Sideways time

Yuk...Space is expanding in all directions...at the same time, not just forward, and sideways.

Does "sideways time" have any meaning?

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You're missing my point. Yes space does expand in all directions but time is believed to only go in one direction - forward. And theoretically backward. So if you think about it like time is an arrow moving up a piece of paper, what if it suddenly branched off with a new arrow going sideways across the paper. So to anyone on either arrow time is still moving forward but from each of their arrows the other arrow exists only in the past. So what if something like that happened in the big bang where time shot out in all directions just like 3 dimensional space. It would mean that each of these parallel timelines exist independently of each other and from each timeline the other timelines do not exist because they only converge in the past at the moment of big bang. So who's to say that the Big Bang was not a result of branching off of some other timeline which is now in our past because from our perspective the totality of it only existed at the moment of the big bang, although to someone in that timeline an infinity could pass and our entire universe is just a blip in their past that no one even noticed. It really makes you think about dimensions and stuff when you really stop and think about it.

Yuk...OK, you agree that space is expanding in all directions...let's call the starting point 'BB'. You say the "Arrow of Time" is moving "forward"...a better word for the movement of space and time would be outward from point BB...if you agree with this, we can go on ?

Z.

Just a thought... What you've described sounds like the Schwartzchild metric solution of the Einstein Field equations around a Schwartzchild black hole. This solution has some odd properties: if the distance from the black hole's centre is r then r is space-like beyond the event horizon, but becomes time-like inside the event horizon; the solutions's corresponding time also swaps from being time-like beyond the event horizon, into one that is space-like within.

The similarities with the original post are clear, provided you imagine a universe that is a (Schwartzchild) black hole.



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Wow! That was deeply insightful. I'm curious how that is conveyed mathematically. A quadratic equation that approaches a flat/straight line?











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Yes I agree they are both going outward. 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time - that we know of. We can move freely through space, but only forward in time. What if there were more dimensions of time, that is what I am theorizing.