Physics Not About Reality: Chronon Field Theory
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 08/02/2021

More and links: http://samvak.tripod.com/time.html

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05244

In his PhD dissertation (1984, Library of Congress), Sam Vaknin postulates a particle (chronon, time quark) whose exchanges yield Time. Various time quarks (up, down, colors, etc.) cancel each other (in pairs, etc.), creating time arrow asymmetry.

Chronon is an ideal clock, but also mediates time itself (like Higgs boson & mass.) "Time" is the interaction between chronons in a field (5th force). This gives rise to a quasi-deterministic rendition of quantum theories & links time to other particle properties, such as mass.

"Events" are perturbations in the Time Field, distinct from chronon interactions. 

The Universe is observing itself, the only privileged observer & frame of reference.

Future directions

Timespace can be regarded as a wave function with observer-mediated collapse. All the chronons are entangled at the Big Bang. This yields a relativistic QFT with chronons as Field Quanta (excited states.) with integration via the quantum superpositions.
 
The metric expansion of time is implied if time is 4th dimension of space or a PHONON of the metric itself.
 
Perturbative QFT: Time from the Big Bang is mediated by chronons & this leads to expansion (including in the number of chronons.) No bound states.
 
Chronons as excitation states (stochastic perturbations, vibrations) tie in with superstring theoriest without extra dimensions. Cumulative, "emerging" perturbations amount to a curvature of time-space. Both superstring theories and GRT are, therefore, private cases of a Chronon Field Theory (CFT).

Electro-Gravity Via Geometric Chronon Field and on the origin of mass

Eytan H. Suchard

In 1982, Dr. Sam Vaknin pondered the idea of reconstructing physics based on time as a field ... in his doctorate dissertation as an amendment to the Dirac spinor equation. 

Sam saw Quantum Field Theory particles, momentum, and energy as results of the language of physics and of the way the human mind perceives reality - not as reality. ... It is a revolution of the language itself, not a new interpretation of the existing language. 

The Special and General Theories of Relativity were revolutions but they did not challenge the use of momentum and energy but rather gave them new relativistic interpretation.

Quantum Mechanics used Energy and Momentum operators and even Dirac's orthogonal matrices are multiplied by such operators. Quantum Field Theory assumes the existence of particles which are very intuitive and agree with the human visual system. Particles may be merely a human interpretation of events that occur in the human sensory world. 

This paper elaborates on one specific interpretation of Vaknin's ideas developed by the author (2003-August 2018). 

A key idea in this paper is, that while a preferable coordinate of time violates the principle of general relativity, a scalar field does not, because it does not point to any preferable direction in space time and need not be unique.
 
Interacting particles with non-gravitational fields can be seen as clocks whose trajectory is not Minkowsky geodesic.
 
A field in which a small enough clock is not geodesic can be described by a scalar field of time whose gradient has non-zero curvature: either real (describes acceleration of neutral clocks made of charged matter), or imaginary (describes acceleration of clocks made of Majorana type matter).

This way the scalar field adds information to space-time, which is not anticipated by the metric tensor alone. The scalar field can’t be realized as a coordinate because it can be measured from a reference sub-manifold along different curves.
 
In a “Big Bang” manifold, the field is simply an upper limit on measurable time by interacting clocks, backwards from each event to the big bang singularity as a limit only.
 
In De Sitter / Anti De Sitter space-time, reference sub-manifolds from which such time is measured along integral curves are described as all the events in which the scalar field is zero. The solution need not be unique but the representation of the acceleration field by an anti-symmetric matrix is unique up to SU(2) x U(1) degrees of freedom.
 
Matter in Einstein-Grossmann equation is replaced by the action of the acceleration field (geometric action which is not anticipated by the metric alone).

New formalism of matter replaces the conventional stress-energy-momentum-tensor. A positive charge manifests small attracting gravity and a stronger but small repelling acceleration field that repels even uncharged particles that measure proper time, i.e. have rest mass.
 
The negative charge manifests a repelling anti-gravity and a stronger acceleration field that attracts even uncharged particles that measure proper time, i.e. have rest mass.
 
Theory leads to causal sets. Spacetime exists only where a chronon wave-function collapses. 

It has technological repercussions, implications regarding "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy".