Saturday, August 8, 2009

The Speed of Light Revision

Here is a question for the curious mind:
Why do we think that the Speed of Light is the Limit? Maybe it just sticks to the Limit.

To give you an easy example out of everyday life.
You could measure the speed of cars on the Interstate, and the result might be a maximum speed of 70mph.

You could say: The Speed of a Car is 70mph.
But the truth is: All drivers just obeyed the speed limit.
Knowing this truth, the first statement pretty much looks stupid.

We already know that there is more to light than we currently know.

Here is a short refresher on Quantum Electrodynamics:
The Speed of Light is constant, is it?

The Speed of Light is said to be constant in pure vacuum. Moving through other media like water or glass, light slows down.
In fact, light doesn’t really slow down, it just needs time for re-emision.
So, looking at this diamond, light moves 2.4 times slower inside of it, but gets faster immediately after exiting the diamond.
And the answer to the question: "Why does light suddenly get faster after being slowed down?" is that it never was slowed down,
it is not the same photon that entered the diamond!

Light moves straight, does it?
Maybe...

The path of light can’t be predicted. In the moment you would watch the light, it would choose a different path.
Everything is based on possibilities.
A possible path of light traveling through vacuum could look like this.

Also, looking into a mirror, the angle of incidence is not necessarily the angle of reflection.
It can be, but doesn't have to be.
This phenomenon explains that seeing a hot road flickering in the sun. The flickering is the reflection of the sun, light that didn’t move straight but the fastest.

Let's go back to our main question of "Why do we think that the Speed of Light is the Limit? Maybe it just sticks to the Limit.",
And ask another question: "What would happen if the Speed of Light were to be infinite?"
- The night sky would be brightly illuminated.
- Our communication would probably be impossible due to signal ‘pollution’
- We could immediately see what’s happening in the whole universe
- The universe would be connected in the Now

This brings me to say that The Speed of Light is the speed at which the local Now travels.

Ok, what's that? The Local Now!?

Looking at Earth, the Moon and Mars, each – I say – planet has a local Now, because the Now of the moon reaches us after 1.5 seconds and the Now of Mars reaches us after about 4 minutes.

Imagine a tree on Earth, and a leaf falling down. This event of creation triggers – what I call – a Now Wave. And after 1.5 seconds to the moon and 4 minutes to Mars, the leaf is also falling down for them.

So what happens is that all centers of creation are sending out Now Waves,
to be specific, every single ‘point’ in space sends out a Now Wave – always.

These ‘point’ could be one Planck length which is said to be the smallest distance something can be known about.
And looking at the 2nd part of the famous formula of E = mc2, we see that E is also h*v, with h = Planck Constant and v = Frequency.
At this point, we are able to revise the meaning of the speed of light.
Summing up, Creation (or Change) communicates itself. This happens at the Speed of Light.

Matter-Consciousness needs to ‘communicate’ its constant creation.
Creation always happens in the Now, but it has a delay through space.
It would make sense to consider the Speed of Light truly as the Delay of Now.

The ‘Delay on Now’-Speed is the true limit.
Light just sticks to this speed limit (especially in respect with light being the main medium we can perceive).
This speed isn’t necessarily constant through the existence of the universe. It might have changed in the ‘past’ and change in the ‘future’.
Anyway, this interpretation cancels out the possibility of Time Travel.

From here we can do another big step – well, another question:
Is gravity a result of creation?

Right now we say: More mass = more gravity = more creation
Or would it make sense to rearrange this to: More creation = more mass = more gravity
Does Creation Bend Space?

With this understanding, the Lorentz Factor gets a new meaning. It is basically describing a Doppler effect of Creation.
As a reminder, the Lorentz Factor is what's sitting in each aspect of relativity.

So far we were looking at the Now Waves from the top – at least in our picture here. We can also look at the waves from the side.
In reality, these waves expand in all directions of course. The problem is only that we can't imagine 4 dimensions of space.

Imagine your idle in a rocket on Earth, then the image of the rocket is send out with the speed of light.
Approaching the speed of light, you would still send out light but since moving so fast chase the first wave with a second.
Layering these two waves, you see that they amplify and if we say that 'more creation = more mass' then the mass of rocket increases.

When actually matching the Speed of Creation, all the simultaneously created waves would amplify towards infinity.

Quite the same would apply for a black hole, it wouldn't send out a wave, but bending it and preventing any escape of creation.

Friday, August 7, 2009

The Speed of Light Problem

There is one very basic problem with the Speed of Light and Relativity

What sense does it make!? We have all these theories and formulas, but what does it really mean?
Why should Relativity exist?

Most of the time, you can answer a question with a better question – and that's what I'm trying to do.

Let's go through a refresher on relativity. For some thought experiments, let’s pretend you could reach the Speed of Light. With a rocket.
Your space rocket accelerates for a few minutes, then reaches the Speed of Light.
What happens?

What happens is this, that time dilatation, Lorentz contraction and relativistic mass come into effect.

So you're sitting in the space rocket. What happens during acceleration:
For the observer from Earth, nothing changes on Earth itself - of course, but looking into the rocket (if he could actually see let's say into the cockpit)
- time passes slower (and a clock would tick slower)
- it seems that the rocket gets thinner and appears turned slightly
- it starts to get heavier.

For you as the observer inside the rocket, your time and dimensions stay the same but the mass of the rocket increases.
Looking towards Earth, you'll see almost the same symptoms that the observer from Earth saw happening to the rocket.
- time on Earth passes slower,
- it seems that the rocket gets thinner and appears turned slightly

Now, what happens after acceleration, at the Speed of Light?
For the observer from Earth, still nothing changed on Earth itself, but looking into the rocket
- time stopped
- the rocket disappeared.
- is infinitely heavy but we agreed to neglect this for now.

