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During a salvia trip I once saw the universe like this. I had been sitting on this conveyor-belt-like structure my entire life, which was the 4th component(time
by Lambdanaut 6y ago
During a salvia trip I once saw the universe like this. I had been sitting on this conveyor-belt-like structure my entire life, which was the 4th component(time) in that 4-Vector. The conveyor belt moved me along perpindicular to space, which I have been observing my entire life from the constant speed of time. Only on this trip was I able to look "down" and realize that I was riding on time.
The interesting thing was that I had this feeling that the other elements of the vectors were all also conveyor belts, moving in a single direction. X, Y, Z(and an infinite of other more subtle scalars) were each their own belts, with entities of a very different hyperdimensional sort riding along them. Essentially, they were each moving at a constant non-changing rate along a single dimension(X, Y, or Z) and because of this, they used time as we do a spatial dimension.
Think about it like this.
Imagine that a trillion years ago you were stationary, and time didn't exist. SUDDENLY you and all the stuff nearby you got pushed in space along the X axis at a speed of 100000000000 km/hr.
You kept moving along the X axis at a relatively constant rate with the stuff around you, such that the X-axis became a constant for you, while the other spatial dimensions were your degrees of freedom.
In this scenario, time is the X axis for you.
I noticed that there were entities moving perpendicular to our concept of time, treating our X-axis as their conveyor belt moving them along at a constant rate.
All a drug trip of course, and I don't know much about physics, however, this experience has shaped how I concieve of time and space.
- dreamcompiler 6y ago> I noticed that there were entities moving perpendicular to our concept of time, treating our X-axis as their conveyor belt moving them along at a constant rate. Those entities exist: We call them photons (and a few other things). Photons move through space at a constant rate, c, and their clocks never move. If a photon were conscious it might ask "What is this time you speak of?" It gets weirder: Because photons don't experience time they can't "remember" being in Place A "before" they were in Place B, so they might also ask "What is this space you speak of?" Photons are always everywhere they need to be, from their point of view.
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- lovehashbrowns 6y agoVsauce has a great video on this concept. https://youtu.be/ACUuFg9Y9dY https://youtu.be/ACUuFg9Y9dY (Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?) I recommend watching it!
- dzmien 6y agoIn that respect the Time Minders from the computer game Anachronox are like photons. If you've never played the game, Time Minders were creatures that experienced all time simultaneously. As such, they were found scattered around the levels and could be used by the player to "freeze" a moment in time. In other words, they were the mechanism by which the player could save her game. If I recall correctly, playing with an easier difficulty setting allowed the player to save the game at any time via the menu.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoWhat kind of "entities"? Beings?
- shoes_for_thee 6y agoMy question -- and I am not being glib -- is there something to the idea that we can "raise our vibration" and would doing so decrease our speed through time?
- antepodius 6y agoYou just need to accelerate and move around in space, which is equivalent to rotating your spacetime velocity vector slightly towards the spatial axes. Or be under gravity.
- jerf 6y ago"Essentially, they were each moving at a constant non-changing rate along a single dimension(X, Y, or Z) and because of this, they used time as we do a spatial dimension." For what it's worth, time is distinguished in physics. It isn't just "another dimension" that "happens" to be used as time, but if you could just twist correctly it would become a spatial dimension. It is truly a "time dimension". The simplest way of looking at it is in the Minkowski metric, where distance is SqRt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2), note the minus sign on the "t" which distinguishes it. If you're really up for a solid math-based mind-screw, Greg Egan worked out the shape of physics in a universe that works on essentially Einsteinian relativity, but with two spatial dimensions and two temporal dimensions: https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html It turns out that A: sensible things can be said about this and B: it looks nothing like what I expected two temporal dimensions to look. (And if that's not enough, he's also got a universe of four spatial dimensions: https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html)
- thomasahle 6y ago> Greg Egan worked out the shape of physics in a universe with two spatial dimensions and two temporal dimensions: I am looking forward to this next Christopher Nolan movie.
- klenwell 6y agoI'm thinking of the old Pacman arcade game but with two joystcks, one for spatial movements and the other for temporal movements. I have no idea what the second joystick would do. That is, I can imagine time as a single axis so that you could go back and forth. (Ooops, about to be eaten by a ghost, let's rewind.) But I can't imagine what it means to go northwest in time.
- cmehdy 6y agoI could imagine that if for example the x axis is our normal time, the y axis would be timelines. That is, you would move to an entirely different configuration of the world for the given space coordinates and the same value of time on the x axis. Now if you ask me about a third dimension of time.. Disclaimer: my ideas come before having done my homework on the link above, so I need to read Greg Egan's stuff really. He's such a wonderful person and I need to dedicate more brainpower to his work.
- dfalzone 6y agoSource(s): Saw this in a salvia trip once Edit: Why the downvotes? This was clearly supposed to be a joke.
- Lambdanaut 6y agoJust something to inspire thought. Take it or leave it.