Physicists have discovered that nature has a beautiful feature not only aesthetically but also mathematically which they call symmetry. The simplest symmetry we may get in nature is the pairing of fundamental particles such as that of particles-antiparticles or more complex [super] symmetry bosons-fermions. Even today physicists still tirelessly chase another particle’s symmetry i.e. super-partner particles which they yet find none.
Strangely enough, physicists don’t believe on the symmetry of energy, the most fundamental element of the reality, albeit the relativistic energy equation E2=m2c4+p2c2, plainly shows otherwise. This formula shows us the evidence that the energy exists in pairing - the positive and negative energy – regardless they are neatly separated or not from each other.
For physicists, the existence of negative energy together with the positive energy is bad news as such a situation may lead to a spontaneous transition from positive to negative energy resulting in a catastrophic instability. Alas, one cannot preserve the positive frequency requirement in quantum mechanics whose wavefunctions are essentially complex a). The two square roots of a complex number expression do not tend to separate neatly into positive and negative in a globally consistent way as what the physicists have expected1.
Are we, then, faced with an impasse situation? Well, on everybody surprise we are absolutely not. On the contrary, the existence of the positive and negative energies is a fundamental feature that nature requires for the creation and reproduction of everything in the universe. Without such an opposite pair, the world would be sterile from anything material in which space and time have no meaning.
As far as the mainstream physics keep
adopting the current single block b) universe
"containing" no negative but positive energy to represent the actual
world (Figure-1), we would forever stay with the crisis that today physicists
are facing.
Sooner or later, the mainstream
physicists should adopt a 4-dimensional split universe in which the positive
and negative energy exist together separated by a 3-dimensional interface
(4-dimensional hypersurface with a very thin thickness d)) in between.
As we have previously elucidated, such
interface does not separate neatly the positive and negative in a globally
consistent way, in the sense that it e is extremely unstable. It even barely exists, perpetually appears
and disappears in and out of the existence.
This 3-dimensional interface, the
physical space that we experience in, is nothing but the unit of time we call
the present time (Figure-2B). The perpetual formation and dissolution of this
present time are what we usually perceive as the time passage. It is such an
idea that philosophers call presentism.
The material things exist strictly in
the 3-dimensional interface (the present time), not in the outside of it.
Matters appear and disappear at this 3-dimensional "screen" as the projection
of the positive and negative energy interaction. In a close look, even in the
place where there is no matter we can see virtual particles briefly
jiggling violently in and out of the existence.
The 3-dimensional "interfacial
tension" which keeps away the interface [and all matter within] from
falling apart is what we call the gravitational constant. There are no such
gravitational waves that propagate across the spacetime. Their propagation is
limited to this sheet of the 3-dimensional interface which appears and
disappears "through time" as a single whole.
Finally, this 3-dimensional interface
which thickness is equal to the Planck distance (10-33
cm), the thinnest scale that nature allows, is perpetually created and
annihilated at the rate equal to the speed of light, an enigmatic constant that
physicists hitherto has taken as a gift from above. Naturally, no matter can
move exceeding the speed limit that is equal to the rate of its perpetual
creation [and annihilation].
Notes:
a. In quantum mechanics, the momentum p may be replaced (quantization trick)
by -iħ∂/∂x
b. Sometimes it is called a block universe. In such a world, matters may exist
throughout the whole spacetime in an equal footing put in order by a
light-cones framework. There is no definite place for the present time, past and future in such a
framework, which Einstein worried so much. Philosophers call such a block
universe’s idea eternalism.
c. After he finally became convinced that the negative frequency solutions of
the relativistic energy formula cannot be [mathematically] eliminated.
d. The thickness (in the direction of its fourth dimension) of this interface
is about 10-33 cm in which the quantum mechanics prevails.
e. Even Minkowski described his spacetime in a similar way 3: "we should then have in the world no
longer space, but an infinite number of spaces, analogously as there are in
three-dimensional space an infinite number of planes. Three-dimensional
geometry becomes a chapter in four-dimensional physics". Had he added
that all those spaces are just potential - no matter of their normal directions
point to - and only one space appears in a brief moment, he would be
presentist.
References:
1. Penrose. R.: "The Road to Reality," Vintage Books, London, 2005,
p. 614-616.
2. Ibid, p. 387
3. Einstein, A. et al.: "The Principle of Reality," Dover
Publication Inc., New York, 1952,
p.79-80.
