priorics and a new meaning of space and time

摘要

The objective of this paper is to suggest a new avenue to explore the nonintuitivemeaning of space and time by investigating into their roles in the description of reality. The centralidea is to look at the space-time manifold as a "multiplication space," enabling the plurality of thefundamental entities in the universe. The "points" of this space are the roots of an ontologicalstructure of infinite order [Y. Z. Shoshani, Introduction to Formal Ontology (Philosophy of theNatural Sciences), Proceedings of the 13th International Wittgenstein Symposium (V.H.P. Temfky,Vienna, 1989), pp. 202-209; Phys. Essays 4, 566 (1991); Phys. Essays 11, 512 (1998)]. I will showthat such a description resolves basic philosophical problems associated with the intuitive grasp ofspace-time. It also yields a more coherent image of reality in which the fundamental entities and thepoints of space-time emerge from the same origin. Some interesting physical implications from thistheory will be discussed, including the exponential expansion of the universe, a result compatiblewith the de Sitter solution of Einstein field equations in empty space.