From: spudnik on
in a paper diagram,
the space is one dimensional, so there's no "upwards" available;
a mind is a terrible thing to waste on spacetime formalisms!

Lanczos used quaternions for "3+1" dimensions,
the same as Hamilton's "vector analysis."

> imagine a spacetime diagram of a train. Than certainly this train is not
> going 'upwards', only this spacetime view is like this.
From: Thomas Heger on
spudnik schrieb:
> in a paper diagram,
> the space is one dimensional, so there's no "upwards" available;
> a mind is a terrible thing to waste on spacetime formalisms!
>
> Lanczos used quaternions for "3+1" dimensions,
> the same as Hamilton's "vector analysis."
>
>> imagine a spacetime diagram of a train. Than certainly this train is not
>> going 'upwards', only this spacetime view is like this.

The 'real world' is somehow 'volumetric' or things happen in volume and
not on paper. But this volume or what we usually call space is an
abstraction, too, because it is timeless. If we denote a distance in
lightyears, than the events in such a distance happened that long ago.
Now it's somehow illogic to think, that events happened later could
influence those that happened before. So, what we call space is our
view, but not 'real'.
The 'real thing' is than invisible or imaginary (because we could
imagine, it would exist). In this view timelike and spacelike are
imaginary directions and the real (described with real numbers) axes of
space are those, that lie on the light cone.
If we put the light-cone vertical, than the plane perpendicular is
actually curved and builds the surface of the Earth. That means, the
timeline has a geometric meaning and has to be understood locally.
To achieve this I use a construct called triality, that could be
arranged to a tetrahedron. From these we need two, that act
antagonistic. These two tetrahedrons are the two parts of a
bi-quaternion, what has eight components.
One is expanding and one contracting and the results are standing waves,
but only for an axis of time, where those structures are stable and this
axis could be smoothly curved. This is, what the quaternions are good
for, because they enable a smooth transformation of the axes and could
'morph' space into time. But this would also morph matter into radiation
(or back), what is a bit counter-intuitive.
There are some theories, that model particles with bi-quaternions. This
is why assume, that matter is actually a structure within such a
'bi-quaternion field'.

Greetings

TH
From: spudnik on
in other words,
you're just BSing me. anyway,
just use the quaternions "real, scalar" part
to paramaterize the time, and
the "pure, imaginary" part as the three orthogonal axes.
From: Thomas Heger on
spudnik schrieb:
> in other words,
> you're just BSing me. anyway,
No, I try to describe an idea, that I'm working on.
(In case You want to read more, You may look at my 'book':
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dd8jz2tx_3gfzvqgd6 )

> just use the quaternions "real, scalar" part
> to paramaterize the time, and
> the "pure, imaginary" part as the three orthogonal axes.

Actually complex-four-vectors (or bi-quaternions) are not the same
numbers as Hamiltons quaternions. The four components have no specific
meaning. The idea is, that an 'element of spacetime' behaves in a way
that is connected to the neighborhood like you would multiply those
numbers. This could be interpreted in the same way as complex numbers,
like a spinning pointer. But this numbers spin in volume, what is
difficult to describe.
They whys and hows of this model are not easy to explain, but the model
is very simple. The main idea is a 'mechanism' that could be ubiquitous
and appear in many different forms and sizes. The rule is, that the
spacelike neighbors are twisted in the same direction and that the space
is anti-symmetric.
Because it treats time in a geometric way, it is quite
counter-intuitive, since we usually think about time as a steady flow.
But relativity tells us, that time is not, but a phenomenon, that has to
be measured locally in a process of counting rhythmic events.

