Time and Space

Time, Space, Inter dimensional travel, Linearity, Cycles, Curves and Paradoxes. All of these are great concepts to get in and study for yourself, but I will be writing a few hypothesis of my own about each of these topics. Firstly, we cannot consider ourselves alive without the notions of time and space. We see time as a linear concept that follows us from point A in space to point B in space. This could be considered a lifetime. The world we live in is joined by many such timelines. All these timelines sometimes interact with one another, every single interaction causes an alternate dimension or an alternate time and space. We should define what an interaction is. An interaction happens when one object performs an action that has effects on other objects(including himself), but this is not enough. Although not an interaction, an observation can also have an effect(see the wavicles in the double slit experiment posted in a previous article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tKncAdlHQ). When talking about effect, we need to talk about cause and effect or causality as it is called. There can be no

effect without a cause. As I have previously analyzed inaction can also be stored as data of interaction however confusing that is. So for every interaction in your time-line with other objects or even with yourself multiple alternate dimensions appear. 

The question is: Do these alternate dimensions already exist predetermined just with the respective opposite interaction or do they come into existence only once the interaction has been undertaken? 

I personally think they exist only once an action has been undertaken. 

Of course this is just the end of the straw, the timeline itself started with the Big Bang/Start of the Simulation/God/Evil Demon/and so on, or it did not, what does this mean? 

It means that from the center of the universe, from before existence itself, there was an action that caused the beginning of everything. This in alternate dimension lead to nothing happening. Furthermore, each law of physics has effect, can we imagine alternate dimensions where one of the law of physics does not have effect? 

Hardly as all the laws came into place with creation of the universe, but it might not be the case. What this means, is that we might have multiple alternatives for the beginning/for the end/for the prime universe/or for universes. Personally what I think this means, is that the longest chain of interactions, may it be alternate from the original reality or not, is the "perfect" chain of actions. Other links might end abruptly or might differ on several different levels. Here one can imagine an alternate dimension where dinosaurs did not disappear. But an alternate dimension is linked to an original dimension, meanwhile an alternate universe should be linked to an original universe and an alternate galaxy linked to an original galaxy. In our dimension we became the dominant species, but who is to say that there isn't an alternative time and space in which each species becomes dominant through evolution. I like talking about spatial configuration when talking about alternate dimensions, imagine a line(the original) with the choice of multiple actions, these will be the closest links to the original by the amount of different choices one could perform. Let's say we had 3 choices at one moment, after choosing one, 7(we have 3 choices each once,2 choices without 1 trice, and the accumulative choice of all and none) links are created near the original, this link then becomes the original for other choices that will be taken in the future. You might think things are complicated now, wait until we add external factors. External factors have effect on the timeline itself, and if we are to trust in free will, there is an infinite number of possibilities through which all dimensions are linked to the original dimension. An interesting topic here would be the Mandela effect which could perhaps explain deviations in space and time that occur in reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN_qT6V5CIg. The choice of not interacting as well as the choice of interacting can have multitudes of possibilities linked to them. 

Want to complicate things even more?

Let's take Faith into account, by choosing to have faith when given the choice to either have it or not have it, you create not only one alternate dimension. The question is:

Does Faith have an effect? 

I believe it does, therefore the following happens. You choose to have faith in God alternatively you do not, both of these original/links then split one more time depending if faith has the effect to create or not. I must admit, it would be easier to only choose at the end in what you had faith in order to not cause links that create effects respectively links at the end of the timeline of a person. Imagine 2 billion people that have faith in God, what is the chance that all of them are wrong? It's miniscule. The same however goes for all other belief systems. The alternate to an atheist is a believer, but funnily enough, he stands the same odds of meeting God as believers as there are about 2 billion atheists and agnostics. Spatially with each movement or action the chain and the link become smaller and smaller to make place for new possibilities. We should also talk a little about Paradoxes, most importantly space and time paradoxes. 

What would you do if you were to meet yourself? 

