On Time and Space being Local and Non-Linear, No Background Spacetime

This theory proposes that the relationship between the arrow of time and entropy is not only qualitative, but quantitative. This leads to the conclusion that relationships generate local space and changes in relationships (event) generate local time. Non-linear and local characterization of time and space is in contrast to events occurring in a background spacetime, i.e., externally observed duration and length. Background space and time are statistical averages. Quantum mechanical observations are explained using hidden variables; particles and properties exist, even if not observed. As a consequence of this theory, mass can be modeled as relationships and EM energy (waves) as continuous relationship changes. EM energy, thus, generates spacetime and does not propagate in spacetime. An indication that time is local and based on relationships is that local time is zero (always in the present) for photons, complete entanglement, and infinite crystals at 0^oK where there is zero change in relationships. Double-slit observations and entanglement are shown to be based on the same quantum mechanical mechanism. A consequence of this theory is that the inflationary phase after the big bang is attributed to this nonlinear spacetime relationship. Experiments are proposed that may verify space is due to local relationships and time is a result of local relationship changes; e.g., spacetime is local, nonlinear and variable.