Footnote Physicist

by Steven Gussman   ASSUMPTIONS           Two broad assumptions will be made: 1. The Wheeler-Feynman hypothesis that anti-matter is merely matter moving backwards in time. 2. That any particle is intrinsically as likely to move in the forward-or-backward direction in the temporal dimension (yielding a space-like time-dimension, part a hyper-space-like four-dimensional universe). HYPOTHESIS           The arrow of time is modeled here as arising from the thermodynamic diffusion of particles in the single time-dimension. This diffusion in turn arises from the fact that, while there are no boundaries in the three classical spatial dimensions—diffusion there is not biased in any particular direction, and generally, matter diffuses outward in all directions (particularly as the universe expands), there is a one-sided boundary in the temporal dimension in which 13.8 billion years ago there is a barrier (whereas there is...

        “My parents died years ago.  I was very close to them.  I still miss them terribly.  I know I         always will.  I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about           them, are – really and truly – still in existence somewhere... I know how much I want to believe           that my parents have just abandoned the husks of their bodies, like insects or snakes molting,           and gone somewhere else.  I understand that those very feelings might make me easy prey even           for an unclever con, or for normal people unfamiliar with their unconscious minds, or for those           suffering from dissociative psychiatric disorder.  Reluctantly, I rouse some reserves of      ...