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TOPIC: Smaller than Planck time by Guenter Hauser
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Essay Abstract
The twin paradox where two persons can age at different rates is an astonishing effect. I will ask whether we could get a better understanding of the non-global nature of time by a concept which I call transparent time. This kind of time is associated with unobservable transformations. I also do argue for the existence of an additional more fundamental type of time, the underlying time, partly in line with John Cramer's Pseudo time. The Planck time, an extremely small amount of time, is often considered as the smallest period of time. Smaller intervals either do not exist or a new theory is necessary to explain this domain of physics. Starting from the hypotheses that it is an intermediate equilibrium instead of a block universe what we are able to observe, I argue that it is the current version of the history which we do experience, and not the “original” history. From the equilibrium with the current version of the history, I get a series of operator equivalence classes C1, C2, C3,… together with a series of critical times. Each of the times in this decreasing series marks the beginning of a new domain of physics. Each domain has got its own version of an uncertainty principle. Planck time is not the smallest critical time and most of the critical times are smaller – smaller yet by another quite large factor. Finally all the laws of physics plus the universe(s) themselves, become united in a single space.
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Degree in Physics from Technical University Munich
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