ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[David Morris]

On 4/4/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Take away memory, the sense of continuity through time, and where's your identity, your consciousness? As soon as you really think about about any of the language of "extension" applied to time, it falls apart -- yet we can't do, maybe can't be, without it.
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> Maybe the only scientific point essential to grappling with AtD is that for a ray (beam, wave, photon) of light,*there is no time.* In your reference frame you say it "takes a year" to get from point A to point B a light-year away; in its own reference frame, that year -- and the every other year from the Big Bang to whatever the end may be -- is one instant. Not one instant of many -- the only one.
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OK, so if one could travel AT the speed of light (the fastest speed
possible), then experience, memory, consciousness would cease to be
because time itself would stop, right?  And time's passage slows
relatively the closer one approaches that top speed, right?  And we're
talking about travel through universal  space relative to some
starting point?

So here's a question that may or may not have meaning (I'm a complete
novice with this stuff):  Is it possible to REDUCE the speed one is
traveling through this universal space?  And if that were possible, I
guess relative time (I guess relative to the expansion of space from
the origin of the Big Bang?) would speed up?  So if we knew the
location of the origin of the Big Bang and started flying there at a
speed close to that of light, our relative time would speed up?

This is really trippy,

David Morris