photons are but matter surfing a fourth expanding dimension. In general relativity, Einstein showed that the dimensions themselves could bend, curve, and move. The present theory extends this principle, postulating that the fourth dimension is moving independently of the three spatial dimensions, distributing locality and fathering time. This physical model underlies and accounts for time in quantum mechanics, relativity, and statistical mechanics, as well as entropy, the universe's expansion, and time's arrows.

"More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet for graduate school in physics. . . I say this on the basis of close contacts with him over the past year and a half. . . I gave him as an independent task to figure out the time factor in the standard Schwarzchild expression around a spherically-symmetric center of attraction. I gave him the proofs of my new general-audience, calculus-free book on general relativity, A Journey Into Gravity and Space Time. There the space part of the Schwarzchild geometric is worked out by purely geometric methods. "Can you, by poor-man's reasoning, derive what I never have, the time part?" He could and did, and wrote it all up in a beautifully clear account. . . .his second junior paper . . .entitled Within a Context, was done with another advisor, and dealt with an entirely different part of physics, the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky experiment and delayed choice experiments in general. . . this paper was so outstanding. . . I am absolutely delighted that this semester McGucken is doing a project with the cyclotron group on time reversal asymmetry. Electronics, machine-shop work and making equipment function are things in which he now revels. But he revels in Shakespeare, too. Acting the part of Prospero in the Tempest. . . " --John Archibald Wheeler, Princeton University, Recommendation for Elliot McGucken for Admission to Graduate School of Physics

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Hi Eliot ,

You are welcome .And thanks too for the attachements .

I am going to read it .

Sincerely

best regards

Steve

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Hi Dear Elliot ,

It's very interesting .

I have seen the wheeler writing ,it's interesting about the EPR paradox .

I don't know well ,could explain me a little theses intrications and hideen variables .

The Copenhagen Interpretation and the EPR paradox ??could you resume this two extrapolated thoughts .

If I understand well, one is pragmatic,utilise tools to predict the quantum mechanic and the other uses hidden variables or others hidden parameters .

What is this cyclotron too ?

I am going to see...

Best Regards

Steve

Thanks Steve

All experiments and major theories point not towards hidden variables, but entanglement.

As MDT embraces all experiments and major theories--both relativity and quantum mechanics--it embraces entanglement.

Best,

Dr. E :)

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I agree ,Rational indeed ,an entanglement ,predicted with fundamentals, will give the best results .

The number of entangled spheres is specific I think like an universal link between spheres .

And furtheremore possesses others properties like the volumes ,the velocities of rot ,the senses ,the directions ,the angles .Thus the lattices too are specifics .

Sometimes ,I imagine the lattices like an ultim liquid and the quantum spheres and their rotations like an other incompressible

liquid ,with a spherical membran where all spheres are in contact in the strong interactions ,thus for the rotation ,it's well thought .

About the specific entanglement ,it's probably correlated with our cosmological sphere, thus ,the specific entanglement can be correlated with the strong and weak interactions ,more the gravity and electromagnetism evidently .The rotations have many combinations.

The evolution point of vue is essential in my opinion ,the mass

increases .

Even our spherical waves ,let's imagine the dark matter like quantum spheres without rotation ,

thus all quantum spheres are linked with the contact of their membrans .

The evolution and the thermodynamic laws of our Universal sphere can imply many activation of these non activated spheres .

If an expansion was a step ,a possible harmonious contraction is possible towards the perfect balance of spheres ,our future universal spheres and its spheres .If all is linked in the evolution ,thus all must be re_considered with rationality .

Could you tell me more about your theory ,it's relevant in fact and that permits me to encircle better some works .What are these dimensions physically speaking and why they move ?

Sincerely

Steve

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Dear Dr. Elliot McGucken

You Say: For the first time in the history of relativity, change is woven into the fabric of space-time, and the timeless, ageless, nonlocal photon of Galileo's/Einstein's "empirical world" is explained via a foundational physical model, alongside the fact that c is both constant and the maximum velocity in the universe. The empirical GPS clocks' time dilation/twins paradox is resolved by proposing a frame of absolute rest--the three spatial dimensions, and a frame of absolute motion--the fourth expanding dimension upon which ageless photons of zero rest mass surf; which underlie and give rise to Einstein's Principle of Relativity.

What you say above simply means that quantum space is timeless and that physical time is run of clocks. In Einsten Relativity is relative velocity of clocks and velovity of all material change. That 4-th coordinate of space-time is spatial too was discussing already Godel. See my article on vixra: Experimental Proof for Godel Theorem on Time

http://vixra.org/pdf/0910.0041v1.pdf

yours amrit

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dx4/dt = ic

If this formula is correct than Planck distance dP devided with Plank time tP

most be light speed

dP/tP = ic

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I like your thinking. I was first stuck by the basic intuitive sense MDT makes

in your Time contest essay. You say it provides a "foundational physical reality"

for time, so I wonder about that 'metaphysical' elephant just outside the room...

into what is your expanding sphere of time expanding?

Thanks Amrit,

What is the "Godel Theorem on Time?" Where can I read more on what Godel thought?

Thanks!

Dr. E

Thanks TR,

Time is not the fourth dimension.

The fourth dimenion is just like the three spatial dimensions, except that it is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions.

When we draw a time axis on the standard x-t graph, the time axis is a human construct, as only in our minds do the past and future exist. Time--the ticking of seconds on our watches--emerges from the fact that teh fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c.

