1. Introduction
The Momentary Relativity Model (MRM) is a relativistic macro-level model of the basic functions in our universe. The development of the model was motivated by the identification of a number of pedagogical issues in classical relativity. The primary objective of the MRM is thus to be more intuitive and more effective at visualizing the effects of time, space, movement and gravitation.
Approximately one century ago, a group of scientists proposed that a fourth time dimension should be added to the three previously defined spatial dimensions to make it possible to describe time as a relative experience. Even if this solution is mathematically convenient, the nature of the fourth dimension is commonly ignored. The fourth dimension should describe not an additional position for objects but rather the relative speed of the progression of events. The 4D model states that time is a relative, measurable quantity, but it was not meant to suggest that objects can be displaced in the fourth dimension.
The 4D model still indicates that the universe stores information about the past and the future without offering any feasible physical explanation of this phenomenon. Causality must constantly be defended and explained by a number of mechanisms, which makes the solution of the "time dimension" pedagogically overcomplicated. Classical relativity also does not describe the profound nature of time, space, movement or gravitation.
For these reasons, it would be appropriate to evaluate a different dimensional framework, a framework which describes the profound nature of these mechanisms and has causality included in its foundation.
According to the MRM, the world operates by means of infinitesimal interactions. Even if we can use mathematics, as in classical relativity, to describe the results of these interactions over time, it is only the infinitesimal interactions themselves that are truly true.
During the development of the MRM, it was expected that it should be mathematically consistent with classical relativity. The velocity transformations in the two models produce the same results, even if they explain them differently, but the gravitational transformations in the MRM lead to different conclusions regarding extreme gravitation (black holes) and possibly even the creation and expansion of space. In other words:
- Special Relativity (SR) is fully compatible with the MRM.
- General Relativity (GR) has similar effects as the MRM, but it is not fully compatible.
This document is an introduction to the MRM. It does not claim to reveal every effect and implication of the model. This introduction should instead be viewed as a starting point for a new discussion about the structure of the universe.
| Classical Relativity | Momentary Relativity | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Minkowski space combined with Einstein�s Special and General Relativity | "Churnblom space" with integrated relativistic features |
| Framework | 3 space dimensions 1 time dimension | 3 time-space dimensions 3 vector (pseudo-)dimensions |
| Time is explained as | A transformable dimension | A process; the result of infinitesimal interactions that are only temporally measurable by other infinitesimal interactions. The progression speed of time is generated by the time filter called space. |
| Claim of information storage | All events in the past and the future | Only temporary storage |
| Means of information storage | Not explained | As temporary positions and properties |
| Best suited for | Mathematics / calculation | Kinematics / simulation |