Give
me the simplest form of
matter
and motion,
and I will build, out of them, the world
of Nature.
"Give me matter,
and I will construct a world out of it."
Immanuel
Kant, Kant's Cosmology
("Universal
Natural History and Theory Of
Heavens")
3.
On Transphysical Distances and Frames of Refernces
Concepts with
emphasis on
Space and Time Concepts VS. the Nonsensical
Spacetime Concept
The
study of motion, plays a pivotal role in
TRUTON --as motion indeed is an integral and
independent component of the formation of
Nature to be studied in the next
page.
The
study of motion cannot be separated from the
concept of distance. There are two, and
only two, kind of distances that the Mind can
conceive to exist when studying Nature:
one, a distance in extent
(DeX) whose arena of existence
is called Space;
and
the other, a distance in
duration (DiD) whose
arena of existence is called
Age.
To
any material entity created in
Nature,
we can associate at its birth an
existential origin (existor)
point. From that point on, we say that
the created entity begins its Travel
in Duration (TiD) on a linear path
on which Age
travels.
We call Time
the mental linear path on which
TiD
travels.
We call clock a device capable
of following and recording
Time.
If
such a clock
is the internal creation of a living
organism, it is called the inner
biological clock (bioclock).
If
such a clock
reflects the repetition of a natural
event like Earth's spin in the cosmic
space generating the repeating
day/night phenomenon, or like Earth's
revolution around the Sun generating
the repeated seasons, it is called the
Earth's astronomical clock
(astroclock).
If
such a clock
is a man-made instrument, then it's
called a made clock (madeclock).
The earliest
madeclocks
were the sundials devices dating
back to prehistoric times that evolved
all the way to today's modern
and atomic
clocks.
Also,
we may want to note that in
the 16th-century Europe, from
portable spring-driven
clocks,
first watches were
emerging that evolved
centuries later into the
modern quartz watches
that gradually replaced the
mechanical ones. As of 2020,
the vast majority of
watches
have now
quartz
movements.
On
the Preposterous Theory of
Clocks Emerging From
Einstein's Lunatic Theories of
Relativity
Today,
there is undisputed
experimental evidence that
clocks traveling at high
speeds will slow down and, as
such, a preposterous inference
has been made that
Time
itself slows down pursuant to
Einstein's lunatic theories of
Space
and
Time.
The slowing down of the
clocks, but obviously not of
the
Time,
is because those moving clocks
are being bombarded by a
higher and more intense cosmic
radiation than the clocks that
are at rest. That excessive
radiation, and nothing else,
is the reason WHY those moving
clocks are slowing down. The
so-called "time dilation"
resulted from Einstein's
theories of relativity is, as
such, a misnomer and a
nonsense. The same result can
be obtained, with clocks at
rest that are being beamed
with an intense radiation, for
crying out loud.
PS.
The Global
Positioning System
(GPS) has
nothing, but
absolutely nothing,
to do with
Einstein's
relativity
theory, but it has
everything to do with
the mathematical
geodesic work of
Gladys Mae
West.
Gladys West
.
Defining
the Second
as the Standard Unit of
Time
The
man-made clocks --the madeclocks
must "chase" a cyclical event to
measure time. The
astronomical clocks --the
astroclocks
were in fact the first
clocks
conceived by man to "chase" time that
were measuring a fraction of day or a
fraction of the year. However, those
primal clocks lacked precision
and, as such, fueled the drive to find
an alternative that was provided by an
atomic
clock
whose "pendulum" was provided by atomic
oscillations that had a far greater
frequency and were, by far, more stable
and precise.
Because of the very high frequency of
those oscilations the "minute"
derived from the Latin "minuta
prima" meaning "first small part"
was born. Subsequently, the "second
small part" was born being the 60th
part of the
minute
and called the second that was
to represent the Standard Unit Of
Time (SUOT).
In
1955, the first Cesium Atomic Clock
was born that in 1968 (and
reinforced in 2019) was recognized to
be the ideal time keeper because of the
discovery that the Cesium-133
atoms always were vibrating
9,192,631,770 times during their
transition between two subsequent
electron energy levels. That finding
created the foundation of the current
definition of the
second
as being the duration of those
9,192,631,770 oscilations.
Of
course, that is not the final word for
that definition of the
second,
as even more precise
atomic
clocks
are being contemplated to be made that
need not necessarily be based solely on
the Cesium.
More
On
!
As noted, both those concepts,
Space
and Time,
are exclusive products of the Mind, as
they do not exist outside of the Mind,
i.e, they do not exist, independently
from us, in Nature. As such, both those
concepts by not existing independently
in Nature outside of the Mind, are
devoid of any physical properties. All
their properties and characteristics
are only mental and not physical in
nature.
In
that sense, and only in that
sense,
Immanuel
Kant's
views on
Space
and
Time
that consider them as forms of
mental intuition, are
identical to our views
presented herein.
Again, by
Space
and Time
respectively, we mean a mental
arena of existence (devoid of physical
properties) representing a
distance
in extension
and one in
duration,
respectively.
For
Space,
we introduce spatial extent
(spatex) as being the
spatialdistance,
called Euclidean distance
(Eudis), of any two objects in
Nature that is assumed to be
embedded into the mental
3-dimensional Euclidean space
(Euspace).
As such,
we can talk about linear (or
1-dimensional), surface (or
2-dimensional), or volume
(3-dimensional)
Euspaces.
The
temporal extent (tempex) is
defining
Time
as a linear durationaldistance.
Because of its mental
origin, we can talk about
past, present, and
future linear
tempexes.
Space
and Time,
by being of different
connotations (one
spatial,
the other durational),
can never ever be mashed together, in a
meaningful manner, to form a continuum
amalgam --as the so-called
illusionalspacetime
continuum-- introduced by
Albert
Einstein
in
his lunatic relativity
theories.
Traveling
in
Space
is one thing. Traveling in
Time
is a totally different thing.
As such, the two travels
(in
Space
and
Time)
can never ever be combined
into one meaningful
spacetime
conglomerate.
A
represented
[x, y, z, t]
conglomerate can never be able
to exist in that form because
the variable 't' cannot exist
indendently and be separated
from the rest of variables. As
such, a continuum event
must be only in the form of
[x(t), y(t), z(t)]
and not in any other form, for
crying out loud.
.
Those
two mental
concepts with totally different connotations,
Space
and Time,
were already inherited and implanted into Mind's
existence of alllocomotive
living
organisms (i.e., organisms that are able
to move),
without exception. And that is because, all
livings needed to be equiped, from their birth,
with a recognition of their surrounding
environment which was affected by a
Time
(e.g., day or night, the beginning or
ending of a season, etc.) and by a
Space
(e.g., distance to a safer place, to
water, to a tree, to a warmer place, etc.).
That
universal primeval recognition of a
Space
and a Time
common to all locomotive livings, while quite
different for each species, had one thing in
common: that all developed from one singular
interest that was vested into the survival
interest (survin). That
survin
was born out of these two simple, but basic
survival drives:
WHEN
to move (e.g., day or night)
and
WHERE to move (e.g., places that
are safer than other places, places
near water, etc.)
in order to stay alive.
That
simple recognition of the existence of
survin
in all locomotive living creatures of Nature is
most remarkable indeed. And that is because it
implies that the nervous systems of all moving
living organisms, regardless how primitive they
were, were able to "communicate" with and
"recognize" of their surroundings, by virtue of
evolution.
That "communication" and "recognition" implies
the formation, for all livings, of perception
mechanisms (permechs) capable of identifying
their surrounding Space
and Time.
Now from permechs,
we recognize that
Biological
body-clocks of all livings are the
result of their Time-perception
relationship with Nature, while the
recognition and the marking of their
habitat is the result of their
Space-perception relationship
with Nature.
The
Space
and Time
concepts devised by the human Mind evolved out
of that survival interest of the living and
eventually become unique
because of the Mind's unique ability to engage
in abstract
thinking.
And by Mimecon,
there is no limit in how far that ability of the
Mind can develop and expand.
The
outer Space or the Cosmic Space (Cospa)
is an example of such an expansion.
Mathematics is another foremost
example.
