[mind][comp] Multiple time dimensions?
I've been trying to think of ways to play with the ideas of multiple time dimensions. "It's weird", as you might guess.
But I thought of a "setup" where you can have an arbitrary number of time dimensions and/but it still is easily visualizable for us (apparently) 4D beings.
Instead of one time dimension t
, what if we had a time dimension T
that was composed of other time values t0, t1
. We could call it a "time vector". T = <t0, t1>
Define a "system" in this universe (S
) to be "a collection of matter that has a certain arrangement S(T)
for any value of T
.
Terms like "matter" and "arrangements" are chosen for their vagueness!
The various components of S
could be affected in different ways and to different degrees by the "scalers" t0
and t1
.
A very contrived example: An atom (the usual kind) has its x, y, z
determined by its 3-velocity, as t0
increases (like the usual t
).
But the rate at which it decays into another atom(s) is a function of t1
. So, plutonium moves faster along the t1
axis than does helium.
Not great. Requires a lot of belief-suspension.
Maybe more examples go: here
Note that t0, t1
describe a plane, and the path of S
takes through that plane are the series of values of T
. It just happens that T
is composed of more than one "scaler" time dimension.
This is probably just a bunch of hockey, but it does give us a way to play in games, pretending there are "multiple time dimensions".
Q: t
is in a sense dependent on the concept of "space". Can we work that out for a system that uses T
also? Maybe a game that uses this idea would have to have a kind of Relativity and "speed of light" built in on order to make (more) sense.