Thursday, August 16, 2007

Einstein came up with a theory that basically states the faster you go, the less time effects you. Travel through time and travel through space are set up as if they are in an inverse correlation, on a scale with 0 being one end, and c being the other. Now as we approach c in terms of speed, we get closer to 0 in terms of how fast we relatively are traveling through time, so that if you were at 99% of c, years would zoom passed you and would only perceive a few seconds. But, what if reversed that? What if we stopped moving in space? As it is right now, we are not totally still. Our planet spins, rotates around a start that its self is in a galaxy that rotates. But if we were to leave our planet, and figure out all the different speeds and directions we are moving at, and counter act them, we maybe be able to truly stop, or get really close it, in terms of our movement in space. What would that be like? Would time slow down with us? Would everything just seem to stop, while we keep on aging? Would truly stopping kill you instantly from every one else’s point of view, leaving nothing behind, except maybe dust? That got me thinking, maybe that’s what it is like to die, in some sense. Maybe dying is in essence truly stopping, for the whole universe to slow down while we keep going. Maybe our life doesn’t so much flash our eyes in a moment; maybe we relive it, over and over again. Maybe a part of gets free, and gets to see the universe in a second. Meh.

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