Through its ever increased abstract development,
Mathematics was able to create even deeper
abstract mental objects and concepts that led to
a considerable expansion of the Space and Time
concepts coined by the Mind.
With
respect to the Space concept, the
development of Mathematics was
channeled into two major directions
that were able to generate new and
quite complex abstract spaces:
i)
one development was
towards mathematical
structures giving rise to
a number of new type of
abstract spaces such as the
non-Euclidean spaces, group
and field spaces, topological
spaces, etc.; ii) the other
development was related to the
dimension of
mathematical spaces,
generating new concepts such
as mathematical fields,
manifolds, n-spaces,
etc.
The
concept of Time was also affected by
the advancement of Mathematics. The
gradual introduction and acceptance of
negative numbers (once called and
regarded, in the 15th century France,
as "absurd numbers") was able to pave
the incorporation of the "negative
time" into the Time concept. Thus, with
this new abstract addition, we were
able to associate past events with
corresponding to a negative time.
! DO
NOT
OVERPASS
.
It is important to stress, one more time, that
our formed Space and Time concepts incorporated
into the study of Nature are creations of the
Mind and, as such, they reside only in our Mind,
and nowhere else, as they do not have a separate
material existence in Nature. They are just
mental
frames of reference
created
by the Mind and nothing else. To them we
cannot
associate, in a meaningful way, physical
characteristics such as temperature, density,
elasticity, etc., because
they
are not physical
entities.
In
TRUTON, an absolute demarcation is always made
between abstract mental objects --called
mentalons and the real physical objects
of Nature called realtons. Let us stress
again that mentalons,
as oppose to realtons,
do not possess physical properties because they
are objects of the Mind and not of Nature. What
mentalons can possess is a close affinity to
Mathematics as outlined further
below.
Mentalons
--the exclusive products of the Mind, could be
of different kinds. Some
mentalons
are images created by the Mind of real or
imaginary objects and,
called
imagelons,when
representing imaginary objects of
fantasies and dreams,
and
called
imagetrons, when representing
real objects observed from Nature.
Mentalons
that are not images, are thoughts
that
could
be vested in rational deductive
reasoning called
rationalities (with
Mathematics being a prime example of
being made entirely of
rationalities); or
could
be vested in fantasies, dreams, and
irrationalities (aka,
irrational thinking) forming the
Mind's Playground whose
constituents, collectively, are
called playtons.
Mentalons
can be used to study the Mind itself or to study
the real material Nature.
Mentalons
that are "transported" to study the Mind are
called transmentals, while when
"transported" to study Nature are called
transphysicals. The study of
transmentals
is the object of Psychology that is the
academic study of mental functions and
behaviors, while the study of
transphysicals
is done in Physics.
There
are seven (7) major types of
transmentals
capabilities and processes of the Mind:
one, with respect to the Mind's
rationalities --the
Logic
functionality;
other, with respect to the Mind's
capability to store information
--the Memory;
other, with respect to human Mind's
capability of self-reflection,
self-examination, and self-learning
from experience --the
Introspection;
other, with respect to human Mind's
capability of holding a particular
conjecture or premise to be true
outside experience or its sphere of
accumulated knowledge --the
Belief;
other, with respect Mind's
capability of directing and
committing to a particular course
action --the
Volition;
other, with respect to the Mind's
Playground vested in its
playtons
--the Imagination;
and finally,
other, with respect to Mind's states
involving
perception, cognition, creativity,
motivation and emotion -- the
Mental
States.
Transphysicals,
on the other hand, are the
Reference
concepts of Space and Time that are
indispensable for the
study
of Motion
in Nature. In the remaining part of this
page, we take a closer look at the two
identified transpysicals, Space and Time,
through the lens of Mathematics.
Time
of Nature Through the Lens of
Mathematics
Before we "transport" our transphysicals into
the material world of Nature, it is useful to
discern their characteristics. For instance, we
recognize that the concept of time
evolved from the 'linear
distance'
in duration. But a linear distance in
Mathematics is represented through a line
(straight curve). Therefore, the 'time' concept
has incorporated all the mathematical properties
of the 'line' concept. We can see all this from
the comparative table below:
Formalization
of 'line'
from Mathematics
Borrowed
formalization
of the 'time'
concept
1.
