Thursday, April 08, 2004
Splitting The Time Atom
"If I assume space to be infinitely small, all distances between the atoms
become infinitely small, i.e. all punctual atoms coincide in one
point.
But as time is infinitely divisible, the whole world is possible as purely a
temporal phenomenon, because I can occupy every time-point
with the one space-point, thus being able to place it an infinite
number of times. Therefore one should see the essence of a
body as distinct time-points, i.e. the one point placed at certain
distances. Between each time interval there is still room for infinite
time-points; therefore one could imagine a whole corporeal world,
all furnished from one point, but in such a way that we bodies
dissolve into interrupted timelines." ~ Time-Atom Theory: Nachgelassene Fragmente, Early 1873 - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Freeze this moment a little bit longer,
Make each sensation a little bit stronger,
Make each impression a little bit stronger,
Freeze this motion a little bit longer,
The innocence slips away..." ~ "Time Stand Still" - Rush
"E = mc²..." ~ Albert Einstein
"Energy itself is in a constant state of movement, so it never ends. As long as there is the presence of particles and/or anti-particles colliding with each other or moving through space, you will have energy. Hence, the Energy Constant." ~ The Energy Constant - Zelmo
Human beings generally view Time from a sequential perspective, meaning that Time follows a natural law and order; as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years go by, all matter around us both living and dead slowly decays into seeming oblivion. Our children grow up into men and women, age, grow old, and then ultimately die. The same happens to animals, plants, trees, and even the Earth itself in some cases. As persons, places, and things are born and/or brought into being, they will live out their relatively short and fleeting existence before ultimately decaying into dust and memory; the legacy of our Universe and Its history.
Why exist at all, one may wonder, if all we will have worked for and all we are destined to do is to die?
While such a defeatist attitude toward Mankind's rather pathetic futility when compared to a Universe so vast and seemingly without a beginning might be seen as logical to your average defeatist and skeptical human being, rather than conform to the typical ideals of the Establishment of Modern Man -- who has gone so far as to create a fictional Utopia called "heaven" where all good things and all good people go to after we die, just to appease the cowardly and arrogant majority of sheeplike peons who cannot accept the unarguable fact that Man is insignificant and not anywhere near as important as Man likes to make Himself out to be -- we will instead attempt to theorize and/or come to grips with the more realistic idea that, while Man may not serve any significant purpose to the Universe, the physics of Time itself are indeed just that: a physical aspect of the Universe. And becomes virtually inconsequential to the supernatural.
To attempt to understand what this means, I urge you to read again the Friedrich Nietzsche quote that I posted at the top of this blog. Or better yet, click on the link to his Time-Atom Theory also at the top of this blog.
While we can certainly doubt that Nietzsche was the authority on the mechanics of space and time, we can use his theory as a basis for further scientific thought, much as we use Darwin's Theory Of Evolution and Einstein's Theory Of Relativity to serve as the foundation of our general research and hypothesis. (Zelmo's Translation: It's all we have to fucking work with, people. So just roll with it and stop bitching.)
Basically, Nietzsche's point in the quote at the top of this blog was that Time itself is not necessarily sequential in the strictest sense; that there is no set-solid, cast-in-stone law that states that Time has to be sequential. For the most part, it is to you and me; our watches and clocks keep time as they are supposed to do, and we never once think twice about it. That is, until the watches and clocks start to either wear out, or when they need a new battery, or when there is a power outage or something to that effect. Then the watches and clocks have to be maintained by human hands, however, all the while Time itself continues to tick away; that subtle but stern, silent monster. Forever at its duty, without thought or care to the frailties of such earthly and human distractions.
But can Time possibly be swayed, bent, or even nullified?
Our natural human logic and perspective will state a firm "no" to that question, but only because that answer is the only one that humans can logically state, given our limitations as mere organic beings. Our primitive, animal, physical nature is subordinate to that which can be called supernatural and/or immortal.
Now before you sigh, frown, or roll your eyes at my usage of the words "supernatural" and "immortal", I urge you to read again my quote near the top of this blog regarding The Energy Constant. The limitations of Matter are not necessarily the limitations of Anti-Matter. And since it is proven that Anti-Matter exists (or anti-exists), then the scientific mind can logically come to the conclusion that the limitations of Nature are not necessarily the limitations of Supernature.
