Space and Time

Along came Einstein and now we talk about space and time being one thing, "spacetime".

What is laughable is that we don't know what space, or time is.

However, this word fusion is spoken by all sci-fi audiences, everywhere. It is sounds so sciencey. But it is so far from reality that shortly, in the future, many sci-fi fans will shrink in on themselves as they remember this large faux pa.

Coordinate systems

The science community, and the math community too, use a 3 dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
Everything is laid out on a grid. A whole bunch of squares. What if this is completely wrong? What if this makes us blind to reality? What if we can't figure out how to navigate the stars, because our very fundamentals of how we describe space is wrong?

What if instead of squares, the universe is a set of hexagons. Like the flower of life.

If reality is a bunch of hexagons, then describing that with a bunch of squares is silly. … and problematic.

What is space?

Space can be defined as way of handling here and there. The stuff you are dealing with is here. All the other stuff is there.

And so, we would have trouble measuring anything because our focus shifts, and our here and there have changed. But, we should not discard this because it is troublesome. We must face reality fully.

A magnet pulling another magnet towards itself can be explained by space in between the two magnets being destroyed. Or sucked in.

We experience time flying when we are having fun, and dragging on when we are waiting for something. Is it not normal to think that space can be much the same way? However, we humans believe that space, and time, are very rigidly set, and it is just our perception that changes.

Here is another piece. Shambala. A village, a city that exists, but isn't here. We can't find it on our maps. We can't find it with our sophisticated surveying equipment. However, people have walked out of no-where, and disappeared back into no-where. I imagine that if you are inside, everything looks normal. They are just there, and the outside areas are just like any other villiage, they lay at the edge of town. But, from our outside perspective, there is nothing there. And we can fully measure that nothing is there.

Shambala is not the only place like this. There are many all over the world.

So, thinking that space is a rigid 3D square grid structure may be the worst thing we have done. Making our world terribly hard to understand.

What is Time?

We all know time flies when we are having fun. Does it? Or does our perception of time change?

Time can be seen as images in a movie reel. Each "now" is recorded one after the other. The thing seems to be, that we do not use all the frames that are possible to use.

Humans live on a certain timescale. There are other entities that live their whole lives in between the flickers of our screen. Their might be entities that live in a much broader time scale.

I wouldn't be surprised that other beings live here, on earth, and they use frames interleaved between our frames. They are right here, but we can't interact with them. At least not with our limited mindset of what time is.

We do many experiments, like the dual slit experiment, which show that our "reality" is not that real. Photons are there, only when we are looking for them. And, this happens with the future effecting the past. If we look at the photon in the future, it will be there in the past, before we it even knew we would be looking at it.

Our insistence that time and space are linear and consistent limits our ability to understand where we are.
Our insistence over the Cartesian coordinate system seriously limits our ability to define distances.

Our current science text books will soon be thrown out. Everything in it is not only wrong, but wrong in such a way as to keep us from understanding, or even seeing the truth.

All images in this post are my own original creations.