The discontinuous universe: The obvious evidence in favor.

[Bob Campbell]

THE DISCONTINUOUS UNIVERSE:

Some basic facts are so obvious they are overlooked.

Late in life Einstein himself doubted that physics could be based on his assumption of a spacetime continuum. In a discontinuous universe atomic matter everywhere is synchronously disappearing into a timeless quantum mode and recurring in a succession of still space frames in a cosmic holographic movie. Each oscillation defines a Primary Interval of Time. That is why atoms are particles and waves at the same time. Space and time are quantized. The timeless quantum mode is a conjugate energy field orthogonal to the integrated fabric of space and time as we normally know it. Quantum Relativity necessarily follows with a different methodology to understanding gravity, astrophysics and cosmology consistent with the empirical evidence. See articles freely available at www.cosmic-mindreach.com.

Photons are discrete quanta of energy. The continuous EM spectrum is sliced across its entire breadth in such a way that light comes to us in a series of discrete pulses that we call photons. This is well established. Plancks constant h is known with great accuracy and it indicates a fundamental discontinuity to electromagnetic radiation such that light appears to radiate as photon energy bundles according to the simple formula E=hf where f is the frequency.

This discontinuity of light is also associated with a discontinuity of atomic matter. An electron jumps from orbit to orbit without traversing the distance between. It disappears in one orbit and reappears in another whenever an atom emits or absorbs a discrete amount of photon energy. This is essential to explain the spectral lines of hydrogen from which atomic theory and Quantum Mechanics derives. Louis de Broglie provided the wave equation for a moving particle which is also essential to the foundations of QM.

The ionization limit defines the maximum spherical dimension of an atomic photon energy shell with respect to the linear distance that light can travel in a single space frame. That is why the speed of light is universal. Linear external space is defined with respect to the internal spherical space of an atom in each frame sequence. This defines time and space. There are no other universal measuring rods out there.

The evidence thus strongly indicates that not just electrons but whole atoms everywhere in the universe synchronously disappear and recur very rapidly in a series of still atomic space frames linked up by light in a cosmic movie. This is not consistent with the spacetime continuum assumption of General Relativity. Space and time are not determining conditions of physical reality. They do not exist as things in themselves. They derive from creation after the fact.

Current theories are predominantly behavioural in character. They are based on epistemological knowledge derived from the objective observation of physical behaviour seen from the outside. This approach has accumulated an immense fund of knowledge but it allows of any number diverse subjective interpretations of the same evidence all of which constitute blind belief systems. No one will ever see a probability wave, or dark matter, or parallel universes, or the big bang, or infinitesimal strings. It is time someone put things in a perspective that can distinguish ontological possibility from empty fantasies about empirical evidence.

There is a complementary structural approach that is possible that has never been explored before. It is ontological in character since it exhausts all possible structural varieties of phenomenal behaviour. It concerns the structural nature of being as distinct from empirical knowledge of behaviour and yet it must find confirmation in the empirical evidence.

There are only these two possible approaches to understanding phenomena. The structural approach includes the behavioural approach but not vice versa. This does not mean that a Theory of Everything is possible. It means that a Universal Methodology is possible that can expand the horizons of science. This is outlined in the article Unified Theories, Fantasy & Cosmic Order at www.cosmic-mindreach.com. It was published in the ANPA (philosophy of physics) proceeding held in Cambridge UK in 2008.

Regards,
Bob