Reality
The evidence for and against
So far as I am aware of, there is no clearly visible objective and verifiable evidence that God exists.
All the evidence is subjective in nature, personal accounts of Gods intervention, conversations, and so forth.
An aetheist would have to know more than I do, for an aetheist knows there is no God
– Carl Sagan
What Carl Sagan is referring to, is the lack of evidence to disprove Gods existance, hence it is rational to conclude that Carl Sagan is an agnostic.
Some people are “functional aetheists”, remaining uncertain as to whether God exists or not, but seeing no signs of God anywhere around us.
I think whether you believe or not, has to do with your own experiences – it is easier to believe in something if you have seen it for youreslf, and whether you believe other people who state they have experienced contact by God.
Faster than lightspeed
A probable view of light, from the perspective of moving faster than, and through the light that has already reflected from the destination and other places.
They say if you go faster than light you go backwards in time.
I think that’s wrong, and I’ll explain why;
We comprehend reality via our eyes, from where we stand. Anything at faster-than-light speeds and moving away from us would be invisible to the human eye.
If you image what it would be like to move at the speed of light, you would never be able to see behind you with human senses, and you would only see infront of you.
If you were to move faster, you would start moving through the light that had already reflected from where you started, perhaps giving the illusion of going backwards in time. You wouldn’t truly go backwards in time, you’d just see events that had happened earlier in time.
In planes that move faster than the speed of sound, it’s impossible to hear any noise from behind you, because you are moving faster than the sound from an event behind you, that’s why a bomber moving at over the speed of sound can see the flash from the bomb, but will not hear the explosion.
If you were in a silent plane moving faster than the speed of sound, without disrupting the air around you, you would probably hear things that had happened in the past, thereby going backwards through sound.
If you are moving at the speed of light, you won’t see a watch where you started from tick – the time piece will appear to be frozen in time, but the watch will still tick, well you wouldn’t see a watch where you started out from ticking anyways, and a watch ahead of you would tick twice as fast.
Light is how we see, that’s all you have to grasp.
Put simply, if you are going faster than sound, you won’t hear a gunshot behind you.
But you’d ultimately move through the sound waves ahead of you, thereby giving the illusion of going backwards through sound.
I hypothesise that light is the same; that one does not go backwards in time after exceeding light-speed, but rather can view events that occured prior to starting off on the light-speed flight, beause one is passing through the remnants of light.
Logic God
Subjective Realities Logic illustrated
Isaiah 55:89
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
We exist.
That we exist proves that reality can support sentient life.
If reality can support sentient life, and reality has omniscience, then reality would track input from sentient beings.
If that is simply an omniscient calculator, as self-aware as an internet search engine, then that will, sooner or later, deduct that there are certain truths that can only be confirmed by sentience; such as that life is worth living. No one would deny that statement, at the worst they would say “maybe for someone else”.
If reality is omniscient, that would be the all-knowing God some worship.
That truth can become twisted at times, one can say they individually want to live wonderfully, and they would rather have a different group die horribly, but the global truth is that over-all everyone wants to live wonderfully, and I believe that can be done without infringing peoples right to life and happiness.
That truth would lead to actions in favour of survival of sentient life, because the truth is that sentience is worth having and wants to be treated nicely. Read the rest of this entry »
Eyes see Light, Ears hear Sound
Sunset
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
- John 1:5
Our eyes pick up the fastest moving thing we have ever witnessed; light; but not the fastest thing of all, the expansion of the known universe. In 13 billion years, our universe has expanded from one point, to over 90 billion years across according to NASA. That expansion rate averages out to be approximately seven times the speed of light.
If there was something that moved so fast you never saw would you believe in it? Once, people believed that if you moved faster than a galloping horse your internal organs would liquify, currently we view the speed of light as an impassable limit, however;
1. we have always exceeded every other limit in the past, the speed of sound, the speed of a horse galloping, and
2. If anything moved faster than the speed of light we would be unable to observe it via our standard senses.
E = MC2
This equasion is brilliant, it shows the interrelationship between energy and matter and light, showing how each can flow into each other under the right circumstances.
We see with light, we hear and feel with matter, we are self-aware and energy flows through us all.
