Multiple Dimensions of Time - Part 2

 

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In a recent post, I explored how different authors and physicists have considered the possibility of multiple dimensions of time. Nature just published an article, Dynamical topological phase realized in a trapped-ion quantum simulator | Nature, in which an experiment using laser-emitted pulses sent in a Fibonacci sequence at 10 ytterbium qubits made the system behave as if there are two distinct directions of time. 

Additional links regarding this experiment:

Scientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something Strange Happened (futurism.com)

Physicists Got a Quantum Computer to Work by Blasting It With the Fibonacci Sequence (gizmodo.com)

Gunther Kletetschka, physicist - proposes that time has three dimensions and space is only its consequence - this theory could forever change the way we understand the universe https://share.google/wMBNWsoH2nVpGBByO

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Multiple Dimensions of Time

 

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I’m currently reading a Robert Heinlein book, The Pursuit of the Pankera (The Pursuit of the Pankera | Arc Manor Books), in which a group of time-space travelers devised a machine to travel through parallel universes. The key to their machine is they discover that there are three dimensions of space and three dimensions of time. The book’s theme led me to look up how theorists have speculated that there may be more than one dimension of time.

There turns out to be quite several theories about multiple dimensions of time. Enough so there is a Wikipedia page dedicated to the topic: Multiple time dimensions - Wikipedia.

Some of theories include compact time dimensions analogous to the spatial dimensions of string theory, two time dimensions in which one is in real time and one is in imaginary time as with complex numbers, and multiple time dimensions similar to conventional time.

Beyond Heinlein, other popular authors have employed multiple time dimensions including C. S. Lewis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_Narnia) and J. R. R. Tolkien (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings).

Gunther Kletetschka, physicist - proposes that time has three dimensions and space is only its consequence - this theory could forever change the way we understand the universe https://share.google/wMBNWsoH2nVpGBByO