New insights into the special theory of relativity

摘要

In the 20th century, physics has understood space and time as being coupled into a " space-time" manifold, a fundamental arena in which everything takes place. Space-time was considered to have three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension. Out of the mathematical formalism for the fourth space-time component X4= ict, one can conclude that time t is only a numerical order of material change, i.e., the motion that we obtain with clocks. Time is not a fourth dimension of space. For the description of the special theory of relativity, it is here proposed a Minkowski 4D space, while time t is merely a numerical order of a photon motion in a four-dimensional (4D) space. This view opens new perspectives on the understanding of the quantum entanglement, where the 4D space becomes an immediate medium for quantum communication.