Volume 2 No 1 (2004)
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HitchcockÊs Universe without time is superposed Universe of space gradients
Danko Georgiev1
Abstract
in the special relativity born in 1905 by Albert Einstein the notion of absolute time was
defeated and Minkowski was able to show that only the space-time as a single object can have
place in the physical theories. However with the invention of quantum mechanics (QM) some
physicists including Pauli have „found‰ that in QM the time is nothing but a parameter, and
because of the lack of a self-adjoint time operator the time has not equal status with the space
coordinates. This lead some philosophers to speculate that time is a computational artifact not
existing in the Universe (HITCHCOCK, 2003). Further he quotes the fMRI studies of the „internal
timekeeper‰ in brain to corroborate his conclusion. In the following paragraphs I will show that
whether space or time exist in the Universe and how many space or time dimensions there are,
must be solved by physical experiments and conclusions about that cannot be derived by the
study of the subjective construction of space and time in the brain.
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