Six and a half years ago (isn't time amazing - oh, definitely), the post Harder Than Rocket Science? appeared here. In an attempt to understand how the universe and everything works (42 might still be the answer), I made reference to Quantum Mechanics and, in particular, the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
This summer, a new idea has added an extra layer of understanding and might just be the path to a unified theory of everything. Published in April of this year, a paper titled Three-Dimensional Time: A Mathematical Framework for Fundamental Physics suggests that time might be the primary fabric of the universe, with mass and energy being manifestations of time's structure.
For a short summary of this somewhat radical idea, read this article from the Geophysical Institute where the author, Gunther Kletetschka, works.
Like other useful theories of everything, this theory has testable predictions, so stay tuned as it is either confirmed or refuted.
In the future, Kletetschka's name might be as well-known as Einstein, Heisenberg, Planck, Rutherford, Schrödinger, and the many, many others who have contributed to our understanding of how the universe works, deep down.
Thanks for posting this. I note there are numerous positive references to the Gunther Kletetschka theory of 3D time which for the first time I gather is actually presented as a creditable theory rather than the numerous hypotheses about which I am familiar. That’s because remarkably it proposes a framework to explain these physical phenomena, following on to make testable predictions about particle masses and gravity to arrive at a unified physics. I gather it remains a very new and not yet widely accepted idea that may require further verification, but it seems to provide a new, exciting and coherent predictive model for reality that for the first time in history moves beyond a mere hypothesis. So will our sprit’s meet one day after the earthen experience ends in yet another dimension? As Vera Lynn sung’ Well meet again-don’t where – don’t know when ?
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Thank you for commenting, Lindsay. I was wondering if you felt, as I do, that this might be a path to the 'one'. What a lovely reference to 'we shall meet again'. Much better than the one from the Scottish Play that we saw a week ago!
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