Are we missing a dimension of time?

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*Are we missing a dimension of time?*

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Roger Highfield Telegraph Media Group Limited

October 10, 2007

 

*Could " hypertime " help develop a theory of everything? *

*Roger Highfield reports*

 

A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that

there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are

all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his

heretical idea next year.

 

Time is no longer a simple line from the past to the

future, in a four dimensional world consisting of three

dimensions of space and one of time. Instead, the physicist

envisages the passage of history as curves embedded in a

six dimensions, with four of space and two of time.

 

" There isn't just one dimension of time, " Itzhak Bars of

the University of Southern California in Los Angeles tells

New Scientist. " There are two. One whole dimension of time

and another of space have until now gone entirely unnoticed

by us. "

 

[image: Two-Time Physics diagram] Itzhak Bars' two time physics diagram

 

 

 

Bars claims his theory of " two time physics " , which he has

developed over more than a decade, can help solve problems

with current theories of the cosmos and, crucially, has

true predictive power that can be tested in a forthcoming

particle physics experiment.

 

If it is confirmed, it could point the way to a " theory of

everything " that unites all the physical laws of the

universe into one, notably general relativity that governs

gravity and the large scale structure of the universe, and

quantum theory that rules the subatomic world.

 

In the quest for that all embracing theory, scientists have

been adding extra dimensions of space to their equations

for decades. As early as the 1920s, mathematicians found

that moving up to four dimensions of space, instead of the

three we experience, helped in their quest to reconcile

theories of electromagnetism and gravity.

 

Today, theoreticians are studying a theory of everything

called M-theory that adds yet another dimension, taking the

total to 11: 10 of space and one of time.

 

Until now, they have been reluctant to meddle with time

because it can lead to unexpected consequences, such as

time travel.

 

Changing our picture of time from a line to a plane (one to

two dimensions) means that the path between the past and

future could loop back on itself, allowing you to travel

back and forwards in time and allowing the famous

grandfather paradox, where you could go back and kill your

grandfather before your mother was born, thereby preventing

your own birth.

 

Bars first found hints of an extra time dimension in

M-theory in 1995 and, when he looked into it, discovered

the grandfather paradox and other fears could be overcome

by using a new kind of symmetry - a mathematical property

to work out the relationship between the quantities of

position and momentum. It is this symmetry that might help

reconcile the two mighty pillars of 20th-century physics,

quantum mechanics and relativity.

 

Simply adding an extra dimension of time doesn't solve

everything, however. To produce equations that work with

the new symmetry that describe the world accurately, an

additional dimension of space is needed as well, giving a

total of four space dimensions, he explained in the journal

Physical Review D.

 

According to Bars, the familiar four dimensional world we

see around us is merely a " shadow " of the six-dimensional

reality, just as a hand makes many different shadows on a

wall when lit from different angles.

 

Although we cannot experience the extra time dimension

directly, we can effectively notice it through the

different perspectives of the different " shadows " .

 

In this sense, he points to already existing evidence of

physical phenomena at both macroscopic and microscopic

scales. Furthermore, he believes that more evidence for his

theory could emerge next year, when particles are smashed

together in CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva,

Switzerland to create hitherto unseen " supersymmetric "

particles.

 

The work poses a question: is his proposal a mathematical

fix, rather than a real physical entity?

 

Bars insists his extra dimensions are more than

mathematical sleight of hand. " Absolutely not, " he told New

Scientist. " These extra dimensions are out there, as real

as the three dimensions of space and one of time we

experience directly. "

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/10/scitime110.xml

 

 

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