Dimensions & Space-Time Continuum

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Om Gurave Namah

 

Shri Sanjay,

 

Namaste. While browsing through Internet, I have just come across this enclosed

article on Time travel and the space-time continuum jump. It's a revelation and,

I am AMAZED! Remember Guruji, once I was sharing with you and the list a weird

experience of mine and a few visitations from a very tenacious “being” and

my incoherent talk about dimensions…etc. This thesis states precisely, more

elaborately and impersonally, what had been my experience.

 

Ofcourse, that “Being” (Flash /Harrison) gave me the knowledge beyond the 4th

dimension, that of the 5th dimension too. And also about a coordinate-less /

dimension-less existence.

He was referring to my ability “seep through a porous membrane”---an ability for

space-time continuum jump?

 

Please pardon me for this particularly longish e-mail. But I am so excited

(positively goose-pimpled) that I want to share it with all of you right away!

My experience had been true…it was not a hallucination whipped up by an over

active mind!

 

Regards,

Lakshmi

 

 

Space/Time Continuum - a thesis

by David Faige

 

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Purpose of this Thesis

 

Curvature of Space/Time

 

Coordinates

 

Time Travel

 

What Would it Feel Like to Travel in Time?

Purpose of this Thesis

This thesis does not cover the mathematics of the space/time continuum and its

characteristics. Other individuals in academia have covered the mathematics

very well. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to provide a visualization

of the characteristics of the space/time continuum and offer directions for

future discovery.

 

This is a work in progress. Certain elements require further discussion and I

will make revisions to the text according to comments I receive.

 

Curvature of Space/Time

It is well known that the space/time continuum is curved. Recently, it has been

possible to detect that this curvature has, in fact, happened. We, as

three-dimensional beings, perceive time only as a result of memory. We remember

what was as a variable interval from what is now. If we had zero memory, we

could not detect time - we would exist only for the moment. The result of this

is our apparent perception of time as a linear line, always going forward. This

is similar to primitive peoples perceiving the Earth as flat. It could be

infinite - the horizon always kept bringing something new no matter how far

they traveled - or it could be finite, in which case there was the risk of

falling off the edge.

 

Note: The term three-dimensional and fourth-dimensional and any other references

to dimension in regards to "beings" means only that the being can directly

perceive that many dimensions. A three-dimensional being cannot directly see

the fourth dimension; the three-dimensional being can only infer its existence.

The fourth dimensional being can directly perceive the fourth dimension.

However, almost all objects exist in all dimensions.

 

In its simplest form, a curve, extended infinitely, becomes a circle (or, better

yet, a sphere). A sphere, when looked at microscopically without precision,

would appear as a flat surface, just like primitive people perceived the Earth.

Only when enough of the Earth was explored and technology was developed

adequately could the true form of Earth be determined. The same holds true for

three-dimensional beings trying to grasp the dimension of time. We need to

perceive/detect the macroscopic view in order to determine form.

 

For the initial attempts at perceiving something outside of our normal senses,

precision is not necessary. Einstein stated that space is finite but time is

infinite. The problem here is that infinite is not calculable. We need to make

it finite in order to progress. We can do this for time.

 

For practical purposes, time for any given object (such as a particle, an atom,

a molecule, a person, a planet, a star, a galaxy, a universe) begins from that

object's coming into existence and ends when that object ceases to exist in

that form. (Never mind the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, only changed

in form. We are dealing here in non-precision in order to get a finite value

for the initial attempts.) If the object's existence in time was exactly

linear, the object's existence would appear to a fourth-dimensional being as a

perfect sphere. However, to the third-dimensional being, time seems like a

straight line going on forever. Both are correct from their individual points

of reference. A fourth-dimensional being could traverse this time continuum

simply by going from point A to point B, because that being can perceive that

dimension. The third-dimensional being cannot.

 

Note: in this thesis, the term being is used in a symbolic way to denote an

object that is aware of condition and change in environment - whatever that

environment may be. As we are dealing with different dimensions, assuming that

the term being refers to the human or humanoid form could lead to erroneous

conclusions.