Greetings

TH

From: Tim Golden BandTech.com on
On May 6, 1:21 am, Thomas Heger <ttt_...(a)web.de> wrote:
> spudnik schrieb:
>
> > in a paper diagram,
> > the space is one dimensional, so there's no "upwards" available;
> > a mind is a terrible thing to waste on spacetime formalisms!
>
> > Lanczos used quaternions for "3+1" dimensions,
> > the same as Hamilton's "vector analysis."
>
> >> imagine a spacetime diagram of a train. Than certainly this train is not
> >> going 'upwards', only this spacetime view is like this.
>
> The 'real world' is somehow 'volumetric' or things happen in volume and
> not on paper. But this volume or what we usually call space is an

Hi Thomas. This is some pretty dynamic thinking here. I just want to
point out that the adoption of a 'volumetric' interpretation can
branch away from Euclidean geometry a bit more than some may realize:

When we take a solid object as the means of observing the freedoms of
space (rather than the Euclidean point) we observe a six dimensional
freedom of space. Even if we accept that the solid is composed of
points, then when we fix the position of one of those points in space
(three coordinates) then the object is still free to rotate about that
fixed point. Choosing another point on the object we witness two more
coordinates are necessary to fix that point in space, and then with
the object rotating on this new axis we see that one more coordinate
completely fixes the object. This is not just a total of six
coordinates. This is a structured form:
x11, x12, x13
x21, x22
x33
This structure we see repeated even within tensor theory where the
antisymmetric tensor becomes important in the expression of
electromagnetism. Eliminate the informational redundancy of that
antisymmetric tensor and you will see this form. This form is exposed
through polysign to provide emergent spacetime, as well as fundamental
algebraic number systems. This is recurrent information and within
information theory this suggests that there is a more compact
expression of theses ideas which can then yield these things, without
redundancy.

Anyway, I just wanted to amplify what may be going under the radar,
and encourage you on down toward the fundamental, where what we
overlook is what we are after.

- Tim

> abstraction, too, because it is timeless. If we denote a distance in
> lightyears, than the events in such a distance happened that long ago.
> Now it's somehow illogic to think, that events happened later could
> influence those that happened before. So, what we call space is our
> view, but not 'real'.
> The 'real thing' is than invisible or imaginary (because we could
> imagine, it would exist). In this view timelike and spacelike are
> imaginary directions and the real (described with real numbers) axes of
> space are those, that lie on the light cone.
> If we put the light-cone vertical, than the plane perpendicular is
> actually curved and builds the surface of the Earth. That means, the
> timeline has a geometric meaning and has to be understood locally.
> To achieve this I use a construct called triality, that could be
> arranged to a tetrahedron. From these we need two, that act
> antagonistic. These two tetrahedrons are the two parts of a
> bi-quaternion, what has eight components.
> One is expanding and one contracting and the results are standing waves,
> but only for an axis of time, where those structures are stable and this
> axis could be smoothly curved. This is, what the quaternions are good

Yeah. This is a pretty construction, but I feel the standing wave
claim is dubious.
This is a problem I see no support for within any wave interpretation
of matter.
The stability of the matter is in direct contradiction to wave
propagation, and so I feel that those theories should address this
conflict head-on. In effect don't we need a basis for the standing
wave rather than just popping it out of thin air? I understand that
there is experimental support for it, but that is not a theory. That
is curve fitting. I guess we're near the stress tensor within
relativity theory. Within pure elastic and compressible spacetime it
is not difficult to picture a droplet of compressed space that would
then push outward, then having stretched itself thin, would contract
again, yet why the effect would not eventually dissipate as
propagation throughout the medium is the problem we face. In effect
you are forced to detatch space, which is no longer a continuum
concept. I guess this is near to a spin foam or some such logic that I
have only thin understanding of. Even within this detatched paradigm
the propagation problem remains until interaction ceases.

- Tim

> for, because they enable a smooth transformation of the axes and could
> 'morph' space into time. But this would also morph matter into radiation
> (or back), what is a bit counter-intuitive.
> There are some theories, that model particles with bi-quaternions. This
> is why assume, that matter is actually a structure within such a
> 'bi-quaternion field'.
>
> Greetings
>
> TH