Lloyd Gillespie's Blog

Originally Posted by Steven A Colyer

There are 3 kinds of space:

1) Negative Space - Take one step forward in Negative Space and you end up a step behind. Can be handled mathematically, but is pure Fantasy. Doesn't exist, or at the very least has never been observed. There IS something called Negative Energy, but that's a completely different subject.

2) Normal Space - where we live. If there isn't something in Normal Space, a "nothing," there won't be for long. The entire universe in entangled with itself, and radiation in the form of photons are everywhere.

3) Non-Space - best example would be a wormhole or mini-wormhole. Step into one around say Pluto and you end up at Alpha Centauri, say. Where the heck did you travel through to get there? A "non-space" space. Take a step forward and end up a mile ahead. Theoretically possible, technologically way beyond current technology.

Thanks for replying Antonio, but no I meant Space, not Time. I believe people underestimate the importance of space and make far too big a deal out of time, and sci-fi doesn't help in this regard. About the only person I see looking into alternative space theories in sci-fi is Greg Egan of Perth, Australia.

I have other beliefs/assumptions, such as the arrow of time is what it is because of Entropy, which is what it is because of Decoherence, that Decoherence is a function of the wave nature of everything, from "wavicles" (Benesh Hoffman's wonderful word) like the photon, and that as in LQG, time exists in quanta, that our "reality" is a series of stacked 3-spaces, time-wise. So I don't worry about "time," but will once we get a clearer idea of what "space" is, which I also believe are quantisized at the very very small Planck-scale level, as LQG also assumes. And LQG and String Theory are the 2 biggest contenders atm for an ultimate TOE.

But as of the moment I reject String Theory as well because it assumes Special Relativity works on the smallest of scales, and it may not.

Wormholes are a mixed bag. On the macro scale, good luck, and even on the micro scale as well. On the Planck-scale however, they may be so common they are interwoven into the fabric of space. It's a bit of a new concept and I'm working on the maths, but Planck-scale wormholes or "non-space" as I call it may be the key to understanding the quantum world. That's my hunch, anyway, based on everything I'm reading and have read, and continue to read.