Before you can fly...

Before you can fly...
So, you want to fly in time? Before you can fly, you have to wriggle... ugh... like a worm? What's that got to do with time travel???

To get started, lets do a little culinary chore... slice a carrot, thin... not to the Plank length, but make them thin... got it? (Are you just doing this in your head?? OK! If you can handle it...) Now, take all those slices and stack them back up to make the carrot again. Does that seem like a waste of time? Then, just consider it an investment in your education!

I need to tell you something about my flatland friend... he is not actually flat, nor is he a wafer like I discussed last post. You were not ready to see him at that point! What he thinks he is is not at all what he is... sounds familiar to Nois readers - eh? He thinks he is a disk, and we said (and lied) that he is really a wafer, but he thinks that only because that is all he can perceive. He has 2D perception after all! Even if he agrees that he has a little thickness in time, he has no idea what he actually looks like to me in 3D... he is a worm!

Say what??? OK, visualize this... you remember how I put the pencil into his 2D brane, then pulled it back out? He just saw a series of disks, but I saw the entire pencil. In exactly the same way, he sees himself as a disk, but I see a worm! To make this a little easier, lets loose the pond analogy, and put my flatland amoeba friend on the surface of some water in a 50 gal drum. It is gently raining and the drum is slowly filling with water. Now, think of my friend as a worm like creature who actually is attached to the bottom of the drum and extends up through the water and into the air. Thing is, he is only aware of himself at the surface of the water... I do not know why... this is just an analogy, not a theory of existence! (Hummm... maybe it is the interface change from water to air... from past to future...)  I am free to move around and see him all the way from top to bottom, but he only sees himself as a disk at the water surface.

You can think of his surface existence as the thin disk we talked about before and think of the rest of him as all the other carrot slices of him. For him, the passage of time is the rising of the water and the perception of himself at a new level. I see him at all the points in "time", but he only sees himself at one time +/- a bit. Get the idea? You will probably need to stop a few minutes and let that soak in...

Back? What happens if you do not stack the slices quite straight? Now stretch that brain a little more... lets let him move around a bit... say 1 inch West. What does that look like to him? Not too exciting. He just takes his little disk-self and uses his little flagilla to scoot himself across the surface of the water. I, on the other hand see something completely different! I see this worm creature flex and bend himself so that the place where he comes out of the water is 1 inch west.

That may seem the same to you, but it is drastically different in terms of it's logical consequences. We need to pursue this bunny trail some more, but enough brain stretching for one post.
Nois