Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Time, Light and Us - Part II

Think of it like this - one film, one picture, one shot. Nothing else.

Just One.

How does this film become multi-dimensional? Light. What's light? Light defines the distance there exists for one entity to acknowledge an event (ie, to realize that an event has happened). Now, let's take this a step further - let's assume that everything (and this means past, present and future - everything) was created at the same moment - all events. These events were exposed (read: brought to life) by the 'light' at different times in history. Now, let's visit the basics:

distance = speed * time.

Faster the speed, more the distance, lesser the time. Hence, distance and time are inversely proportional. Hence, speed is the inversely proportional factor b/w distance and time. Here, if you were to replace 'distance' with light, what we get is:

Light is inversely proportional to time - what I spoke about in my last blog. So, there is an equation in our midst and I did not see it. Silly of me.

If you break the speed of light, what you will do, is that you will see the future. This is how it transpires. Let the time now be 'x'. Light exposes an event at time 'x+5'. You with your current speed see it at time 'x+5' (this is a future event). Now if you were to travel faster than light, in all probability, you will see this happening at 'x+3' - 2 units of time before it actually takes place. If one were to travel faster than light, you will see the event happening before the light exposes it to the world. You will see the future. What I am unable to explain is how do you travel in the past (if that's true). I do believe that that, too, is possible. It's just that I am unable to put the pieces together right now to explain it.

This poses a lot of open questions. I am having a headache now to frame those questions.

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