Sunday, March 30, 2008

Blanket/Quilt Theory

It's easiest to put in point form (as I have with my rough notes on this):

 

- our universe (as we currently understand it) can be thought of as a big, unfinished quilt, continually being knit at the top

- each thread in the blanket represents an individual life; ergo some threads are longer than others, and some threads are interwoven (representing the relationship with other lives in the world) with a lot of other threads (whereas some other threads are interwoven with a very few)

- the blanket should look v-shaped, where the top of the blanket is always expanding (think of time as being the y axis)

- w/ this theory, time travel would not be possible (a la autoinfanticide, or the grandfather paradox), because threads would only be allowed to be woven upwards -- downward weaving would be impossible, since the blanket below has already been woven and cannot be unwoven

   - having said this, interdimensional/parallel-universe type of travel is theoretically possible, were several blankets may be "stacked" up on each other (or pressed side by side)

 

Monday, March 24, 2008

Profound thought

Just thought to use the blog to mark down the stuff that sometimes runs through my head.  This will be probably be the first of many.


"There is nothing either good or bad that thinking does not make so." -- Hamlet