TFNR - The Dimensionalities / Dimensions of Reality
Dimensions as intended in classical physics (three in space and one in time absolute dimensions) or in relativistic physics (four space time relative dimensions), in my opinion, doesn’t exist. In Evolutionary Physics dimensions are intended as ways of observing Reality. We can observe and measure Physical Reality in three fundamental directions, corresponding to the three fundamental emerging properties of the manifestations of the Source: cause, space, time.
In Evolutionary Physics only “events” have physical significance (Action) as manifestations of existence, and only “relations between events” (Information) have physical significance as manifestations of essence, of form. States have no meaning, don’t exist in a physical sense, they are mere abstract constructs, easy ways to describe reality, to measure and compare the evolution of physical systems. But nothing else. Everything flows. So, dimensions are not entities, they don’t really exist, both in an absolute and in a relative sense. They are ways in which we can observe Reality in the direction drawn by the properties of the fundamental entities.
As mentioned above, the three fundamental properties of the manifestations of the Source: cause, space, time, emerge from nothingness, from non-existence, through the expression of the two non-manifest entities that compose the unity of the Source: Force and Field. The Fundamental Force become “cause” only acting on the Elementary Field, and the Field becomes the “space-time” only under the action of the Force. For space time, we intend a complex field whose organization represents not only mass and gravity, but all the natural quantities, charge and spin. The space-time field can support all the phenomena, the gravitational phenomena, the motion, as the electromagnetic phenomena, etc.
In the following, we will see as the three fundamental properties emerge from the dynamics of the Elementary Field, in the way the Fundamental Force, acting on it, produce the Elementary Action, the primary form of existence. The dynamics of the Action, in its three modes of expression, perturbation, translation and rotation, will explain the nature of this emergence, the nature of the direction in which we can observe and measure the Physical Reality.
Therefore, observing the Reality, the manifestation of the Source, following the directions of its three fundamental properties, we can identify three fundamental dimensions:
- the causal dimension (the “cause”, the expression of a force, the metric of complexity),
- the spatial dimension (the “space”, the structure that combine the three classical spatial dimensions),
- the temporal dimension (the “time”, the dimension that, combined with the three spatial dimensions, forms the space time continuous. At each level of complexity, time dimension is a metric of the density of events).
All these three fundamental dimensions of Reality, “cause, space and time”, manifest themselves in continues domains, representing the basic properties of the fundamental Entities: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field (the space time), as the two complementary expressions of the unique Source of Reality.
All these three dimensions can be considered and observed in an absolute and a relative perspective. For example, in an absolute perspective, we can see the causal dimension as the expression of the Force that cause the creation of the existence of Reality, and, at the same time, in a relative sense, as the derived forces, coming from the relativisation, the complexification of the Force, forces that cause the evolution of the essence, the form, of Reality.
Space and time can be represented by different systems of three spatial “coordinates” (rectangular, polar, cylindrical, etc.) and a temporal dimension, to obtain the four-dimensions space-time continuum. This is a fundamental property of the Elementary Field, in the sense that spatial and temporal dimensions, as the causal dimension from the Fundamental Force, “emerge” from the fundamental dynamics of the Field itself, as a space-time metric, a net of relations among events, that themselves “create” the metric. In the following, we will see how the density and the dynamics of the Elementary Events, The Action, determines the space and time distances that give a dynamic form to space-time.
The emergence of the three fundamental properties is not strictly contemporary in a causal sense. In a mere “causal” sense, there is no reference to a temporal order, every property emerging in a zero-time manifestation. We cannot imagine a condition or a time in which the Source don’t manifest itself without manifesting its full elementary properties.
This means that cause (the root of the causal dimension, when we observe Reality in the direction of the expressions of the forces, observing events as they happened, the way they happen, without considering the spatial variations and the time in which these variations appear in relation with other spatial variation taken as dimensional reference) starts, always in a causal sense, the emergence of Reality, of the spatial aspects of Reality. Cause and, in consequence, the causal dimension are not entities, nor properties a priory. Forces don’t exist as entities “potentially”, they exist only “actually”, in the “act of acting”.
And in turn, this means that space (the root of the causal dimension, when we observe Reality in the direction of the expressions of the forces, observing events as they happened, the way they happen, without considering the spatial variations and the time in which these variations appear in relation with other spatial variation taken as dimensional reference) starts, always in a causal sense, the emergence of Reality, of the spatial aspects of Reality. Space and, in consequence, the spatial dimension are not entities, nor properties a priory. Space doesn’t exist as an entity “potentially”, it exists only “actually”, in the “act of being acted”, as a variation. Events don’t happen in space. Events “create” the space.
And more, this means that time (the root of the temporal dimension, when we observe Reality in the direction of the expressions of the forces, observing events as they happened, the way they happen, without considering the spatial variations and the time in which these variations appear in relation with other spatial variation taken as dimensional reference) starts, always in a causal sense, the emergence of Reality, of the spatial aspects of Reality. Space and, in consequence, the spatial dimension are not entities, nor properties a priory. Space doesn’t exist as an entity “potentially”, it exists only “actually”, in the “act of being acted”, as a variation. Events don’t happen in time. Events “create” the time.
So, the three fundamental properties, and, in consequence, the three dimensions, are not only relative, in the sense of General Relativity, they are relative in a complete and integral sense.
If we look at the fundamental properties, that support the observing dimensions, as the ability of the Source to form Reality, we can see “cause” as the ability to produce differences in a homogeneous field (variation), “space” as the ability to maintain causally separated these differences (propagation), and “time” as the ability to give causal permanence (causes - effects chains) to those differences (conservation).
Though cause, space and time are intimately connected as properties of the Source, a unique entity, here in short, we will separately explore the nature and the meaning of each of those that we consider the roots of the ways in which we observe Reality, the three fundamental dimensions.
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