Jay Walker
Chrono Cadet
Without light, there is nothing. Without light we perceive nothing. The twin paradox suggests that the closer to the speed of light one goes, the slower time would pass for you. But not just how you perceive time but will actually slow the rate of aging and physically slow the aging process compared to the twin you left behind on earth.
I was imagining a large being appearing suddenly in our cosmos. From his perspective the Earth is a saltshaker on one end of a table and the moon is the pepper shaker. If he were to extend his arms, he should be able to touch both simultaneously. He could switch hands, and from our frame of reference his hands appear to be traveling faster than light. Would his hand move backwards in time, due to time dilation? Or would they always be baby hands?
So, what about the other end of the spectrum? What does a snail observe as it attempts to cross a football field? (American football pitch, approx. 91.44 meters. Or 100 yards.) I imagine the snail watching football players move from one end to other effortlessly, seemingly defying Einstein's light constant.
In the double slit experiment, particles passing through the slits act like waves, causing the interference pattern. Then when a device enters to take measurements, that is essentially another perspective. Some think that consciousness is what collapses the wave function. However, that is to say that a device can be somewhat sentient. I disagree. Not sentient but it is collecting information, so at least it can be considered a perspective.
Why is this important?
If the being can touch the earth and the moon simultaneously, then from our perspective he is demonstrating quantum entanglement. If he could switch hands, (from our perspective) appear to take as long as light takes to reach the moon from the earth? Or would it appear to defy the speed of light?
That kind of swift gesture would certainly cause other objects to be disturbed, orbit of other celestial bodies would be disrupted by the movement like a splashing in a bathtub.
I think that what people observe from our human perspective is shaped by the light that we use to perceive reality. If we were to shrink down to the quantum level, the world around us would be very different. But only if we have something to compare it to.
John Wheeler's work on the delayed-choice experiment, which demonstrated that the act of observation can influence the outcome of a quantum event, played a significant role in shaping his views. This experiment suggested that reality is not fixed until it is observed, leading Wheeler to propose that the universe is participatory and that observers play a crucial role in bringing it into existence.
But what does it all Basil?
I think light is ever-changing and ever folding like the clay of reality depending on the perspective of the observer. Or, in other words, light is not constant. It is already known to be in a superposition before it is observed and can suddenly change when another perspective that has enough degree of separation from the observer that would collapse the wave function. The word collapse sounds permanent, like a collapsed building, but as soon as you remove the other perspective, the wave function reappears. That is not a collapse, because it is always in that superstate, waiting for another perspective to create reality for the object.
Random thought honorable mention?
If Wheeler is correct, what does that mean for fractals? The shape that reduces and can be increased to the same shape in both directions to infinity. If there is a perspective on all levels of reality, then reality goes on forever in all directions and dimensions?
Penny for your thoughts?
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Perspective at some point causes the constant of light to be non-constant, but malleable.
I was imagining a large being appearing suddenly in our cosmos. From his perspective the Earth is a saltshaker on one end of a table and the moon is the pepper shaker. If he were to extend his arms, he should be able to touch both simultaneously. He could switch hands, and from our frame of reference his hands appear to be traveling faster than light. Would his hand move backwards in time, due to time dilation? Or would they always be baby hands?
So, what about the other end of the spectrum? What does a snail observe as it attempts to cross a football field? (American football pitch, approx. 91.44 meters. Or 100 yards.) I imagine the snail watching football players move from one end to other effortlessly, seemingly defying Einstein's light constant.
In the double slit experiment, particles passing through the slits act like waves, causing the interference pattern. Then when a device enters to take measurements, that is essentially another perspective. Some think that consciousness is what collapses the wave function. However, that is to say that a device can be somewhat sentient. I disagree. Not sentient but it is collecting information, so at least it can be considered a perspective.
Why is this important?
If the being can touch the earth and the moon simultaneously, then from our perspective he is demonstrating quantum entanglement. If he could switch hands, (from our perspective) appear to take as long as light takes to reach the moon from the earth? Or would it appear to defy the speed of light?
That kind of swift gesture would certainly cause other objects to be disturbed, orbit of other celestial bodies would be disrupted by the movement like a splashing in a bathtub.
I think that what people observe from our human perspective is shaped by the light that we use to perceive reality. If we were to shrink down to the quantum level, the world around us would be very different. But only if we have something to compare it to.
John Wheeler's work on the delayed-choice experiment, which demonstrated that the act of observation can influence the outcome of a quantum event, played a significant role in shaping his views. This experiment suggested that reality is not fixed until it is observed, leading Wheeler to propose that the universe is participatory and that observers play a crucial role in bringing it into existence.
But what does it all Basil?
I think light is ever-changing and ever folding like the clay of reality depending on the perspective of the observer. Or, in other words, light is not constant. It is already known to be in a superposition before it is observed and can suddenly change when another perspective that has enough degree of separation from the observer that would collapse the wave function. The word collapse sounds permanent, like a collapsed building, but as soon as you remove the other perspective, the wave function reappears. That is not a collapse, because it is always in that superstate, waiting for another perspective to create reality for the object.
Random thought honorable mention?
If Wheeler is correct, what does that mean for fractals? The shape that reduces and can be increased to the same shape in both directions to infinity. If there is a perspective on all levels of reality, then reality goes on forever in all directions and dimensions?
Penny for your thoughts?
View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/AdiC4S-TcuU?si=j6oMqb1zmEpF4oYM%5B/youtube%5D
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View: https://youtube.com/shorts/VDVlNeRsZcc?si=vVWieBS0GxOJ6pbD%5B/youtube%5D
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/cJccicY2OIk?si=yHQYYCfVnSJQSjwQ%5B/youtube%5D
Perspective at some point causes the constant of light to be non-constant, but malleable.
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