Essay Abstract
In this essay, I argue that spacetime has greater detail than is being taken into account and that this limited view of the four-dimensional field has been hindering us from continuing to produce advances in science of the same power and utility as relativity and quantum theory. A number of the mysteries in science--such as what constitutes dark matter and dark energy--would likely be solved if we had a better picture of spacetime. I describe how space may be a fundamentally continuous physical system with information in a digital form, and how time may be a quantum-based physical system also with information in a digital form. I further discuss how our reality is likely digitally based and how a discrete model of time can bridge the gap between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Author Bio
Lamont Williams is a science writer and editor originally from the Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey metropolitan area. He is author of "The Greatest Source of Energy--A New Theory of Time," which describes a method of linking general relativity with quantum mechanics through a new model of time that emphasizes Einstein's view that gravity is caused by the curvature of the time dimension of spacetime.