The Atomic Moment

This is some trippy shit.



See the way this nail jumps from place to place? Apparently, there is a unit of time beyond which one can no longer continue decreasing it. It's like the chronological equivalent of absolute zero. If this is true, motion is discontinuous and objects move in 'quantum leaps' that last for an infinitesimally small amount of time.

"The atomic moment is a brief stop, a duration of immobility that lasts an estimated 1/64,000 of a second. It is caused by resistance (usually gravity) to the forward movement of the object in motion. During that brief moment all cosmic action is stopped. Then, instantaneously, the cosmos moves to its next state, to remain immobilized there for another moment."

http://www.islandnet.com/~gds/Moment.html

 

so the nail is teleporting around the place instead of one continuous motion?

 

Woah.

what about Einsteins theory that if one where to travel the speed of light, time would stop?

that makes since, it would be moving faster than the atomic moment... right? you would be stuck in one moment.

or am i stupid?

 

we're all pretty stupid when it comes to this stuff. to answer your question, i have no idea.

 

also, im not sure what the ratio would be but if you were able to travel light years and had a huge telescope, the further you go into space and look back at earth the further back in time you would see.

So like 80,000 light years away (just an e.g, not actual figures) you would see dinosaurs on earth.

And if the sun blows up we wont see it for 8 minutes. Its funny because really that means that when you watch the sun set, its actually already happened

 

woah, that's a really trippy and easily understood thought


what about the theory, (sorry for getting off topic), that because the universe is infinite, there are infinite possibilities, so technically there could be another earth, exactly like this one in every way, except for a tiny difference, (as in one's name).

 

It's possible, but I don't think we can take for granted that the universe is infinite.

 

There's a really good PBS Nova show on string theory if you guys are into that shit. The way it's explained--the extra dimensions--reminds me a lot of my salvia trips.

 

in my last salvia trip there was a fourth deminsion of thought...

ya know how in 3D there is X, Y, and Z?

(depth, width, and length)

the fourth one was thought. there is no possible way i can describe it, but it was like... the way things were perceived was the 4th deminson.

sorry for threadjacking.
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speaking of that, DroneLore, i completely reccomend watching "Down the Rabbit Hole".
it's mind blowing.

 

i've watched that show before.

 

That's not a theory, that's an observation of the universe. Even in the 50s we were able to directly measure the rate at which time slows down in proportion to your relative velocity, and also in proportion to the presence of a gravitational spacetime effect.

Time really DOES slow down as you go faster, and your mass really DOES increase, and you really DO get stretched out in space relative to stationary observers.

its nuts

 

where, why, and how would the universe end? are you proposing that there is some definate place that the universe just stops?

 

1 light-year is the distance light travels in 1 year...at 80,000 ly you would be seeing 80,000 years into the past, so what would that be, australopithecus time? To see dinosaurs with your telescope of the mind, you would need to be at least 65,000,000 ly away. Alpha Centauri, 4.3 ly distant, is getting radio and TV transmitions from earth from early 2005. (radio waves travel at the speed of light.)

 

I don't see how it's any stranger than a universe containing an infinite amount of space.

 

yeah thats common sense really should have thought of that before...makes contacting things out there (if there is) pretty difficult though since by the time they receive it, that generation would be long gone more than likely

 

no, but the theory is time STOPS at the speed of light, not that it slows down as speed increases.

 

the universe is not infinite, it's expanding. also, infinity has never been observed so far in our universe, it may be like a negative number, possible on paper, but not in reality.

but really, humans will NEVER be able to completly answer these questions. we simply aren't smart enough to wrap our heads around these complicated concepts, and it's frustrating

 

no it doesnt. it states things as "As you approach the speed of light.." never "at the speed of light.." because its not logical to talk about things occuring at the speed of light because we cannot reach it.

 

^ Exactly.

Like in calculus. You never say, 'at infinity', you say, 'as you approach infinity'.