`` As if - the explanation of Emergence

Space - What's The Point?


Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve - John Archibald Wheeler - Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics


Index


  1. Conventional Ideas About Space

  2. Unconventional Ideas About Space

Conventional Ideas About Space


Eternalism is a philosophical view that holds that 'all existence in time is equally real.' This is the most widely accepted understanding of Spacetime within the scientific community, and the philosophical community in recent centuries, at least since Einstein, if not going back to Newton and Kant. It gives us the idea that Space is just there, is somehow similar to, if not the same as, time. Also it conforms to the view in Quantum Field Theory that particles are disturbances in quantum fields, i.e. that these fields are somehow more fundamental.


Virtualism claims this to be a mistaken view.


Unconventional Ideas About Space


In Elements, Euclid states 'A point is that which has no parts'. So. Is this correct?


Well, what we are talking about is points that can be said to be 'in space', or which can be said to form or define space. As such, points have to have some identity that places the point in relation to other points. That is, the point must have certain numerical facts that differentiate it from all other points. It will certainly have other facts that make it the same as all other points, such as wholeness, aka unitary-ness. A point is a single thing, and whole in itself, that is a quality that it shares with all things.


The identity of a point is internal to the point, it is, in fact, the parts of the point. The differences between the parts of one point, and any other point, are what define the external relationships to and from that point.


Taken alone, the parts of a point may not have what would be considered spatial dimension, and when combined they form a point that itself may not have spatial dimension, or which may, depending on the nature of the numeric facts of the point.


This gives us two kinds of points. The one without spatial dimension I would call virtual, it is a spatial position. The other, with spatial dimension has its own centre point that is simply position. This second kind of point has what we call rest mass, that is it has properties that allow it to be rotated into an imaginary dimension, or many such dimensions. This second kind of point I would call real, although still virtual as well. Because such points are real they form particles that affect the geodesics of space, giving us the classical relativity of space due to mass, which is also equivalent to energy.


There are arguably other points that are virtual, but not spatial, but they are not under consideration here.


The real points may be stable, or unstable. The stable points will not interact with other points, and so permeate everywhere with Dark Matter, while the unstable points have a propensity to change, which they do by exchanging values with other unstable points. This we know as quantum effects. Quantum changes may come about due to external changes putting pressures on individual particles, or internally as the numbers that form those unstable particles change themselves following the evolutionary growth of all numbers, an effect that must change the precision of the numbers forming those particles, such that at certain intervals those particles exhibit a half-life, one that depends on their own internal stability.


When any quantum change occurs, the alteration in the masses of the two particles involved alters the balance of the entire Universe, leading to the emergence of gravity, and the emergence of time. The two should not be confused as they are separate, though related phenomena. The former is the repositioning of all points, real and virtual, on the surface of the Universe, while the second is the repositioning of the trail of virtual points only, that constitute the past.


Follow the link below to see Alice, Bob, Charlie, and Dave and a fuller explanation of Time.


Dimensionality

The points that form Space as we know it are themselves 3D. This does not mean that points cannot be 4D or more, but with increasing dimension comes increasing cost, and hence smaller size per unit. In essence, 4D particles could not perform the same tricks as 3D particles, one consequence of which is that they would be constrained to a smaller 4D region of multidimensional space. One interesting possibility of this is that there may be 3 other 3D universes that are themselves rotated away from us by one dimension, so we do not experience them. The same reasoning applies to 5D and higher dimensions, although the shrinking of surface and volume that higher dimensions entail means that they would become increasingly unlikely.



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