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New Theories / Split from "How fundamental is time?"
« on: 08/03/2019 03:58:06 »
I think there exists perceived time, related to awareness and rate of change of reality systems, and absolute time, related to the absolute speed of light. At the same time, I think reality only exists in an eternal present and time is the awareness the rate of change of the eternally existing components of reality (as per conservation of energy). Let me explain.
I like to think of reality as a set of systems fitted inside each other like the Russian dolls. Each system has the same basic type, being a central object surrounded by a variable number of peripheral subsystems. The central object contains the state of the system. So, for example, we have a solar system consisting of the Sun as the central object surrounded by planetary sub systems. And a galaxy system is a central galactic black hole object surrounded by solar system subsystems. This is actually an abstraction hierarchy and each system in the hierarchy is less abstract than its parent. So, for example, a galaxy is more abstract than a particle. I theorize that each system has awareness of itself and each system experiences time in exactly the same way i.e as "normal" time for itself and as (possibly) Einsteinian relative time for all other systems.
This happens because the speed of light is a constant for all systems but the distances between the component systems in each system vary, getting longer the farther up the hierarchy we travel. This means, for example, that the rate of change for a particle is much, much quicker that that of of a galaxy but both perceive time as passing at the same "normal" rate. So, we experience galaxies for example as being ancient, but a galaxy experiences itself as being much younger than this.
Note the perception of time is very closely linked to awareness and we cannot really answer fully what time is because we don't know what awareness is or what has it.
BTW The central object of all systems (including particles) is likely to have a center (of gravity) itself that is outside of time (i.e. a black hole). This is a likely location for awareness/consciousness especially considering that all events (photons) affecting the top-level state of the system end up here. It is also here that imperative events adjusting the state of the system as a result of received events are sent from. i.e. receive top-level event; system needs adjusting?, yes - send top level adjusting event (Hawking radiation?).
It is likely a black hole either has no time or has time that proceeds infinitely quickly. It seem to me the whole purpose of a black hole is to hold the top-level state of the system that the black hole belongs to. Events (photons) enter the black hole and cause an immediate change of state. Events exit the black hole and are immediately subject to time. Time in the black hole is not required for this mechanism.
I like to think of reality as a set of systems fitted inside each other like the Russian dolls. Each system has the same basic type, being a central object surrounded by a variable number of peripheral subsystems. The central object contains the state of the system. So, for example, we have a solar system consisting of the Sun as the central object surrounded by planetary sub systems. And a galaxy system is a central galactic black hole object surrounded by solar system subsystems. This is actually an abstraction hierarchy and each system in the hierarchy is less abstract than its parent. So, for example, a galaxy is more abstract than a particle. I theorize that each system has awareness of itself and each system experiences time in exactly the same way i.e as "normal" time for itself and as (possibly) Einsteinian relative time for all other systems.
This happens because the speed of light is a constant for all systems but the distances between the component systems in each system vary, getting longer the farther up the hierarchy we travel. This means, for example, that the rate of change for a particle is much, much quicker that that of of a galaxy but both perceive time as passing at the same "normal" rate. So, we experience galaxies for example as being ancient, but a galaxy experiences itself as being much younger than this.
Note the perception of time is very closely linked to awareness and we cannot really answer fully what time is because we don't know what awareness is or what has it.
BTW The central object of all systems (including particles) is likely to have a center (of gravity) itself that is outside of time (i.e. a black hole). This is a likely location for awareness/consciousness especially considering that all events (photons) affecting the top-level state of the system end up here. It is also here that imperative events adjusting the state of the system as a result of received events are sent from. i.e. receive top-level event; system needs adjusting?, yes - send top level adjusting event (Hawking radiation?).
It is likely a black hole either has no time or has time that proceeds infinitely quickly. It seem to me the whole purpose of a black hole is to hold the top-level state of the system that the black hole belongs to. Events (photons) enter the black hole and cause an immediate change of state. Events exit the black hole and are immediately subject to time. Time in the black hole is not required for this mechanism.