Speculations 1
Bob
Kroepel
Copyright © 2011
Lakeside Studios
20 South Shore Road
New Durham, NH USA 03855
Speculations
1: Simultaneity, timepoints, the universal m/e
configuration, the continuum of universal time, 3D holograms,
causality, causal relationship v coincidental relationship,
determinism, causality/determinism sequence, If P, Then Q logical
arguments, temporal measurement not causal, spatial measurement not
causal, time not a causal component of spacetime, space not a causal
component of spacetime, therefore spacetime is not comprised of space
or time, and, therefore, spacetime can only be comprised of m/e, which
is causal.
Simultaneity in physics is defined as two or more events occurring at
the same timepoint (instant, moment, etc.).
At each timepoint there is a corresponding configuration of the
matter/energy (m/e) of the universe.
From a chosen timepoint which functions as an origin for a time
coordinate, the past would consist of a series of timepoints and m/e
configurations extending from the origin in such a way that negative
numbers could be used to designate past timepoints, e.g., from an
origin of T0, which would represent the NOW, the past timepoints could
be designated T-1, T-2, etc., and the future would consist of a series
of timepoints and m/e configurations extending from the origin in such
a way that positive numbers could be used to designate future
timepoints, e.g. T+1, T+2, etc.
A Continuum of Universal Time (Universal Timeline) could be designated
thus:
Past Infinity T-n <- ... <- T-2 <- T-1 <- T0 -> T+1
-> T+2 -> T+3 ... -> T+n Future Infinity
Implicit in this Continuum of Universal Time is the requirement that
the durations between the timepoints be equal, so the duration between
T0 and T-1 is the same as the duration between T0 and T+1, etc.
This requirement of equal durations between timepoints would require
the use of a timepiece (clock, watch, etc.) that would have a steady,
uniform, invariable time-initerval that would generate a
steady/uniform/invariable timerate, set of timepoints, tiimeline, and
timecount, which would require a timepiece to be "independent of the
state of motion of the body of reference" [Einstein, Relativity, 1961
edition, p. 27], the same type of timepiece that could be used for
determining the absolute simultaneity of events in multiple as well as
single reference frames and that could be used for measuring absolute
time.
Whereas timepieces are either distortable, non-adjustable, because
their time-intervals, timerates, timepoints, timelines, and timecounts
vary with accelerations and decelerations, or are non-distortable,
adjustable, because their timerates are adjusted to conserve and
thereby maintain their original time-intervals, timepoints, timelines,
and timecounts regardless of accelerations and decelerations.
Therefore, for the Continuum of Universal Time, the Universal Timeline,
the ideal timepiece would be an absolute time clock (ATC), or
invariable time-interval clock (ITIC), or adjustable clock.
Non-distortable/adjustable clocks exist as radio clocks, wherein a
master clock is used to send adjustment/correction signals via radio
signals to control the timerates of slave
clocks, and as inertial clocks, wherein accelerometers are used to
detect accelerations and decelerations and computers are used to adjust
the timerates to conserve and maintain their original time-intervals,
timepoints, timelines, and timecounts.
PROBLEM: For the past, the present and the future to coexist
simultaneously, at the same timepoint, T0, the past, and future
timepoints and the m/e configuration for each timepoint would have to
exist, and the past and future timepoints and m/e configurations would
have to coexist with the present NOW timepoint, T0, and the present/NOW
m/e configuration, all of which would require not a single universal
m/e whose configuration changes for each timepoint but whose sum total
remains a constant but instead would require all possible m/e
configurations, which would mean that the sum total of the past,
present and future m/e configurations would mathematically and
physically be much larger than the sum total of the single universal
m/e present at the one-and-only NOW/T0.
If we could take 3D holograms of the universal m/e configuration as it
is at each timepoint on the Continuum of Universal Time, then the sum
total of the universal m/e would always be the same at each timepoint,
i.e. the universal m/e would have a one-and-only configuration and sum
total at each timepoint but would undergo changes of its configuration
without a change in its sum total so that although a 3D hologram would
serve as a recording of the m/e configuration at each timepoint the m/e
configuration itself would actually exist only at the present
timepoint, the T0/NOW timepoint, e.g. the actual sum total of the
universal m/e would exist only at the T0/NOW present timepoint.
For determining determinism, the changes of the physical states of
entities comprised of m/e could be tracked as sequences of changes
through a chosen series of holograms, and those forms of m/e which
through physical contact with entities cause the effects of changes of
the physical states of the entities would be recognized to be forces.
Inre inertial states, physical states of being at-rest or in-motion,
the observations of changes of the inertial states, motions, velocities
(combinations of speed and direction) would be recognized to be
determinative forces, either push-forces, which cause entities to move
away from the force sources, or pull-forces, which cause entities to
move towards the force sources.
Thus, the observation of a chosen series of holograms would enable us
to observe those events which are the changes of the physical and
inertial states of entities comprised of m/e and thereby determine the
sequence of events, the simultaneity of events, and the causality, or
determinism, of those events.
Causality, determinism, would be conceptualizable as a sequence of
events in which precise causes are observed to be present at one
timepoint and precise effects, changes of the physical and/or inertial
states of entities, are observed to be present at a subsequent
timepoint.
