Hyper-Time

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The word, hyper-space, is familiar to readers of futuristic, space-travel fiction.  Hyperspace has more than three dimensions, and is in the lexicon of cosmologists.  Time is considered to be a fourth dimension of space-time, but unlike as with space, the dimension of time is linear, or in itself, one-dimensional.

 

Unlike as with hyper-space, hyper-time is not in use in physical science, but one might argue that, since space and time are really one thing, space-time, and if hyperspace is a respectable concept in science, then the idea of hypertime should be considered.

 

(Note:  This has nothing to do with the comic book concept, except some frivolous, unscientific features that we will ignore here.)

 

Space-time has been represented, in illustrations, as a sort of brick, or cone, inside of which, all of physical reality exists, at least within our one universe.  This “brick” illustration has on one extreme side (arbitrarily the left), the Big Bang, the beginning of our known universe.  Moving toward the right, the point-particle of the primordial universe rapidly expands (or inflates) to a large percentage of the (represented) present size of the universe.  The diagram includes not only the present time, but continues into the future, into a speculated “heat death” or possibly a “big rip,” but with no actual end-point of time.

 

In my view, that representation is wrong.  It does not account for hyper-time.

 

If the existence of hypertime were to be represented in the diagram, the diagram would not be a static picture, but a moving picture.  The “brick” of space-time would be quivering, or undulating, or perhaps undergoing some more complex metamorphosis—a folding, twisting, dynamic structure.

 

The reason for speculating on the existence of hypertime is because it can account for the uncertainty we detect in the future.  According to physical determinism, the future is as certain (“carved in stone”) as is the past.  Both past and future are equally unchangeable, according to the standard concept.

 

But if there is free will, the future is changeable.  We can alter the course of events.  This, however, presents a peculiar possibility.  Since in physics, time does not flow, the arrow of time is equally valid in reverse as in forward.  The peculiarity is that, in this view, not only can the future be changed, but so can the past.

 

For most of us, I presume, the concept of the past being changed is inconceivable except in terms of science-fiction.  If the past can be changed, then it would seem to follow that reality would make no sense.  We might discover that the earth never really formed, which would be paradoxical, since how could we make that discovery if we were never here to make it?

 

Yet, there are some plausible speculations arising from quantum physics that the very distant past may be uncertain.  If only one chain of events could have led to the present, then that would force us to accept that the past is carved in stone (so to speak).  But if more than one chain of events could have led to the present, we would have no reason to prefer one path over another.  This could happen in a universe that is not deterministic.

 

Obviously, if we are to assert that the past can be changed, we must find an orderly and scientific model to account for that.  The concept of hyper-time provides the basis for that model.

 

It also, however, suggests that we must accept a model in which our known universe is only a small part of a much larger universe, a hyper-universe, complete with hyperspace and hypertime.  In such a multi-verse, there could be unlimited numbers of uni-verses, each quivering or undulating according to its own universal laws.

 

Once we embark on that road, however, the road of the “many universes model,” then we embark on a never-ending journey toward ever-larger hyper-universes.  And if that is the case, why not ever-smaller units of reality, with never any end?

 

Whether we view our known universe as the only physical reality, or instead view it as part of a never-ending ever-enlarging hyper-reality, we quickly exceed the limits of the human mind to ever understand, in context, the reality we detect around us.

 

Why not, then, concede that reality is spiritual?

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I speculate that time has two dimensions, one of them corresponds to mathematical time, and the other to consciously perceived time.

We can reconstruct the age of the universe through mathematical calculations.  Those pre-consciousness events were not perceived, and so in a sense, they exist only as numbers.  They are one dimension of time.

 

Consciously experienced time is yet another dimension of time.

 

It is possible that, once there were conscious beings to perceive (experience) time, there was no reality to the mathematical time, or at least, no specific reality.

 

Pre-conscious time may have been uncertain, as in quantum uncertainty.

 

Genesis 1:2 may be characterizing this era of time.

 

Therefore, we, the conscious creatures, changed the past.

 

That is how the universe could be both 6,000 years old, and billions of years old.

 

Of course, this is all metaphysical speculation.
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