02-22-2009, 10:20 PM
Yeah that makes sense, I had a sort of notion similar to what you're saying as a possibility, but you've articulated it very well. Another thing that has crossed my mind, as I've been reading Beyond Space and Time, is that of how time/space interacts with space/time, as in the forms of life. This is a much welcome and fairly easily understood concept for me, but the idea that it sparks off in my head is the issue of attractors, in chaos theory, which seem not to come from anywhere in particular but arise from seemingly unorganized motions. Could this be related to time/space? Also, there are various systems theories, which are related to chaos theory, which Fritjof Capra wrote about in his book Web of Life (I havn't finished it but it's excellent, highly recommended), which study how systems arise from supposed "chaos" (which is a concept I have trouble with, I've never seen this supposed chaos, I only see patterns interacting with one another), and become self regulating, and I'm thinking that had I finished the book he was going in the direction that this may be how life comes about. Now, this is an interesting theory and falls hand in hand with the whole idea of attractors. I'm just wondering how all of this could apply to RST. I get the vibe, though, that all of these things which have been seperate fields can be tied together through RST, as it makes them reconcilable. Could attractors, if not all then some like maybe "strange attractors", be related to time/space's interaction with space/time motion?
I'm still wrapping my head around all this and reading Beyond Space and Time, but it's very interesting. I tore through 5 chapters tonight. I can't quite imagine yet what he really means by multiple dimensions of time, or movement in time, or how movement closer together in time means movement further apart in space. I mean I know they are reciprocal aspects, but that's just an abstract equation, I want to be able to visualize it. Someone from RST needs to make some videos about this, I've seen videos about quantum stuff that were pretty cool, just a white background and drawing points and lines to illustrate the points.
I'm still wrapping my head around all this and reading Beyond Space and Time, but it's very interesting. I tore through 5 chapters tonight. I can't quite imagine yet what he really means by multiple dimensions of time, or movement in time, or how movement closer together in time means movement further apart in space. I mean I know they are reciprocal aspects, but that's just an abstract equation, I want to be able to visualize it. Someone from RST needs to make some videos about this, I've seen videos about quantum stuff that were pretty cool, just a white background and drawing points and lines to illustrate the points.