A line has no beginning nor end.
Between any two distinct points there
is one, and only one, line that passes
through them both. Because of this,
.
It
is meaningless to talk about a
"condensed" or a "stretched"
mathematical line. A
Mathematical line is of one,
and only one, kind.
1'.
Between any two distinct events, called
EventPoints or
TimePoints, there is one, and
only one, straight line that passes
through both of them called the
EventLine or TimeLine of
Nature (TILON) with no beginning
and no end. Because of this,
.
It
is nonsensical to talk about a
condensed or stretched
TimeLine/EventLine.
2.
Between any two points in a
line, there is a point between
them.
2'.
Between any two
EventPoints/TimePoints of
the EventLine/TimeLine,
we always can have another
EventPoint/TimePoint.
3.
To a line L, we can associate a
one-to-one function f=f(x) such
that for any two points P and Q on
L we have
|PQ|=|f(P)-f(Q)| that is
called the distance between P
and Q. The number |PQ| is called the
length of the line segment PQ
and the points P and Q are called
endpoints.
3'.
A segment of the EventLine or TimeLine,
called an
EventSegment/TimeSegment (or a
timeepisode), is a part
or a portion of the EventLine/TimeLine
that is bounded by two
EventPoints/TimePoints, say P and Q,
called
end-EventPoints/TimePoints and
contains every EventPoint/TimePoint on
the EventSegment/TimeSegment between
its end-EventPoints/TimePoints.
The duration of a
PQ EventSegment/TimeSegment or a
PQ episode is the number
|PQ|=|f(P)-f(Q)| where
fis called the
time function, f=f(t),
that is a one-to-one function
associated with the EventLine/TimeLine.
The variable t is called the
time variable or simply
'time.'
.
Remark
1: Any two endpoints whose
distance between them is
0 (zero) are said to be
one and the same.
.
Remark
1': Any two
EventPoints/TimePoints that
have a zero
EventSegment/TimeSegment
between them are said to be
simultaneous.
.
Remark
2: The variable x of
function f(x) is not a
discrete but a
continuous variable on
L. The
continuous variable
x is said to be
mapping the line
L, and it goes without
saying that x
is
a non-stretchable
and a
non-compressional
entity;
and that
x
has
no beginning nor
end.
.
Remark
2': The continuous time
variable t (or time) of
the time function
f=f(t) is said to be
mapping the TimeLine of
Nature (TILON). Since
TILON has no beginning or end,
it follows that
that
'time' cannot be
"compressed" or
"stretched."; nor
that
time (the time
variable
t)has an
absolute
beginning or
an absolute
end.
4.
The coordinatization of the
line:
The mapping f---->f(x)
represents the coordinatization
of the line. That is, it defines a
coordinate system on the line. There is
a point that corresponds to 0 (zero)
and, there are points that correspond
to the positive real numbers and points
that correspond to the negative real
numbers.
4'.
The arrangement of the
EventLine/TimeLine:
.There
is an EventPoint/TimePoint called
zero-EventPoint/TimePoint or the
BirthTime that corresponds to
the birth of a particular formation.
The time referenced to the formation is
called the relative time or the
intrinsic time of that
formation.
.There
is an EventPoint/TimePoint called the
now-EventPoint/TimePoint
or the
present-EventPoint/TimePoint
that corresponds to a given number
called present.
.There
are EventPoints/TimePoints called
bygone-EventPoints/TimePoints
or past-EventPoints/TimePoints
preceding the
present-EventPoint/TimePoint that are
corresponding to negative real numbers.
We say that those points represent
points of the past.
.There
are EventPoints/TimePoints called
EventPoints/TimePoints-to-be or
future-EventPoints/TimePoints
that are corresponding to positive real
numbers. We say that those points
represent points from an
imaginary or virtual
future.
5.
A half-line or a ray-line
is defined trough the concept of
"order" of points of a line. When we
have coordinatization, we say
that the line is directed.
A half-line is part of a line which is
finite in one direction, but infinite
in the other.
