J.M.Kerr, 2024. Physics paper:
A Planck scale theory of time, with a fast early cosmological time rate,
and rederivations for relativistic energy and time dilation
Planck scale time theory (PST) is part of the same theory that was discussed with Carlo Rovelli
and Neil Turok in the online documentary: 'The Interactions Avenue'.
The paper is in the journal here (behind a paywall). Publication date: 11th October '24.
It can be accessed as a preprint here.
An article that summarises the whole theory is here (from a Gordon Films documentary script).
It sets out the simple, but lateral and very unexpected picture, out of which all three areas
of the theory came - quantum mechanics, gravity, time.
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In 2019 a documentary maker, Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, sent an earlier paper to Carlo Rovelli and Neil Turok. It was on quantum mechanics, from a different area of the same theory - they both became interested in the interpretation. Some of the background ideas are explained in the discussion documentary that was made, The Interactions Avenue, and the Sunday Telegraph article ('New theory of quantum mechanics shows matter is not in the eye of the observer').
The article that summarises the whole theory, linked to above, includes an outline of the explanation for superposition in quantum mechanics - in which a particle can be in more than one place at a time - discussed with Carlo Rovelli in the documentary.
The new theory of time also explains the fast galaxy formation in the early universe, found by the James Webb Telescope. Some of our current theories describe extremely rapid initial events, such as variable speed of light theories, and inflation. But they cannot explain the fast early galaxy formation that happened later, and slower, but still much too fast for standard theory. We don't know why things seem to have happened fast in the early universe, but it is as if the cosmological time rate starts fast, then slows steadily to the present rate. We know the time rate varies in other situations, but no theory until now can explain that with a mechanism that leads to an overall time rate.
The article also outlines an explanation for the principle of least action, which is a mystery, but which underlies all our basic physics, and is an alternative way of arriving at the same equations - all of them. For instance, all three of Newton's laws of motion can be derived from it. Any underlying conceptual picture for physics needs to explain it, but it has been very hard to understand, and so far extremely few, if any, explanations have been suggested.