dinsdag 11 oktober 2011

Meta time

The recent discussions about neutrino's travelling faster than light, 
made me remember my 'meta time' concept. 
Warning: I am an artist, not a physicist (although I have a strong interest in science).

I hope to clarify my idea by two illustrations - one of the classic way to think about an event in time/space, and one of the add-on I was thinking about.

Below is a visualisation of the 'light cone', 
a traditional way of visualising an event in time/space (4d).

The second figure is my visualisation of what I call 'meta time'. In this model, time is deformed along a helix, where ordinary time (represented by the 4 dimensional light cone) follows the curve of the helix, while meta time (a 5th dimension?) is pointing in the direction of the axis of the helix.
The specific shape of the helix represents some sort combined cycle and progression. This allows ordinary time to come close to events that occured earlier, from a meta time perspective (time shortcut).


Please let me know if you like or hate this idea, or send me ways to approve it.

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