Time as a Projector Beam: An Ontological Interpretation of Causality in the IDM Framework

This summary presents a philosophical-methodological note from the IDM (Infinite-Dimensional Multiverse) series, dedicated to the ontological interpretation of time and causality. The paper proposes a view in which time does not physically "flow." Grounded in the principle "Everything Is Already Here," the author asserts that all events already exist as configurations of elements of reality within the ontological volume Ω. For clarity, the metaphor of film and a projector is used: Ω is the box of film containing all frames, the activated set A(S) is the specific frame passing through the projector beam, and the observer's consciousness is the viewer watching the film linearly. Central to the paper is the resolution of the causality violation problem in faster-than-light communication (S-switching). The author demonstrates that causality is strictly preserved within each individual "frame" (configuration S). The apparent paradoxes (such as closed timelike curves) are not logical contradictions but a consequence of conflating levels of description—an attempt to apply the causal connections of one configuration to a transition between different configurations. Parallels are drawn with the block universe concept (eternalism), the philosophy of Vadim Zeland, and Borges's story "The Garden of Forking Paths." The paper does not prove the block universe but demonstrates compatibility with it, offering a rigorous language to describe a reality where time is merely a projector beam and life is the reading of an already existing volume of possibilities.