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!
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Friday, August 7, 2009
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!
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!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Evolution of the Lucid Ego
I have to say, it is quite amazing to see what is currently happening in the world, and YouTube as one part of it. All this existing wisdom is rapidly generating even more wisdom by infecting other people, and creating a spiral upwards!
All with the current Target of: Awakening Humankind
I like to put some attention on 'What do we understand as Awakening - at this point?'
Spiritually, Awakening means Oneness, to loose all bonds to the ego and have absolute awareness on the Now.
Physically, Awakening means, you wake up and stay awake.
At this time though, this is - luckily - not the case for most people.
At this time, Awakening means 'the moment of Awakening' - being Oneness, waking up - and then falling back to sleep again.
Anyway, after this experience, what happens is Knowing. The experience itself will change the human being because it recognizes the illusion of the ego and the truth of reality. But this does not mean that the ego is gone.
It remains as a lucid ego, a transparent ego - which I visualize as a cobweb right here. While the previous and full ego being an impervious web with no escape, the moment of Awakening most commonly blows out old habits, emotions and thoughts and thus creating the lucid ego. It enables us to see through the illusion and see the truth. This event may free us from mental addictions or any type of depression immediately.
To a certain extend, life changes from total planning to intuitive flowing - which is basically living in the Now.
This Lucid Ego might be considered as the next step of evolution. It's reason is:
- Securing survival of mankind
- Development of higher senses
- Preparation for next evolutionary jump (making the lucid ego obsolete)
Now this is kind of strange, but the biggest struggle of this stage:
- Survival of the Lucid Ego not secured
which is a circular relation.
There are two reasons that I see for this:
- Egoic Gravitation and
- the Contagiousness of Minds
The Ego Gravitation is basically the same than 'normal' gravitation just not for matter but for thoughts. In this thought-model (which may be part of the grand unification theory) the ego is the center of gravitation, pulling known and familiar reality into our lives. Unknown reality occurs only rarely.
On an gravitational pull radius our illusory wants and wishes are lingering and waiting for us pulling them in. Even the lucid ego - after experiencing a glimpse of awakening - has wants and wishes left. Maybe less wishes and transformed ones, but still wishes.
However, this does not mean that we have to overcome our ego gravity completely. That would be wrong. Living to the full is what life is for. It will be over soon enough. Enlightenment itself is not really life, but it wants life.
So until then let us as one experience all the awareness there is.
Well, but we are not there yet.
The second enemy of the Lucid Ego is the Contagiousness of Minds.
We all know that moods can be infectious, but something is different here. THere is more than just moods.
So let's say, you as you as an individual develop a lucid ego. This will bring new qualities in your life, such as High awareness, Brilliant listening, Higher ‘energy, Intuitive flow.
Even then you still might not be able to sustain it.
Why is that?
I can talk of myself a bit.
Especially at work there might be occasions when I'm in a total flow and everything lines up perfect just as it happens. But then, like a sledgehammer, you go into a meeting and all the energy is just sucked out of you.
So what happens because of the Lucid Ego is that you will also develop skills that totally knew, and one of them is empathy.
Empathy means that you feel the emotions of other people even if they don't really show it. You don't even have to look at them.
You might not even see them.
So - easy to say - it makes it work to stay in a Absolute Aware state of mind.
Only through the constant and conscious alertness of detecting ego patterns, we will eventually be able to establish a global, unified lucid ego, then being ready to loose the ego completely.
But until then, here is part of what 'you' can do to stay alert:
1. Recognize feelings and greet them
2. Be very grateful about experiencing the current moment as it is
3. Surrender (knowing that it's an egoic and untrue reality)
4. If you can't surrender, if you are somehow unhappy with a situation, just know that from time to time you may have to step into your illusionary ego and change things the old fashioned way - by interacting with other people on an ego-basis.
All with the current Target of: Awakening Humankind
I like to put some attention on 'What do we understand as Awakening - at this point?'
Spiritually, Awakening means Oneness, to loose all bonds to the ego and have absolute awareness on the Now.
Physically, Awakening means, you wake up and stay awake.
At this time though, this is - luckily - not the case for most people.
At this time, Awakening means 'the moment of Awakening' - being Oneness, waking up - and then falling back to sleep again.
Anyway, after this experience, what happens is Knowing. The experience itself will change the human being because it recognizes the illusion of the ego and the truth of reality. But this does not mean that the ego is gone.
It remains as a lucid ego, a transparent ego - which I visualize as a cobweb right here. While the previous and full ego being an impervious web with no escape, the moment of Awakening most commonly blows out old habits, emotions and thoughts and thus creating the lucid ego. It enables us to see through the illusion and see the truth. This event may free us from mental addictions or any type of depression immediately.
To a certain extend, life changes from total planning to intuitive flowing - which is basically living in the Now.
This Lucid Ego might be considered as the next step of evolution. It's reason is:
- Securing survival of mankind
- Development of higher senses
- Preparation for next evolutionary jump (making the lucid ego obsolete)
Now this is kind of strange, but the biggest struggle of this stage:
- Survival of the Lucid Ego not secured
which is a circular relation.
There are two reasons that I see for this:
- Egoic Gravitation and
- the Contagiousness of Minds
The Ego Gravitation is basically the same than 'normal' gravitation just not for matter but for thoughts. In this thought-model (which may be part of the grand unification theory) the ego is the center of gravitation, pulling known and familiar reality into our lives. Unknown reality occurs only rarely.
