Physical Reality Is Probably Fundamentally Timeless/ Unchanging

IntroductionI am going to be arguing that at the fundamental level of reality; time probably plays no role. This may seem bizarre because time is something that seems intimate to us. Physically, however, it is not that fundamental. Ontologically, the universe is likely to be static and unchanging. Quantum Events Are Not Dependent On Space And TimeThe fundamental reality is quantum, and the macroscopic world is made of the quantum world. This suggests that if quantum events don't depend on space-time, then time isn't really fundamental to physical reality (the quantum world is our fundamental physical reality). In the paper "Quantum Erasure With Causally Disconnected Choice" from 2011[1], physicists Xiao-song Ma, Johannes Kofler, Angie Qarry, Nuray Tetik, Thomas Scheidl, Rupert Ursin, Sven Ramelow, Thomas Herbst, Lothar Ratschbacher, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Thomas Jennewein, and Anton Zeilinger showed that for the result of the experiment they carried out to be compatible with Special Relativity; we have to assume that quantum events (like quantum entanglement) are not dependent on space-time. If we do not assume this, then violations in Special Relativity appear, which is unlikely, as Special Relativity is very well tested[2][3]. This suggests that the quantum world, and thus, the more fundamental aspect of our physical reality, is timeless. Anton Zeilinger describes the results of the experiment:"Our work disproves the view that a quantum system might, at a certain point in time, appear definitely as a wave or definitely as a particle. This would require communication faster than light – which is dramatically at odds with Einstein's theory of relativity. And so, I think that this view needs to be abandoned completely. In a certain sense, quantum events are independent from space and time." - Anton Zeilinger[4]It seems as if this is strong evidence that the quantum world, our fundamental physical reality, isn't dependent on time or space. Thus, it is likely timeless. The Wheeler-DeWitt Equation The Wheeler-DeWitt Equation describes a reality that is fundamentally timeless, but it is the best description we have with regards to uniting Quantum Mechanics with Relativity. "The Wheeler–DeWitt equationis an attempt to mathematically meld the ideas of quantum mechanics and general relativity, a step toward a theory of quantum gravity. In this approach, time plays no role in the equation, leading to the problem of time."[5]Since this is the best equation we have so far in context, and it describes a timeless reality; this is a large clue in favor of the resolution. Time Emerges From Quantum Entanglement Scientist Ekaterina Moreva and an accompanying team were able to show that time is an emergent property of Quantum Entanglement, and that reality is fundamentally static in their paper "Time from quantum entanglement: an experimental illustration"[6] . Basically, if there was an observer outside the universe, this observer would see our timeless and unchanging universe as it really is."The results depend on how the observation is made. One way to do this is to compare the change in the entangled particles with an external clock that is entirely independent of the universe. This is equivalent to god-like observer outside the universe measuring the evolution of the particles using an external clock.In this case, Page and Wootters showed that the particles would appear entirely unchanging—that time would not exist in this scenario... ... Of course, without experimental verification, Page and Wootter’s ideas are little more than a philosophical curiosity. And since it is never possible to have an observer outside the universe, there seemed little chance of ever testing the idea. Until now. Today, Ekaterina Moreva at the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM) in Turin, Italy, and a few pals have performed the first experimental test of Page and Wootters’ ideas. And they confirm that time is indeed an emergent phenomenon for ‘internal’ observers but absent for external ones."[7] Now , the universe is either timeless or not ontologically regardless of reference frames. So who's reference frame is ontologically correct, the inside, or outside observer? Well, since time is the emergent property, this means that that timelessness is more fundamental:"[E]mergent entities (properties or substances) ‘arise’ out of more fundamental entities and yet are ‘novel’ or ‘irreducible’ with respect to them"[8] This suggests that time is the illusion, with the outside observer (hypothetical outside observer) seeing reality as it really is. This should be especially evident considering the fact that an outside observer would have a complete view of all points of the universe. However, we only experience what we view as the "present", when really this observer would be able to look at all of our deaths, even though to us, they haven't happened yet. Thus suggests that we are the ones experiencing something that plays no fundamental role in physical reality; time.The Mathematical Object Resembling A Multifaceted Jewel In Higher Dimensions Physicists discovered a mathematical object resembling a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions, which suggests that space and time are illusions: "Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality." [9] Arkani-Hamed explains: "In a sense, we would see that change arises from the structure of the object...But it’s not from the object changing. The object is basically timeless.” - Arkani-Hamed This idea (that predicts a static reality) seems revolutionary: “The degree of efficiency is mind-boggling... You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before.” - Jacob Bourjaily, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University "It’s a better formulation that makes you think about everything in a completely different way.” - David Skinner, a theoretical physicist at Cambridge University The simplest answer is usually correct (Occam's Razor), especially to this degree; we should take it seriously. This is just another clue that leads us to the notion that time is likely to be an illusion. Special Relativity And Static Time Einstein's Theory of Relativity, on its face, seems to predict that space and time are illusions: "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein [10] If the space-time interpretation (where space and time are interwoven) of Special Relativity is true, then this supports the idea of ontologically static time. As it turns out, the spacetime vortex predicted by the spacetime interpretation of Special Relativity was confirmed. NASA scientists discovered the space-time vortex predicted by Einstein's theories of Relativity [11], showing that the space-time interpretation of Special Relativity is true over other views, in which space and time are not interwoven and there is no fabric to bend (and thus, no vortex). Sources[1] http://arxiv.org...[2] http://arxiv.org...[3] http://en.wikipedia.org...[4] http://phys.org...[5] http://en.wikipedia.org...[6] http://arxiv.org...[7] https://medium.com...[8] http://plato.stanford.edu...[9] https://www.simonsfoundation.org...[10] http://www.brainyquote.com...[11] http://science.nasa.gov...http://www.youtube.com...