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Matrix Theory: A New Theory of Space and Time

If we want to understand what the world is made of and what laws it holds for us, physics is the central science. However, as I discovered, fundamental questions of physics are still unresolved. For example, the mechanisms for the slowing down of time during acceleration and movement (= time dilation, which plays a major role in GPS) and for the curvature of space (which is essential for the phenomenon of “black holes”) are still unknown. The tripartite division of time into past, present and future, which is an elementary experience for our lives, also does not exist in the world of physical formulas. And the big question of how the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics fit together, which - although both have repeatedly proven to be correct - are very contradictory in their statements, has not yet been resolved.

This search for the laws of nature had always fascinated me. Where does space bend if not into space? How can time slow down? How does nature do that? Is the secret of space and time hidden here? Is there a flowing “now”? Is this perhaps even the cause of the dynamics of our world? How does it all fit together? Further questions arose. Why do structures arise everywhere against the 2nd law of thermodynamics (time arrow of evolution)? And what about the mysterious dark energy that is expanding the universe (cosmological arrow of time)?

After I began in 2019 to review and expand on my findings from the years 2005 to 2010 - see my book “Einstein's Errors” - it soon became clear that it only takes a single change to the previous physical world view to obtain a completely new understanding of space and time: I replaced the spacetime continuum established in physics with a scalar field of quanta of action. I now call this new theory of space and time matrix theory.

After completing this work in 2020, I have been devoting more time to basic research in physics again since around the beginning of 2023, inspired by the questions of quantum gravity. I was able to present the latest results to quantum physicists in August 2023 in a lecture at the “Symmetries in Science” congress. While preparing and, above all, following up the lecture, I came across the surprising discovery that the origin of Einstein's general theory of relativity is identical to the origin of quantum physics, namely Planck's quantum of action. This may be the first successful step towards a theory of quantum gravity in which the theory of relativity and quantum physics can be combined.

Matrix theory, which replaces the spacetime continuum with a scalar field of quantum effects - that's all it is - now not only has an explanation of how space and time are curved or dilated, but it also automatically leads to numerous other proposed solutions to central problems in physics - such as the first (!) introduction of past, present and future into physics and proposals for the composition of the Higgs field. At the same time, close connections between the general theory of relativity and quantum physics become apparent and solutions as to why structures arise everywhere against the nature of entropy are also revealed. So is our universe not made up of space and time, but of effects?

This conclusion not only leads to a new idea about dark energy, but also to the conclusion that our universe is not a closed system at all.

To follow the thoughts that lead to the matrix theory, two texts are available, one in English, which served as the basis for the lecture in August 2023, and a text in German, which reflects my latest work on a theory of quantum gravity and is largely identical to the content of the book "Quantum Gravity - The Planck Quantum as the Origin of General Relativity", which was published in November 2024. Another text deals with the consequences that matrix theory provides as an explanation for the phenomenon of dark energy.

Dr. Michael Harder, 21. November 2024

Links:
[PDF] The Matrix Theory: A matrix of quanta of action replacing the space-time continuum
[PDF] The Planck quantum as the origin of general relativity - the key to quantum gravity? (only german language)
[PDF] A proposal for “dark energy”

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The hidden rules of the universe

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Einstein's Errors

The discovery of space and time.

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The hidden rules of the universe:
What is life? What rules of the game has nature provided for our world and our lives? And what does this have to do with all the crises we are currently experiencing?

In his search, the author comes across the four laws of time, with which at the same time a fundamental dualism openly appears. It is the dualism of order and chaos that leads into a world in which logic and provability take a back seat. It is now completely different, namely the rules of the game of complex systems, around which physics likes to give a wide berth, but which determine and shape the course and the liveliness of the world and thus all our lives. And only when we finally recognize and accept these rules of nature will we be able to understand and deal with the crises and complexity of the modern world.

Because that is what it is all about now: if we want to preserve our way of life, we urgently need to find out how the world really works.

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Physiconomics: On the Physics of Economics
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The Hidden Rules of the Universe. Volume I: What the world is really made of.
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Notes about this book

After the publication of the 4th revised edition of "Einstein's Errors" in 2010, I have often been asked to write a version that is also more understandable for laymen. Prompted by the content and success of the book "Physiconomics" (2015), which deals with the crises and future prospects of our economy in a way that everyone can understand more easily, however, something else came up. I was faced with the task of not only revisiting "Einstein's Errors" and my criticism of special relativity, but more importantly of putting physics and many other parts of natural science into a larger context. As I will show you in this book, this is urgently needed. We need to find out as soon as possible how the world really works.

For this I begin in this volume I with the question of what our world consists of, because even that is not clarified until today. In the center of this popular-scientific book therefore the discovery stands, that the world obviously does not consist of space and time, but of a field of action quanta, which includes space and time. It would not only explain the dynamics of our universe but means a completely new foundation for the known physics. I call this part matrix theory.

Dr. Michael Harder, in October 2020

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Quantum gravity: The Planck quantum as the origin of the general theory of relativity.
One of the major unresolved gaps in our knowledge of the physical world is the question of the compatibility of Einstein's general theory of relativity (ART) and quantum theory. The current search for answers in physics leads to the established research field of quantum gravity, where different doctrines compete with each other.

This research report now describes the working methods and findings of a scientist who, free from the university discipline of thought, brings together findings from various fields of knowledge. As the author shows, the search for an answer goes far beyond the actual topic. For the path to a solution inevitably leads via the great questions of time, such as the hitherto unknown mechanisms of time dilation and the tripartite division of time into past, present and future.

The report shows how an interdisciplinary combination of long-established knowledge leads to the abandonment of the model of a spacetime continuum in favor of a quantized scalar field of quanta of action. The most astonishing result of this new theory, called matrix theory, is the realization that Planck's quantum of action is not only the basis of quantum physics, but that this quantum is also the origin of Einstein's general theory of relativity! This makes Planck's quantum the link between ART and quantum physics. Many other proposed solutions to fundamental questions of physics, such as the question of the nature of the Higgs field and the Big Bang theory, which the matrix theory delivers as if in one fell swoop, give rise to the hope that something fundamental may have been found here that needs to be pursued further.

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