TIME, SPACE, and why WE WILL TIME TRAVEL TOMORROW...

“Time has been a stumbling block to our understanding of the universe,” Richard Muller is quoted as saying by UC Berkeley's Robert Sanders. Over his career, Muller claims to have seen a lot of "nonsense" published about time, and had some "whole new ideas that have never appeared in the literature.”

Muller is the classic, traditional physicist with an imagination limitation. Oh, he has imagination all right, just not very much and it doesn’t work very well. To illustrate this, let’s look at how he tackled the nature of time for his book, Now. The Physics of Time. Before I proceed, I’m going to tell you what I know time is, how it works and why. Then we’ll compare Muller’s approach to see the differences and it will become apparent what I mean.

First, time and space are inextricably connected, as Hermann Minkowski stated after reading Einsten’s work over 100 years ago. In the late '90s I began work on what would become my 4th D hypothesis, a parallel universe theory which recognized Minkowski's contribution but and took it seriously, positing for the literal connection between space and time on all levels - from macroscopic to microscopic. Some physicists try to look at that symbolically, or state that time is just a coordinate system but I’m going to say that time is physical and thus serves a physical purpose and then I’m going to prove it emphatically so that you know that I’m right. So here we go -

Time is connected to every bit of space everywhere, on all levels down to the planck scale and beyond if there is a beyond.

The purpose of space is it's where things are and events transpire but it is the dimension of time that allows those things to exist, move, vibrate change, what have you.

It is often said that there is a flow of time but in reality time doesn’t flow except as it expands as space expands. Because space expands, we are all moving along with space to a certain degree but we are also moving independently because we’re in a galaxy that’s moving, on a planet that’s rotating and traveling in an orbit around the sun and each of us are doing our own motions at various velocities and directions as well. So what feels like time moving is actually us moving through time as it is connected to space.

One bit of relativity to make my point - in both examples of time dilation, where clocks and things that move seem to slow down, whether caused by extreme velocities or strong gravitational fields, it's things acting on spacetime which means time is being effected - not time effecting us. We're in the spaceship sitting in the gravity well or zipping near the speed of light (we wish). So the idea of this flow of time is really the dog sticking its head out the car window to feel the "wind" as the car speeds down the street.

Many times, the "flow of time" is psychological. When it appears to slow down during intense experiences, it's called duration dilation and is caused by our brains processing incoming data faster so things then seem to be happening slower. In sports and competition and even battlefield combat, it is often called being "in the zone". I proved Baylor College's David Eagleman wrong about his claim that it's all just elongated memory back in 2007 with an application of my technocogninetic analysis that had been developed with the encouragement of the University of Southampton's Itiel Dror. It determined Eagleman's experiments were invalid due to his ignoring specific influences on the consciousness of test subjects which would affect their results.

The problem arises from the insistence of people - both physicists and normal mortals, to call something ‘time’ when it is not. What is that ‘something'? Duration. Duration is how long something lasts and when you look at everything that we refer to as ‘time’, they are in fact measures of duration and nothing more. Days, minutes, months, years, weeks, hours, seconds, light years and all the rest of it.

Now I’m going to prove why those things ARE NOT time. Remember, I said very emphatically that time is what lets things happen and those things that are happening, happen in space at some level. 100%. That’s the difference, but I have one more proof.

In advance levels of physics there is something called the “asymmetry of time” problem and it deals with the fact that despite our being able to mathematically describe things forward and in reverse, we only see events and processes happening in the forward direction. Now, if time were simply a measurement or calculation - a duration if you will, then we could substitute the word “time” with “duration” and it would be the same thing. One problem - IT’S IMPOSSIBLE. The word, ‘asymmetry’ means not balanced or complimentary. But ‘duration’ is symmetrical - 5 minutes is 5 minutes whether you’re adding them or taking them away. The same for days, or seconds. So, on the level of physics and thinking that you have to be on to begin to understand how time works, you MUST be able to discern those conditions and be aware that they even exist. It is a mandatory requirement. Anyone that fails at that really needs to put down the marker and back away from the smart board...

Now, I have established what time is. Let’s move forward and see how Dr. Muller and his work adds up.

In the article a simple question is asked by his wife—Does physics really allow people to travel back in time? Muller's answer is 'no' but the actual answer is not simple. Yes, there are solutions in physics that allow for time travel to the past but nothing literally goes back in time.

