New time conception: from conventionality to natural essence

The transformation of light cone into connection. The transformation of orthogonal co-ordinates of the four-dimension-world into constellation with a centre at the present moment

According to the declared postulates 1 and 2 (http://www.ap.org.ru/eng/postul.htm) let us draw several lines – the times through any moment chosen by chance. Unlike physical view of the world in which only one time exists and it is orthogonal to spatial co-ordinates in psychological view of the world only one of the times may be orthogonal. So physical view of the world is one of particular cases of psychic view of the world. In this latter one a great number of times which are mainly not orthogonal to spatial co-ordinates pass through the point of the given moment. It is appropriate here to draw parallels in the history of science and mention the significance of the same matter. Attention. We’ll do now one thing which will be important for knowledge not less than the statement made at one time according to which it is possible to draw as much lines parallel to the given one as one likes through an out-line-point. It is known that it was the initial statement for the following absolutely new geometry of Gauss, Lobachevsky, Riemann. We’re starting to decrease the corner between the temporal and spatial co-ordinates, loosing orthogonality and bending the temporal co-ordinate to the spatial one. Now it is laid over the temporal one. And this interesting case will be the subject of our independent study. In the meanwhile let us leave a minimum corner between the temporal and spatial co-ordinates on purpose, in order to distinguish them in their soon superposition. We do it in order they do not join each other to be observed, We do it in order they do not hide each other in the meanwhile. Indeed, in any psychic phenomenon there is a temporal aspect; the duration itself is a change (spatial, semantic, figurative, perceptible and etc.) in time. In such psychic phenomenon like perception there are observed leaps, drift and tremor, i.e. different changes. In other words one second is filled with changes in space. In its turn this separate change can’t be endless, infinitely long. A change, any separate change, is limited by time both inward and outward or else it won’t be a change in time. Let’s continue studying the entire superposition of the temporal and spatial co-ordinates. The light cone now is getting narrow and curling up so that is turned out to a line. There is a connection between a present moment and a point in space. This connection exists. The light cone turned out to a string for which two ends are a present moment and a future moment. The temporal is laid over an objective co-ordinate. From the 1st postulate (http://www.ap.org.ru/eng/postul.htm ) according to which there may be as much times as one likes it also follows that there may be as much dimensions, directions as one likes. The world is multi-measured, it includes the four-dimension-world as a particular case.

The formation of multi-measured psychic space is made here by distinguishing one of the components of the physical view of the world. And one of these components is the four-dimension-world of Albert Einstein and others. The four-co-ordinate-method, a subsidiary means for world’s cognition for more than two millennia, provided human cognition with a striking success. But there are other methods in which every moment corresponds to not a light cone but to a constellation of cones curled up, narrowed and compressed to strings. Moreover, time is not an endless line, but a collection, constellation of segments where each segment potentially contains the whole measure defining for another moment.

In conclusion it remains to express hope that the deliberately chosen descriptive, figurative method of reporting with the help of common and understandable language will make easier to understand this important scientific turning point in understanding time.

A. Pestov 20.10.2000

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