Meaning that as human beings can walk the earth, so it is indeed possible through the proven existence of Anti-Matter that anti-human beings may walk the earth as well.
Now that I'm almost certain to have lost the majority of whomever of you happen to be reading this, I'm going to go even further into the realm of higher logic. A few weeks ago, I told you about my out-of-body experiences. And while I came to the ultimate conclusion that those experiences were nothing more than figments of my imagination; the resulting machinations of a semi-sleeping mind and an overactive imagination; I stated that among the various and strangely common presences of what seemed to be ghostly renditions of other people standing in the same room as I was in while within the dream-state of my out-of-body experiences, I saw and still remember to this day, one presence that stood out from the others.
I saw this person back in August of 1995, as I was lying in my bedroom at my parents' old house back up in Anchorage, Alaska (they have since moved to another neighborhood). I awoke very early in the morning on that day, the sun was already shining since the days are much longer up there in the summertime than they are in the rest of the U.S., and I found that I couldn't move. At once, I realized that I was going through another one of those godawful experiences and attempted to sit up, but only managed to prop myself up on my left elbow, though I felt no weight to my body at all.
It was then that I saw a woman lying in bed next to me, though it was almost as though she wasn't really there, because I could see through her into the bed and the room behind her. I could see her face clear as day, and I was actually looking directly into her eyes and her into mine, and she was smiling at me. She was actually very pretty, and I raised my right hand up and saw that I could see through it into the bed and the room behind it. It was almost like holding a slide picture up to a lightbulb and gazing at the image; you could see the image, but you could also see through the picture and into the room beyond it. And as I moved my hand and fingers, I noticed what seemed to be these blue thread-like strings sticking out of all five of my fingers, that wiggled as I moved my hand. I looked at my hand, then back at the woman laying beside me, who was still smiling at me as though she knew me. And the oddest thing was how calm I was throughout this whole incident, which couldn't have lasted more than 20 seconds at the most, or so it seemed. And I felt an odd sort of recognition toward this woman, though I had never seen her before in my life.
After that, I shook myself out of it, got out of bed, and thought nothing more of it. But as things would turn out, the woman that was lying next to me in my bed back in August of 1995, I finally met 6 years later in 2001, and I am still living with her today.
Now you're probably thinking that Zelmo is probably drinking right now, or just plain ol' crazy. Well, I'm sober right now, and perfectly sane, at least I think I am (sane, that is). And no, I'm not going to launch on some bullshit tirade about how my girlfriend and I were "meant to be" or some stupid shit like that, because I don't believe in destiny, since it is proven through modern everyday transportation that humans do not always end up where they feel that they are destined to go; if that were not true, then your car would never break down, your flight would never be delayed, and there would never be a traffic jam to keep you from your destination.
No, I believe that what I saw that morning was a figment of my imagination, because that is the only explanation that my naturally skeptic mind will allow.
And before I head off on another tangent, what happened that morning wasn't the only time that I had experienced an episode such as that one. Later on that year, I was at a friend's house, also in Anchorage, and had fallen asleep on the guy's couch while I was watching TV, and while he and his mom went out to run some errands. Sometime during the afternoon, I woke up and found that I couldn't move again, immediately realizing that I was in another one of these trance states. I was calm up until I saw my friend Lowell come walking into the living room from out of the kitchen, and saw that he was nothing more than a shadow. The lights were off in the living room, and the lights were on in the kitchen behind him, but I could clearly see through him. And Lowell said to me, "What's up, chump?" I panicked, why I have no idea, and tried to shake myself out of my paralysis. Lowell saw this and apparently was disappointed or something, and said "fine then", and turned around and walked back into the kitchen. I woke myself out of my out-of-body experience, got up, and walked around the house expecting to see Lowell in one of the other rooms. But I was completely alone.
Lowell and his mom arrived home from grocery shopping about 45 minutes later. I never told them what happened. Lowell died the following year, in October of 1996, when he drank himself to death.
While I still don't believe in out-of-body experiences as the dreamer types like to make them out to be, where the soul leaves the body and blah-blah-blah, I do happen to believe in the phenomena known as Precognition.
