Random stuff…
August 30th, 2006You might have noticed I don't have cool links anymore, just plain text…I broke my fancy editor a month or two ago and haven't really tried fixing it yet…does anyone care? Might give me motiviation…
I enjoyed this immensely: http://www.braingle.com/28638.html
I was thinking…who needs god when you have infinity and eternity? Well, at least eternity as some scientists posit (postulate? speculate?) that if you go far enough in any one direction you end up where you started, making the universe quite finite if I understand the idea correctly. Eternity, however…unless there is something fundamental about time that we can't wrap our little minds around, eternity is a gigantic concept. Forever. I think I've mentioned it before. Where does god fit in forever? Forever implies a lot of time. Eternity is infinite. So, no matter how far you go back, there is always a before. The idea is so gigantic, I can't help but think there is something we aren't seeing. Lets suppose one of three situations: There is forever, it has been forever, and it will always be. Time eternal. Why? Where did it start? Those are non-questions due to the very nature of time, a nature we can't possibly understand (assuming there are no external factors involved, see second and third situation). Poor little limited apes… Second situation: Time has existed 'forever' with regards to the life span of the energy and matter which make up our universe, but this is due to an external factor. There is a way to be outside of time, in some other method of existence where somehow time has no meaning. Those that inhabit this area create a framework for time to exist, and inject matter and energy into this experiment to see what happens. This feels right to me for some reason… This could also be considered the 'god' explanation, although I don't believe that those who inhabit that area have anything at all to do with anything that has been created with regards to religion in the conventional JudeaoChristianIslam sense. Third situation: god in the conventional sense does exist and created the universe as it is 6000 years ago. Time eternal exists only for this god, everything else is a purposeful construct which is intended to appear as if it belongs in one of the first two situations. I had more to post but I forgot it all…
Woe…that’s some deep shit.
I don’t really know what to say. I’m not sure what God has to do with time or eternity. I just don’t think there is a difference between those two. God is a product of them. In them we find the creation of things. God is one of those. I could compare God to Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth will be remember for eternity, just as God. God only came into time first. Eternity will go on and on. Some how, some way, some where, the clock will always tick.
What does all this mean? Hell if I know really…
I read yesterday about some new physics ideas that are being kicked around, and I read an interesting line that I certainly don’t know enough about to really understand but sounded pretty interesting:
“He has already shown, with physicist Carlo Rovelli of the University of Marseille, that time can emerge naturally from the noncommutativity of the observable quantities of gravity. Time can be compared with a property such as temperature, which needs atoms to exist, Rovelli explains.”
Noncommutativity means (I hope I’m not mangling this) that the order in which the math which predicts and describes time, gravity, etc etc is order dependant, you have to do the math in a paticular order for the results to match reality. When they say that atoms need temperature, its because at very very low temperatures there isn’t enough energy in an atom for it to ‘keep its shape’, they end up doing strange things and form new states of matter. So, what they are saying is that time is a function of matter just as temperature is, that time is initimately tied to matter, or at least to our matter.
I can’t help but think, even if there is an unknowable god in the scientific sense, one that set the universe ‘in motion’, what came before? What made that creature, or the area in which it exists? Everything had to come from somewhere. As far as I can tell, the universe shouldn’t exists something cannot be created from nothing. God shouldn’t exist as something cannot be created from nothing. Its strange…
From : http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00039831-4051-14C0-AFE483414B7F4945&sc=I100322
Thinking about all of that just scares me. Time seems to be my enemy.