Abstract
A deep-quantum model of time is described. It begins with a stratified state-vector space without space-time and gauge fields. These emerge from contact exchange interactions and vacuum condensation. The model is an imbedding of the existing singular theories of gravity and GUT within a simple (Clifford) algebra with strata used to represent those of physics. This results in a model that is regular as well as simple. Its phenomenological vacuum is a finite quantum cellular shell truss one cell thick and cosmologically-many cells long, whose struts are quantum trits (three-state elements). Each cell has 10 dimensions transverse to the shell, giving rise to the GUT fermions, and 4 along the shell, giving rise to spin on one stratum and space-time on another. The great anisotropy of the shell results in the great differences between internal and external variables, and between GUT and gravity. For each frame, the longitudinal shell dimension of negative signature is time.
David Ritz Finkelstein