Re: The Time Deniers and the idea of time as a "dimension"

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:00:16 +1000

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:30:47PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Are there reason to believe that (physical, or local) time could have a
> scale invariant fractal dimension (between 1 and 2, bigger?) ? Does it
> make sense ?
>

I don't know if this is relevant, but Laurent Nottale published a
theory of fractal spacetime. Time in this theory had a fractal
dimension of 2, but topological dimension of 1, ie quantum particles
have a plane filling trajectory through spacetime.

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