 

Objects whose X, Y, Z axis change (objects in motion) do not exist in time

linearly. You cannot change your position in the X, Y, and Z axis without also

changing your position in T in a nonlinear fashion. A perceived fixed object (a

stone lying on the ground, a building, a mountain) does move as a consequence of

movements through space (Earth orbital, geologic, etc.) and the force moving the

object through time. So, even perceived fixed objects move within the space/time

continuum - there are no true stationary objects.

 

Could a stasis field cause an object to cease moving in space/time? Nature

abhors lack of motion just as much as it abhors a vacuum. A perfect stasis

field might be difficult to achieve. Maybe an object might have its travel

through space/time retarded to a more or less degree, depending on the success

of generating a stasis field around the object.

 

Because existence in time is nonlinear, assuming a perfect sphere as the form of

an object's existence in the fourth dimension is not correct. More likely, the

object's existence might be as an ever changing stream. The whole of space/time

could then be considered as bundles of streams intertwining, bundling,

dispersing out, merging in. Or, the form may be a cloud with voids and dense

areas. Ultimately, space-time could have a recognizable form, once perceived on

a large scale.

 

However, for nonprecision calculation purposes, the best analogy of an object's

existence in space/time is as a ball of yarn gradually increasing in size.

There is a beginning (the object's coming into existence). The object continues

to exist nonlinearly - the windings of the yarn gradually making the ball

larger. The point here is at any given moment in the object's existence, time

is finite. Always in motion and always with infinite possibilities. Yet,

nonetheless finite when we do not require precision. And, even though the

possibilities for that object are infinite, the object seldom strays from a

certain mean - thus the ball of yarn analogy. For example, consider repetitive

motions (routines, cycles). These motions repeat, but never precisely - just

like adjacent strands in the ball of yarn.

 

 

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Space/Time Continuum - a thesis

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Coordinates

The problem of working out the fourth dimension (space/time) is that we have no

reference point(s) and coordinate structure(s) for it. True navigation on the

surface of the Earth was not possible until a coordinate system for X, Y, and Z

was worked out. However, to get started, this can be very simple (as in early

attempts at navigation). For example, in early navigation, the reference point

was where we were standing and the X, Y, and Z where relative to that point.

This was adequate for the initial attempts at navigation, but is no longer

adequate once you go beyond the horizon of the reference point. In early days,

ships always stayed within sight of land. If they ever lost sight of land, the

sailors were essentially lost - only able to find their way back by means of

dead reckoning (the memory of Time, where T = a linear line). True global

navigation was possible only when the following developed:

 

The shape of the surface of the Earth was determined to approximate a sphere.

A coordinate system was developed. The reference point for lines of longitude

(X) was arbitrarily decided to be Greenwich, England, with increments

arbitrarily set at degree, minute, and second intervals. The equator (a

completely arbitrary point) became the reference point for lines of latitude

(Y). However arbitrary these were, these coordinates enabled adequate

navigation across the surface of the Earth. Later, an additional requirement of

height (Z) became necessary. An arbitrary reference point of mean sea level was

decided upon. Although the sea level does change, the mean is adequate for most

navigation. So, we do not need precision in our initial attempt to coordinate

the fourth dimension. However, precision will be required, ultimately, in order

to safely travel in time.

A coordinate system that might be used to get started is: Tx, Ty, Tz, X, Y, Z.

 

We currently use arbitrary reference points for Tx. In western civilization, we

use the Julian calendar, with the reference point being the so-called

birth-of-Christ date of December 25, year 0. Although this is debatable as to

accuracy of the named event, the otherwise usage of the date as the zero

reference of the Julian calendar is acceptable (it's arbitrary, but fine as

long as everyone agrees to it). The other calendars in usage (as the Chinese

and the Jewish calendars) are perfectly acceptable as well (maybe even more so

than the Julian calendar). A reference point needs to be made for Ty, which

would be arbitrary. Then, we would need a Tz reference point. Any takers?

 

And, of course, the X, Y, Z could be our existing convention of longitude,

latitude, and altitude reckoned from mean sea level.

 

For human beings, Tx is our linear perception of the passage of time. We ignore

Ty and Tz, as we cannot perceive them directly. But, they exist nonetheless.

Our passage through time can be equated to a balloon floating in the

atmosphere. It always goes forward, no matter what real direction in reference

to the Earth it is traveling.

 

Regardless, unless Tx, Ty, and Tz are entered into the coordinate system, X, Y,

and Z are meaningless in the space/time continuum.

 

Unfortunately, Tx, Ty, Tz, X, Y, Z are a relative coordinate system. They may be

minimally adequate to plot from point A to point B in space/time. But, for

mapping of the dimension itself, absolute coordinates must be found. For our

universe, the absolute coordinates might be derived from the instant of the

initiation of the Big Bang, the moment of creation, or whatever other mechanism

is discovered for the initiation of the current universe we occupy.

 

To navigate from point A to point B in space/time you will require not only the

necessary coordinates of both points, but, you will also have to calculate the

curvature of space/time between the two points.

 

 

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Time Travel

If time travel is possible, shouldn't a time machine already exist?

 

The idea is that once the problems are worked out and a

means/mechanism/machine/modus for time transport is devised, said machine

should then exist for all time. Putting it another way, if someone calculates

the level of improbability of such a machine, feeds this calculation into a

computer connected to a nice cup of really hot tea and turns it on, the time

machine is simply called into existence (as was the infinite improbability

drive in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams). Well, there is a

problem with this. We can perceive only X, Y, Z, and T (where T is apparently a

linear straight line). Whereas, the time travel means/mechanism/machine/modus

would exist at Tx, Ty, Tz, X, Y, Z. We can not directly perceive of that

machine, just the same as a two-dimensional being cannot directly perceive a

three-dimensional object. The machine could already exist. There are two

discernable possibilities here:

 

The machine could be perceived only at the moment it deposits an object into our

current point in the space/time continuum. As the machine would have the ability

to change its location directly from point A to point B in the space/time

continuum, the machine may not have a sequential existence within our journey

in the space/time continuum (here today, gone tomorrow).

The machine may already have portals (entry ways, access methods) into our

dimension. However, since we do not have the reference points for Tx, Ty, and

Tz, we would not realize the true purpose of the portals even though we could

be standing right in the vicinity of them. Thus, for all we know, the Pyramids

of Egypt could be time portals and we would not realize this until we work out

Tx, Ty, and Tz.

Ultimately, it may be discovered that a physical machine is not required for

time travel - the modus being an integral part of our own being.

 

One final note before you time travel (or, go into and come out of stasis) - if

you don't know exactly where you are in the space/time continuum, or exactly

where you are going, you could end up being anywhere, anywhen. Three dimensions

plus the time shown on a clock are not going to do it.

 

What Would it Feel Like to Travel in Time?

The question above is foolish. We are traveling right now, in time. However,

what is being implied here is: what would it feel like to jump from point A to

point B in the space/time continuum?

 

In order to accomplish the space/time continuum jump, we have to:

 

Rise into the fourth dimension

Jump to a new point within that dimension

Then, descend back into the third dimension

The rise into the fourth dimension might require an adjustment of our natural

body frequencies to a higher energy level. If so, our impression of the

space/time continuum jump would be a rising sensation along with the appearance

of a bright, white light above, gradually becoming closer and enveloping. The

third-dimensional world would darken and descend gradually into a black abyss.

Once the light fully envelops us, the change to the fourth dimension is

complete.

 

At this point, it is indeterminate what we would perceive. It is possible that

the fourth-dimensional travel (the jump) might be instantaneous to us. That

would be fortunate. Our senses can perceive only three dimensions. But, if

there is an interval perceivable to us while the travel is taking place, it is

possible that we may perceive random, chaotic visions, sounds, feelings,

smells, and tastes. Could be nightmare-like. None of this would make sense or

be anything important to us. It's totally meaningless to a third-dimensional

being. This is because we have no natural reference point for the fourth

dimension. Our minds will attempt to resolve what is sensed according to the

rules of three dimensions, which means everything will be wrong.

 

Coming out of the fourth-dimension into the third-dimension, we would experience

a descending sensation, with the light withdrawing upwards and the black abyss

appearing below. As the light continues withdrawing, the black abyss would

continue surrounding us, gradually lightening and becoming formed. At the end,

the light above disappears and what was a dark world lightens to the

third-dimensional world we are familiar with and can perceive.

 

Unless a person is trained and prepared for these experiences, any attempt at a

space/time continuum jump might cause psychological problems for that person

afterward.

 

 

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