Changing numbers of physical dimensions

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One aspect of the "theory" that underscores my Riphean storyline is the idea that the number of space dimensions can change over time. https://phys.org/news/2011-03-physicists-dimensions-universe.html gives an overview of such a notion within mainstream physics research.

One distinction with respect to the Riphean cosmos, or the IRL cosmos if my "theory" applies here too, is that time is not 1-dimensional. https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/there-are-in-fact-2-dimensions-of-time-one-theoretical-physicist-states overviews a 2D-time theory. The philosopher Kant has this to say about the subject (he acknowledges the abstract possibility of higher-dimensional time elsewhere in the first Critique but only describes a possible consequence as follows):

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If we ascribe succession to time itself, we must think yet another time, in which the sequence would be possible. [http://people.uvawise.edu/philosophy/phil206/FirstCritique5.html]

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As a solution to the problem of the subjective passage of time, J. W. Dunne proposed an infinite hierarchy of time dimensions, inhabited by a similar hierarchy of levels of consciousness. Dunne suggested that, in the context of a "block" spacetime as modelled by General Relativity, a second dimension of time was needed in order to measure the speed of one's progress along one's own timeline. This in turn required a level of the conscious self existing at the second level of time. But the same arguments then applied to this new level, requiring a third level, and so on in an infinite regress. At the end of the regress was a "superlative general observer" who existed in eternity.^[6] He published his theory in relation to precognitive dreams in his 1927 book An Experiment with Time and went on to explore its relevance to contemporary physics in The Serial Universe (1934). His infinite regress was criticised as logically flawed and unnecessary, although writers such as J. B. Priestley acknowledged the possibility of his second time dimension.^{[7][8] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_time_dimensions#Philosophy]}

And in fact the "prequel" concept for the story of Ripheus rests on a version of the physical universe where time is infinite-dimensional, where every successive set of three time dimensions constitutes a "plane of existence" in the D&D or Magic: TG sense. However, this version of the cosmos is internal to a fictional domain on an interior plane of the prequel narrative itself; the actual world of the narrative is not supposed to be ordered according to such a planar manifold.

However, Kant also says that there is a form of space that is given as the permanence of substance in time (as part of the same Analogy of Experience). As per my "theory," this is the inflaton field. Fields in general are derivative of the Third Analogy of Experience (of the community of causality in substances), in terms of a rejoinder to Hilbert's 6th problem (regarding the axiomatization of physics). The idea is that at t = 0, there is one type of particle, which is a particle of pure time, called a "kairon" in honor of one of the Greek words for time. The kairon's activity is dimensionalization of space, i.e. as the kairon field is excited, space increases in dimensionality. The manifold of dimensionalization corresponds to the Planck and adjunct epoch "phase changes" of the inflatonic cosmos, but so far I have not come up with an a priori barrier between general dimensionalization pressure, and the seeming finite number of dimensions the universe exhibits. Indeed, following the "Copernican" principle underwriting contemporary multiverse speculation, and the assumption that time is actually infinite-dimensional at the limit, it would seem rather as if space ought to be increasing in dimensionality always, to approach the kaironic limit.

Where does this really bear on the story of Ripheus? So far, I'm not sure. As I said in the thread about the "economies," some of the economies are indefinite, which here translates to expanding,* which fits nicely into the Kantian/kaironic framework at play. However, some of the economies are supposed to be finite, and some infinite, and there's even a "fixed" spatially 2-dimensional subplanar form of reality "behind the scenes" to an extent. Without going off a pure deontic-metrodynamic grounding for the physical structure of the economies, I'm not sure I can easily justify these descriptions.

*Kant actually says that past time itself is also indefinitely ranging, so that the Big Bang would not have been the absolute beginning of history, as on Kant's view there is no such thing as an absolute beginning to history. Perhaps we could imagine oscillating spatial dimensionalization, so that we are currently inhabiting a phase of the universe in which it has increased to 3 (or however many) spatial dimensions?