Topic: Imagining A World (Read 155 times)
This will be heaven in the future for the righteous. May The Holy One blessed is He have mercy on me and allow me to merit this!
I believe you just describe potential " Virtual reality". At least that's what i "could" be.
Too ideal of a world. Sometimes, "bad" is essentially a part of life
Impossible dreams are the best ones 
Imagine a world where nobody dies.
That's a world in which nobody ages because death is the result of slow and gradual ageing.
That's a world in which nothing changes because ageing is the result of physical change.
That's a world in which time ceases because change is proof of time passing.
That's a world that cannot exist in spacetime because decay and/or entropy is one of the fundamental laws of our world.
A world where death is no more is therefore a world without time as we currently know it. No sense of past, present and future. Time essentially loses meaning as one thousand years could feel like one day and one day like one thousand years.
An astronaut on the ISS was in his spacesuit floating and spacewalking (also known as Extravehicular Activity) in space when he saw the Earth 🌍 spinning round and round so fast and whole continents were spinning pass his eyes in a matter of seconds. This was disorienting for him so he said his sense of time became distorted. For a better appreciation of what I'm talking about, let me give a related example.
Astronauts or Cosmonauts on the ISS orbit the Earth at a speed of approx 17,100 miles per hour; that's 90 minutes. So in 90 minutes they have orbited or gone round the entire Earth ONCE! But the more interesting fact is that that means they witness a minimum of 16 sunrises and sunsets EVERY EARTH DAY!!
Think about that for a minute. These men and women on the ISS spaceship experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets aboard the ISS within 24 hours, while you and I down here experience just 1 sunrise and sunset within the same 24 hours. Surely, those traveling in space will have a radically different conception of time seeing the sun rise and set 16 times in 24 hours.
Again, this brings to fore a few fundamentally flawed assumptions we make about time;
1. That time is simple and uncomplicated. It isn't. Time is complex. Both scientists and philosophers have had to grapple with this puzzling truth.
2. That time is understood. It isn't. Your clock or wristwatch measures time. It is merely a time measuring device. It is not time. And time doesn't measure the same everywhere in the universe. For instance, Speed and Gravity affect time measurement.
The case of those astronauts show that your understanding of time can be affected by your location AND your speed!
My point?
A world may indeed exist where one thousand years feels like one day and one day feels like a thousand years, just like the Psalmist said. Now we know that physics confirms this.
If this is true, then immortality may not be a religious myth after all because mortality is nothing but a process (of slow changes) aided by time and which itself is proof of time. Decay or death is proof of time passing. We know time has passed when we see decay. Time proves decay and decay proves time.
But what if someone can 'monkey around' with time as we know it so that ageing, decay and death become mere rumours? Someone who Himself does not change (age, decay) because He does not dwell in time. Only things in time change (age and decay).
Just what if?
I imagine this world. And an old rugged Book tells me it exists.
That's a world in which nobody ages because death is the result of slow and gradual ageing.
That's a world in which nothing changes because ageing is the result of physical change.
That's a world in which time ceases because change is proof of time passing.
That's a world that cannot exist in spacetime because decay and/or entropy is one of the fundamental laws of our world.
A world where death is no more is therefore a world without time as we currently know it. No sense of past, present and future. Time essentially loses meaning as one thousand years could feel like one day and one day like one thousand years.
An astronaut on the ISS was in his spacesuit floating and spacewalking (also known as Extravehicular Activity) in space when he saw the Earth 🌍 spinning round and round so fast and whole continents were spinning pass his eyes in a matter of seconds. This was disorienting for him so he said his sense of time became distorted. For a better appreciation of what I'm talking about, let me give a related example.
Astronauts or Cosmonauts on the ISS orbit the Earth at a speed of approx 17,100 miles per hour; that's 90 minutes. So in 90 minutes they have orbited or gone round the entire Earth ONCE! But the more interesting fact is that that means they witness a minimum of 16 sunrises and sunsets EVERY EARTH DAY!!
Think about that for a minute. These men and women on the ISS spaceship experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets aboard the ISS within 24 hours, while you and I down here experience just 1 sunrise and sunset within the same 24 hours. Surely, those traveling in space will have a radically different conception of time seeing the sun rise and set 16 times in 24 hours.
Again, this brings to fore a few fundamentally flawed assumptions we make about time;
1. That time is simple and uncomplicated. It isn't. Time is complex. Both scientists and philosophers have had to grapple with this puzzling truth.
2. That time is understood. It isn't. Your clock or wristwatch measures time. It is merely a time measuring device. It is not time. And time doesn't measure the same everywhere in the universe. For instance, Speed and Gravity affect time measurement.
The case of those astronauts show that your understanding of time can be affected by your location AND your speed!
My point?
A world may indeed exist where one thousand years feels like one day and one day feels like a thousand years, just like the Psalmist said. Now we know that physics confirms this.
If this is true, then immortality may not be a religious myth after all because mortality is nothing but a process (of slow changes) aided by time and which itself is proof of time. Decay or death is proof of time passing. We know time has passed when we see decay. Time proves decay and decay proves time.
But what if someone can 'monkey around' with time as we know it so that ageing, decay and death become mere rumours? Someone who Himself does not change (age, decay) because He does not dwell in time. Only things in time change (age and decay).
Just what if?
I imagine this world. And an old rugged Book tells me it exists.
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