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CHAPTER The soft sciences: weightier than billions of suns IN ABSOLUTE RELATIVITY, time is three-dimen- sional, fractal and discrete. In general relativity, it is one-dimensional and continuous. This means that in absolute relativity time is virtually non-existent between celestial bodies. The fact that the “chronal charge” of the cosmic vacuum is so weak causes the suppression of all energy forms. This is predicted by the classical models of the universe, as the wavelength of photons follows the universal beam dimensions in the theory of universal expansion. From that perspective, the energy of photons decreases'® while mass is conserved. The energy of the uni- verse is therefore not constant as mass is conserved. That causes prob- lems. The difficulty with this standard model is that galaxies, galactic clusters and superclusters should dilate along with the universe! How- ever, that does not happen! They behave like confetti stuck to a balloon that is being inflated. Only the vacuum follows that expansion. We are thus faced with a considerable logic problem. Fractal time solves this problem, for every stellar or galactic system is a fractal whole in itself. Surprisingly, however, mass cannot remain constant in proportion to distance. The Compton wavelength in quantum mechanics clearly shows that mass diminishes as the distance™ grows. To really grasp the concept of fractal STs, it is therefore important to distinguish between the interstellar vacuum and the quantum vacuum. They are opposites. The first possesses very little energy; the second has m: of it that cannot even be measured given the current state of our tech- nological abilities. In other words, determining the age of the universe does not make sense, because it should be seen as a series of sheets of partially separated STs, with specific metrics of type log p/log q anda 285