On an gravitational pull radius our illusory wants and wishes are lingering and waiting for us pulling them in. Even the lucid ego - after experiencing a glimpse of awakening - has wants and wishes left. Maybe less wishes and transformed ones, but still wishes.
However, this does not mean that we have to overcome our ego gravity completely. That would be wrong. Living to the full is what life is for. It will be over soon enough. Enlightenment itself is not really life, but it wants life.
So until then let us as one experience all the awareness there is.
Well, but we are not there yet.
The second enemy of the Lucid Ego is the Contagiousness of Minds.
We all know that moods can be infectious, but something is different here. THere is more than just moods.
So let's say, you as you as an individual develop a lucid ego. This will bring new qualities in your life, such as High awareness, Brilliant listening, Higher ‘energy, Intuitive flow.
Even then you still might not be able to sustain it.
Why is that?
I can talk of myself a bit.
Especially at work there might be occasions when I'm in a total flow and everything lines up perfect just as it happens. But then, like a sledgehammer, you go into a meeting and all the energy is just sucked out of you.
So what happens because of the Lucid Ego is that you will also develop skills that totally knew, and one of them is empathy.
Empathy means that you feel the emotions of other people even if they don't really show it. You don't even have to look at them.
You might not even see them.
So - easy to say - it makes it work to stay in a Absolute Aware state of mind.
Only through the constant and conscious alertness of detecting ego patterns, we will eventually be able to establish a global, unified lucid ego, then being ready to loose the ego completely.
But until then, here is part of what 'you' can do to stay alert:
1. Recognize feelings and greet them
2. Be very grateful about experiencing the current moment as it is
3. Surrender (knowing that it's an egoic and untrue reality)
4. If you can't surrender, if you are somehow unhappy with a situation, just know that from time to time you may have to step into your illusionary ego and change things the old fashioned way - by interacting with other people on an ego-basis.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The Eternal-Now Walk
I like to share this exercise with you which always is a powerful experience to me. I call it 'Walking in the Now'. It is something that helps me loosing my self – or to use better words, it helps 'me' loosing my ego...
... it helps to find an answer on: "What am I?"
Go outside and start walking. Don't look back. Imagine your life being the road you go. The steps you made are your past, and the steps you're about to do, resemble your future.
Look on the ground before you and keep walking.
Now imagine that behind you, suddenly there is nothing. Just a void. Feel the nothingness behind you after each step. Feel that the past is not staying behind, there is no past behind you, instead, it is moving within YOU - you are carrying your past WITHIN yourself in the NOW.
Continue walking and keep that feeling.
At this point, I always feel light. As if the backpack of my past dropped into nothingness. My shoulders suddenly relax and I get very conscious of the Now. The ego's bonds to the past are loosened up.
At this point, with each step you are moving in the Now. Of course, time does still elapse, but remember, the feeling of passing time is still only WITHIN you.
Your ego might still talk into you that it has a past and also a future. Also it tells you that it has a body and that it wants to do something else. But you already know that whatever you are, there is no past outside of you.
If you go deep, you will find out that you are not your ego.
Now, raise your vision and look straight ahead and imagine another yourself walking ahead of you somewhere in the dis-tance.
Imagine this future 'you' and realize that this imagination of the future is ONLY Within yourself, just as the past is.
Do you see that you are not your body? Your body changes every day, year and decade.
Do you see that you are not your ego, it too, changes every day, year and decade.
At this point, while I'm walking in the Now, the meaning of time fades and I am not my self anymore.
Past and Future only exist in your ego.
I realize that there is something never-changing which I am and which is connecting my body, ego, past, present and future – making it a perfect illusion.
Awareness.
... it helps to find an answer on: "What am I?"
Go outside and start walking. Don't look back. Imagine your life being the road you go. The steps you made are your past, and the steps you're about to do, resemble your future.
Look on the ground before you and keep walking.
Now imagine that behind you, suddenly there is nothing. Just a void. Feel the nothingness behind you after each step. Feel that the past is not staying behind, there is no past behind you, instead, it is moving within YOU - you are carrying your past WITHIN yourself in the NOW.
Continue walking and keep that feeling.
At this point, I always feel light. As if the backpack of my past dropped into nothingness. My shoulders suddenly relax and I get very conscious of the Now. The ego's bonds to the past are loosened up.
At this point, with each step you are moving in the Now. Of course, time does still elapse, but remember, the feeling of passing time is still only WITHIN you.
Your ego might still talk into you that it has a past and also a future. Also it tells you that it has a body and that it wants to do something else. But you already know that whatever you are, there is no past outside of you.
If you go deep, you will find out that you are not your ego.
Now, raise your vision and look straight ahead and imagine another yourself walking ahead of you somewhere in the dis-tance.
Imagine this future 'you' and realize that this imagination of the future is ONLY Within yourself, just as the past is.
Do you see that you are not your body? Your body changes every day, year and decade.
Do you see that you are not your ego, it too, changes every day, year and decade.
At this point, while I'm walking in the Now, the meaning of time fades and I am not my self anymore.
Past and Future only exist in your ego.
I realize that there is something never-changing which I am and which is connecting my body, ego, past, present and future – making it a perfect illusion.
Awareness.
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