Space as Container, Movement as Time: A Kinetic Ontology of Temporal Emergence and Its Consequences for Black Hole Interiors and Cosmic Reproduction
Contemporary approaches to the philosophy of time — from Rovelli's relational mechanics to thermal time emergence — share a common limitation: they define time through abstract correlations between variables without identifying the specific mechanism that generates temporal structure. This paper advances Kinetic Temporal Emergence (KTE), a foundational framework that supplies that mechanism. We argue that space, movement, and time are three categorically distinct kinds of existence united by a strict dependency chain: space is the passive, discrete, Planck-granular container that is the necessary precondition for movement; movement is the physical process of energy traversing that container; and time is the emergent measurement of that movement, with no independent existence beyond it. We formalize this mathematically, defining the KTE time parameter as an integral over spatial traversal events, showing it reduces to zero when available coordinates are exhausted. KTE is distinguished from Leibnizian relational time by grounding temporal emergence in spatial traversal rather than abstract event ordering; from Rovelli's thermal time by making space ontologically prior; and from Barbour's timeless physics by retaining a meaningful arrow of time from the directionality of movement. Applying KTE to black holes yields three original consequences: the interior must be extraordinarily luminous due to blueshifting of trapped radiation; collapse to the Planck volume causes ontological cessation of time rather than a singularity; and the resulting zero-motion state ruptures into a causally independent new spatial container — a new universe seeded by thermalized radiation of the parent interior, producing the Cosmic Microwave Background we observe today.
Authors
- Daniel R Self
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-08-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22073520
- Primary Topic
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Type
- preprint