Does Matter pass through Time?

The world is not what it seems to be. An object which we see as a stable entity subsisting in time is a mere illusion. Nothing can survive through time, except energy. Our senses and brain cannot perceive the reality that everything around us, including ourselves, disappears instantly as one moment passes and promptly appears as the next moment arrives.

Nature is like a movie. What we see on the movie screen as something rolling continuously is the projection of images turned on at the speed of twenty-four pictures per second, with a gap of blackness between two consecutive pictures.  Since our eyes cannot catch up the appearing and disappear of these twenty-four pictures in one second, we see as though they are progressing uninterruptedly.

When Edison invented movie, he did not realize that he had copied the dusty blueprint of time hidden secretly for thousands of years. Had he realized and followed precisely the blueprint, he had to build a super-movie capable of turning on 10⁴⁴ pictures instead of twenty-four flashing by per second. However, that was not all. What would make Edison terrified was that he should also design the screen capable of appearing and disappearing together with the pictures at the pace equal to the speed of light.

So that is how nature works. Our material world is nothing but a mere projection of four-dimensional events on a three-dimensional screen. This gigantic movie screen is nothing but our precious space flashing on and off at the speed of light in between two opposing four-dimensional oceans of energy. This flashing space together with all materials within makes us perceive that time is running.

Within the Planck distance (10^-33 cm), matter barely exists. At this quantum level, the matter is between the state of existence and non-existence in the sense that its existence s reduced to a mere possibility.

The matter appears and disappears following the rule of E = mc² or dynamically E²= m²c⁴ + p²c², the interplay between its positive and negative components, which is completely reversible. Energy manifest itself as vibration, expressed by E = hv. We can describe the whole process diagrammatically ^a) as shown in Figure-1.

It is the underlying reality of the wave and particle duality, the deep secret of the quantum mechanics that perplexes physicists for more than a hundred year now.

Technically, we called the state between existence and non-existence possible (Figure-2). Now we know why in quantum reality nature behaves probabilistically and non-continuously.

Our misconception on the deterministic and continuous features of nature as has been presumed in the classical and relativity theories was due to our inability to perceive this underlying quantum reality.

Note:

a)      In reality, energy does not flow in time. It is the constant creation and annihilation of matter (and space) to and fro energy which gives us the impression that time is passing by.