Time may be a wave moving in a fifth dimension and we are the front
In his book, The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch remarks how odd it is that every moment in time is the “present”. As he says,
We do not experience time flowing, or passing. What we experience are differences between our present perceptions and our present memories of past perceptions. We interpret those differences, correctly, as evidence that the universe changes with time. We also interpret them, incorrectly, as evidence that our consciousness, or the present, or something, moves through time.
Think about that. Time is like a dimension but are we moving in it? If so, what is changing and in what? It can’t be changing in time because time is all of history, not just now.
If time is like a river, then it is a dimension, the course of the river bed, but something is changing in it too, something has to be the water, what is that thing?
Sir Isaac Newton believed that time was an intrinsic property of the universe. It was the tick of the watch made by the Watchmaker God that set all in motion. In his physics, you will see that time is a universal, omnipresent parameter.
All physicists accepted Newton’s universal time definition until the early 20th century, when cracks began to appear. Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism that…
