Yesterday was my birthday. I said to a friend, "I think we may be alive and dead at the same time, as the Universe likes symmetry in a polarised kind of way. Maybe while we are alive, we are dead somewhere else, and when we die, we return to a living state elsewhere."
"You need proof for all these theories of yours, Kath," he commented, drily unconvinced.
I had in mind, over the course of deliberating this new theory, that Neutrinos oscillate from one form to another as they journey in their straight-line flight, and it's quite possible (according to some scientists) that they 'skip' in and out of other dimensions as they do so. That wouldn't be too dissimilar, thinks I, to our cruising along as conscious entities on a wave packet that death simply collapses, only to be re-instigated in particle format some place else - spacetime having, after all, a lot of options on offer.
"You need proof for all these theories of yours, Kath," he commented, drily unconvinced.
I had in mind, over the course of deliberating this new theory, that Neutrinos oscillate from one form to another as they journey in their straight-line flight, and it's quite possible (according to some scientists) that they 'skip' in and out of other dimensions as they do so. That wouldn't be too dissimilar, thinks I, to our cruising along as conscious entities on a wave packet that death simply collapses, only to be re-instigated in particle format some place else - spacetime having, after all, a lot of options on offer.
Now, I didn't think much more of this until coming to the computer and finding New Universe Daily had posted
this article on Twitter about mesons and time.
It seems to kinda fit the profile. While everyone (well, everyone who's interested) seems ultra-keen to find out what the Universe is composed of, our perceptions of space and time are at best shaky, at worst extremely naive. Like the caterpillar who's lived all its life on a tree that has never moved, we tend to question the most basic of precepts, such as whether the Earth is a living thing, and bizarrely but seriously the question is now being posed in high places (thanx to Phil Metzger for the heads-up) as to whether the Universe is our home as much as the Earth is!
this article on Twitter about mesons and time.
It seems to kinda fit the profile. While everyone (well, everyone who's interested) seems ultra-keen to find out what the Universe is composed of, our perceptions of space and time are at best shaky, at worst extremely naive. Like the caterpillar who's lived all its life on a tree that has never moved, we tend to question the most basic of precepts, such as whether the Earth is a living thing, and bizarrely but seriously the question is now being posed in high places (thanx to Phil Metzger for the heads-up) as to whether the Universe is our home as much as the Earth is!
Now, you know me. If there's a good theory to support the supposition that we as quantum units made of quantum units behave like quantum units whether we like it or not, I'm going to jump in and shout about it. Plenty of other people are shouting about it too, so it's only a matter of time before we evolve our thinking around these questions. As for space, well, we don't need to worry about that too much, do we? After all, it always stays the same.... doesn't it?
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