Time to write about time...

Time to write about time...

If you are waiting with bated breath for my next post about gravity... sorry... you will need to wait. I have started to write a few times, and I just can not do it without taking you off on another bunny trail that I walked before I had the gravity epiphany while talking to my 3-year old. The trail I am talking about is TIME! I suppose I must say that time does not exist either, just to be consistent. However, like my existance, I believe that time exists, but not as I normally perceive it. This insight will take a few posts to unpack, as will the following discussion about gravity. It should be interesting though... would you like a way to visualize time travel? Would you like to see how you can have predestination and free will at the same time? Be brave and read on.

I need to keep these posts shorter than my ones on existance, so I will make them into shorter chunks. Hopefully you will not run out of interest before you run out of text. This first one will introduce Flatland, then from there we will talk about a rain barrel, then about Adam, the hydra; then about time travel and changing the past. Eventually we will end up back at the Galactic Hologram, finally to Einstine's rubber sheet, and to gravity. Here we go.

As a graduate studant in Math at Colorado State University several professors mentioned a little book called "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" 1884, by Edwin Abbot Abbot an English schoolmaster. Even without reading it, the ideas excited me because they gave me a tool to visualize 9 dinensions! Say, what... how could that be? Well, you see, if I can be in 3 dinensions, and can under stand how a 2-D creature can visualize my 3-D world, that helps me to visualize a 4-D world... see? Then on to 9 or farther!

Here's the basic idea... Imagine a little 2-D sort of creature... I sometimes think about an amobea living on the surface of a pond... not perfect, but it is something I can see in my mind. Suppose he wants to build a house... what would it be? If we assume that he and his fellow creatures can not swin dowm from the surface or up into the air, then, all he needs is a little ring of algae stems with a little hinged one for a door! As far as he is concerned, when he closes that door he is completely safe and can not be seen or see out.

So, let's suppose he "gets up" in the morning and goes outside. Suddenly he is terrified to see a little black dot appear out of nowhere! then it grows into a hard, black disk. Of course he only sees a black line, but he is used to moving around an object to figure out it's shape. Then, it changes into a brown, fuzzy disk that grows and then into a red disk. Just as quickly, it goes back to the black dot and is gone. Scary! What he does not know is that I just put a red pencil down into the water near his house and then pulled it out. Stop a while and visualize that sequence in your mind... what does it look like to me. What does it look like to him?

That night I rocked his world... I put the pencil into his "house"... he did not sleep any more that night!

So, how would a Flatland Jesus walk through the walls? He would have freedom in other dimensions, so he simply goes up or down a bit, moves over the closed stem walls, and moves back to flat-D. Voi la! He is inside a locked door...

How would that look if I was a 3-D creature with a 3-D house and someone with freedom in time simply went "up" in time moved over inside my locked house and them came back to my time... are you getting it? Don't have nightmares. Nois