Now Muller tackles part of the asymmetry issue, reportedly asking “Why does the arrow of time flow inexorably toward the future, constantly creating new “Nows?” This is where Muller begins to show his faults. The arrow of time is simply the direction of causality. It has nothing literally to do with time, any more than eating your breakfast does. It may take place at a certain "time" or duration point for you and involve eating and drinking certain things in a particular order, but time has nothing to do with it beyond it being the dimension allowing the events to unfold.

The idea of causality creating new “Nows” is a blatant mistake because Einstein showed how there is no simultaneity, meaning there is no moment that every observer would agree is “now” and to think so is a gross error but more so, in this case, Muller wants to make the concept of ‘Now’ into a commodity where Nows can be created and spent and it doesn’t work that way. “Nows” are just moments where things transpire and are more a part of duration than actual time. A “Now” allows you to identify a point or certain range of points within a specific duration that something happened, which means it's really not about the physical nature of time at all, and more time does not equal more Nows unless you acknowledge then that all time is Now because it is allowing things to happen everywhere in the universe where for some observer, currently or was. Furthermore, if you visit a spot in the universe where something happened, then that spot is in your "Now" at that moment.

Think about it. If more space equaled more Nows that were expendable, then we could run out of time just by being in a place over an extensive period, but that's not what happens.

The article states that Muller’s idea is "Time is expanding because space is expanding". And that would be accurate but meaningless. Why? Because time physically isn't something you can run out of. A duration - yes, but AGAIN, once you know what the difference is between time and duration then it’s easy to see how people like Muller can get things wrong. If space didn’t expand, we wouldn’t run out of space - there's too much of it and we could go in a different direction. Traveling space doesn't use it up. It wouldn’t disappear and neither would time since it is attached to whatever amount of space there is. So just because space is expanding and time is expanding with it doesn’t mean anything spectacular or profound UNLESS you misunderstand what that means and assume that it means now longer durations are possible, which is nonsense.

The article quotes Muller saying, “The new physics principle is that space and time are linked; when you create new space, you will create new time,” noting that Muller is, a professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley. Like I said, just because you have more of “new space”, doesn’t mean longer durations. It just means that time is there linked to that space like it is anywhere else, and its role is to allow things to move, change, vibrate, etc. and the beautiful thing is that its role never changes.

This shows that Muller has no real comprehension of what time is and how it actually operates.

There was a sort of cliff hanger that he left in his book, as to whether a collision of 2 black holes detected by LIGO gravitational wave observatory, would prove his theory. According to the information I was able to find, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration together, carrying out a variety of independent and thorough checks - detected the collision called GW150914. But here was the important part dealing with Muller's issue -

“Firstly, as we noted already, the time delay between the observations made at each LIGO detector was consistent with the light travel time between the two sites”

That means that there was no time delay due to the increase of space causing "more time", as Muller predicted. More importantly, even if there were it would only mean that a longer distance caused the delay not more "time" as a consequence. Assuming that would be the same as treating distance as time as we do in describing light years - which is the distance lights travels in a year, but we do that as an easier way of describing distances in space because of its vastness and not as a way to describe time as a physical consequence of that distance. I think this is an important point to make, especially for the understanding of the World Economic Forum members -

Think of space as the interior of an aquarium and the water is time. For a fish inside, the water allows it to move and live. If the water were removed the fish couldn't move and would die. If the aquarium were expanded and the water added to match the volume of the space inside, the fish would be able to swim this extra volume as often as it wanted, just as we could travel extra distances because time is there as well and just as the water never runs out, neither would we run out of time in that region. It's important to distinguish between the duration of processes that may occur in a particular region and the time-space that it occurs in, there. For example, we age, not because of time but because of the physical processes that occur over a set duration within time. Time isn't the cause, its just the enabler.

I find it interesting the article quotes astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, commenting that “Maybe it’s right. Maybe it’s wrong. But along the way he’s given you a master class in what time is and how and why we perceive it the way we do.” which is completely wrong on all counts but like Stephen Hawking, Tyson doesn’t do well with the subject of time or time travel as I wrote in my article Time Travel Irony: Why Neil deGrasse Tyson Needs To And Take His Own Advice. Simply put, Muller obviously isn’t right with his theory and his understandings of the nature of time are wanting, to say the least. Not anywhere near being masterclass quality. And yes, I checked and Muller has dropped his theory so the article that the World Economic Forum shared with Futurity, since 2016, is wrong. But I digress.

Now that I’ve established that the premise of Muller's book is false, I will address the original question that his wife had at the beginning of the article - Do the laws of physics permit time travel to the past? The problem is that the answer to that question is complex and not seated in every day concepts of physics, an indicator of the difficulty in making an already difficult subject - time, more complex by extrapolating travel through it against the normal, preconceived grain, so to speak.

The science of time travel to the past lies at the confluence of quantum physics - namely the Everett interpretation with its parallel universes, temporal mechanics and information science. In 2018, Neil Turok of Canada's Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics told the BBC's program, Horizon, that the answers to time travel to the past would be found in quantum mechanics and not Einstein's general relativity where most physicists insist on looking. In 2021, I proved it in a published paper documenting photographically the link between time and parallel universes, in a series of physical experiments, using retrocausality on a macroscopic level. Simultaneously, I showed how I constructed a quantum measuring device based on a time machine controller concept by Israeli-American physicist, Yakir Aharonov who won the 2009 American Medal of Science Award. I used it to produce results matching those predicted by German astrophysicist, Rainer Plaga in his 1997 Foundations of Physics journal paper on what the results from a successful experiment to test for the Everett interpretation would be. For you traditionalists, it gets worse from there.

Physicists, as well as lay people, have accepted the paradoxes of sci-fi tales as being part and parcel with what the physics would have to be and nothing is further from the truth, as I heavily documented in my book, Paradox Lost: The True Geometries of Time Travel. More than that, time travel doesn't involve travel through time but instead the physical translation from one position in time and space to a quantum copy of an earlier one that is in fact the result of the time travel action itself. That means no paradoxes, no introduction of entropy to the past and no violations of the law of conservation of energy, no caual loops or closed timelike curves. Just as the late, great physicist, John Archibald Wheeler surmised, everything is based on information - 'it from bit', so you're dealing with the quantum manipulation of the information basis of reality within a temporal reference frame. I know. What did you expect - that it would get easier to understand?

Why do I know* so much about this? Because I'm the world's expert on the subject because unlike most of the physicists like Muller, I studied this field to learn the answers because they may be the difference between life and death for us all. There is only one alternative to 100% of the existential threats that face us and civilization, as identified by the Doomsday clock, Lifeboat Foundation and the World Economic Forum, and that is the practical application of the science of time travel to reestablish a modern civilization around 12,000 years in the quantum past, with all of our tools and toys, which would actually be happening in a parallel "Now" whenever we actually do it. Which needs to be soon,

As shocking an answer as that might be to the original question, there's more - we're now working to complete the final steps to make it a reality - a mere $100,000 stands in the way but we feel we'll be able to accomplish it this year. Once accomplished, our plans include a business model for the commercial exploitation of precious minerals, gems, sand and other resources from other worlds across the eons of time, generating billions and billions of dollars and have the ability to establish wealthy, multi-world societies as in Dubai where people will be happy and prosper. The plan was well received by those who saw it at the COP27 Climate Crisis Conference last year and you can see it yourselves here.

This plan will reduce population strain where it exists as well as stress on water and energy resources as well as an overall way out to escape other global threats such as asteroid strikes, World War 3 or events caused by space weather, when they present themselves. I feel this is a doable, wildly financially profitable solution, which has the advantage that boyhood dreams of interstellar voyages to Mars and beyond, like Elon Musk's, will never have. It can be done for reasonable start-up costs and before we run out of time. Despite how some of us want to ignore it, we have a sword of Damocles hanging over the whole world, suspended by a clock with an unknown countdown in progress. The Doomsday clock we know, is still poised at 100 seconds to midnight - now going on for the 4th year but due to be updated in the next few days, on January 24th. What will they reveal? Someday, something is going to snap but WHEN? I don't plan on waiting to FIND OUT.

The climate crisis protesters are right. Ironically, Richard Muller believes them too. We should follow the science because there is no Planet B. However, the science to save us is the Everett quantum interpretation and a near infinite number of Earths across the multiverse. Therein lies our salvation.

*As an additional note, though I have not mentioned many technical details on how to accomplish the actual time travel process, I know what they are and some must remain secret to avoid violating US Code 35, Chapter 17, Seg. 181 as well as other international security considerations.

- Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng