by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: March 27, 2009   Last Updated: May 25, 2009

Definitions of reality may need to fit into the same classification scheme as relativity theories classify space-time-from the frame of reference of an observer more or less. Even so reality has two primary components for measurement; one is at the perception interface with mental images formed from sense data,and the other would be the empirical 'depth' or dimensions and where or how they extend and go in space and time. Each would be a part of a good definition of reality, and neither is entirely reducible to certain definitions at the present time. Both are somewhat contingent upon filling up the database about the other...yet when the tide comes in all the ships rise, and definitions of reality are able to sail and get out of the shoal-waters of the bay.

Cosmologists as well as philosophers must wonder where the 'real world' is; today cosmology seems to be experiencing another paradigm shift in understanding...the place of the Earth in the Universe seems to be a moving target for comprehension while time and space have fundamentally unknown composition. Special relativity posits a geometry for motion and change different than the Newtonian yet still with a standard local continuum that just happens to be warped and and a reciprocal of the density of matter locally; when one tosses in the characteristics of quanta in quantum mechanical theories space-time criteria become a horse of a different color.

The principle of 'real' space is founded on a normal space time being the sole channel in which everything exists. There may be very small particles or quanta perhaps formed of waves or even membranes yet they are all in one Universe with three dimensions of space and another of time. Thinking of the Universe that way began to be altered by discoveries that quantum mechanical particles have relationships at a distance that are instantaneous in time and that occur or exist at a faster than light speed as far as how much time it should take for information to be passed to the entangled particles if the data went through normal space-time. Nothing is supposed to be able to travel faster than light. Anything with mass should assume an infinite weight that would slow it down-yet of course that is obviously a relation of mass to space. It may be comparable to a hull of a ship that floats upon water when moving but that might sink without speed, or perhaps it is more like a rock that sinks if placed upon water unless it has no mass-well at any rate extra dimensions

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