1.2.7 Paradoxes of Zeno and EPR
During the long decade after the Single Monad Model, in several occasions of international conferences and seminars, I tried to explain the importance of the new concept, which I regard as a real breakthrough in physics and cosmology, since it could clearly explain the various persisting paradoxes. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, the audience were either far from being any professional physicists, or those who are specialized in narrow subjects that were either purely experimental or, at best, too technical. My main theme was discussing the historical Zeno’s paradoxes of motion and plurality, which physicists wrongly believe they have solved many centuries ago, and sometimes I have discussed the EPR which I myself could only present it in some philosophical arguments, because I did not have any rigorous mathematical proof of my new theory of time.
Nevertheless, I was recently writing a chapter in an edited book on the “Islamic and Byzantine Philosophies of Time” Haj Yousef (Haj Yousef), and the title of my chapter “Zeno’s Paradoxes and the Reality of Motion under Ibn al-Arabi’s Re-creation Principle”, which was already introduced in the Single Monad Model. One of the related issues I briefly considered in chapter VII (The Single-Monad Model and its Implications for Modern Physics) of that book was the case of transforming the throne of queen Bilqis, from her palace in Sheba into king Solomon’s palace in Palestine, on which Ibn al-Arabi declared that this is in reality not ordinary motion, but, rather, the throne was instantly re-created in front of Solomon, in “no time”.
Accordingly, Zeno’s paradoxes, the EPR, and all nonlocal quantum phenomena could be easily explained if we consider that motion is always re-creation in the new places rather than infinitesimal transmutation. In normal macroscopic situations, because the change of place is extremely small during the short time of motion, we perceive objects moving continuously in time, when in fact they are being re-created every single instance.
However, at that time in 2007, since I was only briefly discussing all these various concepts in the final chapter of the book, I did not think about how exactly this alleged process of re-creation is taking place. This turned out to be the key for the next stage that lead to the current Duality of Time Theory. Therefore, as I was writing the above chapter about Zeno’s paradoxes, many exciting concepts started to unveil and very quickly fit together to complete the jigsaw puzzle.