And this is where I am at a dilemma. While I don't believe that the human mind is capable of truly projecting itself (it just doesn't seem like a necessary and logical ability for the mind to have), I do believe that precognition is perhaps a long-lost human ability that has perhaps faded over the millenia. You've all heard the cliche about how we only use about 10% of our brain capacity, so what is the purpose of the other 90%.
I personally don't see precognition as actually foretelling the distant future, but more of simply glimpsing the immediate future. For instance, we've all heard that little voice in our heads telling us not to do something, like walk down a certain street in the dead of night, or to not drive down a certain road, or perhaps to not even board a certain flight while traveling. These small pangs of precognition and premonition are more common than we tend to realize, and can even come in the form of our body waking itself up in the morning at the exact time that your alarm clock should have gone off, but didn't because you had forgotten to set it the night before. Meaning that the human subconscious mind is sometimes capable of watching out for itself when and where the conscious mind fails to.
And where does this all fit in with the concept of sequential time? Well, one can easily come to the conclusion that the very fact that precognition is a real and unexplained phenomena of the human mind totally discredits the notion that Time is eternally sequential; that if the human mind can circumvent Time as we know it, then Time itself is not cast in stone. Events are not truly meant to be, or to happen in a set course of sequence. Because if they were, then we would not necessarily be able to precognitively perceive them, simply because to see the future beforehand is to be granted the ability to change future events before they occur.
If I have lost you once again, my friends and enemies, then I urge you to look to Carl Sagan's "grandfather paradox" scenario, in which he states:
"The grandfather paradox is a very simple, science-fiction-based apparent inconsistency at the very heart of the idea of time travel into the past. It's very simply that you travel into the past and murder your own grandfather before he sires your mother or your father, and where does that then leave you? Do you instantly pop out of existence because you were never made? Or are you in a new causality scheme in which, since you are there you are there, and the events in the future leading to your adult life are now very different? The heart of the paradox is the apparent existence of you, the murderer of your own grandfather, when the very act of you murdering your own grandfather eliminates the possibility of you ever coming into existence.
Among the claimed solutions are that you can't murder your grandfather. You shoot him, but at the critical moment he bends over to tie his shoelace, or the gun jams, or somehow nature contrives to prevent the act that interrupts the causality scheme leading to your own existence." ~ Sagan on Time Travel - Nova Online
"But if events are not truly meant to be," you ask, "Then how in the fuck did you see your own girlfriend 6 years before you actually met her or even knew that she existed, dude?"
Well, that one is a bit of a toughie. Because I'm trying to exclude myself, rationally, from the dreamers who believe that our souls can magically leave the human body at will to walk the earth and see God and shit like that. While my skeptic mind avoids that concept like the plague...the above hypothesis seems to point to that possibility. But if that possibility is true, then the woman that I saw in my bedroom in 1995, that turned out to be my girlfriend thousands of miles away from Alaska in the state of Illinois in the year 2001, would have had to have been dead. Which means that my friend Lowell, whose apparent apparition or 'ghost' that I had seen in his house while the real flesh & blood Lowell was simultaneously out running errands with his mother -- the ghostly Lowell, so to speak, would have had to have been just that.
Which begs the ultimate question; how can one see the ghosts of people who are not dead yet?
That, my friends and enemies, is where the concept, the very law of sequential time, is nullified.
Let us suspend reality for a moment, and say for the hell of it, that what I just concluded above was true. That while we are alive in our physical bodies, the world proceeds as if on an infinite clock. Always ticking forward, never in reverse or at double-speed. But when we die or leave our bodies through an out-of-body experience, death, or otherwise, Time becomes a non-factor. There becomes no sequence of events; that all points of time and space are occupied simultaneously by us simply because we see ourselves at those time and space points. In death, or in transition between life and death, there is no past, present, or future. There is only you, and where you wish to be. Just as Nietzsche said in the first quote of his that I posted at the top of this blog.
Perhaps, like Matter and Anti-Matter, there are Humans and Anti-Humans. Or perhaps Mankind's seemingly eternal strive for perfection is only ultimately realized when we leave the physical human body once and for all. To ultimately become the true Master Race.
