John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readJun 24, 2021

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Or, rather than looking at this issue in isolation, it can be added to the growing list of other "anamolies," from dark energy and matter, the various patches, including Inflation, already required, along with other issues, such as combining GR and QM, to consider that it isn't simply in the details that we might be missing something, but into various of the assumptions built into current theories.

We are at the center of our point of view, so that was incorporated into a geocentric cosmology. What aspects of our models are still a function of our perception?

One is the issue of time. As these mobile organisms, our experience is as a sequence of perceptions, logically in order to navigate, so we assume time to be the point of the present, moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration. The reality is that change turns future to past. Potential, actual residual. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Aka, causality and cinservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Time is asymmetric because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

It is more like temperature, pressure, color and sound, than space. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

Which means "the fabric of Spacetime," a physical explanation for the math of SR, like crystalline spheres were a physical explanation for the math of epicycles, doesn't exist.

Yet that basic point doesn't fly with theoretical physicists, who can only speak math and are searching for that magic algorithm, that can be written on a whiteboard and oohed and aahed at.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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