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Inquisitor II: The Revenge
by Arthegarn on Jan 21, 2002 - 12:12 PM
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Whoa! You get mighty exotic now! Now I have to agree with Devin, it's extremely hard for me to understand what you say if you use words some times with one meaning and some times with another (even though you punctualize). Most likely it has to do with the "English as a second language" thing.
Well, I'll try.
OK I took the binding as a a second energy and you said it was a second "force" My mistake. OK, then we take it as a passive phenomenon instead of as a dynamic force. Agreed, it works better this way.
You never said that if the balance of energy and binding changed there was a decline in health, that's why I said what I said. You said life died: "when the energy and binding are equal, life is created. If enough energy is lost leaving the form binding-dominant the form dies and reverts to mere matter, whereas a form that gains too much energy and becomes energy-dominant becomes a force of some kind" According to that, if energy and binding are not equal the life form died, but maybe I didn't understand. Actually I liked it better the other way around, it's quite hard to talk about health decline in primitive life forms such as fungi (not to mention viruses). Your concept of death implies serious problems about your concept of life. OK, so each and every cell in our being is alive (I am not discussing it at all) but then... who is the entity? I am not a separate being from the addition of all my living cells? There is not a living "me" independent of my cells? What's in for conscience? (Whoa, yeah, Im getting real hardcore now ;-)
I fully accept your solution to the Photon Problem, though.
I insist that there can NOT be two infinite things, by definition, unless they do not interact. Things can not be infinite at a time and a bigger infinite at the next.. Infinite things, by definition can't become any bigger, they can not expand.
Now comes the hard part, Dolorosa, I warn you. Anyone who is not Alugarde and manages to read and understand all the following crap gets a piece of candy (Bettie_x always liked my candy XD)
There is no such thing as a cosmic vacuum. Sorry, there is not. Things that are outside reality are, by definition, unreal. There is reality and then there is nothing. Full stop. There is no such thing as a real "lack of reality", there's nowhere outside space. As for energy, it's not self replicating, it just spreads thinner. And that is because the Cosmos is finite, as has been proved over and over since the 70's. I think I intuitively understand your concept, but it's not that the Cosmos "grows" into a cosmic void. Since the universe is limitless, it can't grow by expanding its limits into the void, as there are no such limits (those "limit" and "void" notions reminds me of Ende's "Never Ending Story"). It is a fact the ammount of space in the universe grows even as we talk, but the universe grows into no void, it grows into time. Actually, we call the action of the universe's growth time (this one is HARD)
OK, think of it this way (it's very old, sure you've heard it before). Take one spatial dimension out, now we live in a 2-D space (be it a plane, semiplane or polygon) which is endless and limitless. Now comb the space until you get a sphere. Now you have a limitless but endless universe. How does the universe expand? It's like blowing into a balloon. It does not expand into any of the known two dimensions, but into a third one which is time. Now if you picture a coordinate axis with x, y and t, x and y being the two spatial dimensions of the universe and perpendicular to each other but "combed" in the surface of the sphere, and t coming from the center of the sphere outwards in a straight line, you can see where does the universe "grow" to: into itself, just farther in time. What's in t? the universe as it is now. What is in t+1? The universe as it will be. What is in t-1
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