Reconciliation of quantum theory and general relativity via redefinition of time in a non-discrete compressible fluid model of the universe with interactions governed by the Wheeler-Feynman transactional framework.

This work proposes that the philosophical assumptions concerning the concept time as constituting the major barrier in reconciling quantum theory and general relativity. The suggestive idea is proposed that time should be redefined as a measure of the magnitude of change in the location of a demarcated physical structure (a clock), within a non-discrete compressible fluid physical universe, that is an enclosed structure (a closed ball). Consequently, time and length are not just related, but are in fact one and the same. Matter and vacuum, along with other components of the universe are manifestations of differential “specific energy” densities due to compressions and rarefactions. Demarcation (detection/interaction) and analysis of the dynamics of said demarcated physical structures is governed by the framework of the Wheeler-Feynman transactional (quantum handshake) theory, wherein energy exchange is restricted to supersymmetric partner-wavefunctions (fermions-compressions and bosons-rarefactions). The dynamics of demarcated physical structures within the universe is termed an emergent equilibrium state, which is model one-dimensionally as a longitudinal wave and analyzed using the wave equation and perturbation theory in a novel framework, termed equilibrium theory.