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An introduction to and a partial review of supergravity theories is given, insisting on concepts and on some important technical aspects. Topics covered include elements of global supersymmetry, a derivation of the simplest N=1 supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Jean-Pierre Derendinger

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

Understanding the emergence of a tangible 4-dimensional space-time from a quantum theory of gravity promises to be a tremendously difficult task. This article makes the case that this task may not have to be carried. Space-time as we know…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Antoine Tilloy

It is proposed that space is a four-dimensional Euclidean space with universal time. Originally this space was filled with a uniform substance, pictured as a liquid, which at some time became supercooled. Our universe began as a nucleation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Grady

The satisfactory development of Quaternionic Analysis has indicated new solutions for physical and mathematical problems. It is worth mentioning the fact that quaternions possess four dimensions, and in this way they may be considered as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 J. Marão

We discuss how developments in physics often imply in the need that spacetime acquires an increasingly richer and complex structure. General Relativity was the first theory to show us the way to connect space and time with the physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Orfeu Bertolami

In quantum mechanics the time dimension is treated as a parameter, while the three space dimensions are treated as observables. This assumption is both untested and inconsistent with relativity. From dimensional analysis, we expect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 John Ashmead

Time perception is crucial for a coherent human experience. As life progresses, our perception of the passage of time becomes increasingly non-uniform, often feeling as though it accelerates with age. While various causes for this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-11 Enric Espel Sanchez

Our main purpose here is to study some qualitative aspects of space and time. These include the notion of space and time regarded as the containers of respectively bodies and events, the divisibility of space, and the unrepeatability of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 Mauricio Mondragon , Luis Lopez

We consider defining time as a function of a cyclical field, an abstraction of a clock. The definition of time corresponds to a novel interpretation of the relationship between space-time coordinates of observers at different locations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Yaneer Bar-Yam

By considering a new form of dimensional reduction for noncommutative field theory, we show that the signature of spacetime may be changed. In particular, it is demonstrated that a temporal dimension can emerge from a purely Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Chong-Sun Chu , Olaf Lechtenfeld

A closer look (with hindsight) at Newtonian and relativistic kinematics reveals two things. Not surprisingly, Newtonian time remains the empty and artificial - albeit useful - figment it is known to be. Quite unexpectedly however it turns…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Leemann

A new theory of fundamental physics is presented; it predicts that the new dimensions that may be observed by the Large Hadron Collider are timelike.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 George A. J. Sparling

Understanding the nature of time remains a key unsolved problem in science. Newton in the Principia asserted an absolute universal time that {\it `flows equably'}. Hamilton then proposed a mathematical unification of space and time within…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-02 James M. Chappell , John G. Hartnett , Azhar Iqbal , Nicolangelo Iannella , Derek Abbott

In this article, the evolution of the ideas about the fourth spatial dimension is presented, starting from those which come out within classical Euclidean geometry and going through those arose in the framework of non-Euclidean geometries,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 José Maria Filardo Bassalo , Francisco Caruso , Vitor Oguri

First, let the fractal dimension D=n(integer)+d(decimal), so the fractal dimensional matrix was represented by a usual matrix adds a special decimal row (column). We researched that mathematics, for example, the fractal dimensional linear…

General Physics · Physics 2007-07-03 Yi-Fang Chang

In this note we discuss the possibility to get a time rather than space in the scenario of (de)construction of new dimension.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Berezhiani , A. Gorsky , I. I. Kogan

In light of G\"{o}del's undecidability results (incomplete theorems) for math, quantum indeterminism indicates that physics and the Universe may be indeterministic, incomplete, and open in nature, and therefore demand no single unification…

General Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Wanpeng Tan

Rather than an a priori arena in which events take place, space-time is a construction of our mind making possible a particular kind of ordering of events. As quantum entanglement is a property of states independent of classical distances,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Karl Svozil

We consider spacetime to be a 4-dimensional differentiable manifold that can be split locally into time and space. No metric, no linear connection are assumed. Matter is described by classical fields/fluids. We distinguish electrically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov