Time Like Money is a Mental Product: Does Space-time Really Exist?

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• Volume 9,Issue 4,July 2021

Year:

2021

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Minkowskis Diagrams, Relativity, Sinchronicity, Space-Time, Time Like Money

Authors:

Antonio Luigi Paolilli

Journal:

IJISM

Volume:

9

Number:

4

Pages:

41-47

Month:

July

ISSN:

2347-9051

Abstract:

In Minkowski’s diagrams time is associated with space, treating it as a fourth dimension in which objects can move. This association allows for descriptions of relativistic phenomena but has generated debates on time travel and made the concept of synchronicity relative. The purpose of this paper is to present a viewpoint according to which there is an absolute, Newtonian, synchronicity in the universe. The nature of time will be discussed and its direction will be justified with the help of set theory. Finally it will be pointed out that in the hypothesis of the existence of a privileged inertial system, here sustained, Minkowski’s diagrams show only an apparent motion in time. In fact, while the configurations of the universe and their changements are physical phenomena, time is a descriptive dimension of these changes. Time is to changes in universe configurations as money is to goods: as money is a means that makes it easier to compare and then exchange goods, time is a means of the mind to compare two or more series of events. Both money and time, although they can influence real phenomena through the actions of organisms, are not of the same nature as the phenomena they describe and therefore can not be combined with them in physical entities. Therefore space-time does not exist.

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