ON TIME AND LIGHT - Part 1

This series outlines how Einstein (Relativity) and Bohr (QM) are both right, except how Einstein might have arrived at the same conclusion if not for the flawed concept of Minkowski Space-Time. In doing so, I hope to show that QM is deterministic rather that probabilistic, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics (Entropy) is not violated by quantum effects using a couple of fairly simple inventions or conjectures.

In order to understand what is going on at the quantum level, I need to create a temporary mathematical construct that explains how we can be racing through Minkowski space-time at the speed of light without hitting anything, or otherwise intersecting with things coming the other way (ie. things going "backwards" in time).

I first define the void of infinite space as "pure space" (or just "void") and as being completely empty and infinite in time and space, where "infinite" means in the geometric sense of endless rather than the pure mathematical sense of "undefined". Not even light has reached the void, and time does not exist. It is geometrically dimensionless - an infinite nonexistence. When the finite universe "intrudes" into the void, the void is subsumed in an interesting way and I will elaborate on this shortly.

I next consider how to model the infinite void mathematically rather than as a physical entity. The void is completely free of concepts of Euclidean space, time, mass or energy. It can be multi dimensional or three dimensional or both at once or neither. It is essentially a blank canvas. So the first useful construct is to assert, for my purposes, that the void is infinitely expandable and infinitely collapsible at any point. I can also safely assert in my mathematical construct that the void expands and collapses effortlessly - it requires no energy, only a catalyst such as an intrusion like light.

Now I have a model of a meta-reality I call the void (or pure space), a template that I can apply to consider what might be going on in the finite space of our physical universe.

When light, or anything having momentum, intrudes into the void, I assert in this model that the void resists the intrusion by "collapsing into it" in a classical physics equal and opposite reaction. Note that it doesn't matter if this is right or wrong, its just an invention to act as a cognitive placeholder for "travelling through time at the speed of light". The reaction in this case is that the void can only resist by expanding or contracting, and in the special case of light (with zero rest mass), the void collapses (accelerates instantaneously) to oppose the direction of light (as time does not exist at this particular event in space) and the aggregate of the light energy and spacial collapse of the void into it commences the "tick" of time. This aggregate final light/void velocity is what we call the speed of light. If it were not for this, light would travel instantaneously everywhere. Time would never exist in such a (latter) scenario, in as much as everything would happen all at the same instant of the big bang (assuming the veracity of that theory) and life could never form. Of course this not the case.

Once "time" has been triggered by the above (imaginary) process the presence of light energy and space collapsing into it remain in balance. Finite space can be defined as the void resisting light, or the presence of "time". However "time" is a metaphor for space collapsing at the speed of light into the intrusion of light. Spacial collapse gives rise to the possibility of "motion", because the imploding void resists everything from happing instantaneously. The void continues to exist in finite space but it is endlessly collapsing at what we know as the "speed of light" into the light, and which "speed" is alternatively also the "rate of time". The astute mind might now easily see how the invention of the collapsing void can indeed allow us to join the apparently constant speed of light and the apparently variable rate of time, when in fact we could also say that the rate of time remains constant, but because it is not as intuitive to measure variations in the rate of time, we say that the speed of light is constant instead. The concepts are however interchangeable, and measure the same thing.

To understand time, it must be valid to say that if the rate of time is constant then the speed of light can vary, but note that this approach does not contradict special or general relativity in any way. Far otherwise, for the intention is to create a model of time that fully agrees with both macro and quantum scale effects.


In Part 2 of this series I will explain how gravity arises from this model.