Re: [Fractint] FOTD 11-09-04 (Fractal test [7])
Jim, Physicists have asked the question: why don't we remember the future? Perhaps occasionally dreaming lets us do this. Last Friday night I had a dream that there was some kind of institute of learning that was carved into a large smooth hill made out of rock. Different floors were traversed by sliding down well worn "slides" in the rock. It was really quite fun. Saturday I heard about fireworks occurring in the area at a local school. When we arrived, there was a good hill on which to climb and sit to watch them. It was then that I realized everything I had seen in the dream was the same "shape". I sat down on the hill and felt like I was at the location of the dream. The hill was steep enough that children who were there were sliding and tumbling down the hill. Skeptics can say its not possible but you can't know until you've experienced it yourself. There was a science fiction story I read once as a child called Pink Worms. It described that if you could see the fourth dimension of time in its entirety, people would look like "pink worms" extending from the day they were born till the day they died. There would many of them intertwined and streaming all over the place the paths being extremely complex but continuous. It was then that I came up with the idea, what if you could pluck that line like a string. This is how I've been able to rationalize this kind of reverse information flow. Any time I've ever felt like this, it was always some event that ultimately was emotionally charged. In the case of the fireworks, I find them quite exciting even as an adult. I don't know if there is anything to prove unless you insist people believe you. I can't prove any of my theory but I've yet to see any proof that it can't be done other than it usually doesn't happen (which isn't proof at all). --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.760 / Virus Database: 509 - Release Date: 9/10/2004
what if you could pluck that line like a string.
Ah but what would be the "time" that allowed you to do the plucking if you were already viewing our "time" as a geometric dimension... and in what manner would the consequent vibrations occur? how would you measure the frequency? .... cycles per hypersecond? and for that matter what sort of tension would you see in that world line (probably depends on the degree of mutability of the past and future so conventional wisdom would make the lines infinitely rigid I guess ) My head hurts :-) Hope you enjoyed the fireworks anyway! (I seem to be developing a side career as pyrotechnician now... great fun, blasting pixels across the night sky :) ) Cheers, Robin.
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