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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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