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...

          “In general, we look for the new law by the following process: first, we guess it... Don't laugh,           that's really true.  Then we compute the consequences of the guess... to see what it would imply,           and then we compare those computation results to nature.  Or, we say compare to experiment, or           experience... Compare it directly with observations to see if it works.  If it disagrees with           experiment: it's wrong.  In that simple statement is the key to science.  It doesn't make a difference           how beautiful your guess is, it doesn't make a difference how smart you are, who made the guess,           or what his name is: if it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong, that's all there is to it.”    ...