Hi All once again. I see that Marsha asked a question about the speed of light, which led to an interesting discussion on physics. Now physics is one of my favorite ways of exploring the metaphysical and mystical. One must keep in mind that physics can only deal with that which is measurable, and therefore creates a simplistic reality which may or may not reflect ones total experience. But, the modern constructs of physics certainly do lead to the mystical.
So to start with, the current theory of the speed of light (of course as science progresses theories are always replaced by new ones). The theory extrapolates to a vacuum, or free space (or whatever you want to call it, Nothing There). Of course this could well be impossible for if one takes the particle view of the photon, once light is present there is no vacuum. So, whatever. But, in this theory as I have just been reading on these posts, there is a maximum to its speed. The way I have learned to understand this is by switching the relative points and assuming that light is stationary, and that we are traveling at its speed. This makes sense to me because time is equal to zero at the speed of light (in other words the photon is outside of time). So zero time, zero speed. I know, we can find all sorts of trouble with this, but I have worked through a lot of it, and it requires all sorts of imaginary dimensions and so forth. So the question is why are we moving so fast and creating time in the mean time, and why we can't move any faster (that is, go slower than zero)? Well it would seem that because of the nature of light which comes from all over the place, there is really no direction to move in to move faster, so we are stuck at this speed. We can of course slow down (currently seen as speeding up to the speed of light), whatever that means in this crazy proposition. The problem is that as we do so we do so we get incredibly big. But let's use current physics to explore the mystical. To do this we look at gravity (since that seems where the previous dialogue went). Now, there is a branch of physics that postulates the existence of the graviton. In fact, it must exist according to some. The problem is that the graviton can never be measured, because it has no mass. So, since we can't measure it, does that mean it doesn't exist? No of course not. Since theory predicts it, it could well be hanging around. So what exactly does this graviton do? Well, it creates gravity. While we can never ever measure the graviton, we can feel its affects. So, we can feel the effects of things that we will never be able to measure. Happens all the time. The last thing I wanted to post about concerning the mystical through contemplation of physics is the electromagnetic theory. Electromagnetism is the primary force through which we physically interact with reality. Now, this theory has been adopted into the quantum club. So, what can we meditate about our personal experience through the quantum theory. Well, there is quantum stuff going on in our brains at every moment. To simplify, this means that particles are moving from on place to another without going the distance between. They kind of disappear and reappear somewhere else. So where are they when they are not in between? There is no doubt in my mind that they are on the "Other Side", something the Doors sang about many years ago. So what is this other side? Obviously it dramatically impacts what we are aware of right now because our brains are full of this quantum jumping. Now we are getting mystical. Cheers, 118 aka Mark aka WillBlake2 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
