A little bit, everywhere, all at once
There are potentially 1,000,000 people inside of you right now
At the atomic level, humans and all physical matter consist almost entirely of empty space. Traditional physics views the vast distance between an atom’s nucleus and its electrons as a void. However, under the Temporal Dispersion Theory, this space is not empty at all. It’s the physical room required to house the rest of you, distributed across the four dimensional Block Universe.
This theory relies on the Block Universe model, which states that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously and permanently in a static space-time block. Time is not a flowing river, but a solid block containing everything that happened or will ever happen. It’s a four dimensional space with three spatial dimensions (x,y,z) and the fourth temporal dimension of time (t).
The physical, ‘solid’ matter you experience in your current location (x,y,z,t), is merely a thin cross-section of your entire 4D self. The ‘empty space’ within your atoms is essentially a placeholder space. Where the rest of your mass, energy, and existence resides in the past and future. You do not exist in a single moment; your total physical substance is strewn across all moments within the block. We are 99.999% empty in a single moment because we are sharing this physical space with any matter that was also here across all time past and future.
Einstein’s proven and accepted relativity demands that time acts as a literal physical dimension. If our physical mass extends through the x,y, and z dimensions, it must logically have a physical extension through the t dimension. The internal ‘void’ of an atom is simply the observable volume of what would be inside that extension outside of this current moment or position on that dimension.
The Temporal Dispersion Theory naturally bridges two isolated fields of physics: Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Relativity establishes a strict cosmic speed limit: nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Yet, quantum entanglement seems to defy this by particles seemingly being able to ‘communicate’ instantaneously across lightyears of distance.
By viewing reality through the 4D structure of the Temporal Dispersion Theory, this paradox vanishes. The answer is simply that these entangled particles are not truly separate objects. Instead, they are two distinct 3D cross-sections of the exact same 4D structure. Imagine a solid, U-shaped piece of wire poking through a flat sheet of paper. To a 2D observer trapped on the surface of the paper, the wire looks like two completely disconnected dots. If the left dot moves, the right dot shifts instantly. To the 2D observer, this looks like impossible, faster-than-light communication. But from the higher dimension of the spacetime block, the truth is obvious: they are already physically united. Their simultaneous behaviour doesn’t break the rules of relativity, it could just be the result of the hidden 4D architecture of the quantum world.
We are not hollow, fragile structures wandering through a passing timeline. We are dense, complete, and permanent fixtures of the universe. The emptiness we observe within us is simply the footprint of our past and future selves and each other.