For you as the observer inside the rocket, your time and dimensions stay the same but the mass of the rocket is infinite.
Looking towards Earth, again you'll see almost the same symptoms that the observer from Earth saw happening to the rocket.
- time stopped
- Earth and the inertial universe disappeared.

What is that supposed to be, the inertial universe?
It is galaxies moving slow compared to the speed of light and slow relative to each other, e.g. the Milky Way.
To get an understanding of how big these Intertial Universes are, our sun turns around the center of the Milky Way
with a speed of 240km/s. That is 0.08% of the Speed of Light. They are pretty big.

Beyond the Inertial Universe, it is possible for galaxies to move apart faster than the speed of light. This is unaffected by relativistic effects because the space itself expands faster than light.

Here is a quote from Pandian and Rothstein:
"Although it's impossible to move through space (locally) faster than the speed of light […], it is still possible for the distances between faraway galaxies to increase faster than the speed of light, due to the rate at which the space between them is stretching. This faster than light "travel" doesn't have any effect on the material that makes up the galaxies (for example, their energy does not become infinite in any meaningful sense), since they aren't really moving with respect to each other in any way that they can measure directly."

Let's go back to Earth and our rocket at Speed of Light. Time stopped, the universe disappeared and there is nothing else but 'you.
Just as a reminder, we are still neglecting the effects of relativistic mass – we'll come to this in a minute – but the next step is very important.

Once at the Speed of Light, you cannot go back!
The Universe you came from... is gone. This is a bit paradox.
You may think: “I’ll just shut-down the engine.”, but remember, at the Speed of Light, you travel infinitely far in no time.
There is no place to return to. Where do you think you ‘pop out’ in the universe after you travelled infinitely far?
In fact, your new speed is basically zero, it can’t be determined anymore since there is nothing to relate to.

No time, no ‘space’ or no ‘thing’ to relate to. And you. And the rocket.
Well, we know that no mass can reach the speed of light, so your rocket would have created an infinite mass black hole thus swallowing the complete universe.
What we can do though to keep this thought experiment going, is to imagine we didn't reach Speed of Light with a rocket, but only with our mass-less consciousness.

Then - at the Speed of Light -, your consciousness is floating in Eternity (without time) and Infinity (without space).
This leads me to a 'Why' and maybe you saw or will see my previous entry about the answer to "in how many dimensions we live in'.
Why is what happens at the Speed of Light the same than the Dimension in which ‘that what we really are’ lives in?

There is more to come, so keep your eyes open!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

The Answer to 'In How Many Dimensions We Live In'

Welcome to my blog about 'In How Many Dimensions We Live In'. If you saw my last video about Dimensions we stopped saying that all life takes place in the Now. But well, it's easy to say that life takes place in the Now but it's not easy to understand. So let's go from there.

The good thing about it: there is an answer. But it depends on 'Who is asking!?'

You, as in your mind?
Or
You, as in what you really are?

So first of all, you are not your mind - and if that comes a bit sudden, than you might think about it a bit.
You are pure consciousness. We all are that - the same!

The mind is only a tool that we started to identify with. Asking from the mind can never give us the truth (for example time only exists for the mind).
So let's ask the question about 'In How Many Dimensions We Live In' from what we really are. Consciousness. This is really a word that is supposed to describe that what is not describeable. For more understanding, we can also say: Awareness, Presence, Information, Energy, The Unmanifested, Unity, Oneness, or Being.And I'd like to stick with 'Being' for now.

We are and we are in Time and Space.

So what's the story about time!? Time is truly Eternity

The Future is only a thought in the Now.
The Past is only a memory in the Now.

You may ask the question: "Well, but what about an old photo or a planted tree. Everything has changed, so time has passed, hasn’t it?"

Answer
For the mind: Yes, two different Nows = Illusion of Time
For consciousness (what we really are): No, You are unchanged.

A photo is taken in the Now. It’s also looked at again in the Now.

You are without change watching the change. This watcher that we are talking about lives in Eternity - and it's important to understand that Eternity is not ‘time without end’ but ‘without time’.

Next, what about Space!? Space is truly Infinity

And I quote from the book 'The Power of Now' [Eckhart Tolle]
"Just as no sound can exist without silence, nothing can exist without no-thing, without the empty space that enables it to be. Every physical object or body has come out of nothing, is surrounded by nothing, and will eventually return to nothing. Not only that, but even inside every physical body there is far more "nothing" than "something". […]
Space has no ”existence”, […] (but) it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either."

Infinity is not ‘space without borders’ but ‘without space’.
Imagining that - without time and without space - is quite complicated and here is a quote that makes it a little bit more easy to understand:

Everything Forever [Gevin Giorbran]
"Someone who is blind, for example, doesn't see black or darkness, because even if they did temporarily upon initially going blind, the black quickly loses meaning for them because it is just one color, and without differentiation the mind interprets such a world as a perceptual nothing. And in fact the mind is correct, because this is the real nothing that exists in physical reality."

Going back to the main question we asked, we are beings that live in eternity and infinity.
If you ask how many dimensions does Eternity have, it's only a 'point', zero dimensions.
If you ask how many dimensions does Infinity have, it's too, only a 'point', zero dimensions.

We as in 'what we really are' live in 0 Dimensions.

Translating this into everyday language, we live in the Now and the Here.
Think about it and don't stop thinking about it because the question about in how many dimensions our mind and body live has still to be answered...

There is more to come, so keep your eyes open!