A groundbreaking theory suggests time has three dimensions—and testing it may be around the corner!

In this new vision, space would be a manifestation of this temporal matrix, a bit like a painting on an invisible canvas. “” The space exists well with its three dimensions “Specifies the researcher,” But it is only the projection of a larger temporal reality. »»

Concretely, how does three -dimensional time work?

Imagine that you are walking on a path: it's time as we live – past, present, future. Now imagine another perpendicular path that would allow you to stay at the same time … but to change universes, or to explore other possible versions of this moment.

This is the idea behind the second temporal dimension. And the third? It would explain how we go from a temporal “scenario” to another. Result: instead of a simple point on a line, every moment of your life would be a kind of temporal volume, with several possible paths to explore.

This completely upsets our relationship to time. And this could explain certain poorly understood phenomena in physics … or even reconcile fundamental laws which, until then, refused to coexist.

The unification of the laws of physics: the Grail

For decades, physicists have been trying to reconcile two major pillars:

• General relativity, which describes the large -scale gravity (stars, galaxies, universes)

• Quantum mechanics, which governs material behaviors on a microscopic scale

The problem ? These two theories are incompatible. What works in one becomes absurd in the other. Hence the almost mythical quest for a “theory of everything” which would unify the laws of the universe.

It is here that Kletetschka's theory comes into play. By integrating three temporal dimensions into the structure of the universe, it would offer a new mathematical framework capable of accommodating both relativity and quantum physics.

A testable theory, and that's what changes everything

Exotic ideas on time, researchers have seen it pass. But most were purely theoretical, even metaphysical. What distinguishes Kletetschka's work is that he produces measurable results. For example, its model manages to reproduce the mass of known elementary particles, such as electrons or quarks.

This means that his theory can be faced with experimental data – an essential condition for any credible scientific advance. She does not stay in the field of pure mathematics: she offers a new way of reading reality.

And now ? Towards a new look at reality

Other researchers, such as the physicist Itzhak Bars, had already suggested that additional temporal dimensions could exist – but only to extreme energies, as during the Big Bang.

The novelty here is that theory remains consistent with causality: in this model, the cause always precedes the effect. No temporal paradox, no machine to go back in uncontrollable time. Just a complex, but ordered system.

A serious track, but still to explore

For the moment, this approach remains a hypothesis. It must still be validated, faced with new observations, tested in particle accelerators, etc. But she raises vertiginous questions:

• What if our universe was greater than what we perceive?

• What if our experience of time was only a reduced projection of a larger reality?

In any case, one thing is certain: the idea of ​​living in a six -dimensional world (3 of space, 3 of time) is both destabilizing … and extraordinarily stimulating.

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“Rethinking time may well be the key to finally understanding the fundamental laws of the universe,” concludes Kletetschka.
What if, instead of running after time, we just started … looking at it differently?

Source : Reports in Advances of Physical Science