time as an ocean
It sucks being smart in a world of morons, it really does. Nobody to talk about interesting ideas with. I tried to float my space time ideas with Dan and he just couldn't even understand enough to not understand. I mean, didn't even try to picture what I was telling him. He'd rather go on at length about political rebellion. Everything that man thinks is about rebellion, not much else. He's one of those "what are you protesting?" "what have you got?" types of men. Just try and tell him he has to follow along with the crowd and you'll see how little reason plays a part.
So.
Time is not real. It's not a thing. Let that idea go. Time does not exist except as a function of measuring entropy. We created it. We made it synch up with our observable universe so now it appears to be proved by same, but it's not real. We're stuck in 3 dimensions because we cling to it, rather like someone insisiting the surface of their 2d paper is too important to jump off and discover the 3d world. So Time, perse, isn't a necessary function of movement across space.
I know, that is just a statement. There's nothing behind it. Can't be, that's for the scientists to figure out how to prove, but enough of them know this, they're working on it. Enstein was tickling the edges of this. So if you wanted to travel to the next nearest solar system, you'd be looking at the distance through the lens of time. The light you saw goes through Time and you can measure it in the amount of photons degraded, the entropy of the light cast by the star. We measure the entropy, compare it to our own entropy with the "time number" and state how much entropy a human can afford to expend vs how much it would take to get there.
But suppose you could side step? Suppose you don't have to dive into Time to move across space? How? Well, we think of time as linear, but perhaps it's not. Maybe it's just a liquid! Imagine Time as a puddle, a great ocean, a lake, etc. As water. Light is carried by it, so we see through it. We are on the surface, travelling from one point to another by dipping down, swimming, and surfacing, because we get to point B along the same path as the light by which we navigate. Suppose point B is also on the surface of our Time ocean. Suppose the light lenses through the ocean of time like it would through a chunk of reflective glass? Now calculate your angles. The closer it is to us, the deeper the angle of the light, and the more time it must accumulate. The farther from us, the more oblique the angle, and the closer it will seem to be. So if we figure out how to move thorugh space without dipping through time, the further away it appears, the easier it will be to get there! There is annother way to move, and we can do it, but we don't understand how to JUMP out of the water and leap across to the next island.
So.
Time is not real. It's not a thing. Let that idea go. Time does not exist except as a function of measuring entropy. We created it. We made it synch up with our observable universe so now it appears to be proved by same, but it's not real. We're stuck in 3 dimensions because we cling to it, rather like someone insisiting the surface of their 2d paper is too important to jump off and discover the 3d world. So Time, perse, isn't a necessary function of movement across space.
I know, that is just a statement. There's nothing behind it. Can't be, that's for the scientists to figure out how to prove, but enough of them know this, they're working on it. Enstein was tickling the edges of this. So if you wanted to travel to the next nearest solar system, you'd be looking at the distance through the lens of time. The light you saw goes through Time and you can measure it in the amount of photons degraded, the entropy of the light cast by the star. We measure the entropy, compare it to our own entropy with the "time number" and state how much entropy a human can afford to expend vs how much it would take to get there.
But suppose you could side step? Suppose you don't have to dive into Time to move across space? How? Well, we think of time as linear, but perhaps it's not. Maybe it's just a liquid! Imagine Time as a puddle, a great ocean, a lake, etc. As water. Light is carried by it, so we see through it. We are on the surface, travelling from one point to another by dipping down, swimming, and surfacing, because we get to point B along the same path as the light by which we navigate. Suppose point B is also on the surface of our Time ocean. Suppose the light lenses through the ocean of time like it would through a chunk of reflective glass? Now calculate your angles. The closer it is to us, the deeper the angle of the light, and the more time it must accumulate. The farther from us, the more oblique the angle, and the closer it will seem to be. So if we figure out how to move thorugh space without dipping through time, the further away it appears, the easier it will be to get there! There is annother way to move, and we can do it, but we don't understand how to JUMP out of the water and leap across to the next island.