The special relativity theory concerns with the fundamentals namely space, time, energy, and matter which nature has puzzled people for thousands of years. It has classified and unified those fundamentals into two distinct entities: the spacetime and energy. The space and time are unified into a four-dimensional entity called the spacetime while the energy and matter into a single energy substance from which matter is derived, as expressed in Einstein famous equation E = mc2.
Most people consider that spacetime and energy are separate entities. The spacetime is like a sort of container and energy something that fills it. However, we see the spacetime and energy are inseparable just as the spherical form and water substance of a water drop to be. The spacetime is just the geometrical aspect of energy. As a geometrical quality of energy, the spacetime has no existence on its own. Energy is primordial, neither can be destroyed nor created, from which everything else is derived.
The dimensionality and polarity of energy
The dimensionality of the spacetime is just the reflection of the degree of freedom and the potency of energy as a whole. The higher the energy potency the bigger the number of the spacetime’s dimensions to be. This is the fact behind the existence of higher dimensional worlds which some advanced physical theories revealed. Definitely, with their extra-dimensions being well extended not curling up into small sizes, they are like what most physicists hypothesized.
Under the special relativity, the energy as a whole is much more like a 4-dimensional ocean. What we know about energy in our daily life is only superficial, not the whole thing. From this perspective, energy seems to have no existence on its own. It is only as a sort of an abstraction which indirectly known from its functional relationship to other physical variables or coordinates.
Another important principle that the special relativity theory reveals is the polarity of the energy. The energy as a whole consists of positive and negative energies as expressed in the relativity energy equation E2 = m2c4+p2c2. Surprisingly, nobody has paid enough attention to this energy polarity, which in reality is the basic prerequisite of the creation of the universe.
Creation by Separation
The energy as a whole tends to separate into its positive and negative components. As they segregate from each other, a 3-interface (space) is created in between the two; analogous to the interface which exists between oil and water that we can observe in our daily life.
How do the two opposite energies split? The split is taking place gradually like a crack propagating across a glass sphere. As such the 3-interface is stretching out; the universe is expanding. The repulsive force of the opposite energies that stretches out the 3-interface (space) is the [external] energy that we call the dark energy. This is the creation theory that we put forward as an alternative against the Big-Bang theory.
Ephemeral Particles, Probabilistic and Non-Locality Features of Nature
The interplay between the positive and negative energies gives rise to quantum fields piercing through and igniting quantum-sparks (“quarks”) at the 3-interface analogous to the pixels appearing and disappearing at a gigantic plasma TV screen. This is the reality of the quanta, the ephemeral fundamental particles.
Fundamental particles are created and annihilated to and fro the energy in accordance with the energy equation E=mc2. There is no persistent fundamental particle exists in nature. What we perceive as a persistent particle in the macro realm is, in reality, the appearance of a series of different particles subsequently created and annihilated one after another. It is analogous to the flame of a candle which is never being the same entity at any different instant.
As such, there could be no continuity and deterministic feature of nature. Instead, the discontinuity and probabilistic are the normal features of nature which are the basic characteristic of quantum mechanics. Another feature of the quantum mechanics, the non-locality, is nothing but the manifestation of the perpetual particles’ creations which are taking place simultaneously.
The Instant of Time, the Wave Motion of Particles, Rotating Universe
The perpetual creations and annihilations of particles give us an impression that time is running by. The rate of perpetual creation and annihilation is the underlying of the speed of light. The non-reversibility of the process determines the direction of time.
The act of creation and annihilation does not take place in time but builds up time. Had the fundamental particles been created permanently, there would be no instant of time. This is the mystery about the nature of time that puzzled humankind since the dawn of history.
What we perceived as a permanent particle moving forward is, in fact, a series of different particles subsequently appear and disappear, analogous to water wave motion in which individual water molecule doesn’t move forward but only moving up and down. We may call this water “eter” (energy-water) in place of ether, the classical primordial substance.
The 3-dimensional interface between the two energies is dynamic. The repulsive opposite energies rotate the interface in the normal direction to its plane, the fourth dimension. This interface, the universal now, is not necessarily flat but curving here and there representing the different local times. This space perpetually appears and disappears concurrently with the ephemeral particles which build up space.
References:
Einstein, Albert et al.:” The Principle of Relativity Theory,” Dover Publication, Inc, New York, 1952
Einstein, Albert:” The Meaning of Relativity,” Princeton Science Library, New Jersey, edition 1988,
Greene, Brian:” The Fabric of The Cosmos,” Knopf, New York, 2004
No comments:
Post a Comment