DividedQuantum said:

Your post reminds me of the implicate order hypothesis. One of its tenets is that each new moment is shaped in part by past history, and in part by creativity, which goes hand in hand with your comments about certainty (or habit) and novelty. In essence, this means that as Nature is created anew in each moment, it also learns and remembers, which further shapes what new explicate structures are likely to emerge.

As far as the expansion of the universe and time, I tend to think of it this way: Just as space is expanding due to the big bang, so is time. The present is like the leading edge of the dimension of time, behind which is time that has already unfolded, and ahead of which is the uncreated future. Our perception of the passage of time is complementary to the expansion of time through the present, from past to future. The implicate order hypothesis attempts to describe the dynamics of this change.

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redgreenvines said:

experience is not separate from mind and body, so the lightspeed thought experiment self cancels, as your mass would approach infinity you would stop experiencing.

yes time is fundamental to this space and gravity universe, and time is also fundamental to sequences of momentary experiences that may become memory and in so doing become a framework for perception and understanding.

novelty applies to anything that seems fresh, i.e. when the ordinary is changed enough that it may become the basis of a whole new set of experiences and memories. However, not all things that are different are experienced as novel, instead, most things that are non-conforming are ignored, so the right balance of newness and familiarity is what you seek in novelty.

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hTx said:

Interesting.

I cannot find anything though on why the expansion is accelerating, besides theories of dark energy.
It gets pretty murky trying to understand from here..
It makes sense from a philosophical point of view, that as the universe expands, there is an accelerating increase in the information content, more events happening which increase the complexity, and the uncertainty of the universe, the combination of increasing certainty and uncertainty means the universe expansion must be accelerating, it wouldn't make sense if it did not.

If it were this simple, it's easy to see why the universe is accelerating its expansion.
In physics however, it doesn't make sense that the universe expansion is accelerating whatsoever.
Its difficult to reconcile the logic of an expanding universe by novelty versus what we can currently accept as physics

For instance,
If energy is a constant, cannot be created nor destroyed, then how is this acceleration possible? Even if you bring dark matter and energy to the equation, doesn't this mean that energy is being created somewhere?
Does implicate and explicate order get into this?
Perhaps the energy constant is simply much much greater than we ever thought possible, the big bang is still banging.
I need to study it more.

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hTx said:

The alphabet is a good example of what I am talking about.

We have 26 letters. They exist, they are certain.
What is uncertain is how I am going to arrange these letters in the present moment as you read them.
It certainly is novel only as you experience it as you cannot predict what I am going to write. You may have a good idea where I am headed, thanks to what you know, the words you have already read, but that's about it.
And that is sort of how our experience is with everything, and how everything behaves in the present.

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Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has formed, it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses (M☉) may form. There is general consensus that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies.

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