CAN TIME AND SPACE BE SWAPPED?

Observation

I have been looking at a 3D model of the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies, containing among others the Virgo Cluster, in which we know our Milky Way to exist.

Regardless of me being an observer down on Earth in that Milky Way, or an observer even outside the imaginary 3D box in which Laniakea was situated, from any random point in the universe, I can only observe things that have already happened, have already come to be or have already extinguished. I can never see things that must yet come into existence. Therefore anything that is observed is a result of events that have already occurred and as it only becomes visible when its emitted or reflected light has had the time to reach me/the observer, I can only look into the past.

Figure 1. Laniakea supercluster

Planck Units

Outside of planck length one can only observe the effect of a cause, or causes, that are an effect of something else. The present, the ‘right now’, the ‘here’ within one planck time, is always the effect of some part of all the rest. This makes planck length accomplice to causality, exactly as planck time is, and, together they make – what is called hereafter – planck spacetime. Planck units are used in (theoretical) physics. They count not only for measurements on subatomic scales in particle physics (quantum theory), but also for measurements of cosmic scales.

Switching from time to space and vice versa

When an observer at first looks at an area of Laniakea close to the Great Attractor, and then changes his focus to something he perceives in close presence, e.g. the Moon, he approaches ‘now’ from ‘far away’. In doing so, the approach path stops at the ‘now’ instance; there is clearly no transit to an extension of that path into the future.

If however such a transit would exist, then distance (space) would change into time, resulting in one planck time; that is all of our future as far as we can identify it, and the limit of ‘now’.

At the same time this refocussing is a trip from ‘long ago’ (in deep space) to ‘here’, the observer’s location, and possibly across the observer’s own object boundary (the retina?) in the direction of the center of his molecular and atomic entity; one can see that the time aspect from ‘long ago’ and ‘now’ transforms into a spatial aspect of molecules and atoms and – even smaller – planck length.

Figure 2. From large distance to 'now'

Tell me what you think of time and space with regard to small and great distances and past, present and future. Relativity is everything, I suppose. Please do not hesitate to send your comments; if in my humble opinion they are worth publishing, I will do so. And of course, I very much appreciate if experts on these subjects submit their views. Would you then please add your own brief ‘about me’?

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