It
can be defined by two points, the
initial point, A, and one other, B. The
half-line is all the points in the line
segment between A and B together with
all points, C, on the line through A
and B such that the points appear on
the line in the order A, B,
C.
If
A is a point on a line such that the
set of points C satisfy the relation
f(A)f(C),
then the set of points C are said to
form a ray with A as its origin.
If the set of points C satisfy the
relation f(A)f(C),
then the set of points C are said to
form the opposite ray.
5'.
The EventLine/TimeLine has two halves.
A half-EventLine/TimeLine is
defined through the concept of "order"
of its EventPoints/TimePoints. When the
EventPoints/TimePoints are arranged in
the order of their successive
occurrence, we say that the
EventLine/TimeLine is directed.
A half-EventLine/TimeLine is a part of
the EventLine/TimeLine that is finite
in one direction, but infinite in the
other.
.We
call the
bygone-EventLine/TimeLine
or past-EventLine/TimeLine, the
half-EventLine/TimeLine whose origin is
the present-EventPoint/TimePoint and
whose all subsequent
EventPoints/TimePoints are the
bygone-EventPoints/TimePoints. We call
that half-EventLine/TimeLine the
entirepast-line of
Nature (EPLON).
.We
call the
EventLine/TimeLine-to-be, the
half-EventLine/TimeLine whose origin is
the present-EventPoint/TimePoint and
whose all subsequent
EventPoints/TimePoints are the
future-EventPoints/TimePoints. We call
that half-EventLine/TimeLine a
virtual
futuristic-line.
.
Internal
biological mechanisms for measuring the duration
of a time episode (as defined in point 3'
hereinabove) have existed and perfected from the
beginning of life. Natural time-markers, as we
have noted, are an essential element of life.
The evolved human species added a new dimension
of keeping track of time not through its
existing biological clocks but through external
clocks creating timekeeping devices
called timepieces capable of functioning
outside the body of human species. The evolution
of those timekeeping devises from sundials and
water clocks to pendulum clocks and culminating
with quarts and atomic clocks has been indeed a
most remarkable journey.
Space
of Nature Through the Lens of
Mathematics
And On the Nonsensical Spacetime
Concept
The
arena of existence in extent and the
arena of existence in duration in Nature
are expressed by two fundamental concepts,
respectively --that of space and that of
time. A location is represented or
expressed through the concept of a point in
space while an event in Nature is
represented or expressed through the concept of
a point in time.
Since
in Nature, the location of a point in Space can
be identified exactly through three and only
three independent immobile parameters, called
space parameters, noted say as
[x, y, z], we say that the
Space of Nature is a 3-dimensional
continuum. The mathematical "structure" of that
continuum is defined formally (in the language
of Mathematics) through a so-called metric,
called the metric of space.
Unlike
a point in Space that can travel randomly in a
3-dimensional volume, a point in Time can travel
only linearly in the unidimensional space of the
line called the timeline. Because of that
linear characteristic, a time point can
be identified completely through one, and only
one, single parameter, called the timeline
parameter and usually denoted
with t.
Thus,
for a particular point of Nature, its Space
parameters are function of its sole timeline
parameter and, we can write this as x=x(t),
y=y(t), and z=z(t). So to reflect this
time-parameter, the space
[x, y, z] can now be written
as
[x(t), y(t), z(t)].
.
Time, by being a mental entity (i.e., a
mentalon)
can be visualized as a linear
continuous flow with no beginning nor
end. In that eternal universal
association with Nature, the parameter
t
of Eternal Time (Etime) is a
dynamic flowing parameter that
needs to be contrasted with the Space
parameters
(x,
y,
z)
which are not. Thus, the nature
of the flowing
Etime-parameter
is radically different from the
non-flowing
Space-parameters.
As
such, it is important to stress again,
that unlike the parameters x, y, and z
that are of
the
same
nature
being therefore able to be interchanged
one with another, the
eternal
timeline parameter
t
is of an entirely
different
nature.
Thus, it is meaningless indeed to unite
the eternal
timeline
parameter
with any other kind of parameters, as
such a union cannot be combined in a
meaningful manner. In a meaningful
combination, all of parameters defining
a space must be of the same kind or
nature.