No matter where you go, there you are.
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become infinitely small, i.e. all punctual atoms coincide in one
point.
But as time is infinitely divisible, the whole world is possible as purely a
temporal phenomenon, because I can occupy every time-point
with the one space-point, thus being able to place it an infinite
number of times. Therefore one should see the essence of a
body as distinct time-points, i.e. the one point placed at certain
distances. Between each time interval there is still room for infinite
time-points; therefore one could imagine a whole corporeal world,
all furnished from one point, but in such a way that we bodies
dissolve into interrupted timelines." ~ Time-Atom Theory: Nachgelassene Fragmente, Early 1873 - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Freeze this moment a little bit longer,
Make each sensation a little bit stronger,
Make each impression a little bit stronger,
Freeze this motion a little bit longer,
The innocence slips away..." ~ "Time Stand Still" - Rush
"E = mc²..." ~ Albert Einstein
"Energy itself is in a constant state of movement, so it never ends. As long as there is the presence of particles and/or anti-particles colliding with each other or moving through space, you will have energy. Hence, the Energy Constant." ~ The Energy Constant - Zelmo
Human beings generally view Time from a sequential perspective, meaning that Time follows a natural law and order; as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years go by, all matter around us both living and dead slowly decays into seeming oblivion. Our children grow up into men and women, age, grow old, and then ultimately die. The same happens to animals, plants, trees, and even the Earth itself in some cases. As persons, places, and things are born and/or brought into being, they will live out their relatively short and fleeting existence before ultimately decaying into dust and memory; the legacy of our Universe and Its history.
Why exist at all, one may wonder, if all we will have worked for and all we are destined to do is to die?
While such a defeatist attitude toward Mankind's rather pathetic futility when compared to a Universe so vast and seemingly without a beginning might be seen as logical to your average defeatist and skeptical human being, rather than conform to the typical ideals of the Establishment of Modern Man -- who has gone so far as to create a fictional Utopia called "heaven" where all good things and all good people go to after we die, just to appease the cowardly and arrogant majority of sheeplike peons who cannot accept the unarguable fact that Man is insignificant and not anywhere near as important as Man likes to make Himself out to be -- we will instead attempt to theorize and/or come to grips with the more realistic idea that, while Man may not serve any significant purpose to the Universe, the physics of Time itself are indeed just that: a physical aspect of the Universe. And becomes virtually inconsequential to the supernatural.
To attempt to understand what this means, I urge you to read again the Friedrich Nietzsche quote that I posted at the top of this blog. Or better yet, click on the link to his Time-Atom Theory also at the top of this blog.
While we can certainly doubt that Nietzsche was the authority on the mechanics of space and time, we can use his theory as a basis for further scientific thought, much as we use Darwin's Theory Of Evolution and Einstein's Theory Of Relativity to serve as the foundation of our general research and hypothesis. (Zelmo's Translation: It's all we have to fucking work with, people. So just roll with it and stop bitching.)
Basically, Nietzsche's point in the quote at the top of this blog was that Time itself is not necessarily sequential in the strictest sense; that there is no set-solid, cast-in-stone law that states that Time has to be sequential. For the most part, it is to you and me; our watches and clocks keep time as they are supposed to do, and we never once think twice about it. That is, until the watches and clocks start to either wear out, or when they need a new battery, or when there is a power outage or something to that effect. Then the watches and clocks have to be maintained by human hands, however, all the while Time itself continues to tick away; that subtle but stern, silent monster. Forever at its duty, without thought or care to the frailties of such earthly and human distractions.
But can Time possibly be swayed, bent, or even nullified?
Our natural human logic and perspective will state a firm "no" to that question, but only because that answer is the only one that humans can logically state, given our limitations as mere organic beings. Our primitive, animal, physical nature is subordinate to that which can be called supernatural and/or immortal.
Now before you sigh, frown, or roll your eyes at my usage of the words "supernatural" and "immortal", I urge you to read again my quote near the top of this blog regarding The Energy Constant. The limitations of Matter are not necessarily the limitations of Anti-Matter. And since it is proven that Anti-Matter exists (or anti-exists), then the scientific mind can logically come to the conclusion that the limitations of Nature are not necessarily the limitations of Supernature.
