It's Just An Illusion
Jun. 11th, 2022 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloIf space/time is an illusion- as all the best science and philosophy says it is- then this is unlikely to be a local phenomenon- from which it follows that the entire universe is as illusory as the planet on which we find ourselves.
In which case everything that we see stretched out around us- like thinly rolled pastry- all those distant stars and galaxies as well as the past and the future- is actually available in a lump (a multidimensional lump) right here and now.
So, when the ETs show up in their magnificent flying machines to hover over our back yards and nuclear facilities have they really crossed millions of miles of emptiness to get to us- or just slipped in sideways (as it were) from an elsewhere that is actually a here that we mostly can't see?
In which case everything that we see stretched out around us- like thinly rolled pastry- all those distant stars and galaxies as well as the past and the future- is actually available in a lump (a multidimensional lump) right here and now.
So, when the ETs show up in their magnificent flying machines to hover over our back yards and nuclear facilities have they really crossed millions of miles of emptiness to get to us- or just slipped in sideways (as it were) from an elsewhere that is actually a here that we mostly can't see?
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Date: 2022-06-11 10:27 am (UTC)I think it's more likely that human beings lack the sensory apparatus to perceive time/space as it actually exists.
Not quite the same thing. 😀
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Date: 2022-06-11 10:58 am (UTC)I keep coming back to something T.S. Eliot has Sweeney say in Sweeney Agonistes- when he's struggling to explain something difficult to his compadres- "I gotta use words when I'm talking to you." I think our language(s) are clumsy and inadequate tools to deal with "Reality".
But we have to try, don't we?