Hey! Nice to see you posting, Mark. I do understand that multiple methods of testing the affects of postulated forces increases the validity (conventional acceptance/pattern stability) of those unmeasurable forces.
Marsha On Sep 19, 2010, at 1:38 AM, 118 wrote: > 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 ___ 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
