THE FORM OF TIME
CURVED TIME
This drawing hypothesizes a curved local time (a U-shaped space-time leaf or brane). The lower part is connected to the upper part by a "wormhole," a space-time conduit or column that directly connects parts of space-time that would otherwise have been very distant.
Time is identified locally by the four seasons.
DISCRETE LEVELS OF EXISTENCE
This space-time landscape is inspired by the discrete energy levels of electrons around the atomic core. The possible layers are determined by their vibration (the number of complete cycles possible in a given orbit).
The drawing considers a minimum level (the oscillating electron is symbolized by a landscape in which the temporal dimension is given by the seasons). The minimum level of existence is therefore a cycle composed of a cold and a warm season. The second possible level of existence is characterized by two cycles, thus allowing the passage of the four seasons: winter at the bottom, spring at the top, summer at the bottom, and autumn at the top.
MOUNTAIN RELATIVISTIC TIME
Time passes faster at the top than at the bottom (gravitational force slows the speed of time). In this drawing, time, represented locally by its four seasons, passes faster at the top of the mountain (more seasonal stripes) than at its base.
RELATIVISTIC TIME - EXTENDED PRESENT
This drawing presents the concept of an extended present, typical of relativity, and a time that lies between the past and the future. In the present, it is zero but expands as the distance increases (for example, the extended time to the sun is 8 minutes).
CYCLIC TIME
This drawing imagines a circular form of time. The time sequence is read from left to right but at the same time from top to bottom. The two dimensions are represented on the same axis; they are somehow identical.
RELATIVISTIC / LOCAL TIME
This drawing highlights the fact that there is no universal time, but rather that all points in space have their own time associated with a double cone of light illuminating the past and the future. In this case, two different present points generate different cones of light (at the intersection, hybrid seasons may occur: autumn/spring or summer/winter).
THE VARIABLE SPEED OF LIGHT
In this drawing, space-time is defined by the past light cone (one vertical time-like dimension - two space-like dimensions, length and width). The past is at the bottom, the present is at the top. The entire visible universe is immersed in the light cone.
Three possibilities are illustrated in the work:
light cone corresponding to a lower speed of light (narrow cone less than 45°). The illuminated area shows spring.
Light cone corresponding to the speed of light at normal speed (45° cone). Here the illuminated area widens toward a more distant time, showing spring and winter.
light cone greater than 45°, greater than the speed of light, corresponding to a more distant space-time (autumn).