foszae

so. not an appropriate place to talk about physics then?

owl, can i ask a question? what do you want this standardized clock for? i study theoretical physics; and if i wanted to be an asshole, i could take the relativity argument and run it to the ground, digging up even crazier, harder-to-quantify version of the mutabilitity of Time. frankly, Einstein's version of time dilation is a century old and while valid, is pretty much lightweight fluff compared to what Time looks like it could be. relativity is pretty last millenium from where i sit. mind you, i sit on the side where Time acts weirder than the standard model is ready to accept anyhow. (i get booed a lot) i understand your definition of ontologically standardized time for everyone, and can conveniently forget the other stuff. but what are you trying to produce here? are you after an inerrant sense of seconds passing at the exact same rate all the time? what goal do you have here then?

the shift from probability to reality is precisely the important detail regarding wave function collapse. but i'll skip the math. the 'mystery' of wave forms is a matter of scale. what you're talking about suddenly is that there are patterns existing solely in sub-dimensions. there are events occuring in quantum levels which do not produce any observable evidence in the mechanical world. that does not mean they don't exist, by any means. it's simply that we can't tell what is about to happen until we see the results decay to a state where it overlaps our D4 world. when we're talking about a wave, it's a theoretical placeholder, suggesting that there is an energy which interacts previous to our world, and that we are merely positing that there is something going on there. it's somewhat like this. we imagine a wave of potentiality occuring in dimension 5. there is a similar though different potential in dimension 6. the fact that those dimensions overlap means that the two separate potentials can harmonize or interfere with each other (as frequency waves do). the product of those waves interacting then specifically is bumped up so that it is overlapping with D4 Time. but it's not overlapping in the same way, because once it has reached that point, it is suddenly subjected to the rules of mechanical/nuclear physics, stripping it of its ability to continue interacting as untapped potential in lower-order dimensions. the 'collapse' then is the breakdown of deeper interactions as they 'fail out' into the real world we already know.

the problem inherent in the "arrow of Time" is potentiality. specifically as events are uncertain in the future, they are malleable, changeable and predictable. with no uncertainty to determine, it is suggestive that some of the rules of quantum physics do not apply in reverse. what occurs to us in the present is actually the fallout of events which are pre-occurring in quantum dimensions. as they activate and produce result, we witness them in the present. events in the past cannot be changed, there is no remaining potential result. what the results were is all they will remain. the question that should be asked is why the future specifically is the realm of indeterminate circumstance.

allow me to add a difficult alternate to this discussion. while i support the truth inherent in measuring out manifold dimensionality (particularly when it comes to particles), i will argue vigorously against the limits of that method. if i can be excused for referencing original research, the problem with your initial assumption is accepting only one dimension of Time. and while it is conventional wisdom, it has not actually been proven to be the case. as you start rattling off dimensions, you could just as well count five, six and seven as being precursor dimensions to time or parallel, unseen dimensions of Time. the unknown patterns of quantum space resonating across those barriers, triggering events, and then burning out as the wave function collapses results in what we perceive to be Time washing across the mechanical 4D world. and that's just to support the impression you offered us. in practical possibility, all of the hypothetically enumerated dimensions could be sequence-of-event which filters back to us as time. also, calling it "possible sequence of events" is a bit of a misnomer. it is specifically potentiality, no more no less. when we talk about 'real-world' physics having potential energy (such as what can be unlocked from an atom) there are two parts. one of them we know quite well as 'energy' which is a translation over D4 time of mass to energy. the 'potential' though is a completely different issue. potential follows certain rules (to the point that it may actually have its own physics laws). potential accumulates, prefers likelier potentials and is suggestive of obeying warping as a distinct property disconnected from the realm of spatial, mechanical reality. also, potential undergoes energetic transformation as its events decay into our D4 world. the interference of measurement burns off potential and results in spatial reality (as in the momentum/location problem of measuring electrons). and these theoretical ideas could potentially occur at any discrete step in a multi-dimensional chain.

cough cough. it is multiple phenomena. the particle event in question is a phenomenon, and every viewer of it the event is also experiencing phenomena. it is relativity because of the fact that each entity has a distinct experiential perception of it. unless you somehow posit that witnessing the event is excused from the laws of physics.

hi, i'm foszæ. theoretical physicist with an interest in neuro-science. i specialize in conceptions of the quantum nature of time. i don't do math. don't ask me.