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Message: 4

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:07:29 +0800

Subject: Re: sharing

Dear Alice, at 20:43 11/12/01 EST, you wrote:

>i am not a scientist, obviously! but i can grasp time/space poetically but

>how do u account for motion - who or what was the Prime Mover?

Perhaps this will help. It was taken from my conversations with Prof. Randy

Zauhar, regarding a paper I wrote on the subject of a timeless universe,

which was spawned by my work on a unified feild theory back in the eighties.

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" Bloody hell! Randy, you make me feel like I am back teaching Year 8 again

- and not doing a very good job!

Ok… you are God. Around you is limitless nothingness. You decide to create

a particle - this will be the first building block of the universe you hope

one day to have for your very own. Through your godlike power you stretch

space in first one direction, then you stretch it in another and voila! You

have a two dimensional surface appear where the stretch lines cross each

other. But you can’t build something with a flat surface, so you then

stretch again in the third dimension, and suddenly you have a sphere - the

energy contained in the sphere proportionate to the tensions which

produced it. Now you can do something! But wait… the little sphere you have

produced only exists in one place in the universe - how the hell are you

going to have it able to be " moved " or placed somewhere else. Hmmm… your

going to have to create some more dimensions. So you then stretch the three

dimensions you have used to create the sphere along another one. Aha!… now

you have a sphere which exists along a continuous line in space. Hmm..

still can’t change the position of the thing in any of the dimensions you

made it in. So you stretch the long line in space in two more directions.

That’s better, now your sphere can be anywhere - whoops, now the bloody

thing is everywhere!

You scratch your head. This is going to be a nightmare! And you’re going to

need billions of the bloody things! How the hell are you going to decide

where each is supposed to be at any one junction of dimensionality?

You decide to start again, bugger the little spheres - they ain’t gunna

work. You try a new tack. Summoning all your power you say: Let there be

light! And behold, the entire cosmos is light - your kind of light,

everything, all that is, everywhere. Everything possible exists, now you

just need a way of sorting it out. You decide to take a tour through it,

but with your god’s infinite omnipresence all you can see is a sort of

slight haze barely distigushable from the nothingness. Going to have to

spice things up a bit - but how? Maybe if your vision wasn’t so wide? So

you make yourself smaller, just a little window of seeing, and the

brightness increases, sets of possibilies begin to show themselve in the

murk of all that is. You make yourself even smaller and suddenly you begin

to be able to resolve singular possibilities, but hey, they are so bright

and hard they nearly blow you away! You decide to compromise and adjust

your size to accommodate a wider field of possibility. But its still all a

muddle. You try moving - aha! Motion through the mess shows detail, the

detail dependant upon the size of the little window you have made of

yourself. You discover that your little window also reveals a spectrum of

natural happenings within this mess - its very existence has created the

impression of laws within the all that is - by its size and your particular

velocity through the all that is you are seeing things happen which are

totally dependant upon your interaction. All things are happening,

everywhere, but through your little window you can only see the things

which are possible when viewed in your chosen way. You like this -there are

lots of interesting possibilities here. With your " eye " open just " so " and

your speed in your chosen direction " just so " you find yourself in a

satisfyingly climactic universe where lots of things are happening,

seemingly one after another and conforming to laws which really only exist

because of your motion, but which, when looked at without your onmipotent

knowledge getting in the way, seem to be just what they are - real cause

and effect conditions within a single matrix of the cosmos. "

Alice O. Howell

Rosecroft

72 Beartown Mt. Road

Monterey, MA 01245 USA

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" Look for the sacred in the commonplace! "