Meta Mechanics: How to understand a thing you’re stuck inside of

We have most of the cosmological clues, if not the answers. Here I will attempt to explain in simple terms how the pieces fit together. First take the invariant. In this case time [1]. Quantum physics understands time as a block[2]. The longer you examine it, there can be no sense of ‘before’ time. There are three main ideas for what happened ‘before’ the universe came into being as we know it. I’ll argue that they all are true. They are:

1. Chaos[3]

2. Nothing[4]

3. Cyclic Cosmos[5]

Cyclic cosmos is the most likely answer. In a combined Cyclic Cosmos and Evolving Block Universe multiple universes exist at the same time, when the block is taken as a whole. However, this is not a true multiverse with simultaneous world lines. Instead, multiple universes evolve one by one, over eons (Although there may be more bubble universes out there[6]). Where does the cyclic cosmos come from? Most likely out of a particular form of chaos, and where did the chaos come from? Perhaps the hardest concept, although also the most likely, is that everything is generated by and emerges from nothing[7].

So, we have time what about space? We know space and time are linked but how, and how could space emerge from time? The most likely answer is that space is a holographic representation for the relationship between events[8]. This would likely explain the phenomenon of non-locality. The holographic universe concept has picked up a lot of traction, but like the notion of a fifth dimension if can be hard to explain and understand. Here I’ll do just that

Our first dimension is time, an event. Represented by a dot, a period. When we add a second event, another point, our second dimension emerges. Represented as a timeline it forms out first true spatial dimension. When we add a third point for our third dimension, we can create a second timeline to relate to the first. This is represented as a timespan our second spatial dimension.

A fourth event follows the same pattern. Giving us three spatial dimensions and one of time. But we don’t stop there as there is a fourth dimension of space[9]. The above dimensions represent different perspectives, and we are missing the perspective of exterior-interior. This hopefully gives you an easier understanding of the hypercube/tesseract. It’s a view of inside and outside of a cube from all angles at once, at the same time.

Let’s recollect. We now have a plausible way time and space are connected. As space essentially a form of time in this model we can now have a possible explanation for the expansion of space as the arrow of time moves forward[10]. More interestingly now this model explains how space and time are connected and so offers a possible explanation for time relativity[11].

I suggest that the arrow of time increases at a constant rate (even though it isn’t experienced as a constant. In this proposed model as we travel through space we also travel through a different form of time ( as space is a representation of time) as well as experiencing the arrow of times constant. To maintain our experience of the arrow of time as a constant the more time the more we interact with as space(and so time) through travel/movement the less we need to experience via more local negentropy (and an externally perceived slowing of time).

[1] Time is the invariant because despite relativity we can only move forward in time.

[2] Evolving Block Universe Theory https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1407/1407.7243.pdf

[3] Cosmos From Chaos https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminars/2014/cosmosfromchaos/

[4] Universe from Nothing https://www.livescience.com/63854-stephen-hawking-says-no-god.html

[5] Cyclic Cosmos https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220105-what-existed-before-the-big-bang

[6] Bubble Universe https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110803102844.htm

[7] Something from nothing https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/a-mathematical-proof-that-the-universe-could-have-formed-spontaneously-from-nothing-ed7ed0f304a3

[8] Space: The Final Illusion https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/space-the-final-illusion/

[9] Fourth Spatial Dimension and the tesseract https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/four_dimensions/index.html

[10] Creation of expansion of space and creation of time https://newatlas.com/now-physics-time/45559/

[11] Time relativity https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/time/a-matter-of-time