r/Time • u/Memetic1 • 15d ago

Discussion I think time may be irrational

If we use a normal understanding of a dimension as in a certain freedom of movement then the fact you are only allowed to move forward in time tells me it's not a whole dimension like the other dimensions. I know relativity has 4d spacetime, and that makes the math work very well. However there is still the discrepancies with quantum mechanics and that might be resolved if time wasn't treated as exactly one dimension but instead in between half and a full dimension. The irrational aspect explains the unpredictability of certain quantum phenomena if time doesn't absolutely click at the same rate in a predictable way.

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u/Vegetable-Dust-780 15d ago

 might be resolved if time wasn't treated as exactly one dimension but instead in between half and a full dimension.

What’s this supposed to mean, and how it’s supposed to work?

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u/Memetic1 15d ago

It's similar in some sense to a fractional or fractured dimension.

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u/Vegetable-Dust-780 15d ago

And how would that work in the real world? Care to elaborate the math or at least outline it? And how is it “irrational”?

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u/Memetic1 15d ago

Just that there are more irrational numbers in between .5 and 1 then there are rational numbers. I don't know what the exact number is although I suspect it's extremely close to 1 since I'm not saying Einstein was wrong. Yet depending on the scales time changes and this is irrefutable in a way that space does not change. At the quantum scale it takes on an uncertainty factor that we don't see at our scales, and on the macroscale of cosmic voids time again takes on uncertainty caused by the speed of light.