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originally posted by: rebelv
a reply to: anonentity
Sounds like The Theory of Relativity.
Rebel 5
if the universe is expanding, how can it be infinite?
originally posted by: TheLaughingGod
Foolish mortals, erh, scientists.
Everything exists, a multiverse if you will, all possible permutations.
Everything exists, always, at the same time. Our position in this infinity defines our perspective and our limited or not so limited perception of reality, the grand illusion.
The past is extant and so is the future.
originally posted by: anonentity
originally posted by: rebelv
a reply to: anonentity
Sounds like The Theory of Relativity.
Rebel 5
Yeh maybe, but the kicker is that the Universe exists, it didn't pop into existence from nothing, their would have had to something there for it to be made from. Therefore it had to be there eternally which is just another way of saying its infinite. We might not like it because it doesn't suit our logic. But its our logic which is at fault in trying to describe an infinite thing with finite maths.
If the Universe is infinite then so are we because we are made from the same stuff. Again infinite means infinite.
originally posted by: anonentity
originally posted by: rebelv
a reply to: Korg Trinity
That is about what I learned in college, a different kind
of model to explain the same idea.
Of course, the "center" of the universe would be located
in the middle of this big bubble, and actually exists in the
very distant past (the theoretical Big Bang) billions of years
ago.
So, time could be defined as the increasing size of the universe.
Great post
Rebel 5
Their would be no middle in an infinite system. It couldn't increase in size, because its already infinite. All definitions and observations would be relative to the observer. Sound familiar?
originally posted by: Korg Trinity
originally posted by: anonentity
originally posted by: rebelv
a reply to: Korg Trinity
That is about what I learned in college, a different kind
of model to explain the same idea.
Of course, the "center" of the universe would be located
in the middle of this big bubble, and actually exists in the
very distant past (the theoretical Big Bang) billions of years
ago.
So, time could be defined as the increasing size of the universe.
Great post
Rebel 5
Their would be no middle in an infinite system. It couldn't increase in size, because its already infinite. All definitions and observations would be relative to the observer. Sound familiar?
Also Correct.
Korg.
originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
That sums the ground rules up perfectly. A beautiful definition!
The "Grand illusion" works because our consciousness, is plugged into it, as we also it and its creation. Its a great mind which we have access to. An infinite extension to our own mind. In every infinite state of consciousness that we can think of. It holds all the data of the Universe, where we can create anything we can think of. We are a part of the Universe that has become self aware. Probably in this realm of infinite probabilities the Universe is also self aware. Because that is also one of the infinite possibilities. The key to the door seems to be expanding personal consciousness, to become more aware.
This realisation can have astounding consequences, as it can define what we call waking reality, as a state than can have a significant data input ramp up, to the point where a UFO. can be touched. Commented upon, etc. until the general paradigm of consensual reality is invoked to deny this happened, along with miracles, and all the other things that don't fit the agreed paradigm of what reality should be. Food for thought.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
That sums the ground rules up perfectly. A beautiful definition!
The "Grand illusion" works because our consciousness, is plugged into it, as we also it and its creation. Its a great mind which we have access to. An infinite extension to our own mind. In every infinite state of consciousness that we can think of. It holds all the data of the Universe, where we can create anything we can think of. We are a part of the Universe that has become self aware. Probably in this realm of infinite probabilities the Universe is also self aware. Because that is also one of the infinite possibilities. The key to the door seems to be expanding personal consciousness, to become more aware.
This realisation can have astounding consequences, as it can define what we call waking reality, as a state than can have a significant data input ramp up, to the point where a UFO. can be touched. Commented upon, etc. until the general paradigm of consensual reality is invoked to deny this happened, along with miracles, and all the other things that don't fit the agreed paradigm of what reality should be. Food for thought.
.vidence of this can be seen in our dreams we create the entire universe then look at it from our point of view.
In fact we do the same thing while awake recreating the entire unverse in our minds just to play our part in it.
originally posted by: ecossiepossie
Its been stareing in your faces all along ,
Your not just a reflection..lmage of your twin he or she is you
you can share thoughts
Thats what happens dureing da ja vue
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: freedomSlave
I have thought for a long time that the past ,present , future are happening all at the same time
There was one theorist who gave the analogy that likened time to a fully-developed, yet static, landscape -- and what we perceive as the passage of time is simply us moving through and experiencing that landscape.
So using that analogy, time is all "happening" at the same time -- or at least everything that has happened in the past and will happen in the future is already written upon that landscape through which we are moving.