Originally posted by NUKE
Interesting. Think about it in terms of God and it could make sense that he could be everywhere at once and eternal (from his perspective) if he where always "traveling" at the speed of light.
There are actually theories/analogies like that, although I'm not sure how "physical" they are. The earliest of those theories started with Plato.
You can speculate/analogize all you want, but this is philosophy. Things ARE this way because I said they ARE this way, Therefore I've proven my point.
Physics takes a different approach, but no point in going there.
The Universe is like 8 mm film. If you look at it from the outside of a projector (higher dimensions), all frames of the film exist simultaneously. As a matter of fact in this view, there is no time. Someone outside the projector can see all of the frames at once, but (as the theory goes), we are stuck into 4 dimensions only, which is equivalent to being inside of the projector. Someone outside (he who can see everything at once), is playing the film. We can only see one frame at the time, and we can't rewind.
As a result we perceive
- "the past", frames we saw and remember
- "the presence" the current frame we see
- "the future" the frames we have't seen yet.
Playing the film in higher dimensions, produces perception of time in lower ones.
Obviously, the implication of this view is that
- there is no presence
- both past and future are unchangeable
- we are just passive observers and have no influence on the future.
- Everything is deterministinc
- there is no free will.
