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RE: Is There A 5th Force Of Nature?
With so many technical, medical and astronomical findings, I am so excited to be living in these fast-changing times. I often wonder if the universe actually recycles itself like the earth does with its shift of the tectonic plates. Imagine if black holes and dark matter were like the ring of fire! It boggles the mind.
Lol, maybe the Universe recycles itself by creating creatures like us... capable of thinking and asking questions about the Universe (like a kid asks questions about his dad).
@merej99 Interesting you mention that. In my post, near the bottom I linked an article on how time moves in multiple directions simultaneously inside of a blackhole. If you look at our universe with the arrow of time reversed it looks a lot like a blackhole collapse. What if we're actually trapped inside a blackhole and stuck like flies to fly paper on the "thermodynamic" sheet facing in the "increasing entropy" direction.
After all the, the laws of physics appear to work exactly the same regardless of "time's arrow". In otherwords the laws of physics exhibit time reversed symmetry
I am not at all opposed to the idea that time itself is multiply dimensional and constantly evolving.
We do appear to have 3 space like dimensions and 1 time like dimension. But what if we actually have 3 timelike dimensions, and just like the 3 space like dimensions, there are 2 directions in each dimension meaning a total of 12 degrees of freedom?
What if it's just because of where we stand that we see only the 3 space like and 1 time like dimension?
I read a fascinating article on Arxiv a year or two ago (will give massive upvotes for the finder), which demonstrated a really good candidate for the expansion of the universe and the observed effects of dark matter which didn't require dark anything.
It was predicated on this idea that our 3 space like dimensions are evolving into time like dimensions and that our timelike dimensions are evolving into space like dimensions.
They presented a very compelling case and I never saw anyone who was able to provide a proper rebuttal, however the math they used was beyond my ken, so I don't know how well they did in the actual "proof" portion of their argument.
Anyways it's fun stuff to think about!
Well, I could definitely go down a rabbit hole with all the articles that are out there. Not having been in your head and knowing which article you were referring to, I found this revised version from December, 2012. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.1110v2.pdf
I've downloaded a bunch of reading material, not because I'm not a physics guru - but it sure is damned interesting!
@merej99 Well that's not it, but it's really damned interesting! I never saw that one before and need time to think.