Introduction to Temporal Density

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Virtual chaos says that space is actually the inverse of time, the dimension. This piece is intended to explain how it comes to this conclusion and what it means for physics.

We begin with a set of equations called the Lorentz transformations. [See: temporal density and relativity] These equations show how space and time are related to each other, as well as the effects that movement within the space-time continuum have on their perception. Here's how it works:

According to relativity, as you approach the speed of light a number of things begin to happen. First, your mass begins to increase, second you get shorter in the direction that you are headed, and third, the passage of time you experience begins to slow down as seen by an outside observer. The one thing that controls how much of an effect these three things display, is how fast you happen to be moving. The closer it is to the speed of light, the more pronounced the effects.

All three of these effects are linked to each other in such a way that they can be used to deduce the nature of the space-time continuum, as well as the mechanism that gives rise to the mass/energy structures that fill it.

The first thing we do is find a way to treat the coordinates for the space part of the equation the same way as for the time part. Normally the space coordinates are added together, x + y + z, and then the time coordinate is subtracted, - t, to find the distance between two events in space-time. This is the first indication that there might be a simpler way of looking at the continuum. Why should three of the dimensions begin in the middle and progress in opposing directions, while the fourth dimension begins at one end, and propagates in only one direction?

It just so happens that there is a way to look at time that will not only keep it consistent with the Lorentz transformations, but also allow it to be treated identically to the three dimensions of space at the same time. This modification creates a new problem, but defines the continuum as four dimensions, all of which exist at right angles to each other, and which are all treated the same way in the equations. [Our continuum is smooth and symmetrical and appears flat].

What is this modification? It is to redefine the time coordinate as "the square root of negative one, times ct". You say you don't know what "ct" is eh? Well ct is a distance, the distance that light(c) travels in the period of time(t). This uses the speed of light to link the passage of time to an actual distance in space. The problem comes in with the other part, the square root of -1.

The reason that this presents a problem, is that logically there is no such thing as the square root of -1. They call this an imaginary number, and it throws a monkey wrench into the whole works. How can you possibly make sense of an equation when the whole thing hinges on a number that doesn't logically exist? Think illogically.

Virtual chaos introduces something new here to deal with this problem. Its called temporal density (tp)[physics uses the letter (p) to denote pressure and (d) to denote distance. That's why it is tp instead of td.] Temporal density is a pressure, a kind of viscosity if you will, that can be used to give a physically logical meaning to the illogical portion of the equation.

Adding this new substance to the Lorentz transformations produces a number of very pleasant effects in the continuum, [which the -1 thing made symmetrical for all four dimensions]. Basically it unites all three of the effects of the transformations, in a simple way that makes perfectly logical sense.

First of all, tp acts like a viscous fluid that slows the passage of time. The higher the tp, the slower time passes within it. [The more "time" you have, the longer it takes.] The amount of this viscosity is defined by the Lorentz transformation itself. So why bother you might ask. If you have to use the old equation anyway, what do we need something new for? The answer to that is found in the the other two effects of the transformations.

As length along the axis of motion decreases, it is offset by an increase in temporal density. Because of this, empty space itself is convertible directly into temporal density. This links gravity and inertia to the space-time continuum by making gravity a compression of space in 3d,  and making inertia a compression of the object itself, along its axis of travel.

Relativity says that gravity and acceleration are indistinguishable. The equation for gravity is G=L^3/mt^2, and inertia is I=L/t^2. These can be rewritten to make the above point. G=L^3t^-2/m and I=Lt^-2. In the rewritten version, it is easy to see how angular acceleration, in the form of an inverse time (t^-2), contracts them both in three, and one dimensions respectively (L).

The third effect is the increase in mass. Temporal density is directly linked to mass, providing the mechanism for it to arise in the first place. The angular momentum of an object would be defined as motion, thus producing a shrinkage of space and its corresponding gravitational attraction, as well as the increases in temporal density and the manifestation of mass and the slowing of the passage of time that goes along with it.

So to sum up, Einstein first introduced the imaginary square root of -1 times "ct" in place of the regular time variable in the Lorentz transformations in order to make the time coordinate behave like the space coordinates. This made space-time a symmetrical continuum in the equations.

We then introduced something new called temporal density (tp) to represent the effects of an illogical expression as a physical quantity, and gauge the repercussions of that on the expression. What we found was that space, time, mass, energy, gravity and inertia, were all linked and that they all spring naturally from that illogical expression in the equations.