Space and Time Don't Exist

Space and Time Don't Exist

What is Space?

String theory tells us that we live in ten spacial dimensions, plus one time dimensions. The major three dimensions are complemented by tiny, curled up dimensions which are too small for us to see or move through. This may be so, but space changes shape with change in eye number.

For example, we humans have two eyes that can each pivot close to 180 degrees. This means that we can track items from the left and to the right, and from the top and to the bottom. But our eyes also perceive things from back to forth. If we pivot our eyes in towards each other, then we look closer. The more parallel we make our lines of sight, the farther away we see things!

We could easily see in the fourth dimension with three cameras mounted in a triangular formation, all of them able to focus on the same point in space. A single camera that can pivot can see the world in two dimensions, and what's more, if you limit a camera so that it can look only straight ahead at a fixed point, and not pivot, you have 1-dimensional reality.

What is Time?

We measure time in seconds, but seconds are actions. Actions are measured in terms of other actions. Is there a universal standard of "action" which which we can measure all other actions? The Newtonian theory said yes, but general relativity says no. But, when you think about it, general relativity also says that that light moves at the same speed through a vacuum relative to all movement. You can be going 99 percent the speed of light, and light will still be traveling away from you at the speed of light. What does this mean, it means that the distance light travels during the interval of any action is a perfect measuring stick.

So, for example, in the time it takes for me to press a key on the keyboard, light in a vacuum will have traveled a certain distance relative to that keystroke. We can then translate the amount of time that key-stroke took by using the distance light traveled, and compare that distance with the amount of distance light travels in, say, a second.

So, what the f%#k is gravity?

I have no effing idea. Interesting, though, ain't it?