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Infinity And The Myth Of Space And Timeby Ian R Thorpe

 

“…henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere

 shadows, and only a kind of union between the two will preserve an independent

reality.”

 

These words were written by Hermann Minkowski in 1906 in an attempt to

capture the spirit of Albert Einstein's recently published special theory of relatiity!

Einstein" in his famous thou#ht e$periments" had shown that both space and time as

independent mathematical constructs were mere illusions in the e%uations of

relatiity" concedin# instead to a &dimensional construct which Minkowski adroitly

termed spacetime!

(nfortunately too many people in the field of theoretical physics for#ot that

Einstein had described his speculations as 'thou#ht e$periments' and interpreted his

mathematical speculations as scientific proof of a mathematically ele#ant"scientifically erifiable" finite unierse!

The Infinite Mind 

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Most people" een those who take only a passin# interest in such thin#s" are

familiar with the powerful influence Einstein's ideas hae had on how both the

academic and popular perception of the physical unierse" but few are aware a similar

reolution a#ainst the idea of a unierse contained within and limited by time and

space! )ortunately a lon# oerdue rebellion is under way in the fields of e$perimental

 psycholo#y and neuroscience! The so called '*tandard Model' based on *trin# Theory

has more holes in it than a strin# est" while +i# +an# theory which priests of The

,hurch -f *cienceolo#y will tell you is beyond doubt a proen scientific fact is

actually supported by no more hard eidence than the creation myths of ancient

reli#ions!

The problem mathematics has with e$plainin# The (nierse is infinity! +i# +an#

theory is conenient because it posits that before the bi# ban#" all matter" ener#y and

time" eerythin# was compressed into a tiny pellet .the ,osmic /at Turd hae

 preiously called it! Time be#an with the +i# +an#" the orthodo$y says! The

intelli#ent people readin# this .i!e! all of you who hae #ot this far will hae noted

that time is an abstract concept" a human inention" and this is a bit difficult to

compress!

f you really want to hae some fun" ask a +i# +an# belieer what was outside

the cosmic rat turd!

23othin#"2 they will say" to which us freethinkers ou#ht to reply" 24ou mean

space52

23o" nothin#"2 they will reply" usually a bit tetchily because they known by now

you are leadin# them into the %uicksand" 2all the space was compressed in the rat turd

with the time" ener#y" matter" refri#erators" cheese" #iraffes" scientists and fast food

 packa#in#" smartphones and eerythin# else inside it" there was nothin# outside the

rat turd!2

2+ut space is nothin#"2 is the standard reply! -biously this can be demonstrated

easily" ust use you hands to make a ball of space" throw it at them and ask if it hurt!

 3ow een the cleerest *ciencolo#ists will be reduced to sayin# 24ou don't

understand science!2

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There is a lot of eidence to support the idea that #ala$ies .i!e! clusters of stars or

een clusters of #ala$ies be#an with a cosmic eent that could be called a +i# +an#

.althou#h it was probably a 7H--*H" because an e$plosion must be contained to

make a ban# .alternatiely we are back to that old lo#ical loop" f a tree falls in the

forest .or a rat turd e$plodes in an empty cosmos and there is nobody there to hear it

does it make a sound! There are actually some scientists who challen#e the orthodo$

iew and so do not #et much coera#e in the media" and su##est that parts of the

infinite unierse are always collapsin# and re#eneratin#" that een now as our radio

telescopes stare into space" #ala$ies are dyin# and new ones are bein# born!

f we think about the idea that time and space did not e$ist before the ban#" they

were compressed into the rat turd which released them to form a unierse when it

e$ploded" it #ets cra8ier and cra8ier! *ince" the +i# +an# accordin# to the theory" our

unierse has been e$pandin# at the speed of li#ht with all time" space" ener#y etc! still

inside it!

-bious %uestion a#ain 27hat is it e$pandin# into5 5 f all the space and time

are inside this bubble we call the unierse" how can it be e$pandin#! t must be

e$pandin# into space!2

7ell no it isn't" nothin# e$ists outside the unierse and so it cannot e$pand into

 Epanin! into nothin!"

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somethin# that does not e$ist" it's ust e$pandin#! 'e had this discussion many times

and always tried to be helpful" 2s there an infinite oid outside the unierse2" hae

su##ested!

