[Carey]

Stephen Hawking has proposed a patch to physics called "chronology protection," which weeds out solutions to General Relativity that admit of cyclic time. In other words, he stands by the postulate that time does not go backward. I have recently reconstructed physics using chronology protection as the lone premise. All physical structure is generated by a pair-wise temporal successor relation. Time diagrams specify the quantum structure of our 4-D time lattice, electron clouds, neutrinos, charge quanta, Bohr's formula, the fine structure constant, and the structure of quarks and nucleons. Frequency, wavelength, energy, and the quantum itself are unambiguously defined in terms of sheer time order.
There are no infinities in the theory, and thus no continuum and no calculus. I came to the theory by way of Russell and Whitehead's eventism. By confining their theory to finite time structure, the structural definition of energy and the quantum is obtained. This is the crucial insight that eluded Russell and Whitehead.
The concepts of time and energy suffer from a redundancy, as indicated by Planck's E=hf. Time appears in the form of its reciprocal-- frequency. Energy is the redundant notion. It is altogether inferior to explain these things in words, when the mathematical treatment set forth in my TOE booklet is perfectly concise and utterly simple. There we have a domain of pure time, with the universe characterized as a set of time-ordered moments, conveyed formally as a set of ordered pairs. In that domain of pure time sequence, we can define "frequency" and "wavelength" as ratios such that each is the inverse of the other, obviating the need for either particles or waves in the theory.
My theory is so simple that I came to it without knowing much physics at all. How can that be? Why didn't the physicists find it? There is a good reason for it. They trust the notion of space above all else, even above time. The notion of space stems from spatial features of phenomenological experience, such as a person's visual experience. It is lifted from the phenomenal realm and applied unhesitatingly to the theory of what lies beyond experience-- the unseen world of physics. It is a difficult subject to blog effectively. I've explained it carefully in my book on Russell and Whitehead called "The Mind-Body Problem and Its Solution."
My TOE is published as "A Theory of Everything for Physics." Simple arrow diagrams are the key to comprehension. If I could post the diagrams here, I would. My latest finding is the structure of the quarks, which is available as a 2-page PDF. I can email it to anyone interested. My two books can be ordered off the internet. -- Carey R. Carlson