(January 2, 2013 at 9:11 am)Aractus Wrote: Well yes, they currently teach 4-dimensional space-time (ie general relativity). They also teach Newtonian Mechanics. But this direction that is gaining momentum is abandoning time as a dimension. Three physical dimensions, and time is NOT a dimension. So define "generally accepted" because I don't think it is. It may be "de-facto" accepted by those who study other areas of physics, but the debate and the research is ongoing, and it would only be being researched as widely as it is if it was "not" generally accepted.
There are also physicists who argue not only does time have the characteristics of a dimension, there may be multiple dimensions of time, and our big bang is but the unfurling of just one dimension of time.
