Introduction
Einstein developed general relativity on the presumptions that space is or can be curved. Most physicists will tell you that the theory is enormously successful in explaining cosmic phenomenon. After all, it was developed by Einstein. They are so certain it is correct that they are willing to accept that as much as 90 % of the matter in a galaxy is dark. Many attempts have been made and millions of dollars spent trying to detect this dark matter but so far it has eluded everyone.
In order for general relativity to be correct, about 90 % of the energy in the universe must be in the form of some exotic dark energy. This energy also remains undetected.
Mankind lives in a tiny little corner of the universe. All our experiments are done on a very short time scale and over very tiny distances. We are microscopic in the scheme of things. But we have reached out with space probes albeit a very small distance in cosmic terms.
Our wonderful physics that works so well here in our microscopic corner of the universe has been tested further out in space and guess what? It doesn’t seem to work. All distant space probes are exhibiting a Doppler anomaly. Not to worry, physicists are hard at work trying to conjure up yet another dark magician.
Could it be that maybe, just maybe we took a wrong turn somewhere in our physics?
Shortly after Einstein proposed special relativity, Minkowski developed the 4 vector space time continuum. Three spatial dimensions and one time dimension. Although it is called a 4 vector, only three components actually coordinate to any real physical directions. Time is treated as a scalar (non-directional) quantity.
Since time was treated as non –directional in Minkowski space, when Einstein formulated general relativity, it remained non-directional.
The entire premise of relativity is that space and time are basically the same, yet time continues to be treated as non-directional.
Assume that was the wrong turn (at least one wrong turn). Assume that time is directional in some space/time continuum.
If time is directional then not only can space be curved but time can be curved, More appropriately, space/time can be curved. In Minkowski space, one basically rotated a space time coordinate system. This rotated time represented a system at a non zero velocity relative to the original. So, rotated time means the observer see the observable moving.
So, if time were at a different direction at some point in space/time than that of the observer, the observer might think that point was moving.
Physics has been successful by attempting to Unify and conserve measurable quantities. Much of physics can be broken down into conservation laws. If we accept that time is directional and no different than space then we would be foolish not to explore the possibility that space/time is conserved.
Assume that the space/time vector is conserved. As time increases, space must shrink. The space time path would be circular and the direction of time constantly changing. If the change is small over a period of “observer time” then the change is roughly linear and one could expect to see thing appear to move at an ever increasing speed as one peers further back into time or looks at objects far away (the light taking a long time to reach the observer).
Wait a minute, that’s the Hubble formula!
Now when something moves, we must rotate it’s time direction. It makes sense that we rotate it toward the future. Now as it moves further away we see it in the past, and hence we are effectively rotating it’s time back to lower velocity.
Wait a minute, that’s what is happening to all the distant space probes!
Now, if everything rotates through space/time what happens when it reaches a point of no space (all time)? It cycles through a quadrant of backward time.
Wait a minute, that’s what anti particles do.
But if it goes backwards in time it will eventually come back around and re-live. But it will be at the same time as it started and so on and so forth. There will instantly be an infinite number of possible space/time coordinates for the thing.
Wait a minute, that’s quantum mechanics.
I’ll make one more assumption.
An objects cycle rate through space/time is inversely proportional to its total energy. This explains why large object stay put. It would take millions of years in isolation for a baseball to become a wave, but a very short time for an electron.
Interference experiments with fullerene show a diffraction pattern that suggests a slit to detector distance shorter than actual. The fullerenes must travel a short distance after exiting the slit before becoming waves.
Oh, by the way, that shrinking space does explain gravity and without the need for all that dark matter.