“I know what time is until someone
asks me about it,” said St. Augustine (400 AD). Many philosophers and
scientists have tried to explore about the nature of time and relate it with
the solar time, biological or atomic time, but nobody has given a clear
explanation about the mechanism on how the time has taken place.
For that purpose, we wish to take a
simple idea from the fundamental characteristic of time which consists of the
past, present, and future. If we consider time passage as a line, then we can
imagine an instant as a point in that line representing the present (now).
This
point splits the timeline into two parts: the past on one side of that point
and the future on the other side (Fig. B)
Now, imagine that we remove the
point. Then, what will we get? We have time without now and consequently without
the past and the future. We, thus, have the eternity, a timeless world (Fig.
A). We see that time is created from eternity through the act of separation. It
is the most profound philosophy about the nature of time.
The point that separates the past
from the future in this structure of time (Fig. B) is a mathematical point
abstractly put in on a straight line. The end of the past is almost immediately
linked to the beginning of the future, as though the point that separates them
exists is just about an imaginary ("Maya”).
We can describe our feeling about
the passage of time as though the present time (now) is sliding linearly
along the timeline. Following the principle of relativity such a linear
timeline should form, on a grander scale, a grand circle (Fig. C) as such the
past and future times become entirely relative analogous to the notion of above
and below for people inhabiting a spherical globe.
The point mentioned above does not
move forward displacing all the other points lying down the line, instead the
movement is similar to that of a water wave in which different particles
subsequently move up and down on the way down the line.
Now, since we do live in an expanse
(space), it is, therefore, more appropriate if we designate the now as a
three-dimensional geometrical unit (space) instead of a point (zero dimension).
Consequently, the time which we metamorphically describe as a line should be
more appropriately described as a four-dimensional continuum, in which space
(the now) is embedded in such a continuum (Fig. E).
The relativity theory confirms that
space and time are, indeed, inextricable and merge entirely into what we call
spacetime, a four-dimensional continuum. As such, the spacetime represents the
eternity, a timeless world, in the sense that there is no clear cut between the
past, present, and future. It is also spaceless in the sense that there is no
locality for events to take place. Space and time have yet no physical reality.
Not even a single matter could exist; the darkness covers the whole (Fig. D).
Alas, the mainstream physics has adopted this embryonic spacetime (eon?) to
represent the actual world which leads us the crisis as we know today.
It was the slit of the
four-dimensional spacetime into two parts that made the proper time as we
perceive it. The interface between the two halves represents universal now
which is nothing but the three-dimensional space (the slice of 4D-space is
3D-surface). The one side of the spacetime represents the past and the other
side the future (Fig. E). Similarly to the point that separates the past and
the future, this interface exists just about in an imaginative way; its
thickness is only 10-33 cm below which there will be no separation
at all.
Such a system is dynamic; the
3-interface is rotating at the speed of light in the direction normal to its
surface (Fig. F). We may assign a full cycle of such a rotation as one cosmic
day. In Hindu belief, such cosmic cycle is called Kalpa whose duration is equal
to 4.32 billion years, the day of Brahman.
Similarly to what we described
previously, the interface (our space) does not move ahead, but different spaces
appear and disappear subsequently down in time. It is the big secret underlying
the quantum phenomena which have puzzled physicists for such a long time.
The next question is naturally on
how and what makes the spacetime split and why does the 3-interface rotate? (to
get the answer, please refer to The Unfinished Relativity
Theory).
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