Thus,
the timeline
parameter
t
can never ever --in a meaningful way--
be added as a forth spatial dimension
to represent a space much less the
Space
of
Nature.
The Space
of
Naturecan be represented only as
[x(t), y(t), z(t)]
but never ever, in a meaningful way, as
[x, y, z, t].
Nevertheless, such an absurdly,
introduced first by
Albert
Einstein,
continue to this day, to be employed
without any notable
reservation.
The
Space
of
Nature
cannot have a
physical
structure
because it is a mental object --a
mentalon
in the sense envisioned by Immanuel
Kant in his seminal work
"Critique of Pure Reason"
where both 'space' and 'time' are being
viewed as mental frameworks that humans
have created to study
Nature.
Physical
structures can be associated only with
matter, but not with Space or
Time that are mentalons. Space and Time
are nothing else but
mental
receptacles
that, by their very nature, cannot be
associated with having any physical
properties. "Bending" of Space or the
"dilation" or "contraction" of Time are
nonsensical concepts as they confuse
mentalons with realtons.
Thus,
the Space of Nature is the Space of
Immanuel Kant and Isaac Newton, being a
mental container devoid of any
implanted distorsions, and being thus,
par excellence, the Euclidean
Space. Because the Space of Nature
is governed by the Euclidean Geometry,
and only by Euclidean Geometry, we can
see from the diagram below how any
point source (S) of Nature will spread
its influence equally, in all
directions, obeying the
Inverse-Square Law Of Nature
(ISLON): that the intensity of the
influence at any given radius
r
is the source strength divided by the
area of the sphere. Being strictly of
geometric origin whose Space is
Euclidean, the
ISLON
applies to all unperturbed source
phenomena of propagation. Point sources
of gravitational force
(Newton's
Law of Universal
Gravitation),
electrostatic force (Coulomb's
Law),
light source, sound, or radiation
sources --are all obeying
ISLON.
ISLON
Let
us stress again:
ISLON,
by being a geometrical and not
a physical property, exists in
Nature only because the
structure of the Space of
Nature is Euclidean.
ISLON
will not exist in a Space of a
different mathematical
structure. And that
recognition is most important
indeed as, through it, we are
able to recognize at once the
validity of the Euclidean
Geometry as the geometrical
structure of the Space of
Nature.
As
already stated, the current
adopted Space structure of
Nature, of the so-called
spacetime
continuum
structure introduced by
Einstein's Theory of
Relativity, combining Space
and Time into one single
substratum is an utterly
absurd concept because such an
union can never ever generate
a continuum in the
mathematical sense nor in any
other coherent sense. That is
because, as noted, the
parameter 'time" can never
ever combine, in a meaningful
way, with a parameter that is
of a different nature. To have
combination of parameters
forming a continuum, all
parameters must be of the same
nature.
That
truly absurd
spacetime
continuum
concept that forms the
backbone of Einstein's
General Theory of
Relativity (GTR)
purporting to represent the
reality of Nature's Space,
"explains" gravity as being a
derivative springing from the
spacetime's
purported
curvature!
In
TRUTON,
as presented above, the
Space
and Time
related to the objects of
Nature are, as they have been
for centuries, mental concepts
borrowed from Mathematics that
reside only in our Mind, but
not in Nature:
with
Space
representing a
mental
3-dimensional
container of
infinite dimension
devoid of any
physical
properties;
and
with
Time
representing a
mental
1-dimensional
linear distance in
duration of
infinite lenght
devoid again of
any physical
properties.
Finally, we note here that because the
motion of an object in Nature can be
referenced only through Space and Time, those
two concepts --Space
and Time--
are also called the base anchoring concepts
of Nature (BACONs).
Motion,
as such, is the underlying concept of
BACON
creating therefore the bridge of
communication (BOC) between the
Space
and Time
concepts. Motion
therefore is an indispensable primary
given characteristic of Nature that need
be incorporated right from the beginning of our
study.
All these ideas will considerably be magnified
as we advance with
TRUTON.
The general blueprint that we have
sketched herein will further be expanded,
magnified, and enhanced as we go along. So,
without further ado, let's begin with our
journey that we have set to travel.