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SPACE AND TIME

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“Matter and energy are the two basic components of the entire Universe. An enormous challenge for scientists is that most of the matter in the Universe is invisible, and the source of most of the energy remains unknown. How can we study the Universe if we can’t see most of it?  95% of matter and energy in the Universe is currently unobservable.” -https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/big-questions/what-universe-made

Pardon me, Harvard, but aren’t you missing something?

Matter and energy are not the most basic components of the entire Universe; space is by far the most basic component of the Universe. Everything is contained within space. If anything is considered a fundamental necessity, space would be it. Space is essential for objects to exist and move. 

That means we need space for movement. Without movement, there is no change. With no change, there is no experience. Space is the screen upon which the drama of existence is played. If space were created, it would have to be one of the very first things to materialize.

Einstein’s theory of gravity tells us that mass bends spacetime. To make this image palpable, they call it the fabric of spacetime.  Space and time are complementary, but not one thing, because they are different. Both are measures, but space measures distance, and time measures duration. 

But what is it that does the measuring? Surely, the measurers are as important as the measure. It is our consciousness that does the measuring.

Are space and time physical objects that can bend or flow? Does light follow the bent curves of space and warp time? 

Space is much more than emptiness. It is a mix of particles, cosmic dust, and radiation—not to mention the home of all universal fields, such as magnetic fields —and possibly forms of matter like dark energy and dark matter. Interstellar space contains tiny particles of various elements, including carbon and silicon, scattered throughout space.

As there are different forms of energy, there are different forms of spatial content. The vast majority of localized space has content. This is where the difference between infinite and finite space comes into play. An infinite universe would have no borders, but it would go on indefinitely. But a finite universe would also have no borders because the universe is all that exists. There is no physical reality beyond the universe. When the universe expands, it simply becomes larger. It is not housed in an existing envelope. There is nothing beyond the universe but non-existence, a total void of nothingness.

However. space means everything; occupied or unoccupied. There are still points, locations, and existence. The universe is, by definition, still all that exists. That is where existence takes place, and the now ticks away time.

But on close examination, we find that along with space, time is being measured even as we speak. The cognitive mind records information and events as we move through the now, second by second, frame by frame. 

All of this information, observation, and experience is recorded in spacetime. 

Space, not force, seems to be the source of gravity, creating a boundary around matter when it interacts with mass. The more mass, the thicker the border. Since both finite and infinite spaces have no borders, these boundaries are imposed upon the mass. Space has energy. It is the home of energy, and infinite space has infinite energy. 

THE MEASURE OF A SLICE OF TIME

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by Kenneth Harper Finton

Time is a measurement. A measurement takes place only in the cognizant world.

Time is in the mind.

We who measure time create a timeline.

A line is simply a point that moves. Add time, and a moving point becomes a line. The same point is repeated over and over in the line’s appearance, the difference being the time and space. The same point is everywhere at one moment. To me, this is the secret of singularity.

Space-time exists in an eternal now, a pseudo moment that holds all that ever was and that which will ever be. Because time itself is relative to movement and speed, a photon begins and ends at the same moment, much as the Higgs boson does. We measured the duration of a moment differently because we measure it from our own viewpoints.

As humans, we have a past and a future because we live and operate in a time and space that travels at a particular speed, and we view ourselves as being in a specific region of space-time.

We can discern the artifacts and traces left by events that occurred in what we see as ‘then’, even though they take place in the eternal now. We are in different sections of space-time, experiencing some of the infinite number of experiences that can come into being in a world of endless possibilities.

We do not define space-time occurrences. What we define as individuals is infinitesimal. The part does not represent the whole. The whole defines the part.

While perception is observing and creating, what we see as being in the past – traces of particles and waves from the observed portion of time and space – can be seen in other sections of space and time that also exist in the eternity of now. Our perceptions create the world we live in, just as the perception of that world makes us.

Consciousness has no mass. It only needs awareness of another, and in that awareness, an entire universe is built. We exist in potentiality and come into existence in a space-time where we find ourselves materialized. Individually, we are but one small facet in the infinite number of potentialities that consciousness makes possible.

Because the now is an eternal moment, there is literally no such thing as a beginning and an ending. The eternal components of reality constantly change form. This change makes it appear that there are beginnings and endings, but what is changing is the conversion between matter and energy and between energy and matter. These are eternal processes. Even the information involved in these processes is preserved both physically and consciously, as in memory and relics, though both are sketchy representations of the past events.  

Our universe can be viewed as a perceptive awareness that behaves in a quantum fashion. Its task is to experience and create new experiences. It is everywhere at once. It exists for us at this exact moment. That one moment is eternal. It never ends. Nothing came before it, and nothing comes after it. It is eternal. This very moment that we experience now is written in time and space in that eternal moment. 

This process does not begin, but it has always been in the moment we call now. It was now, then, and it will be now in the future. That which changes is our viewpoints.

PRE-EXISTENCE

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By Kenneth Harper Finton

Before existence took place, there was pre-existence without time and without space, where no dimensions at all exist. Science can tell us nothing of this era. We are left to our own experiences to decipher our personal realities about from whence we came.

There is a point before time and space. Within that point is the property of physical awareness.  That which is aware–call it the thinker, the cosmic dreamer, or if you prefer, the pre-universe–it is surely the precursor of information, as thought and ideas were all held in one timeless, yet geometric, point. The mental universe of pre-existence was one of potential. Potential does not possess a physical entity. Potentials are mental images.

“A” is present whether or not “B” is present. “A” then, is like potential energy that does exist without material content and without motion. The creation of motion is brought about by the existence of “B”. “A” can exist without time and space because or its property of being potential. In order for this potentiality of energy to be released, it must have a precise co-ordinate in space and a sense of awareness to duration in order to experience time. This is the data and it is provided by “B”. In other words, “B” is the informational content that co-creates the physical.

We know that physical awareness exists in the universe because we are ourselves aware. We do not doubt our own existence. It is one of the properties of human experience. I propose that it is also one of the properties of the universe. We can easily see these properties in life. Many living things are obvious to us, but we find it harder to conclude that there is an awareness in inanimate objects as well. Since all objects are made from an atomic structure, does physical awareness exists in atomic structure as well? 

Pre-atomic structures experience some of the first events. Wherever events occur, physical awareness must record the change in the objects and codify the information. Before we can have a universe, we need objects and events. An event is an interaction between objects. To have an interaction we need awareness to identify an object or an event.  Without awareness, there is literally no event, no data to record. All change contains information. Awareness is the left hand that interprets the information on the right hand. The essential quality for observation or interaction is having an awareness of an object. Objects consist primarily of information. This information is physically coded and eventually it is recognized by our senses. Physical awareness is the first cause for the existence of time and space.  All things are objects that are formed by the non-material awareness which has always been present.