We have been treating the universe as matter, and its medium as space—and we have not yet solved the core etiology of our diseases. What if we treat the universe as light, and its medium as time.
What am I going to have for lunch on Wednesday? From Monday’s perspective, it could be many things. From Friday’s perspective, it was only one.
Picture time as a wheel and call the center hub Sunday. From Sunday outward one notch, to Monday, there is wholeness. Two Mondays look back on the same Sunday; the images of Sunday are duplicates. For Monday, the past is achiral. There is 1:1 correspondence between past and present. Information can oscillate between past and present, and nothing is lost.
But what if my understanding of time is too elongated, too “tall”? What if, in the same interval in which you are going outward one notch, to Monday, I am going outward two notches, to Tuesday?
From Tuesday, wholeness is lost. Tuesday does not oscillate back with Sunday. Tuesday oscillates back with Monday, and by Monday, time has already split into forking paths.
In other words, when Monday looks backward to Sunday, two duplicate outcomes are superimposed; the information “doubles.” When Monday looks forward to Tuesday, what was already derivative is further branching into separate outcomes; the information “divides.”
The issue is one of perception. What will I have for lunch? From breakfast’s perspective, it could be many things. From dinner’s perspective, it was only one. The same thing—“lunch”—looks myriad when viewed from the past, but singular when viewed from the future.
Figure 2 Do we live in a holographic universe? Image: John Lunt
