Physicists have discovered that nature
has a beautiful feature not only aesthetically but also mathematically which
they call symmetry. The simplest symmetry we may get in nature is the pairing
of fundamental particles such as that of particles-antiparticles or more
complex [super] symmetry bosons-fermions. Even today physicists still
tirelessly chase another particle's symmetry, i.e. super-partner particles
which they yet find none.
Strangely enough, physicists do not
believe on the symmetry of energy, the most fundamental element of the reality,
albeit the relativistic energy equation E2=m2c4+p2c2, plainly shows
otherwise. This formula shows us the evidence that the energy exists in pairing
- the positive and negative energy – regardless they are neatly separated or
not from each other.
For physicists, the existence of the
negative energy together with the positive energy is bad news as this situation
may lead to the inevitable transition from positive to negative energy
resulting in a catastrophic instability. Alas, one cannot preserve the positive
frequency requirement in quantum mechanics whose wavefunctions are essentially
complex a). The two square roots of a complex number
expression do not tend to separate neatly into positive and negative in a
globally consistent way as what the physicists have expected1.
Are we, then, faced with an impasse
situation? Well, on everybody surprise we are not. On the contrary, the
existence of the positive and negative energies is a fundamental feature that
nature requires for the creation and reproduction of everything in the
universe. Without such an opposite pair, the world would be sterile from
anything material in which space and time has no meaning.
As far as the mainstream physics keep
adopting the current single block b) universe
"containing" no negative but positive energy to represent the actual
world (Figure-1), we would forever stay with the crisis that today physicists
are facing.
Even when Dirac proposed the existence
of the ocean of [occupied] negative energy state c), nobody was cautious enough to give this Dirac’s
sea its proper geographical place in the spacetime which should be next to the
positive energy ocean, the anti-Dirac’s sea (Figure-2A).
Sooner or later, the mainstream
physicists should adopt a 4-dimensional split universe in which the positive
and negative energy exist together separated by a 3-dimensional interface
(4-dimensional hypersurface with a very thin thickness d)) in between.
As we have previously elucidated, such
interface does not separate neatly the positive and negative in a globally
consistent way, in the sense that it e is extremely unstable. It even barely exists, perpetually appears
and disappears in and out of the existence.
This 3-dimensional interface, the
physical space that we experience in, is nothing but the unit of time we call
the present time (Figure-2B). The perpetual formation and dissolution of this
present time are what we usually perceive as the time passage. It is such an
idea that philosophers call presentism.
As in Galilean dynamics, we have not
just one space but a different space e) for each moment
in time. Space evaporates completely as one moment passes, and reappears as a
completely different space as the next moment arrives 2. It is the factual reality that, alas, the mainstream
physicists including Penrose himself rule out.
The material things exist strictly in
the 3-dimensional interface (the present time), not in the outside of it.
Matters appear and disappear at this 3-dimensional "screen" as the projection
of the positive and negative energy interaction. In a close look, even in the
place where there is no matter we can see virtual particles briefly
jiggling violently in and out of the existence.
The 3-dimensional "interfacial
tension" which keeps away the interface [and all matter within] from
falling apart is what we call the gravitational constant. There are no such
gravitational waves that propagate across the spacetime. Their propagation is
limited to this sheet of the 3-dimensional interface which appears and
disappears "through time" as a single whole.
Finally, this 3-dimensional interface
which thickness is equal to the Planck distance (10-33
cm), the thinnest scale that nature allows, is perpetually created and
annihilated at the rate equal to the speed of light, an enigmatic constant that
physicists hitherto has taken as a gift from above. Naturally, no matter can
move exceeding the speed limit that is equal to the rate of its perpetual
creation [and annihilation].
Notes:
a. In quantum mechanics, the momentum p may be replaced (quantization trick)
by -iħ∂/∂x
b. Sometimes it is called a block universe. In such a world, matters may exist
throughout the whole spacetime in an equal footing put in order by a
light-cones framework. There is no definite place for the present time, past
and future in such a framework, which Einstein worried so much. Philosophers
call such a block universe’s idea eternalism.
c. After he finally became convinced that the negative frequency solutions of
the relativistic energy formula cannot be [mathematically] eliminated.
d. The thickness (in the direction of its fourth dimension) of this interface
is about 10-33 cm in which the quantum mechanics prevails.
e. Even Minkowski described his spacetime in a similar way 3: "we should then have in the world no
longer space, but an infinite number of spaces, analogously as there are in
three-dimensional space an infinite number of planes. Three-dimensional
geometry becomes a chapter in four-dimensional physics". Had he added
that all those spaces are just potential - no matter of their normal directions
point to - and only one space appears in a brief moment, he would be
presentist.
References:
1. Penrose. R.: "The Road to Reality," Vintage Books, London, 2005,
p. 614-616.
2. Ibid, p. 387
3. Einstein, A. et al.: "The Principle of Reality," Dover
Publication Inc., New York, 1952,
p.79-80.
