The True Nature of Time and the Universe
Quite often People talk about time, infact they talk about time all the time, especially when they get old, and time is running out and they're waiting for the bus which is never on time.
Everyone thinks time exists, after all we've been brought up on time, with clocks and calendars to pass the time. People have started writing theorys to do with space-time, its been described as the fourth dimension. But what is it really?
Time is a model/explaination designed to account for the movements of objects in the 3 primary dimensions. This is obvious when you consider our very units of time, years, months, days, and such are defined by the movements of the planet around the sun, hours, minutes and seconds are further graduations of these base units.
Time is very important to us even if it doesn't really exist. Our body's invented time because without time, there would never be a tea time, time to go home or a time for bed. Without it we would be unable to comprehend the other three dimensions, and we'd always be late for work.
Once you have managed to understand this fundamental truth you must also recognise several others.
One of which is all about cats, cats in boxes cats in hats and cats with buttered toast strapped to them.
The first rule of cat is that they always land on their feet, this is an unbreakable law of the universe.
Cats in Boxes.
Some of the finest achievments in mankind have been to do with cats, it was when Erwin Schrodinger put a cat in a box, and discovered that without actually looking in the box you wouldn't be able to tell if the cat was alive or dead. And as only by knowing about what kind of state the cat was in you could say to know the state of the cat, unless you opened the box the cat would be in an unknowable state. The cat would be neither dead or alive, only by measuring the cats aliveness by opening the box would you be able to discover the true nature of the cat. This means hat an unmeasured cat is in a superposition of states, neither dead or aive. This also extends to tree's in woods that fall when no ones around. Tree's don't actualy fall they suddenly change into a superpositoned state and until you check them they have neither fallen or not fallen. Only by checking them you discover they have or have not fallen, break the superimposed wave state. This means that as a tree doesn't fall in a wood when no one's around it is impossible for it to make a sound.
This leads to the second rule of cats. You can never prove anything, especially when in conversation with people who think they're right.
For instance consider god, does he exist?
Many people may say he exists because of such evidence as the fact we exist, the bible exists and they once had a series of unlikely coincidences happen to them which couldn't be explained by mere chance but only by divine intervention.
This evidence is not proof as such as the evidence itself cannot be proven to be proof that god exists.
For instance science does a good job and some say better job of explaining our existance than the existance of a god. (though again many would say god did not directly create us only the universe, proving that you can't prove that that evidence is inadmissable. However this disproves the bible being that it says god created us in his image.)
Second the bible could have been written by anybody, obviously anybody who could actually write, which if you believe what they say about the days it was written, was not a large population, especially considering the fact not many could read it either. But the storys in the bible cannot be proven as fact.
Thirdly, a chain of unlikely coincidences can be considered as a chain of unlikely coincidences because no matter how improbable its always possible.
What we have here is a whole bunch of stuff which cannot be called proof because it's truth is still in question.
The main thing we can see from above is that something can be considered true until it is disproved. This means absolute truth does not exist because it can still be disproved. This means that there can be no true truth.
This means the only thing we can be sure about is things that are untrue. Which is a very interesting situation to be in.
Cats in Hats.
The third rule of cats is that you should never let one into your house unless it lives there.
Cats with buttered toast strapped to them
The fourth rule of Cats is related to the first rule of cats. And that is When dropped buttered toast always lands face down.
This may seem like a silly rule, but in truth it is very important. The frst rule and the fourth rule, are absolutes, and when both are applied we get very straneg things happening. If for instant you take a piece of buttered toast, spread with thick strawberryjam, and strap it to the top of a cat with the buttered side up. you get a collision of these two principes. The cat wants to land on its feet and the toast wants to land butterside up. so if you drop this cat instead of landing on the ground. the cat will instead stay suspended several centimetres above the ground spinning. This effect usually lasts until the butter and jam is spun off of the toast.
This leaves us with a way to defy gravity. Experiments carried out with massive arrays of cat/toast devices have allowed the break through of some of our greatest inventions, the hovercraft, the vacuum, the space shuttle, and darts.
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