Simple proofs of MDT:

PROOF#1:

Relativity tells us that a timeless, ageless photon remains in one place in the fourth dimension.

Quantum mechanics tells us that a photon propagates as a spherically-symmetric expanding wavefront at the velocity of c.

Ergo, the fourth dimension must be expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, in a spherically-symmetric manner.

The expansion of the fourth dimension is the source of nonlocality, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, c, relativity, entropy, free will, and all motion, change, and measurement, for no measurement can be made without change.

For the first time in the history of relativity, change has been wedded to the fundamental fabric of spacetime in MDT.

PROOF#2:

Einstein and Minkowski wrote x4=ict

Ergo dx4/dt=ic.

PROOF#3:

The only way to stay stationary in the three spatial dimensions is to move at c through the fourth dimension. The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at c through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions.

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Thanks Dr.E, again, a "spherically-symmetic expansion" is a contextual expression, I'm wondering if you have given any thought as to what all these

expanding photons are 'expanding into'? Also, do you ascribe any attributes

to this moving dimension of time other than it is spherically expanding a c?

In other words, what IS it?

Thanks TR,

Well, it is the exact same thing as the three spatial dimensions, but for the fact that it is expanding at c relative to them.

In General Relativity the dimensions bend, warp, and move (whatever they might be!)

And in order for a dimension to bend, warp, or move, it must be bending, warping or moving relative to something in GR. :)

So really, MDT is not all that new, other than its stipulation that the fourth dimension is expanding relatyive to the three spatial dimensions or dx4/dt=ic, which all of a sudden gives rise to relativity as well as entorpy and quantum entanglement.

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Thanks again E, I know physics isn't concerned with metaphysics - ontology and epistemology, it's about the mathematics behind the 'mechanics', so thanks for extending an answer anyway. I noticed that the word gravity appears no where in your essays, where does this "mysterious action at a distance" fit into your way of thinking? Are you more of the classical curvature school or tending toward quantum string unification theory.

Hello!

Attached please find how MDT accounts for the gravitational redshift!

As space is stretched by mass and the fourth dimension's expansion remains constant, an object naturally moves towards the mass and into the stretched spatial dimensions so as to keep the space/time ration constant--so as to move in straight line through space-time.

Enjoy!

Best,

Dr. E :)Attachment #1: 1_6_MOVING_DIMENSIONS_THEORY_EXAMINES_THE_GRAVITATIONAL_REDSHIFT_SLOWING_OF_CLOCKS.pdfAttachment #2: 1_1_2_wheeler_recommendation_mcgucken_medium.jpg

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Interesting, thanks E. You are aware I'm sure that in a DeSitter universe with matter sufficiently dispersed the apparent accelerated wavelength redshifting of distant cosmic objects is due not to their recession velocity but rather to frequency dilation related to the expansion of time, meaning that the universe isn't expanding ever faster in space - it's slowly running out of time. I know it's not a concern for physics but I'm still wondering what your expanding time is expanding into. I wonder if there is a more comprehensive dynamic driving time.

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I'm also wondering about the Planck scale quantization of time. The estimated value for the speed of light: 299,792,458... (and the gravitational constant for that matter: 6.67428...) while forever indeterminate beyond empirical magins of error, certainly appear to be, and may well be, irrational numbers. Such values remain indeterminate (in ever defining refinement) not because of experimental limatation but because they ARE continuous - part and parcel of a continuum and therefore not subject to quantization. Einstein: "I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field concept, that is on continuous structures. Then nothing remains of my entire castle in the air, including the theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of modern physics." How can MDT be a derivation of the Einstein field metric while employing the concept of quantized time?

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Thanks TR! I am trying to keep MDT focused on its simple beauty at the moment. :)

Can anyone find any faults in these proofs of MDT?

Simple proofs of MDT:

PROOF#1:

Relativity tells us that a timeless, ageless photon remains in one place in the fourth dimension.

Quantum mechanics tells us that a photon propagates as a spherically-symmetric expanding wavefront at the velocity of c.

Ergo, the fourth dimension must be expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, in a spherically-symmetric manner.

The expansion of the fourth dimension is the source of nonlocality, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, c, relativity, entropy, free will, and all motion, change, and measurement, for no measurement can be made without change.

For the first time in the history of relativity, change has been wedded to the fundamental fabric of spacetime in MDT.

PROOF#2:

Einstein and Minkowski wrote x4=ict

Ergo dx4/dt=ic.

PROOF#3:

The only way to stay stationary in the three spatial dimensions is to move at c through the fourth dimension. The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at c through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions.

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2204722738&

topic=37923

Twitter proof:

SR: photon is stationary in 4th dimension. QM: photon is probability wave expanding @ c. Ergo: 4th dimension expands @ c. x4=ict-> dx4/dt=ic

http://twitter.com/45surf

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I find another possibility arising from proofs 1 & 2... theoretical simultaneity at c occurs because the 3-D universe is expanding everywhere at ONCE, at the speed of light, INTO a 4th dimension of imaginary time (ic). This expansion would emerge from deep within, at the Planck scale - the domain of the 'wavefunction' - where according to QED everything generated is initially photonic, and therefore, simultaneous. One universe expanding at the same invariant velocity, everywhere at once. Photons appear to remain in one place because they ARE in one place - an endless emergent Present, the 3-D universe expanding in 4-D time.