08-25-2011, 07:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-25-2011, 07:32 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(08-25-2011, 04:34 PM)3DMonkey Wrote: No, I don't think it would be drastically noticeable. It would be gradually accepted as normal.
Currently, global death rates are at about 1% annually, while birth rates are about 1.5%. So I don't see how that changing such that death rates eclipse birth rates would be neither drastic, nor noticeable.
1. What sort of explanation for such an occurrence do you suppose would be accepted as normal by the populace?
2. What do you propose happens to the birth rate? Do people just keep being born the whole time?
3. Even if the process goes on for a hundred, or a thousand, years we are still left explaining what happens at the final separation. Making harvest into a gradual event just prolongs the inevitable break that must occur, if it is to occur at all.
4. What would be the point of keeping the window open, anyway? Those who can be harvested will be harvested, and those who cannot will not. Continuing along in some sort of 3D/4D hybrid experience would be a disservice to all parties. Those with hybrid 3D/4D bodies would increasingly feel infringed upon by their inability to express latent 4D abilities among others with no such abilities, and those in pure 3D bodies would be increasingly disabled from living "normal" lives as 4D influences and catalyst continue to flood the planetary sphere.
What we have going on here is analogous to a chemical reaction. The substrates have been sufficiently dissolved and mixed together. Ample catalyst has been applied along with increases in temperature, pressure, and electromagnetic radiation. V-max has been reached and products have been created, and are now ready to be harvested.
Allowing the reaction to continue past a certain point in hopes of "increasing the harvest" will become increasingly pointless. Adding more catalyst to the reaction is not going to have a noticeable effect. There is only a certain degree of efficiency that can be reasonably expected. Sooner or later, somebody has to say, "OK, enough."
There comes a time when we need to collect the products from the test tube because they are the substrates in another reaction, and others are waiting on us so that they can continue with the next stage in the game of life.
So, in the end, whether it is a year from now, or a thousand years from now, 3D earth will cease to be active. And at that moment there is going to be somebody right on the tippy edge who would have just maybe crossed over, had they another decade or two to live. But they didn't.
It is a sobering idea for sure, but one that appears to be unavoidable.