Imagine that everything you know about space and time is only a secondary illusion. According to a new bold theory published in Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences, time is the main "fabric" of the universe that exists in three dimensions, while space is only a side effect.
It is a radical departure from the usual ideas in which the universe consists of three dimensions of space and one time. Physicists behind the new model suggest: there are three directions of time that determine everything - from the mass of elementary particles to the structure of matter.
Researchers have proposed a six -dimensional model of reality: three spatial dimensions remain, but three independent axes of time play a major role. It is this three -dimensional structure of time that allegedly generates a sense of space as a result of the interaction of deeper time processes. Unlike previous hypotheses with several times, this model avoids causality paradoxes that have previously made such theories impractical. Here the sequence of events is stored: the reason - first, the consequence - after.
The feature of the model is its compliance with experimental data. Scientists have tested it on the example of elementary particles from a standard model - electrons, muons and quarks - and found that it accurately generates their known masses, which were still incomprehensible. It's not just a mathematical experiment. The model opens the path to the creation of a unified quantum gravity theory that combines the laws of quantum mechanics and gravity is a goal that physics has been seeking for decades. The authors are working on further refinement of equations and finding specific experiments that can confirm or refute their theory.
If the theory stands the test, it will not just change physics. It will rewrite the very definition of reality that seemed adamant to us.
