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Old 21-February-2008, 05:43 PM
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Default Essay no. 5 - a second time dimension

Source: USC College
‘’ Those laws are exquisitely accurate. Einstein mastered gravity with his theory of general relativity, and the equations of quantum theory capture every nuance of matter and other forces, from the attractive power of magnets to the subatomic glue that holds an atom’s nucleus together.
But the laws can’t be complete. Einstein’s theory of gravity and quantum theory don’t fit together. Some piece is missing in the picture puzzle of physical reality.
Bars thinks one of the missing pieces is a hidden dimension of time.
Bizarre is not a powerful enough word to describe this idea, but it is a powerful idea nevertheless. With two times, Bars believes, many of the mysteries of today’s laws of physics may disappear.
Of course, it’s not as simple as that. An extra dimension of time is not enough. You also need an additional dimension of space.
It sounds like a new episode of “The Twilight Zone,” but it’s a familiar idea to most physicists. In fact, extra dimensions of space have become a popular way of making gravity and quantum theory more compatible.
Extra space dimensions aren’t easy to imagine — in everyday life, nobody ever notices more than three. Any move you make can be described as the sum of movements in three directions — up-down, back and forth, or sideways. Similarly, any location can be described by three numbers (on Earth, latitude, longitude and altitude), corresponding to space’s three dimensions.
Other dimensions could exist, however, if they were curled up in little balls, too tiny to notice. If you moved through one of those dimensions, you’d get back to where you started so fast you’d never realize that you had moved.
“An extra dimension of space could really be there, it’s just so small that we don’t see it,” said Bars, a professor of physics and astronomy.
Something as tiny as a subatomic particle, though, might detect the presence of extra dimensions. In fact, Bars said, certain properties of matter’s basic particles, such as electric charge, may have something to do with how those particles interact with tiny invisible dimensions of space.
In this view, the Big Bang that started the baby universe growing 14 billion years ago blew up only three of space’s dimensions, leaving the rest tiny. Many theorists today believe that 6 or 7 such unseen dimensions await discovery.
Only a few, though, believe that more than one dimension of time exists. Bars pioneered efforts to discern how a second dimension of time could help physicists better explain nature.
“Itzhak Bars has a long history of finding new mathematical symmetries that might be useful in physics,” said Joe Polchinski, a physicist at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. “This two-time idea seems to have some interesting mathematical properties.”
If Bars is on the right track, some of the most basic processes in physics will need re-examination. Something as simple as how particles move, for example, could be viewed in a new way. In classical physics (before the days of quantum theory), a moving particle was completely described by its momentum (its mass times its velocity) and its position. But quantum physics says you can never know those two properties precisely at the same time.
Bars alters the laws describing motion even more, postulating that position and momentum are not distinguishable at a given instant of time. Technically, they can be related by a mathematical symmetry, meaning that swapping position for momentum leaves the underlying physics unchanged (just as a mirror switching left and right doesn’t change the appearance of a symmetrical face).’’
Something struck me with this professors views on two time dimensions… it could, I speculated, answer for quite a lot when considering consciousness and how we experience the flow of time from a psychological viewpoint. And here is what I came up with:
The first is relative and cosmological time, given by t. This describes the time that existed before the mind, which didn’t account for much without the mind. The asymptotic time we all experience, described by the T: This is a subliminal time experience. t could in fact be described as a relative time dimension, and the T as an absolute time dimension. This would help explain some strange properties of the mind.

a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + tdi^2 - Tdi^2

Let i^2 = i *k^2

Then the real part would be

a^2 + b^2 + c^2 - i^2*k^2^2 = 0

which simplifies to:

a^2 + b^2 +c^2 + k2^2 =0

The only solution is a=b=c=k^2=0

Here is where we can use the idea that the mind is time, and experiences absolutely no time at all, apart from this ‘’directionality’’ created by the unfixed proverbial clock.

To have two dimensions of time, could, as i have highlighted, emit new ideas concerning our abillity yo have a phenomenon called awareness. In one dimension, the mind carries through time, much like a train track without recourse, where the second time dimension allows consciousness to ''reflect'' on reality, in the sense we never have a ''bound relationship,'' to reality. This might also have profound effects and relations to psychic mobility within a human being.

It might also hold secrets for some superintelligence.
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