Thanks,
Those were well written articles considering the limitations of their perspective. I found the following comments interesting and relevant to the current discussion.
"One can think of ordinary, real, time as a horizontal line. On the left, one has the past, and on the right, the future. But there's another kind of time in the vertical direction. This is called imaginary time, because it is not the kind of time we normally experience. But in a sense, it is just as real, as what we call real time."…
"If space and imaginary time are indeed like the surface of the Earth, there wouldn't be any singularities in the imaginary time direction, at which the laws of physics would break down. And there wouldn't be any boundaries, to the imaginary time spacetime, just as there aren't any boundaries to the surface of the Earth. This absence of boundaries, means that the laws of physics, would determine the state of the universe uniquely, in imaginary time."
ac.wwu.edu
"For all practical purposes, we could accurately call this a view of the true beginning of time, since we would be penetrating beyond "ordinary" time to some more fundamental, discrete structure from which our apparently continuous time and space have emerged."
americanscientist.org |