23o"2 my debatin# opponent will say" 2a oid is somethin#" not nothin#!2

This confusion on the part of the *cienceolo#ists arises from an ancient reli#ious

 belief" older than ,hristianity" that Mathematics s :od! The idea was first e$pressed

in writin# by the :reek mathematician ;ytha#oras! The idea appeals to those who

crae order and certainty" a unierse in which eerythin# emanates from numbers and

thus analy8ed mathematically" what could be more certain and predictable than that5

And ;ytha#oras was a ery cleer fellow" after all he inented that theorem thin#" the

s%uare of the Hippopotamus" and nobody to this day has eer understood why it is

important! 4ou want to know how lon# the side of a trian#le is" ust measure it" why

make life difficult!

+ut was ;ytha#oras cleer5 <et me tell you a couple of thin#s about him! He

thou#ht snot was brain tissue so wheneer he had a cold he would walk around with

his head tilted back so as not to lose any! And he neer ate beans because he thou#ht

eery time we fart a little of our soul escapes! 4ou're not in awe of him now are you5

7e hae to #et mathematics in perspectie if we

are to hae any hope of understandin# nature of the

unierse and our place in it" because mathematics

cannot cope with infinity and the unierse is infinite!

;ut infinity" which can only be e$pressed as =E/- into

any e%uation inolin# multiplication or diision and

the answer is #oin# to be 8ero! This was dealt with in

They 7ho 7ould +e :ods!

A friend of Albert Einstein" >urt :odel tried to

mathematically ealuate infinity so that Einstein's

theories could be tested! Here's a short e$tract from the

article?

:odel's focus was on identifyin# and definin# a mathematical structure for

 Mathematics as #od" The

 $ncient %f &ays by 'illiam

 (lake

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infinity! f science could find a way to e$press the infinity concept in a mathematical

e%uation" then clearly" all probabilities could eentually be made aailable by a

simple matter of plu##in# numbers into a computer! )ans of @ou#las Adams' brilliant

noel The Hitch Hiker's :uide To The :ala$y mi#ht be feelin# ust a little amused

here! :odel neer found his e%uation! nstead" what he found shook foundations of

the scientific community's %uasi reli#ious do#mas!

The ncompleteness ;roof principle became :odel's crownin#

achieement"thou#h it proed the e$act opposite of what he had ori#inally planned to

find! ronically" :odel's mathematical model established beyond reasonable doubt

that infinity cannot be %uantified by mathematics" and that there is no scientific

formula that encompasses all thin#s! The proof does this usin# what we now call a

self inclusie parado$! A simplified e$ample of this idea is represented in this word

 pu88le?f lied" then is eerythin# say actually a lie5 f eerythin# the speaker says

is a lie then sayin# they lied was a lie thus not eerythin# they say is a lie!

The circle #oes on foreer and defies lo#ical e$planation! :odel placed this

 pu88le in the form of an e%uation" and ended the elitist delusion that all thin#s could

one day be mathematically analy8ed! 3ow" there are those who respond to this fact by

%uippin# that Bsome thin#s are unknowable" until we know themC! These folks do not

understand what a mathematical proof is" ironically .a#ain" loe irony" don't

you5they are almost always selfstyled scientists! A mathematical proof is an

undeniable mathematical reality that will neer chan#e" and will neer be undone!

DDF&! Always!

*o there we hae it" the unierse is infinite and thus surrounded the cosmic rat

turd! 7hen the bi# but silent ban# ban#ed and propelled a shock wae into infinity"

the bubble that scientists call scientific reality .which includes scientific time and

scientific space be#an to e$pand into this infinite astness" always contained within

that shock wae! +ut here's the thin#" infinity does not stop at the shock wae which

has been e$pandin# outwards at the speed of li#ht for thirteen billion and some years

.because as any respectable materialist scientist will tell you" the unierse measures

time by the rotatin# of our insi#nificant planet around its insi#nificant star in and

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insi#nificant corner of the infinite astness"!

Actually the philosopher mmanuel >ant put the reality of it all ery well when

he said? 2Thin#s e$ist in reality but only a human mind can surround them with time

and space!

More of space and the mind in the ne$t instalment!

To Infinity And Beyond - Big Bang Theory Trashed?

-ne 'scientific fact' <ittle 3icky has challen#ed in the past is +i# +an# Theory! hae lost count of the times

that hain# offered proof that +i# +an# is not a fact" the unierse is in reality infinite hae become inoled

in thousand comment threads in which the ar#uments of the +i# +an# sceptics were contradicted by science

tits screechin#" 2t is a fact because we say it is!2

To Infinity And Beyond - Big Bang Theory Trashed?

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