first science
the missing science, the theory of everything, and the arrow of time
|
||||||||
|
Interface Theory Explains Limits of Knowledge
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – 29 July 2008 – With each passing year some of the world’s greatest scientists provide increasing indirect evidence that it is not possible to know the internal structure of space, time and energy. Consistent with this empirical and theoretical evidence, a new theory has been developed, called Interface Theory, which explains why it is not possible, in principle, to explain the internal structure of space, time and energy.
Interface Theory shows that space, time and energy provide an interface between what is in principle knowable and what is in principle unknowable. Interface Theory shows, for example, that we can know of space but we cannot, in principle, know what space is made of.
The interface, which forms the physical basis of Interface Theory, is deduced from the empirical unifying principle “Laws of Nature exist.” Laws of nature are, by definition, constant. But if the laws of nature are constant, then the processes that maintain their constancy must be inaccessible to us. Otherwise it would be possible to interfere with these processes thereby changing the laws of nature - a contradiction. Now if these processes are inaccessible then they are, in principle, unknowable. Therefore, there exists an unknowable domain of the universe. Between the knowable and unknowable domains of the universe is the interface.
The interface provides the physical basis for the space-time symmetries and, therefore, the principles underlying the special and general theories of relativity. The interface also provides the rationale for quantum mechanics: its purpose being to ensure the structure of energy is unknowable.
The theory is explained in a new book, First Science. Chapters four to six deduce the theory whilst chapters eight to fifteen consider its general implications for physics. The wide-ranging book also addresses fundamental issues associated with the direction of time.
About the author
Spencer Scoular holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and resides in Auckland, New Zealand.
About the book
Spencer Scoular (2008), First science: The missing science, the theory of everything, and the arrow of time. Boca Raton, Fl.: Universal Publishers. ISBN: 1-59942-991-8.