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Time Waves and Their Superposition

Author(s): Assen Dimitrov
Subject(s): Philosophy, Epistemology, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: simultaneity; spatial structures; time; wave superposition; superimposed asynchronous; time waves;

Summary/Abstract: A thought experiment with spatial structures formed by running water, establishes their phantom nature. We find their parts are always distributed over time, and the structures themselves never exist simultaneously in their entirety at any particular moment. The real problem, however, stems from the fact that, when something moves, it is also distributed over time. Hence, because of the motion of their constituent microparticles (molecules, atoms and elementary particles), all real physical structures are, in fact, phantom structures, i.e., they never simultaneously exist in their entirety at any particular moment. Therefore, they are indeed phantom structures, in the sense of being physically inaccessible to causal interaction in their entirety at any particular point of time. This calls into question the assumption of simultaneity and makes it possible to suggest the superposition of independent asynchronous, i.e., non-simultaneous, time waves existing in a shared space.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 91-101
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian