-> > Unlike the MMY/Hagelin/Chopra "Unified Field" hypothesis which any > reputable physicist with half a brain would find laughable; MMY has > come up with a very brilliant (one among many, since I'm not - per se - > a MMY basher, or Pope basher for that matter) idea/observation > regarding the nature of time, which I've been reflecting upon since I > first heard MMY talk about it, at Humboldt '70: that "the future casts > a shadow into the past" (or were his words, "present"?). After > decades, this concept has now found some support in a theory of Stephen > Hawking's; in essence, that the future does cast a shadow into the past > (if you will, our present, or into our past); through causes and effects. Here's the first few paragraphs:
Exploring Stephen Hawking's Flexiverse 20 April 2006 Amanda Gefter Magazine issue 2548 HERE'S how to build a universe. Step one: start at the beginning of time. Step two: apply the laws of physics. Step three: sit back and watch the universe evolve. Step four: cross your fingers and hope that it comes out looking something like the one we live in. That's the basic prescription for cosmology, the one physicists use to decipher the history of the universe. But according to Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge and Thomas Hertog of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the steps are all backward. According to these physicists, there is no history of the universe. There is no immutable past, no 13.7 billion years of evolution for cosmologists to retrace. Instead, there are many possible histories, and the universe has lived them all. And if that's not strange enough, you and I get to play a role in determining the universe's history. ... [again my apologies, left that issue at home...; and I'll try to get my password to copy the entire article]. The complete article is 3055 words long. [but Hawking's hypothesis IMO opens up a can of worms, since he doesn't elucidate on the nature of WHICH causes can generate the most profound effects, in terms of backward causation]. Various sci-fi authors have touched upon the themes of time-travel and backward causation; for example, Philip Dick and Isaac Asimov; and it's a tempting notion to speculate on killing Hitler just at the right time...perhaps when he was on route to the Munich Beer Hall, or how about at conception, or birth? An "Outer Limits" featured the story of a young woman in possession of the time travel Sidhi, who attempted to travel back in time, procure a job as a Nanny in the Hitler family, and kill the infant Adolph. She grabbed the baby and the risk of her own life, quickly ran to a bridge crossing a river, and threw the baby Adolph into the water, drowning him. Mission accompalished, right? Hope...sorry; as fate turned out, the Hitler Mom and Dad had another child, who turned out to be another parallel world Adolph with a different name but fulfilling the same role. In a Star Trek featuring Capt. Picard (the Patrick Steward character), "Q" - a demigod-like character with enormous supernatural powers - asks the Capt. if he would like to go into his past and change anything. Picard says yes, especially the incident when as a young Lt, he was at a station visited by various races, among them the Nothigans; a notoriously vicious bunch of rowdies not even the Kling-Ons would mess with. As fate would have it, Picard got into a fight with a group of Nothigans; and while out-fisting a few of them, got done-in by one who stabbed him in the heart. He had to have a heart transplant as a result; a fate Picard wished never occurred. Q set up a retrial of that part of Picard's past, in which he never had the fight with the Nothigans. But as a further consequence, Picard had a much more timid personality and never rose above the rank of Lt. Q's lesson: think twice before messing with the past. an alternative past may turn out worse than the "real" past. > --- End forwarded message --- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Hik1AB/bOaOAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
