Happy New Year everyone! I hope that the changing of the year reminds
us just how fast life can fly by, and that this occasion reminds you
to spend your time with the people you love.

My subject today will be time. I will suggest a new concept for time
that is very simple. But understanding this concept might be very hard
for some. To others the change might seem unnecessary or
insignificant. I will first present my theory of time and explain the
idea in a discussion of the current quantum solution to Zeno's
Paradox. Then I will support my theory by showing observational
evidence and that the idea leads to the resolution of some of the most
compelling criticisms of the standard physics model.

The first thing we need to know about Zeno's Paradox is that there is
one paradox presented by Zeno, not four. Zeno presents four puzzles
who's solutions are designed to show that for movement to exist in
time, time has to be both discrete and continious. Peter Lynds' has
shown recently that the
calculus solution to the puzzles is inadequate in the sense that
experiments in quantum physics suggest that a discrete unit of time is
the solution. But there is a problem with Lynds' solution: he only
solves three of the puzzles.

Solving the puzzles is of course a good thing but leaving one of the
puzzles unsolved leaves the actual paradox itself unresolved. The
paradox in the puzzles is that Zeno must conclude either that "Motion
is impossible" or that "Motion in opposite directions is impossible."
Surely, both motion and motion in opposite directions are observed and
the reasoning that leads to this conclusion must be incorrect.

Where is the problem in our reasoning? The answer is that the Greeks
didn't give us the proper understanding of time. There is a central
premise to all of the puzzles that I do not accept, and that is:
Motion exists in time.

The standard model of physics currently models time as a function of
motion, or in otherwords, a dimension along whic motion is allowed to
occur. But I think this is wrong. Here is my theory of time:

Time is created by motion.

I will explain why this simple idea, that motion does not exist in
time and instead motion creates the phenomenon of time, is an
important idea and something more than a simple trick of language. And
to explain it I will solve all four of Zeno's puzzles in agreement
with each other and with scientific observations, thus resolving the
paradox.

The first puzzle asks how can I walk accross the room if I have to
walk through an infinite number of points along the way? Because we
can keep dividing time in two there is an infinity to cross before you
even move. That is, of course, if the movement exists in time.

Quantum physics supports the idea that there is a fundamental unit of
action in nature. By my theory, the single quantized action is a
motion that doesn't occur along a time continium. By changing state
time is actually created as a quantized instant, existing only in the
motion and not along a time dimension. So the solution to this puzzle,
the first three puzzles actually, is the conclusion that motion is
impossible can be avoided by not seeing motion as a continious change
of spatial position throughout a divisible time dimension time, but
rather something that just happens in nature and creates time as a
by-product.

Now to address the tricky stadium puzzle. Zeno concludes that motion
in opposite directions must be impossible and he is completely correct
if the he thinks the two separate motions both occur in a shared
progression of time. We can show that the error in the statdium puzzle
is that the movement that Zeno is proposing is simply not allowed.

He suggests that we have rows of bodies:

    A1  A2  A3  A4
B1  B2  B3  B4

and that row B will move to be in line with:

      A1  A2  A3  A4
      B1  B2  B3  B4

And that we should regard this motion as occuring in one instant in
time and as the minimum movement allowed. By adding another row moving
in the opposite direction Zeno shows that we can conclude that the
minimum movement allowed is actually smaller than we thought, a
conclusion that contradicts the premises. Here is how the new row
leads to that conclusion. Rows B and C will move in opposite
directions while A stays still, so:

    A1  A2  A3  A4
B1  B2  B3  B4
        C1  C2  C3  C4

moves to:

      A1  A2  A3  A4
      B1  B2  B3  B4
      C1  C2  C3  C4

We see in this movement (that supposedly occurs in one istant of time)
that C moved past one body in A but it moved past two bodies in B.
Observing that for C to pass a second body in row B it must pass the
first body in some smaller interval of time, Zeno tries to show that
if this movement occured in one instant of time depending on how you
measure how far something moved in that time you can show that minimum
interval of time is not equal to itself.

Zeno's error is that he assumes these two measurements of the motion
must be equal, presumably because the uniformity of the time continium
that this motion occurs in. But if we accept my proposition, that time
is created by movement, we know that Zeno's presumption is incorrect;
we know that the two time intervals measured by relating the position
of two sets of bodies moving at varied speeds are not in fact quantums
of a uniform continuim but two disagreeing relatvistic observations of
time.

In that case the movement Zeno suggests is not allowed in reality. I
will explain why. Starting with:

    A1  A2  A3  A4
B1  B2  B3  B4
        C1  C2  C3  C4

We know that the B row is going to move all the way down one seat.
Presumably it will look like this after one instant:

    A1  A2  A3  A4
    B1  B2  B3  B4

But I say that this is not an instant! What we have observed here are
four separate movements resulting in four separate instants. How could
I represent our bodies after a single isntant?

Like so:

    A1  A2  A3  A4
B1  B2  B3      B4

We see here that since only B4 has moved one space only one interval
of time has elapsed. Now that time has been created as a result of
movement, B3 is free to move one space over to create its next moment
of time. If we consider each bodily movement one instant of time now
Zeno's observations will indeed agree. It will be impossible to move
past two bodies in one instant of time because the trick Zeno used to
show that they did required two moving bodies which we know now
requires two instants.

This understanding of time shows that the effects of special
relativity may appear to be happening at everyday scales of space and
time, but at the smallest scales these effects do not actually exist.
This resolution to the puzzle agrees with the other puzzles and is
consistent with quantum physics. And the paradox is resolved.

Can we test my theory? Sure. Zeno showed that the current theory of
time led to the conclusion that motion is impossible and my theory
says that motion is possible. All we need to do is observe a motion
and my hypothesis is shown to be more accurate.

Once this theory of time is adopted as intuition, as time is more of
an intuition than a concept, you should have the ability to understand
my multiple natures conjecture. The multiple natures conjecture
follows the consequences of this defintion of time to propose an
updated model of nature that is found to remove many incompatibilites
between our existing theories of science. The text of that conjecture
is located here:
http://www.techmocracy.net/science/time.htm

If you have difficulties with my idea of time, or have a criticism to
show that it is false please post your comments. But please, do
understand that grasping anything related to time does not come easy.

Again, have a happy 2004, and remember, its alot more important to use
your time wisely than it is to understand what time is.