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New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect
phys.org ^ | June 21, 2025 | phys.org

Posted on 06/22/2025 6:24:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.

The theory also argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression. Space emerges as a secondary manifestation.

"These three time dimensions are the primary fabric of everything, like the canvas of a painting," said associate research professor Gunther Kletetschka at the UAF Geophysical Institute. "Space still exists with its three dimensions, but it's more like the paint on the canvas rather than the canvas itself."

Those thoughts are a marked difference from generally accepted physics, which holds that a single dimension of time plus the three dimensions of space constitute reality. This is known as spacetime, the concept developed more than a century ago that views time and space as one entity.

Kletetschka's mathematical formula of six total dimensions—of time and space combined—could bring scientists closer to finding the single unifying explanation of the universe.

(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronomy; physics; science; stringtheory
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To: BenLurkin

“Spacetime’...
.
A Day as a Thosand Years.
.
The Truth is out There.


21 posted on 06/22/2025 7:12:19 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: BenLurkin
"Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by a tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)"


22 posted on 06/22/2025 7:17:09 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think if one re-reads this in one of the other time dimensions it makes a lot more sense.


23 posted on 06/22/2025 7:19:21 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: noiseman

Past time or night time or dinner time or bed time


24 posted on 06/22/2025 7:20:56 AM PDT by IWONDR ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Groan. Thomas of Aquinas reflects Aristotle’s definition of time as the measurement of motion. It’s the mental construct formed from the observation of before/after and cause/effect.

God is outside of time because He is immutable. Scientific theories notwithstanding.

To say time has 3 dimensions is a statement without meaning.


25 posted on 06/22/2025 7:21:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting theory with 3 dimensions.

Today could be reflected 3 different ways depending on one’s perspective:
As it was in the Days of Noah
As it was in the Days of Moses
As it is in the Days of the Pope

Time, in this case, a day, represented 3 different ways


26 posted on 06/22/2025 7:25:06 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: BenLurkin

Time is the invention of human mind.


27 posted on 06/22/2025 7:33:51 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: delchiante

“In The Beginning...”
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Yuppers- gotta Start somewhere.
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28 posted on 06/22/2025 7:36:37 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: glorgau; BenLurkin
Gunther...


29 posted on 06/22/2025 7:46:11 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: BenLurkin
I'll hold my thoughts until Ed opines on this...


30 posted on 06/22/2025 7:59:37 AM PDT by Bobalu (They have sown the wind, and shall reap the whirlwind)
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To: BenLurkin

Is pot legal in Alaska?


31 posted on 06/22/2025 8:01:00 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: BenLurkin

I think Scarlett Johansson explained the theory long ago, in “Lucy”. There is no difference in science between Hollywood and MIT, these days. After all, three out of four people in America think that Matt Damon grew potatoes on Mars.


32 posted on 06/22/2025 8:05:18 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Today's Democrat Party is nothing but very bad performance art. )
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33 posted on 06/22/2025 8:06:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Time is the same in a relative way, but we’re older. Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.


34 posted on 06/22/2025 8:07:30 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Big Red Badger

>> A Day as a Thosand Years. The Truth is out There.

YESSIR! All Praise and Glory to the One Who created time (AND space) and Who lives unconstrained by either!


35 posted on 06/22/2025 8:09:16 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: noiseman

>> I’m struggling with the third dimension.

Many of us struggle with girth.

>> Suggestions?

Portion control?


36 posted on 06/22/2025 8:11:37 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: BenLurkin

Robert Heinlein, The Number of the Beast was based on the premise of three time axes.


37 posted on 06/22/2025 8:12:26 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s what I thought.


38 posted on 06/22/2025 8:22:59 AM PDT by ALASKA (There has to be a line we do not cross.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I Read a Book by Hugh Ross
a Christian Physicist years ago and it
Was very good.
It taught me one thing and that is We live in the middle of two Eternities.
The ‘present’ is ours.
.


39 posted on 06/22/2025 8:28:41 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: BenLurkin

I once saw the future...something that happened 3 weeks later exactly as I had seen. Someone I barely knew died in a specific way, at a specific time and a specific place.

So...obviously there is a lot we don’t understand. In another dimension has my life already happened?


40 posted on 06/22/2025 8:29:16 AM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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