Space versus Time

Distinction Between Things and Non-Things o Referents are either things (leave empirical evidence) or non-things (do not). o Non-things cannot be agents, cannot change by themselves, and have no physical coordinates. o Concepts, numbers, and time are non-things. o With one exception, infinity precludes thinghood, and thinghood precludes infinity. Nature of Time o Time has no physical coordinates and cannot be traveled to or from. o Genuine bidirectional time travel is not possible because it requires that the past still exists and that the future already exists. Both are nonsensically paradoxical. o Time dilation is not a physical change to time itself. Nature of Space o Space is modeled as an active useful thing, with agency, energy, mass, motions, and physical coordinates. o In physics, action-at-a-distance is precluded, given that empty inert space separates things; in zero-sum metaphysics, space actively connects all things, requiring that distance and action-at-a-distance are only apparent. o Because thinghood precludes infinity, space is not infinite in any quality except duration. o Space is active, evolving, growing, reproducing, and space provides a physical mechanism for apparent action-at-a-distance, quantum entanglement, quantum tunneling, mass augmentation, length contraction, creation of virtual particles, creation of all matter (which creates light), &&&. o Because space evolves, and evolution is inhomogeneous, space is inhomogeneous, and "constants" like "c" and "G" that depend on the structure of space change, have changed, will continue to change, and are not identical from place to place. o All things: matter, light, space, & are composed of fundamental motions (compare vibrating strings), and given the right conditions, space, matter, light, & are interconvertible. Space-Time as a Non-Thing o Space-time is not a thing but a chimeric mathematical construct, useful in general relativity. o Only things can curve; space curves but space-time cannot curve. Zero-Sum Metaphysics o The universe exists under a zero-sum law: all completely conserved quantities sum to zero. o Conservation laws are metaphysical consequences of nothingness. o The total amount of any completely conserved quantity - including energy - is always zero. Implications for Physics o Many paradoxes in modern physics arise from confusing non-things with things. o Mechanistic explanations are necessary for true comprehension; mathematical descriptions alone are useful but insufficient. o The Law of Contradiction is true-by-definition and thus cannot have any exceptions. Thus, any contradiction proves error, even in science. A plethora of contradictions proves gross error. o Thus, since quantum mechanics, relativity and time travel are riddled with contradictions, many errors have been made.