More frequently than we think, science challenges our knowledge and makes us rethink what we believed immovable. We have been affirming that there are four very clear dimensions: the space has three (wide, long and high) and they are added a fourth, the time. But a recent study, published in Reports in Advances of Physical Science, proposes otherwise: a time with three dimensions and a space consequence of them.
According to the authors, led by Gunther Kletetschka, Time, and not the combination of time and space, could be the fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur. Kletetschka team theory also argues that Time occurs in three dimensions, instead of only the only one we experience as a continuous progression, and space arises as a secondary manifestation.
“These three dimensions of time are the main structure of everything, such as the canvas of a painting -explains Kletetschka in a statement -. The space still exists with its three dimensions, but it resembles the paint on the canvas than to the canvas itself”
These ideas differ significantly from physics generally acceptedwhich argues that a single time dimension plus the three dimensions of space constitute reality. This is known as space-time, the concept developed more than a century ago that considers time and space as a single entity.
However, Kletetschka’s mathematical formula, which combines six dimensions of time and space, could bring scientists closer to the unifying explanation of the universe. The reality is that The dimensions of time that go beyond our daily progress are difficult to understand and theoretical physicists have proposed numerous variants. In this context, Kletetschka’s work adds to a long theoretical physicist research on a subject of conventional physics.
“The mathematical framework for three -dimensional time improves other proposals by generating verifiable reproductions of known particles and other physical properties -adds Kletetschka -. The previous proposals on three -dimensional time were mainly mathematical constructions without these concrete experimental connections. Our study transforms the concept, which It goes from being an interesting mathematical possibility, to a physically verifiable theory with multiple independent verification channels”
The theory could be used to predict properties of particles currently unknown and contribute to the search for the origin of the mass, thus contributing to solving one of the most important questions of physics. Three -dimensional time is a theory according to which time, like space, has multiple independent directions, generally imagined as three axes of temporal movementsimilar as space axes X, y y Z.
The study explains that to understand it better you have to imagine that we walk along a straight path, experiencing time as we know it. Then another lateral path arises. If we could travel that lateral road and remain at the same moment of “regular time”, you could discover that things could be slightly different, perhaps a different version of the same day. Moveing this second perpendicular path could allow you to explore different results of that day without going back or advance in time as we know it.
The existence of these different results is the second dimension of time. The means to move from one result to another is the third dimension. Kletetschka affirms that this theory exceeds some of the problems of previous theories of three -dimensional time based on traditional physics.
These previous theories, for example, describe multiple temporal dimensions in which cause and effect relationships are potentially ambiguous. Kletetschka’s theory ensures that The causes still precede the effects, even with multiple temporal dimensions, only in a more complex mathematical structure.