I think it's definately a possibility. I remember watching a documentary with Stephen Hawking and he talked about how it might be possible to slow down time or (travel into the future) by travelling at a very high speed around an object with an immense amount of gravity, such as a black hole.

I wonder how the aging process would work living in said, "Heaven".

That is a very astute hypothesis. That has never occurred to me, and I don't think I have ever heard of anyone bringing this up.

Way to think outside of the box.

Buahah

We (human life) are probably just a game for some aliens, like stock car racing. We are all the same but each set of aliens influence their own group.

"And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise: you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are. " -Alan Watts


we were somewhere else before this and we will be somewhere else after this. we just forget. but our collective consciousness doesn't

Good theory, OP. I personally believe the ancient texts refer to other planes of existence, but it's a good theory nonetheless. But who knows? It could be true. Your theory definitely makes sense that they could be referring to other planets...
hmmm and I just noticed 'plane' is just one letter away from 'planet'

Originally posted by PsychoReaper4
I wonder how the aging process would work living in said, "Heaven".

It would be the same, since we are really only talking about frame of reference.

Time is no different on another planet, only it's relation to our time on Earth.


correction: "time" would be different on other planets, that had different orbits, larger/smaller suns, different seasons...

Time is a Human invention anyway.

Interesting Thread OP...

I've always believed that Heaven could be a planet or even a space ship of some sort..........perhaps even called Haven instead of Heaven.

Intriguing post - though, if heaven is eternal (as a Christian theist I believe that it is) then the point is moot as eternity is not experienced durationally like linear time is.

Rather than relative speed, I think the speed of time depends on size. This is the same thing but more accurate.

It's like an ants day. This is years to us. The slower you move, the shorter your day. The bigger you are the slower you move.

The notion is simply based on your human form and the limitations of your experiences.

Heaven is infinitely small, I'd say. It dwells in the space within. The smallest thing that cannot be divided is therefore the largest thing. It is the finest part of every particle. The finest part of every particle is the same thing, the same place. It is the universe before observation. We are the big bang.

I think the religious notions of heaven depend on places where spirits can move to, and come back from. Their distance from us can be measured by increments of magnification. The trick is, (I think) that you actually have to be looking outward into the expanse to see these various heavens.

A heaven that exists in a greater scale of space would not be on any radar as so many millions of years would have to pass just to experience it.

thanks guy

i was looking up Theory of Relativity on some site, someone try to claim that their religion was the first to discover Theory of Relativity and not Albert Einstein hehe because of their religion mention the difference between Heaven time & earth time. But i guess he was clueless about other world religion, cause all world religion mention it. haha

I like the Idea...it would be great for a Sci-Fi book...But it doesn't really work that way to the best of our understanding (which isn't that great). Just because 1 planet spins around a star faster or slower has no bearing on the time of day on Earth. 1 year on a planet that takes 1000 earth years to complete its revolution is still just 1000 Earth years. You wouldn't survive any longer there than on Earth unless you were surrounded by Geoneutrino's to slow/stop the cellular decay from the Neutrino's destroying your cells...According to some the Earth used to emit far more GeoNeutrino's slowing the Cellular decay which is why according to Ancient texts People lived longer.. (Pre-AnteDiluvian Era) But what do I know.....I'm looking for Answers the same place you are

Originally posted by PoorGrammar
thanks guy

i was looking up Theory of Relativity on some site, someone try to claim that their religion was the first to discover Theory of Relativity and not Albert Einstein hehe because of their religion mention the difference between Heaven time & earth time. But i guess he was clueless about other world religion, cause all world religion mention it. haha

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Einstein didn't discover relativity he just named it that...there were studys that came to the same conclusion before him and according to some thats were he got the idea from and he just sorta plagerized it and reported it when he had the spotlight in 1905...I think Lorentz and a few others had the original Data published

Originally posted by NewsWorthy
Just because 1 planet spins around a star faster or slower has no bearing on the time of day on Earth. 1 year on a planet that takes 1000 earth years to complete its revolution is still just 1000 Earth years. You wouldn't survive any longer there than on Earth unless you were surrounded by Geoneutrino's to slow/stop the cellular decay from the Neutrino's destroying your cells...

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