John 1, the Dawn of Recorded History
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
– John 1:1
Language.
In the beginning was the word.
I feel this represents the dawn of recorded history, before then we never asked what came before, what was over that hill, where did we come from, all these questions involve language.
Without words, we could not record our past; language is the crucial invention that allows you to comprehend this and so many other aspects of human society.
We view our past through the filter of language, we learn our past and plan for our future with language, when it comes to personal history, and the history of our people, all our most detailed history is recorded in language, history is passed down with words.
But words are not the only way we communicate; on this planet; before the language was the emotion, love, and anything from out there that spoke to our species or any, should learn the language of feeling first.
In the minds eye
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
“All that you touch and all that you see, all that you taste, all you feel”
Eclipse, Pink Floyd
Subjective reality is where we all live.
Each individuals unique view of reality, processing information one brain at a time; the shared subjective experience, shared when we communicate, helps us to get closer to objective reality, helps us to determine what is true and what is not; it is subjective experience that determines good from bad, pain from pleasure.
Through sharing that subjective, we come up with collective beliefs and objective truth; the subjective account of an experiment, when shared with another scientist leads to increasing.
The Greek Goddess Iris, grand-daughter of Nyx, is said to be the messenger of the Gods, and now we use the word Iris to refer to a part of the eye, one thinks of rainbows and the spectrum of colour, they said Gods messages were visual, perhaps subjective and unique.
Nietzsche said that to see with the eyes of 100 men would be objective reality, that would be closer to objective experience of what it is to be a human male, but we would still not be closer to objective truth.
Before the Big Bang
Neuron pulses
We don’t know what was before the big bang.
Perhaps the collapse of a previous universe followed by the moment of creation of this universe; maybe absolutely nothing, no energy, no time, simply the potential to exist; Gods will; other realities; we have no confirmed evidence, nor even a way of checking, what existed prior to the moment of the big bang.
All hypothesis’s lack evidence, but we would love to learn.
I have one answer; to allow sentience to exist.
Only while there is self-awareness is there any meaning and truth to anything.
The evidence in favour is that through our existance, reality chose life.
Discovering the Truth
William Ockham
The intent of science is to take the hypothesis that best fits the observations, until an explanation that makes more sense is found.
Science is not yet, and may never be complete, we build upon repeatable experiments, we take a hypothesis and we test that hypothesis, via an experiment designed to either validate or invalidate the hypothesis, if the experiment seems to state that the hypothesis is correct.
Finding out the truth about reality is best done with a critical mind, logical analysis of the available evidence, a simple step by step deductive process. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of “Sherlock Holmes” is famous for the quote “Eliminate the impossible, and what you have left, however improbable…”
Occams Razor means that “when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.”
Where are we?
Andromeda Galaxy
In an expanding and aging universe over ninety billion light years wide, and over thirteen billion years old (according to NASA), all our reference points start at Earth.
Once, all roads led to Rome, and, I assume, all map makers plotted based on where Rome was, before we knew the world was round, before we knew the America’s existed, back then Rome was the center of the Earth.
We plot coordinates based on our location, we map other things by their relationship to where we stand, from the point of view of modern astronomy, Earth is literally the center of the universe.
The old words (reference) said that once; and were later proven to be false; Galileo’s invention of the telescope and his discoveries with regards to the refraction and amplification of light changed that forever, the orbits of planets were plotted, we realised that the earth orbits the sun; and the sun was but one star amongst myriads.
Location is always relative to the location of the person asking; the only constant is in time, that the rate of expansion of our universe suggests that our universe is probably just over thirteen billion years old, but as for our reality, that we do not know.
Subset data, a house is often in a village, a village in a region, a region in a country, a country on a planet, a planet in a solar system, a solar system in a galaxy, a galaxy in a universe. Does it stop there?
The Beginning
“God does not play dice.”
– Einstein
A complex game that always plays out differently
I differ.
Many games of chance involve a complex board; pieces; rules, and lastly dice.
For this game, the board is the building blocks of reality, the pieces are intertwined energy and matter and light, the rules are e=mc2 and gravity and string theory, and the dice is both within the rules and in the way the game plays out.