The primary particles that make up my body have existed since the Big Bang. All primary particles in the universe merge together in the past within the BB event.
From a 4D perspective, I am one with the dinosaurs whose bodies absorbed the particles that now exist in my body, and we are both one with the star that brought the primary particles together forming elements like carbon.
Do you see yourself as existing in only three dimensions, or do you see yourself connected to everything (the religious aspect to this question) through a fourth-dimensional perspective.
2006-09-29 06:59:27 · 10 answers · asked by bobkgin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I just knew someone would bring up the other dimensions, JP.
I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible. ;-)
2006-09-29 07:07:55 · update #1
Yes, I think time is a derived property of reality, not something reality finds itself embedded in. I think reality is a static timeless entity which looks dynamic because our consciousness lies along paths within it and those paths severely constrain what we are aware of.
2006-09-29 07:15:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering the universe seems to indicate that it's actually 11D (all the five gravitic string theories are 10D, and the resolution of the broken symetries requires an extra dimension), I think a 4D perspective is rather limiting.
Of course, you make a very good case against free will. Glad to see I'm not the only one who sees the flaw in the free will debate.
2006-09-29 07:02:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is what God is supposed to be able to do, isn't it? I have a problem with the idea of any sentient living being doing it. The thing is that 'viewing' is an process that you do over time. Is this supposed to be similar to 'grokking' the situation as in 'The Man who Fell to Earth'? I can't imagine how I would go about doing that. I AM positive that some people think that they can, but likely they can see demons and ghosts and possess 'energies' and such too.
How much energy is there in an idea? What would the equivalent mass be using Einstein's famous equation? What about a stupid idea?
2006-09-29 07:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody can 'view' matter from a 4th dimensional perspective... we aren't wired for that. The best we can do is 'contemplate' what we might imagine a 4th dimensional perspective to be. Anyway... time is not 'the' 4th dimension... it is 'a' 4th dimension. All 'dimensions' are arbitrary... even the three dimensions that we refer to when we describe the location of objects in our universe. They 'exist' only as a matter of convenience and consensus. Although we further refer to 'time' in order to fix events in our universe, to measure the duration of events and to measure the interval between events, there is no compelling reason to think that 'time' actually 'exists', apart from human consciousness.
Quantum interconnectedness IS a feature of the universe, proven by "Bell's Theorem." However, the implications of that from the macroscopic scale are unknown. Even thinking about this makes my hair hurt. Think of a photon that arrives at your eyeball from a star 50 million light years away. From our perspective, that photon departed the star 50 million years ago, and has been on a course to intersect the space-time coordinate at which it would become actualized through interaction with your optic nerve and brain. From the perspective of the photon itself, travelling at the speed of light, NO TIME at all elapsed... as far as it is concerned, it was emitted from the star, and arrived instantly at your eyball... no time elapsed at all. Who is to say which perspective is the correct one? Who is to say whether that photon actually zipped along, through normal space, at the speed of light, for 50 million years... or took some kind of instantaneous shortcut?
Sure... all of the non-hydrogen and non-helium atoms in your body were born in supernovas... and you are further connected by photons to things and events that occurred millions or billions of years ago. But from the perspective of our current level of knowledge, the only pertinent question is... so what?
2006-09-29 07:52:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see myself as a part of the world, though I had never quite thought about it the way you put it.
Kudos, for the good point you make.
2006-09-29 07:03:29 · answer #5 · answered by Kharm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with your four dimensional perspective, however on a day to day basis I usually tend to focus more on mundane affairs.
2006-09-29 07:02:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Physiologically you are quite correct. However, I am more than a physiognomy. And that of me which is NOT matter is independent of time, space, matter and the things of creation. There; in what I am pleased to call my immortal soul, the image of God that is I; reside my mind, my FREE WILL and my sense of self.
2006-09-29 07:09:39 · answer #7 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, sorry. I only see three dimensions.
2006-09-29 07:02:45 · answer #8 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Very interesting to think about.
2006-09-29 07:09:06 · answer #9 · answered by psyry7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i feel one with the elements.... with the universe..... with life.......with God..... great question.... would love to see the religious opinion on it
2006-09-29 07:09:07 · answer #10 · answered by Siddhartha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