by Mark Fennell
November 2, 2019
Space-Time is a type of graph. It is a way to represent
reality. However, it is not reality itself. Most people do not understand this.
In fact, the majority of scientists who believe in Space-Time treat the graph as
reality, instead of just graph paper.
All graphs are a representation of reality. They are not
reality themselves. They are useful tools, but they do not have physical
existence in our lives.
The Bar Graph
For example, look at a Bar Graph. The bar graph is a
series of columns, which have different heights along the Y axis. Each one is
usually a different category, or variation of a topic, listed on the X axis.
These Bar Graphs are helpful to understand information.
They do organize the data. But are they reality? No.
When we walk around, do we see columns of various
heights? Do we see these various columns, with various colors and various
heights, like a series of Greek columns? No, we do not. They do not have this
physical reality.
It is a graph. It is a representation of information.
Yet, it is not physical reality.
The Space-Time Graph
We can say the same thing regarding the Space-Time Graph. The space-time graph was created as way to understand
information. When we want to understand the motions of many objects, over a
significant period of time, then we use the space-time graph.
There is a lot of information. All of these objects, all
of these motions, over this extended time period. This can be a lot of
information to try to absorb in the mind. Therefore, the space-time graph is
used to represent this information. In that respect, the space-time graph
becomes a helpful tool. It is a way to see all of this information visually.
However, that is all it is. This is a type of graph. It is
a visual aid. It is a tool.
The space-time graph represents
aspects of reality. It is not reality itself. That is the difference.
Most scientists forget that it is just a graph. They
mistake the graph of data for being a drawing of reality. But that is not what
we have. It is a representation of information, in a visual format. It has
never been a drawing or picture of reality itself.
Curvature of Space-Time
With this understanding of the space-time as graph, we
can now explain all of the “oddities” of space-time. The first is the curvature
of space-time.
In the theory of space-time, gravity is said to be a
curvature in space time. We can understand this as curvature of…the Graph! It
is not curvature of space or of time!
Take your graph paper. Bend it. Roll it. That is
curvature of space-time. You notice that you are bending the graph…which causes
the curves…in your graph paper. But this is just a graph. It is a
representation of reality, it is not reality itself.
It is therefore not any real space or real time that is
bent, it is only the drawings on the paper that become bent. This is a
significant difference.
Ball on the Trampoline
Also, scientists will demonstrate the curvature of space
time by dropping a bowling ball on trampoline. (This trampoline can also be any
object with similar flexible layer). The bowling ball is said to represent a
large object, like a star. The flexible layer of the trampoline or similar
object is said to represent the space-time.
Thus, the bowling ball is dropped, and the skin layer is
pressed down by the weight of the ball. The scientists say “see? that is the
curvature of space-time!”
And yet, this demonstration is completely absurd.
Remember that the flexible layer of the trampoline is
just graph paper! It is a very large piece of graph paper. It is a type of
graph paper that does not tear. Yet it is just graph paper.
All they are doing is pressing an object into the large graph
paper. Of course the graph paper will bend inward, under the weight of the
heavy bowling ball. This is just Newtonian physics of the ball on the flexible
layer. It is bent because of the gravitational interactions between flexible
layer, ball, and the gravity of the earth.
Yet there is no physical reality
other than that. The universe does not in any way act as shown in the
demonstration.
Black Hole and Singularity
This brings us to the idea of the black hole, and to the
singularity.
The black hole is more properly called a Dark Star. It is
in fact a star, a very large star.
The mass and gravity of the star is so great that the photons nearby are pulled
in, and therefore no light ever reaches an observer. This is the true reality
of the Dark Star.
It is very Newtonian. In fact, its existence was first
predicted just a few years after Newton published his Principia. This was long
before Einstein or Hawking.
The more modern concepts are the “hole” of the black
hole, and of the “singularity”.
In reality, neither such things exist. Yet on the graph
paper…and only on the graph paper…they can exist.
Let’s play a game. Roll up a piece of paper into a cone.
Pretend it is a telescope, and you are looking through it like a pirate. You
will notice one end is large and open, the other end is small with only a tiny
hole.
That is what we are doing with our space-time graph
paper. We roll up our space-time graph paper into this cone shape. Our
space-time graph paper is rolled up into this cone shape. This is how you get
the “extreme curvature” of “Space-Time”.
Again, it is not reality. It is just on graph paper.
Now, look through the large hole end of your rolled up
graph paper. What do you see? You see a tiny hole at the other end. This
hole…this tiny hole…is the “hole” of the Black Hole. It is really just a tiny
hole in your wrapped up graph paper, but it is a hole. That is where the idea
of the “hole” of the Black Hole comes from.
Now, take your graph paper, and roll it even tighter.
Tighter. Tighter. I want the cone shape of the graph paper to have an end,
without any hole. You will also notice that the graph paper now ends. The graph
paper cone now ends…as a single point.
This point…is the “singularity”…of the Space-Time.
From the perspective of the drawings of lines on the
graph paper, all the data lines will circle, and wrap, ultimately coming to a
single point. Yes, we have made the graph paper roll up into a single point. We
have created this “singularity” of the space-time graph.
However, again, there is no physical reality of
“singularity”. This is only the singularity of the graph. There is no
singularity at the center of the Dark Star. In fact, it is just the opposite!
The star is enormous! The reality of the Dark Star is quite the opposite of the
geometrical concepts of hole and singularity of the graph paper.
Thus: there is no “hole” in the Black Hole. There is also
no “singularity”, where time and space become a single point. All of this is
just manipulations with drawings on the graph paper. The physical reality of
the universe acts nothing like this. Not at all.
Let us Review: Space-Time is a Graph, NOT reality
We can now review the true nature of space-time. The
concepts of “space-time” exist only on the graph paper. There are no physical
realities related to space-time.
Space-Time is a graph. It is not physical reality.
The Space-Time Graph is very similar to the Bar Graph. In
all graphs, data is plotted on a piece of paper, as visual aid. Yet this is not
reality itself.
We do not see any of the Bars of the Bar Graphs in
physical space. We do not see the lines of X-Y graphs, or the data points of
scatter plots, in the physical reality. We don’t see these things, because they
are representations of the data. These lines and points are not reality.
The graph is a tool, which we can use to help us
understand the reality. Yet the graphs are never reality in themselves.
The same is true with the Space-Time Graphs. All concepts
related to Space-Time are only concepts on a sheet of graph paper. We can
certainly use the drawings on these graphs to help us understand complex
information. However, in no way is there any physical reality associated with
the Space-Time Graph.
Furthermore, all extensions of the space-time graph can
ONLY be left to the graph paper. There can only be further predictions on what
the future drawings on the graph will look like, not what the future of the
reality in space will be.
There is no physical reality related to “Space-Time”.
There never has been any physical reality. There never will be any physical
reality. It is all on graph paper. And that is where all discussions of
Space-Time belong.
Space-time discussions belong on the graph…and only…on
the graph.
MF
November 2, 2019
