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"Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?" Vasudeva's face was filled with a bright smile.
"Yes, Siddhartha," he spoke. "It is this what you mean, isn't it: that the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future?"

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In proposing his theory Einstein postulated that the speed of light was a universal constant. However fast you may be traveling, you will always measure the speed of light relative to you to be the same—186,000 miles per second. You can never catch up with light. Even if you were traveling at 185,990 miles per second, light would still pass you by at 186,000 miles per second.
Why should this be so? It seems totally counter-intuitive that the speed of light never varies. But this perplexing behavior takes on a rather different character when we distinguish our image of reality from the underlying reality. Space and time, and hence speed, are aspects of the phenomenal world; they have no meaning, it turns out, for light itself.
According to the equations of Special Relativity, as an observer's speed increases, time slows down, and length (in the direction of motion) contracts. At the speed of light, time has slowed to a standstill and length contracted to zero. Although no object with mass can ever attain the speed of light (the equations predict that it would then have an infinite mass), light itself does (by definition) travel at the speed of light. From light's point of view—and this after all must be the most appropriate perspective from which to consider the nature of light, not our matter-bound mode of experience—it travels no distance and takes no time to do so.
This reflects a unique property of light. In the spacetime continuum, the interval between the two ends of a light ray is always zero. How can we interpret this? We probably should not even try to interpret it. Any attempt to do so would make the mistake of applying concepts derived from our image of reality to the underlying reality. All we need to recognize is that, from light's perspective, this zero interval manifests as zero space and a corresponding amount of zero time.
However, when we in the world of sub-light speeds perceive light, we see a different manifestation of the zero interval. We observe a finite amount of space along with an "equal" amount of time. In our world, the light does travel through space and time. Since the total interval must be zero, the distance covered must exactly balance the time taken—that is, we must always observe 186,000 miles of space for every second of time. This we interpret as the speed of light. But this "speed" is not an intrinsic property of light itself; traveling no distance in no time, light has no need of speed. What we interpret as the speed of light is actually the ratio in which space and time manifest in our perception of reality. It is this ratio that is constant. And this is why all our measurements of the apparent speed of light are constant.

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In other words, we can have heaven on earth right here, right now through awareness alone...

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Thomas 113 - His disciples said to him, "When will the Kingdom come?", Jesus answered and said, "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!'. Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the Earth, and people don't see it!"

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resonant111 said:
a common side effect of dosing shrooms or other psychedelics is a profound sense of time dilation. i've had experiences where time itself seems to freeze and everything around me is experienced as pure vibration. (these timeless states are also possible in deep meditation from my experience)

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Perhaps the experience of time freezing is the direct understanding of the universe as a unified vibration perpetually traveling at the speed of light? Could this "timeless" dimension be heaven, nirvana, or eternal bliss itself?

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this idea even has a scientific foundation...in special relativity, "The combined speed of any object’s motion through space and its motion though time is always precisely equal to the speed of light." In other words, EVERYTHING is already moving at the speed of light.

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cbub said:


If you ask me, this is exactly the same phenomena as double slit experiment. Rules of the universe only get invoked when there's an observer...

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Naw, things work the same way whether someone is there to notice or not.  The "observation" or "observer" often mentioned in QM subjects refers to a measurement, not the presence of a being or a conciousness or anything like that.  It works the same way whether someone looks at the detectors or not.

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That's based on assumption that consciousness is a property of animate beings. We don't know that. It's actually suggested from various sources that consciousness is the time space itself.

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If it works the same way when you look at detectors or not is pure faith :-)

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cbub said:
It's evident, that you can see the effect of things that are going on, but according to the nature laws they shouldn't. I'm talking about the photon distribution pattern with double slit experiment and effects of the virtual photons in particle accelerators. It's plain obvious, that when you measure the particles, nature starts behaving differently. [/quote[

Yes, but it doesn't require a person to be performing the measurement, i.e. looking at the pattern or looking at some device which measures which slit the particle went through.  The pattern is as expected by QM with or without it.  It is simply that there's no way to measure the state of a system without changing it, and so any measurement will change the system (along with other interactions without any 'measurement' in the traditional sense of the word).

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In a way where you can only measure the particles that are playing by the laws of nature, yet we get an observation of an effect of them behaving differently when the measurement is not made. What does that tell us? Obviously the act of measuring is exactly what reality adjusts itself to. How can that be? This is where another fascinating thing happens. People can't process this fact and shrug it off.

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It's fairly well understood  from the standpoint of being able to predict the behavior of systems like the double slit experiment.  Its just the mechanism and interpretation which are troubling, but then science can never determine the way things really are in QM or anything else- it can only observe the efficient cause of phenomena and use that to describe systems and make predictions.

Of the classes of interactions that disturb a system, an intentional measurement is just one of them (say, bouncing a particle off another to determine its position and momentum- this has the same effect whether its done intentionally or is a random interaction not a part of any measurement).