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the origin of the expansion of the universe, because it actually gener- ates the master time arrow. This brings us to another question: how could the world have classical features, based on gravity and cosmol- ogy, and quantum features based on the other interactions? We can def- initely not afford to skimp on a new approach towards space, time and matter any longer. For general relativity, gravity is space-time geometry. The ST is therefore dynamic. For quantum physics, all that is dynamic is indeter- minate and fluctuating. According to Lachiéze-Rey, the immediate con- sequence is that “in a quantum gravity theory, the ST cannot be determined. There is no geometry and no time flow. The notion of geometry must be replaced with a quantum notion, just as the notion of particles in quantum mechanics must be replaced with the notion of the wave function.” This is what I mean by saying that we must think outside the box of geometry and its spatial nature in order to under- stand time. The problem with the wave function is that we do not say what it represents. We speak of probability amplitude. What is its sta- tus? Just a gamble (what is the cause of the emergence of temporal asymmetry?) or intervention by a presence (human or otherwise), or even of true willpower? What about a universal wave function with infinite parameters? Does that make sense? Let us go back to my pre- vious argument. One of the important cornerstones of quantum mechanics is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which dictates that the position and the momentum of a single particle cannot be determined at the same time. This uncertainty is a fact and not a principle. In fact, the underly- ing ascendancy is the wave-corpuscular duality, but no one explains this duality. Quantum mechanics always speaks of probability ampli- tude and the existence of chance is presented as a new principle. Prob- abilistic functions are an adequate formalism in their application, but do not explain anything. They list possibilities in accordance with a variable probability of them actually happening. In other words, sci- ence explains the nature of things based on a law that does not exist! Chance! What is science without laws? Pseudo-science! How do we explain chance? We do not. We say “it is a coincidence and that is all there is to it.” That is science: the absence of explanations about the ori- gin of things. Therefore, the key to solving the problem lies in explain- ing the nature of chance and its “density,” i.e., the place it takes in the occurrence of phenomena. Chance is essentially a spatio-temporal scale problem in the frame- work of absolute relativity, i.e., “the more there is space, the less there is 152 The Science of Extraterrestrials: UFOs Explained at Last * Eric Julien