Meaning that as human beings can walk the earth, so it is indeed possible through the proven existence of Anti-Matter that anti-human beings may walk the earth as well.
Now that I'm almost certain to have lost the majority of whomever of you happen to be reading this, I'm going to go even further into the realm of higher logic. A few weeks ago, I told you about my out-of-body experiences. And while I came to the ultimate conclusion that those experiences were nothing more than figments of my imagination; the resulting machinations of a semi-sleeping mind and an overactive imagination; I stated that among the various and strangely common presences of what seemed to be ghostly renditions of other people standing in the same room as I was in while within the dream-state of my out-of-body experiences, I saw and still remember to this day, one presence that stood out from the others.
I saw this person back in August of 1995, as I was lying in my bedroom at my parents' old house back up in Anchorage, Alaska (they have since moved to another neighborhood). I awoke very early in the morning on that day, the sun was already shining since the days are much longer up there in the summertime than they are in the rest of the U.S., and I found that I couldn't move. At once, I realized that I was going through another one of those godawful experiences and attempted to sit up, but only managed to prop myself up on my left elbow, though I felt no weight to my body at all.
It was then that I saw a woman lying in bed next to me, though it was almost as though she wasn't really there, because I could see through her into the bed and the room behind her. I could see her face clear as day, and I was actually looking directly into her eyes and her into mine, and she was smiling at me. She was actually very pretty, and I raised my right hand up and saw that I could see through it into the bed and the room behind it. It was almost like holding a slide picture up to a lightbulb and gazing at the image; you could see the image, but you could also see through the picture and into the room beyond it. And as I moved my hand and fingers, I noticed what seemed to be these blue thread-like strings sticking out of all five of my fingers, that wiggled as I moved my hand. I looked at my hand, then back at the woman laying beside me, who was still smiling at me as though she knew me. And the oddest thing was how calm I was throughout this whole incident, which couldn't have lasted more than 20 seconds at the most, or so it seemed. And I felt an odd sort of recognition toward this woman, though I had never seen her before in my life.
After that, I shook myself out of it, got out of bed, and thought nothing more of it. But as things would turn out, the woman that was lying next to me in my bed back in August of 1995, I finally met 6 years later in 2001, and I am still living with her today.
Now you're probably thinking that Zelmo is probably drinking right now, or just plain ol' crazy. Well, I'm sober right now, and perfectly sane, at least I think I am (sane, that is). And no, I'm not going to launch on some bullshit tirade about how my girlfriend and I were "meant to be" or some stupid shit like that, because I don't believe in destiny, since it is proven through modern everyday transportation that humans do not always end up where they feel that they are destined to go; if that were not true, then your car would never break down, your flight would never be delayed, and there would never be a traffic jam to keep you from your destination.
No, I believe that what I saw that morning was a figment of my imagination, because that is the only explanation that my naturally skeptic mind will allow.
And before I head off on another tangent, what happened that morning wasn't the only time that I had experienced an episode such as that one. Later on that year, I was at a friend's house, also in Anchorage, and had fallen asleep on the guy's couch while I was watching TV, and while he and his mom went out to run some errands. Sometime during the afternoon, I woke up and found that I couldn't move again, immediately realizing that I was in another one of these trance states. I was calm up until I saw my friend Lowell come walking into the living room from out of the kitchen, and saw that he was nothing more than a shadow. The lights were off in the living room, and the lights were on in the kitchen behind him, but I could clearly see through him. And Lowell said to me, "What's up, chump?" I panicked, why I have no idea, and tried to shake myself out of my paralysis. Lowell saw this and apparently was disappointed or something, and said "fine then", and turned around and walked back into the kitchen. I woke myself out of my out-of-body experience, got up, and walked around the house expecting to see Lowell in one of the other rooms. But I was completely alone.
Lowell and his mom arrived home from grocery shopping about 45 minutes later. I never told them what happened. Lowell died the following year, in October of 1996, when he drank himself to death.
While I still don't believe in out-of-body experiences as the dreamer types like to make them out to be, where the soul leaves the body and blah-blah-blah, I do happen to believe in the phenomena known as Precognition.
