Doodles waiting on the shuttle

Posted on Tue Feb 27th, 2018 @ 6:24pm by Lieutenant Helena Wells

1,102 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Misson 1 - Rebirth
Location: Bar on SB54
Timeline: 26th Jan 2395

ON:

The bar was typical of almost any on a starbase. Lots of beings of all sorts and of course various games, vids on sports, conversation and the tinkling of glasses.

HG figured she would stop here for a bit before reporting on in. She had long learned that real alcohol was not a forthcoming item on Federation star ships.
She definitely was not a teetotaler but neither was she a drunkard, she just enjoyed pleasant things and a bit of real drink was pleasant.

Still the glass of Jameson on the rocks was now mostly Jameson and water as she was typing away figuring something out that had danced in her mind. HG was talking to herself as she typed "Now if k squared is equal to two g over c squared times four pi epsilon, where g is the gravitation constant, there is a stress tensor and then the scaler field then behaves as a variable gravitational constant, in terms of modulating the coupling of electromagnetic stress energy to spacetime curvature..........."

"What was that?" A baritone voice interjected. "Sorry, but I could not help but see you working on something and your almost giving a lecture to the room."

HG peered up a bit non-plussed at being interrupted. "Pardon?" The voice belonged to a handsome enough man who slide into the stool next to her.

"What are you working on, you seem pretty intent."

"Oh, ugh...." HG hit save and cleared the screen. "A bit of theory I have in mind."

"Really? What is on?" The

"Oh a bit of of trying to figure out how the universe works," HG replied and sipped her now watered drink. He just sort of lifted his eyebrows in the sort of "Well?' look.
"I have been working most of my adult life on trying to figure out how the universe workes. Well, not so much how it workes though that is a part of it but the stuff hidden away. It is like trying to find a treasure box using a bit of math, and possibly science that borders more on magic than anything else. I have some ideas but it is all ethereal, nothing practical.

"Sounds interesting, go on," the man said and the put out a hand which HG briefly took. "Raymond by the way."

HG gave a bit of nod and replied, "HG".

"Just HG? Seems awfully sort."

"Well Helena, but only my brother gets to call me that. I sort of do not like it."

"And the G part?"

"Grace and I detest that even more."

Raymond laughed and nodded, "My middle is LeRoy and I could just choke every time I have to put full name on a form. Anyway, so this odd bit of science or whatever?"


"Well I have a proposal of two time-physics, there is more to space-time than can be garnered with one time-physics. The idea introduces an additional one space and one time dimensions, which can coexist with the familiar 3+1 dimensions as well as extra space dimensions of tiny sizes known as Kaluza-Klein-type dimensions, but the new ones have very different properties. First of all, the extra 1+1 dimensions in 2 time-physics are not small. However, the gauge symmetries that effectively reduce 2 time-physics in 4+2 dimensions to appear as 1 time-physics in 3+1 dimensions without any Kaluza-Klein remnants. The reduction is not unique because there is an infinite variety of 3+1 embeddings in 4+2 dimensions that is more generally (d-1)+1 in d+2), and this is what is non-trivial and rich in emergent space-times and 1time-physics content."

Raymond laughed, "HG, you definitely went over this head. Care to pretend I am just above a struggling trogledyte?"

HG nodded "Here let show you how to grasp the relation between 1time-physics and 2time-physics, consider the many possible shadows of a 3-dimensional object projected from different perspectives on the surrounding walls of a 3-dimensional room. A flatlander a 2 dimensional creature, that can crawl and measure only on the surface of the walls would think that the shadows of different shapes are different “beasts” and move differently. Similarly, even though according to 2time-physics a unique dynamical system in 4+2 dimensions generates a large variety of 1-time “shadows”', 1time-physics presents these “shadows” in 3+1 dimensional space-times as different dynamical systems in terms of different Hamiltonians which are different times.

In this way, 1time-physics misses the underlying relationship between the “shadows” as well as the underlying properties that is the symmetries of the higher dimensional space-time. Actually, it turns out that each “shadow” is a holographic image that retains all the information of the d+2 structure. This information takes the form of hidden symmetries, dualities, and other non-trivial structures, which are hard to notice by the 1time physicist that investigates the “shadows” or what are different dynamical systems. But he/she could in principle discover the hidden information. 2 time-physics provides the missing information to the 1time physicist who can verify by experiment or computation that indeed the d+2 structure of space-time governs all levels of physics, from macroscopic to microscopic scales. Now as I mentioned the information is all there, just like parsing out a hologram. If we can reverse that we might be able to open up that second time dimension." She waved an arm. "You could walk right through a wall for while we know that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time, you would not really be in the same time. Using the same idea, imagine slipping into a different and perhaps backward flowing time. One could effectively travel the galaxy in seemingly the blink of an eye."

Raymond shook his head. "Sounds like more science fiction than anything real and still not sure I quite understand it all. I wonder if you are kind of pulling a poor old pilot. If you what you say though is true, wow! I mean that, put someone like me out of business...."

There was a call over the PA and he cocked his head. "Well, sorry, have to go. Got to pilot that shuttle out, you are not on that one are you?" He looked a bit hopeful.

"No, but fair voyage." HG smiled.

"Well HG hope you see you around here the next time, later.." he waved and turned to walk off.

HG watched for a moment the equations and all forgotten for the moment. Sometimes you just got pulled back into the real world and that reminded her she had to report in to the ship. She gathered her PaDD and the small bag and headed off looking for the correct port.

OFF:

HG Weils
Scientist
USS Wolf

 

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