A plea for time

The theorem

The “fourth dimension of space” just ticks away inexorably like a counting machine, and its passage has already been endlessly lamented in literature and music (although it is the very thing that allows these arts to exist in the first place). In short, time clearly has a huge image problem – even in the world of science.

But perhaps everything is really completely different and time is totally underestimated.

The aim of the proposal presented here is to demonstrate how it is if one consistently regards the world from the perspective of time

The speed of light then appears as the central thread, the basis of time. It extends between its beginning, the Big Bang, and its end, when it stops at the speed of light. (Einstein, particularly the theory of relativity). *)

Somewhere between the two is where real life – and indeed the world – takes place. In the present moment.

This phenomenon is absolutely extraordinary and is surely the most persuasive illustration of the incomprehensibility of time.

Viewed in isolation, every point in the world is continually and constantly in the present – but really only “in isolation”. All the other surrounding points are already in the past, due to the finite nature of the speed of light. Everything we perceive around us until we reach that velocity has irrevocably already happened…

The present moment extends neither spatially nor temporally. Even a millionth of a second later, it is already in the past.

The very last state, the expansion of the universe that lies in the path between the Big Bang and the present – the “front wave of time” on which we are surfing, as it is perhaps best described – is an interface in which the dice have not yet fallen and it is not yet clear in which direction things will develop (which is most entertaining to watch in sports like table tennis or football…).

A great deal of things can be viewed in a completely new light if one allows time to have a fundamental significance in this world. One consequence of this proposal is briefly explained in more detail below.

One can only go back so far in time, since the present and the Big Bang can never occur at the same point. It is like approaching 0 (1 – 1/2 – 1/4 – 1/8 and so on).

So there could never have been a real zero point and beginning. And there would also be no end to the expansion of space, which is here a consequence of the passage of time.

At some stage, all particles are shattered into energy and the cycle starts again… for there is no “true” method of measuring time. The clocks expand with the universe.

If one agrees with the theory that the universe continues to expand forever and that all future processes and events will also occur therein – even if extremely slowly according to our sense of time – logic requires us to question our view of the cosmos’s past, in which the Big Bang is considered to be an event.

Or, to put it completely unambiguously: if the passage and measurement of time changes infinitely slowly from our present perspective, in the future and for all eternity, then it must have passed infinitely quickly at the starting point, the Big Bang.

Time is described according to the general, common definition, as the product of the sequence of events. These, in turn, are the result of interactions between different points of the world. In the ever smaller cosmos, as it appears when looking towards the Big Bang, the distances between the interaction points are also becoming ever smaller. This means that the number of events increases.

Until a mathematical point is reached, an infinite number of events in the universe are possible - and also probable. That it was much too hot for all this could also be a big mistake - resulting from the fact that we retrospectively apply our current time scale to the early cosmos and look at it from the outside.

Admittedly, it is difficult to imagine, but it is possible that in the first
1^-100 second there was already an infinity in which everything unthinkable could have taken place. But infinity is infinity...

All this becomes a little more comprehensible when one changes perspective and realizes that we are already today those who live an infinity "later" - and in another infinity we will also disappear around the "thicket" of the Big Bang proximity.

Viewed objectively and calmly, this version is more conclusive and less spectacular than the assumption that a point exploded out of nowhere and formed the universe.

We are now seeking supporters of this thought-provoking proposition, so that science is at least forced to take note of this model and examine it.



*) In the theory of special relativity, the Lorentz transformation describes the deceleration of time when the speed of light is approached. Geometrically, this corresponds to a rotation of the system – i.e. the timeline bends to the side.