And this is where I am at a dilemma. While I don't believe that the human mind is capable of truly projecting itself (it just doesn't seem like a necessary and logical ability for the mind to have), I do believe that precognition is perhaps a long-lost human ability that has perhaps faded over the millenia. You've all heard the cliche about how we only use about 10% of our brain capacity, so what is the purpose of the other 90%.
I personally don't see precognition as actually foretelling the distant future, but more of simply glimpsing the immediate future. For instance, we've all heard that little voice in our heads telling us not to do something, like walk down a certain street in the dead of night, or to not drive down a certain road, or perhaps to not even board a certain flight while traveling. These small pangs of precognition and premonition are more common than we tend to realize, and can even come in the form of our body waking itself up in the morning at the exact time that your alarm clock should have gone off, but didn't because you had forgotten to set it the night before. Meaning that the human subconscious mind is sometimes capable of watching out for itself when and where the conscious mind fails to.
And where does this all fit in with the concept of sequential time? Well, one can easily come to the conclusion that the very fact that precognition is a real and unexplained phenomena of the human mind totally discredits the notion that Time is eternally sequential; that if the human mind can circumvent Time as we know it, then Time itself is not cast in stone. Events are not truly meant to be, or to happen in a set course of sequence. Because if they were, then we would not necessarily be able to precognitively perceive them, simply because to see the future beforehand is to be granted the ability to change future events before they occur.
If I have lost you once again, my friends and enemies, then I urge you to look to Carl Sagan's "grandfather paradox" scenario, in which he states:
"The grandfather paradox is a very simple, science-fiction-based apparent inconsistency at the very heart of the idea of time travel into the past. It's very simply that you travel into the past and murder your own grandfather before he sires your mother or your father, and where does that then leave you? Do you instantly pop out of existence because you were never made? Or are you in a new causality scheme in which, since you are there you are there, and the events in the future leading to your adult life are now very different? The heart of the paradox is the apparent existence of you, the murderer of your own grandfather, when the very act of you murdering your own grandfather eliminates the possibility of you ever coming into existence.
Among the claimed solutions are that you can't murder your grandfather. You shoot him, but at the critical moment he bends over to tie his shoelace, or the gun jams, or somehow nature contrives to prevent the act that interrupts the causality scheme leading to your own existence." ~ Sagan on Time Travel - Nova Online
"But if events are not truly meant to be," you ask, "Then how in the fuck did you see your own girlfriend 6 years before you actually met her or even knew that she existed, dude?"
Well, that one is a bit of a toughie. Because I'm trying to exclude myself, rationally, from the dreamers who believe that our souls can magically leave the human body at will to walk the earth and see God and shit like that. While my skeptic mind avoids that concept like the plague...the above hypothesis seems to point to that possibility. But if that possibility is true, then the woman that I saw in my bedroom in 1995, that turned out to be my girlfriend thousands of miles away from Alaska in the state of Illinois in the year 2001, would have had to have been dead. Which means that my friend Lowell, whose apparent apparition or 'ghost' that I had seen in his house while the real flesh & blood Lowell was simultaneously out running errands with his mother -- the ghostly Lowell, so to speak, would have had to have been just that.
Which begs the ultimate question; how can one see the ghosts of people who are not dead yet?
That, my friends and enemies, is where the concept, the very law of sequential time, is nullified.
Let us suspend reality for a moment, and say for the hell of it, that what I just concluded above was true. That while we are alive in our physical bodies, the world proceeds as if on an infinite clock. Always ticking forward, never in reverse or at double-speed. But when we die or leave our bodies through an out-of-body experience, death, or otherwise, Time becomes a non-factor. There becomes no sequence of events; that all points of time and space are occupied simultaneously by us simply because we see ourselves at those time and space points. In death, or in transition between life and death, there is no past, present, or future. There is only you, and where you wish to be. Just as Nietzsche said in the first quote of his that I posted at the top of this blog.
Perhaps, like Matter and Anti-Matter, there are Humans and Anti-Humans. Or perhaps Mankind's seemingly eternal strive for perfection is only ultimately realized when we leave the physical human body once and for all. To ultimately become the true Master Race.
No matter where you go, there you are.
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