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Space and time are central concepts for understanding our World. They are important ingredients at the core of every scientific theory and subject of intense debate in philosophy. Albert Einstein's Special and General theories of Relativity…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Luciano Combi

We investigate the string configuration that, in the framework of the theoretical scenario introduced in [1], corresponds to the most entropic configuration in the phase space of all the configurations of the universe. This describes a…

General Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 Andrea Gregori

In this paper we work out a multiverse scenario whose physical characteristics enable us to advance the following the conjecture that whereas the physics of particles and fields is confined to live in the realm of the whole multiverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz , Prado Martin-Moruno , Artyom V. Yurov

Even though the concepts of time and space are basic concepts of physics, they have not been vouchsafed a constructive definition. As to space, this is no wonder because a correct notion of space cannot be formed in the frame of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yefim Bakman , Boris Pogorelsky

Different aspects of relativity, mainly in a canonical formulation, relevant for the question "Is spacetime nothing more than a mathematical space (which describes the evolution in time of the ordinary three-dimensional world) or is it a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-31 Martin Bojowald

Existence of frame invariant, maximum, time interval $T$, length $L$, and mass $M$ is postulated. In the de Sitter universe - (1) the life span of universe, (2) the circumference of universe at the point of maximum expansion, and (3) the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Moninder Singh Modgil

A physical theory of the world is presented under the unifying principle that all of nature is laid out before us and experienced through the passage of time. The one-dimensional progression in time is opened out into a multi-dimensional…

General Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 David J. Jackson

It is shown by very simple arguments that the observed 3+1 dimensionality of spacetime may be understood on the basis of four fundamental principles of physics namely, Causality, General Covariance, Gauge Invariance and Renormalizability.…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Rajat K. Pradhan

The relativistic conception of space and time is challenged by the quantum nature of physical observables. It has been known for a long time that Poincar\'e symmetry of field theory can be extended to the larger conformal symmetry. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

We investigate the interplay and connections between symmetry properties of equations, the interpretation of coordinates, the construction of observables, and the existence of physical relativity principles in spacetime theories. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Hans Westman , Sebastiano Sonego

Spacetime is modelled by binary relations - by the classes of the automorphisms $\GL(\C^2)$ of a complex 2-dimensional vector space with respect to the definite unitary subgroup $\U(2)$. In extension of Feynman propagators for particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinrich Saller

We propose a formulation of gravity theory in the form of a field theory in a flat space-time with a number of dimensions greater than four. Configurations of the field under consideration describe the splitting of this space-time into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 S. A. Paston

The relationship between mathematics and physics has long been an area of interest and speculation. Subscribing to the recent definition by Tegmark, we present a mathematical structure involving the only division rings - the real,…

General Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 Lester C. Welch

We put forward a new view of relativity theory that makes the existence of a flow of time compatible with the four-dimensional block universe. To this end, we apply the creation-discovery view elaborated for quantum mechanics to relativity…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Diederik Aerts

It has long been considered that conformal superspace is the natural configuration space for canonical general relativity. However, this was never definitively demonstrated. We have found that the standard conformal method of solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-21 Julian Barbour , Niall Ó Murchadha

It seems to be a common belief that the space in which we live is a space-time manifold of dimension at least four. In the present article we wish to draw attention to a slightly different possibility - a space-time pseudomanifold (or even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-13 Amos Altshuler

A model of relativistic extended particle is considered with the help of generalization of space-time inter-val. Ten additional dimensions are connected with six rotational and four deformational degrees of freedom. An obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Tarakanov

The process of cognition is analysed to adjust the set theory to physical description. Postulates and basic definitions are revised. The specific sets of predicates, called presets, corresponding to the physical objects identified by an…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin

Challenging Mermin's perspective that ``correlations have physical reality; that which they correlate does not'' we argue that correlations and correlata are not fundamentally distinct. These are dual concepts depending on the tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Marek Czachor , Marcin Nowakowski

Relationships between objects constitute our notion of space. When these relationships change we interpret this as the passage of time. Observer interpretations are essential to the way we understand these relationships. Hence observer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Mark Burgess