RainmanTime
Super Moderator
This post is for those on this board that do NOT want to talk about Titor or predictions, but would RATHER discuss the issues surrounding a scientific approach to understanding Time, and therefore coming closer to the ability to Time Travel.
Ever since reading about and coming to grips with the concepts behind John Archibald Wheeler's theory of the Holographic Universe, I've been doing my own work trying to develop what I believe are natural links between information and physical energy, and how they might be used to modify Time. My tools have been the sciences of Information Theory and Thermodynamics that I have learned as part of my engineering career.
It is my belief that the differences between classical thermodynamic entropy and that of information entropy will be part of the key to achieving time travel. This leads me to the thought that our development of the information sciences in this information age have been a necessary prerequisite for us to be able to crack the code of linear time in our present and immediate future. I am quite certain that advances in closed-loop information processing are the key technology that will lead us forward in this regard.
Thermodynamic entropy is what defines the linear, progressive "arrow of time" for physical systems. It speaks of irreversibility of energetic processes, and therefore that "a system left on its own will tend to degrade and become chaotic." Yet in control systems science, we apply the resource we call INFORMATION, in closed-loop manners, in order to be able to overcome the natural tendency towards chaos in a given system. In doing this we also reduce the total energy requirements of a system to perform its function.
Before we can understand that information is the tool that will assist us in breaking the time barrier, we must first come to the agreement that time is relative to the observer. Hopefully no one will disagree with this, because if you do you will have to answer to Einstein, who showed us that this is true. Next, we must understand that our local, relative time as individual observers is distinctly defined by information that arrives at our senses. Information in the form of how we observer Matter in Motion (as I have shown before, this is the common theme for how we measure Time in our linear, physical existence). In simpler terms, we define time by the information we receive and perceive.
The linear universe that we see and perceive is only part of the picture. This is now being shown as we understand that there really is "dark energy". However, we can describe the physical universe that we perceive in very rigorous, scientific terms as to how linear time progresses. This progression of time can be defined in several ways, as described in THIS article. The summary from this article is that the following progressions are equivalent in how we describe our physical universe:
"Potential energy -> entropy
Ordered energy -> disorganized energy (heat)
High-quality energy -> heat (low-grade energy)
Order -> disorder
Improbability -> probability"
NOTE: The symbol "->" can be read as "...progresses over time towards increasing..."
Now I am going to make a big leap, and I hope those who are still reading can make the leap with me: These scientific, physical, and mathematical descriptions of our universe and its "arrow of linear time" accurately describe HALF of what is going on in our universe... the portion of our universe that we can see and observe. I maintain that there is another half to our universe which embodies the exact opposite definitions that you see above, which are derived from our direct perceptions. The reason I believe this is because in EVERY other principle of science we have come to understand that wherever there is a "force" acting in one direction, there is an equal an opposite "force" that results in the opposite direction. Things always come in polar opposite pairs. Electromagnetism is the highest form of this art that we know and use in the information-based society of today.
So what IS the "equal and opposite half" of the universe that mirrors the physical processes and their "arrow of time" that we see above? Well, I hate to have to say it, but the only logical answer is the SPIRITUAL, a-physical, mind-dominated half of the universe. And where we, in our physical forms, process physical energy, we in our spiritual forms, process aphysical information. It is no less than the coupled system of MIND and MATTER, where MIND exerts its WILL over MATTER.
Can you dig it? Care to discuss it? Want to comment on it? Add to it?
RMT
Ever since reading about and coming to grips with the concepts behind John Archibald Wheeler's theory of the Holographic Universe, I've been doing my own work trying to develop what I believe are natural links between information and physical energy, and how they might be used to modify Time. My tools have been the sciences of Information Theory and Thermodynamics that I have learned as part of my engineering career.
It is my belief that the differences between classical thermodynamic entropy and that of information entropy will be part of the key to achieving time travel. This leads me to the thought that our development of the information sciences in this information age have been a necessary prerequisite for us to be able to crack the code of linear time in our present and immediate future. I am quite certain that advances in closed-loop information processing are the key technology that will lead us forward in this regard.
Thermodynamic entropy is what defines the linear, progressive "arrow of time" for physical systems. It speaks of irreversibility of energetic processes, and therefore that "a system left on its own will tend to degrade and become chaotic." Yet in control systems science, we apply the resource we call INFORMATION, in closed-loop manners, in order to be able to overcome the natural tendency towards chaos in a given system. In doing this we also reduce the total energy requirements of a system to perform its function.
Before we can understand that information is the tool that will assist us in breaking the time barrier, we must first come to the agreement that time is relative to the observer. Hopefully no one will disagree with this, because if you do you will have to answer to Einstein, who showed us that this is true. Next, we must understand that our local, relative time as individual observers is distinctly defined by information that arrives at our senses. Information in the form of how we observer Matter in Motion (as I have shown before, this is the common theme for how we measure Time in our linear, physical existence). In simpler terms, we define time by the information we receive and perceive.
The linear universe that we see and perceive is only part of the picture. This is now being shown as we understand that there really is "dark energy". However, we can describe the physical universe that we perceive in very rigorous, scientific terms as to how linear time progresses. This progression of time can be defined in several ways, as described in THIS article. The summary from this article is that the following progressions are equivalent in how we describe our physical universe:
"Potential energy -> entropy
Ordered energy -> disorganized energy (heat)
High-quality energy -> heat (low-grade energy)
Order -> disorder
Improbability -> probability"
NOTE: The symbol "->" can be read as "...progresses over time towards increasing..."
Now I am going to make a big leap, and I hope those who are still reading can make the leap with me: These scientific, physical, and mathematical descriptions of our universe and its "arrow of linear time" accurately describe HALF of what is going on in our universe... the portion of our universe that we can see and observe. I maintain that there is another half to our universe which embodies the exact opposite definitions that you see above, which are derived from our direct perceptions. The reason I believe this is because in EVERY other principle of science we have come to understand that wherever there is a "force" acting in one direction, there is an equal an opposite "force" that results in the opposite direction. Things always come in polar opposite pairs. Electromagnetism is the highest form of this art that we know and use in the information-based society of today.
So what IS the "equal and opposite half" of the universe that mirrors the physical processes and their "arrow of time" that we see above? Well, I hate to have to say it, but the only logical answer is the SPIRITUAL, a-physical, mind-dominated half of the universe. And where we, in our physical forms, process physical energy, we in our spiritual forms, process aphysical information. It is no less than the coupled system of MIND and MATTER, where MIND exerts its WILL over MATTER.
Can you dig it? Care to discuss it? Want to comment on it? Add to it?
RMT