Mohammad H Khan
Mohammad H Khan | |
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| Born | January 12, 1951 |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Nature of time |
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| Fields | Physics |
Mohammad H. Khan (born January 12, 1951) is an American independent researcher based in Chicago, Illinois, who writes on the nature of time, gravity, relativity, and cosmology. He is known within the dissident-physics community for arguing that time is a physical process rather than a dimension.
Biography
Khan holds a doctorate and lives in Chicago, Illinois. Working outside the mainstream academic system, he has circulated his research on the physics of time through independent preprint archives and correspondence under the address mkhan@timephysics.com.
Work
Khan's principal essay, "What is Time and What Causes Time?", proposes that time is an emergent process arising from an underlying physical mechanism rather than a fourth dimension of a static "block universe." From this premise he attempts to give a common explanation for a range of predictions of Einstein's special and general relativity, including the slowing of time with motion and in gravitational fields, the curvature of space by mass, the increase of mass with acceleration, and the phenomena of inertia and length contraction. He argues that because moving and gravitationally bound clocks slow without an object sliding into its own past or future, time is better understood as a process than as a traversable dimension, and he treats this view as an alternative to block-universe interpretations and to the notion of time travel. The essay is aimed at a general readership and draws on experimental results such as muon time-dilation measurements and gravitational-redshift experiments.
External links
- "What is Time and What Causes Time?" (viXra, 2016)
- "What is Time?" (General Science Journal)