samedi 10 août 2013

The status of a material object and the non-dimensional nature of the universe

Fist of all, I want you to think about the arguments. You don't have to agree with it, but I hope you can follow the reasioning.



The epistemological status of ‘a material object’ and the non-dimensional status of the universe ("in superposition").



Mathematicians represent objects as one dimensional. In our minds, we conceptualize an object (a planet, a galaxy; a collision of galaxies, etc.) as ‘one event’.

We think about the sun, the earth as material objects.



But in the observable world, every material object has depth, hight, length.

When you stand still in a street and you see a high building, the photons coming from the top are representing pictures from very small peaces of this object further in the past then the photons coming from beneath the building. Your position relative to the building is crucial for what kind of building you will observe. When you can have a look at the sides of the building, these are photons coming from further in the past.



So, every observed photon of an object is a very small picture of a different event in the past on the timescale of an observer.



So, my definition of one observed three dimensional object is:

A configurations of events in time, ordered on the timescale of an observer.



But what is the epistemological nature of an event?



My defintion of one event which is not yet been observed must be:

A non-dimensional point.



Why? As soon as an event has dimensions, it will be observed as a holon of events, ordered on a timescale and it will have spatial dimensions. (example building)



And as soon there are spatial dimensions, we are talking about measurable things. And as soon we measure the depth or the hight of an object, we are putting it on a timescale.



I think that ‘a wavefunction’ = a nondimensional point

The object has no position in space and time. It is 'in superposition.



An example:





The conceptualised atom versus the observed atom




The conceptualised atom is 'one object'. we presuppose an object in our minds with spatial dimensions, but the conceptualised/theoretised object is one-dimensional.



if we were able to observe ‘the atom’.and if the atom IS a four dimensional ‘thing’,

Every detection of the atom is a detection of a configuration of events on the timescale of that detector.



The soon an object has dimensions, we cannot detect it anymore as ‘one event’. It became a holon of events on the timescale of the particular observer.



Conclusion: In our observable world a single three-dimensional object, no matter how small it is, is an observed holon of events on a timescale of an observer.



That’s a crucial difference between a conceptualised object and an observed peace of three dimensional matter in our reality.





Thé universe




Thé universe can be thought of as a theoretisised thing, which does not depend on chosen reference frames.



Therefore, the universe cannot have properties as ‘hight, depth, length, time.

The moment that ‘the universe’ has these properties, it has observable properties. Because hight, lenght, depth, time are measurable properties by definition. The moment that one observes length and depth, that moment, ‘a material object’ is no longer how ‘it is now’.



So, the observed universe must be a holon of events placed on the timescale of an observer.

The reference-frame independent universe must be non-dimensional, until being observed.





Conclusion: as soon as an object has dimensions, we are talking about measurable properties. As soon as you measure a material object, you will position it on a timeline. Because it is a holon of events on the timeline of who's measuring it.



Something with dimensions, is something with measurable properties.

And something with measurable properties (dimensions) is reference-frame dependent.



Therefore, the epistemological nature of objects must be non-dimensional or 'in superposition'.

Once you are able to observe the universe, it has dimensions. It is a configuration of postioned events on a timeline.



Therefore: thé universe must be non-dimensional. in nature, until being measured by an observer.





Maarten Vergucht





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