Personally I would of course ask how he managed it. When a paradox happens a connection is formed between original chains of action, one goes through the old one, this of course changes

the outcome of the chain drastically. The chain would then have 3 original chains interconnected at one point of space and time. The chain with yourself at your youngest age between the chains, the chain of old with yourself that performs the paradox and then the chain of different outcome as you would change the chain once you interact with yourself. The more you interact with each other the more small links are added to the 3rd chain. The transfer of knowledge from the future could be abused. Just imagine how easy it would become to win the lottery. The question here is: 

Did you manage to change your own timeline or did you create an alternative timeline in which you interact with yourself? 

Personally I have yet to figure out yet which of the 2 is the correct answer as both might be true. 

How could this be achieved? 

Exotic matter is a favorite for a space wormhole, while traveling in space at high speeds would manage a time travel compared to the original planet you came from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuD34tEpRFw. The moment one reality develops inter dimensional travel it is very likely for many others to do so as well, you could explore different alternatives however the most probable outcome would be that the differences would be too small to be interesting. You would be better of inventing teleportation first unlike in “Rick and Morty”, unless of course you would also create a type

of code in the machine to help you differentiate between options, otherwise good luck going from one universe to another when the only small change was you forgot to buy bread. Basically, the first ones to discover inter dimensional travel would only have the advantage of making spatial paradoxes with each other, which does not account for much unless you maybe want to make an army of yourself and of course be remembered in the history of an finite infinite number of closely related chains as the one who invented inter dimensional travel. You could of course try to make massive changes in your lifestyle once you invent the device but that would be obsolete when you could have an army of yourself all working on different tasks, and let's face it, if you manage to invent inter dimensional travel everything else should only get easier from there unless of course you become lazy. You could also impact economy directly as it would be very probable you would have the same amount of bank currency across multiple realities. Probably the best way to earn money will be by fooling other people to join an alternate universe, although that will surely have consequences unless you would send them always to a new dimension, however there is a big possibility that people would not understand the limitations and then would be mad at you from another dimension. Sadly it's just too probable that there will only be small differences in dimensions so I'll leave this to somebody that grasps the semantics of inter dimensional travels better than I do. Time travel movie recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4FTJN7jqiU

Questions of philosophy to life

I wanted a thought provoking question, so I decided to look for one on this wonderful tool we call the internet, "questions of philosophy to life" was what I searched for, here is what I got: https://conversationstartersworld.com/philosophical-questions/

It's true that I personally prefer thinking of life after death, as I feel it's limitless. But let's first talk about life in our current era, big advances have been made in the last few years. Narrow AI, cryptocurrency, reusable rocket parts for space travel to Mars, Quantum computing, multiple ways to cure disease as well as methods to enhance and stretch the lifespan of people, just to name a few of the things humanity has been working on. My belief is that by the time I die of natural causes, I will have a choice, to either die or to upload my consciousness into a machine or perhaps an AI. Hereby lies a question that I wanted to think about: Is immortality of the soul more important than immortality of the consciousness? 

Sadly, we still do not know what makes us human, but we enjoy differentiating ourselves from animals by using words as reason, logic and consciousness, but we are after all not very different from one another, meanwhile when talking about machines more specifically about AGI Artificial General Intelligence we separate ourselves by using concepts as soul and life. 

What is truly alive would the next question be? Are you as alive as I am? Is the code/genomes/bacteria or mapping of the synapses(perhaps consciousness) what differentiates my alive from your alive? 

The first question however that I found, although not necessarily relevant with my own questions was: What harsh truths do you prefer to ignore? 

Immediately I had an idea. The question reminded me, like any good questions of other questions. Is ignorance bliss? Would you take the red pill or the blue pill from Morpheus? 

I am talking of course about the Matrix trilogy which I recently watched. 

Morpheus himself in the Greek mythology stands for the God of Dreams. We choose to ignore that statistically speaking the odds of our world being a simulation become more and more likely as technology advances. We already have a simulation of our universe. 

Would it be that weird to find the resources to simulate humans? What would be the next step? 

We should not forget that ethics should be involved when creating or simulating life. Shouldn't you feel as responsible for the children starving in Africa in the simulation as well as in our

world. Movie recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtYdZkPmFoU. 

Would you attempt to eliminate all crimes? Would it be better to simulate a non-reality to first test the reaction of humans under pressure or under change?

