The question of natural universal systems, their characteristic order and complexity? Generated by chance occurrence, or natural organisational principle? The term “in-animate matter” hardly seems an appropriate description of the world, with its innumerable physical agencies expressed as natural forces, that are seemingly contrived in the act of building and maintaining a finely tuned universe. Does acknowledgement of universal order serve clue, a clue to the fundamental nature of the world? Questions of a fundamental nature of the world push up against our theories of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity. Within this essay we identify clocks as being a QM device that measure GR effects. One device servicing two fundamental theories of the world? Could test of a unified theory be, a single theory that encapsulates all clock behaviour? We identify force for its role in clock function, then we relate forces to General Relativity and time dilation effects. Our inquiry seeks such answers then attempts to look beyond them, can time dilation be served effectively as a Quantum Mechanical effect?
Steven Andresen