In a general sense, causality is causes causing effects, e.g. entities
comprised of m/e as causes causing as effects (A) changes of
pre-existing entities or (B) new entities from pre-existing m/e.
Throughout causality there is a continuous physical contact between
causes and effects; without physical contact there is no causality,
e.g. forms of m/e which are forces have to be in physical contact with
entities to cause changes in the entities' physical and/or inertial
states.
Thus a causal relationship is a contact relationship wherein entities
comprised of m/e contact and thereby change the physical and/or
inertial states of other entities also comprised of m/e and there are
no distances between the causal and consequential entities in contrast
to a coincidental relationship wherein entities have distances between
them but no contact.
The difference between a causal relationship and a coincidental
relationship is observable inre the necessary causal contact of causal
and consequential entities for causality to occur without distances
between them in contrast with the coincidental proximities of entities
which are the distances without contact between them.
This difference between causal and coincidental relationships inre
entities can be conceptualized as a continuous change of the
physical/inertial states of causal and consequential entities and a
distance without contact between entities.
Thus, there is a contiguity factor (contact factor) inre
causality/determinism wherein causes and effects have continuous
contact during the causal sequence.
Casuality Sequence (Determinism Sequence): (1) T1 + ME1 -> (2) T2 +
ME2.
A cause is a condition, or a set of conditions, which could be labeled
P; an effect is a consequence, or a set of consequences, which could be
labeled Q.
A causal/deterministic sequence could be set up in an If P, Then Q
logical argument.
Premise #1: If P, Then Q.
Premise #2: P.
Conclusion: Q.
In words, if P is present at one timepoint and at another timepoint Q
is present and if there is contiguity, continuous contact, between the
P and the Q, then whenever P is present Q will follow.
Inre spacetime, there has to be P present to cause the Q which is a
change of trajectory of an entity.
Thus, inre determinism and spacetime, changes of the trajectories of
entities, Qs, cannot occur unless there are Ps.
Whereas Ps and Qs are comprised of m/e, the determinism/causality inre
spacetime is a result of the interactions of forms of m/e, some as
causes, others as effects.
Therefore, because causality/determinism is a function of m/e, if (P1)
spacetime is causal then (Q1) spacetime would have to be comprised of
m/e.
If (P2) neither space nor time are comprised of m/e, then (Q2) what has
been called spacetime is in reality only m/e.
Thus, if (P3) Q2 is true, then (Q3) spacetime is NOT a causal reality.
Q: Are space and time comprised of m/e?
A: No!
Time is the measurement of durations, and although a physical
timepiece, a clock or watch comprised of m/e, is used for measurement
of durations, the measurement process, if done correctly, is not causal
because the process does not cause any changes of the physical/inertial
states of the entities and events whose durations are being measured.
If (P4) time (temporal measurement) is not causal, then (Q4) time is
not comprised of m/e.
If (P5) time is not comprised of m/e and is therefore not causal, and
if spacetime is causal because it is comprised of m/e, then (Q5) time
is not a component of spacetime.
If (P6) spacetime is a combination of space and time, and time is not a
component of spacetime, then (Q6) spacetime is not a reality.
Either space = m/e or space ≠ m/e. (Laws of Logic: #1: A = A {space =
m/e}; #2: A ≠ B {space ≠ m/e}; #3: A ≠ A + B {space ≠ m/e + not-m/e}.)
If (P7) space ≠ m/e, then (Q7) space is not a causal component of
spacetime.
We have observed m/e to comprise entities and causalities (causal
events, entities comprised of m/e causing {A} changes of entities also
comprised of m/e or {B} new entities from pre-existing m/e—other
entities) and we have observed m/e to be continuously present
(contiguously present) when causalities are occurring; we have observed
no requirement for m/e to be present between entities when causalities
are not observed—instead, what we have observed is distance, space,
between non-causal entities (coincidental entities, entities which are
separated by distances). We are thereby justified in concluding that
there are areas of space, subvolumes of space, in which non-causal m/e
is present, and, thereby, we are justified in concluding that not all
of space is causal/deterministic and that, instead, there is something
present in some areas of space which is causal, and that causal
something is m/e, causal m/e, the m/e of causality, and, thereby, we
are justified in concluding that space is not a causal component of
spacetime.
A vacuum is a volume devoid of m/e.
In fact, if (P8) we could eliminate m/e from space, then (Q8) we would
observe that space is a volume which is a vacuum.
The observation that space is a vacuum is not 100% necessary for the
determination that space is not causal inre spacetime and therefore
spacetime is not a reality. The fact that non-causal m/e could be
present between non-causal entities and events which are separated by
distances proves that it is not space which is causal but
something-in-space which is causal, and that
something-in-space-which-is-causal can only be and therefore is causal
m/e, and, therefore, space itself is non-causal, which suggests that
space is not comprised of m/e of any kind but is a vacuum, and
therefore space is not causal inre spacetime and therefore spacetime is
not a reality.
If (P9) Q5 (time is not a component of spacetime) and Q7 (space is not
a causal component of spacetime) are true, then (Q9) spacetime is not a
causal reality/deterministic reality.