Back to the question itself as the simulation theory remains for now just a theory. Firstly, there are universal truths and personal truths. It's hard to deny a universal truth, for example "the earth is round" but it is equally as hard to deny personal truths like existence of God. But if you were to ask me, the only truth that I ignore is that life is devoid of meaning. We came into existence just to evolve and procreate. There is no meaning in one action especially when thinking about parallel universes

where the action itself has exact opposite outcome, and an individual although able to impact multiple lives is still just an individual, and as much as I like thinking that every life matters the world seems to wake us up by showing us that every legacy is finite. Sadly, this subject got dark fast. What do we do while ignoring this harsh truth? 

We embrace Hedonism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism, we take pleasure in the physical world and in its goods. We try to maximize happiness, process that in turn doesn't help the advancement of society but is our primary goal even while not realizing it. Furthermore, it's impossible to reach a maximum of happiness, there is no way of knowing when you reach your personal limit. 

What happens then? 

The pursuit continues, and the reward seems ever so distant, we try harder to bend the world around us through sheer effort which many times feels like it wasn't worth the reward. We are stuck in a cycle, every one of us who can't find their balance in life. Another goal of life is earning or having more than the people in your social circle. This is the driving factor of competition but also a trap of society.

Another philosophical question debated since ancient times is whether humans have free will. There are a few scenarios that we can follow here. 

If the universe is cyclical does everything happen the same way every time? 

It always starts with a Big Bang and ends with a Big Crunch for example. Another scenario is that God made everything in conformity with his divine plan. Here we can add that God is all knowing, so He should know already everything that will happen therefore eliminating free will. Of course, here should be noted that we have the free will to believe in his existence or not, although that could be predetermined as well. Another thing to consider is how fast the brain sends impulses. The brain itself is faster than thought itself, we become conscious of things without dwelling too much on the subjects, it's almost like the brain would have an answer or the synapses configured for every task we choose to make in life. Of course, some training is required, as nobody can learn everything, but the

majority of your every day to day interactions are considered by the brain and automated. Lastly, if this were to be a simulation, the simulation itself would have meaning, not the individual, we could be mere puppets in a greater plan but then even our small interactions between one another wouldn't those be simulated in advance.

How could a simulation do that? 

With Big Data, there is no need for imagination here, although that could be one of the few things that would not be predetermined. This Big Data could include all information about whom you talked with, books you downloaded, purchase history and everything that could be stored as information. Lastly, one thing that made me doubt the possibility that we have free will is the wavicle experiment. When observed an electron or other particles are shot one at a time through a double slit depending if the experiment is observed or not the wavicles can act either as particles or waves, this is not dependent on time as when observing the trajectory in reverse the outcome is the same. So, depending on the existence of an observer the particles act either as particles or as waves. This means that the wavicles interact with one another in a predetermined fashion when an observer is placed or not to follow the experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tKncAdlHQ. 

What does this mean?

If there is no observer for our actions or no recordings we might have free will, while not having in the opposite scenario. This reminds me of a saying: 

“If a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound?". 

In other words anything that is not observed does it really exist? 

While on the same topic, another interesting question is: 

"What should be the goal of humanity?" 

Ensure the survival of species based on what we have concluded previously. However, let's also look at the half full part of the glass. I would say Creation. We are here to create circumstances,

children, art or even AGI another purpose could be Discovery, we are here to discover the laws of physics that surround us, to find out what dark matter is but also discover happiness and fulfilment. Exploration could be another goal of humanity, to reach out to other planets, maybe aliens but to also explore our inner selves through meditation.

Who am I to limit our goal as humankind? 

I can just hint at some of the goals, perhaps too little, in the end I guess all we seek under different forms are pleasures and knowledge. Lastly along all other things and along my earlier cynic that we are born just to procreate, this also is part of something bigger, leaving a legacy.

Now most people leave a legacy through their kids, some manage to have less lasting legacies or more lasting legacies, let's look at the writings of Greek philosopher’s or the military journal of Julius Caesar or art. The most lasting legacies are the ones documented or written down in history, but it's easier in our day to leave a legacy, everything can be stored digitally. Remember the dead. We managed to reach a level where our kids will have pictures online with their grandparents.

"How long will you be remembered for after you die?"