Bartolome Pons Rullan
Bartolome Pons Rullan | |
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| Nationality | Spanish |
| Known for | Multi-time ("3+2") cosmology |
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| Fields | Physics, Cosmology |
| Institutions | University of the Balearic Islands |
Bartolome Pons Rullan (Bartolome Pons-Rullan) is a physicist associated with the Department of Physics at the University of the Balearic Islands in Palma, Spain, who proposes a cosmology based on a multi-dimensional treatment of time. They are listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Ideas
Pons-Rullan develops an alternative cosmological picture in which time is treated as a three-dimensional entity that exists in its own right, and in which the origin of the universe is described as a "torsion" rather than an explosion. In work such as "3+2 Cosmology: unifying FRW metrics in the bulk," the cosmological problem is considered in a five-dimensional (bulk) manifold with two time coordinates obeying the vacuum Einstein field equations. From this geometric standpoint he argues that features usually taken as principles of relativity — the invariance of the speed of light, the observer-dependence of time, and the variation of mass — emerge as geometrical consequences. These proposals lie outside the standard Big Bang and relativistic frameworks.