Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Science Rules (Everything)

The day before I left for my trip I had a long discussion with the boys in Play N Trade about time travel. We discussed black holes and dark matter (ZOMG) and all that neat stuff. I told them that scientifically speaking, if we found a way to travel faster than the speed of light, and we traveled out towards the edge of the universe, whenever we stop at that distance, at that physical place in the universe, we can look towards the center of the universe and see the past. We can watch the light that has been traveling outwards go through our eyes. We won't be able to change the past, or even touch it, but we can see it and witness it.

They understood. Eugene explained an incredible theory to me that I think makes perfect sense and is genius. It took me a long time to fully understand it (I just fully understood it right now) so explaining it on here might be too difficult. Eugene explained to me the reason why physical time travel simply could not exist. If we were to travel through time, our physical selves in the present would cease to exist, and we would be pushing our molecules into a space that is already taken up. When we arrive at that time in the past, we would dissipate into nothingness, for the universe will try to maintain an equilibrium. We could see things, but we would go right through them. We may be seen by others for a split second at times, but most of us would be gone. -- Does this sound familiar?!
He explained this as the reason we have ghosts. They're just beings that are stuck in time -- a time where they don't belong so they cannot fully exist.

I told them about how I believed we are eternal. If energy can be neither created nor destroyed, and if energy is what keeps us solid and keeps our atoms moving and sticking together -- keeps us warm and awake and moving -- then this energy must come from somewhere. This energy that we use has always existed, and it will always exist into the future, and the energy that I have gets passed onto you and everyone you know, so my energy is your energy, and we are one.
Think about every time you touched someone and they were cold. You suddenly found yourself feeling a bit colder, your hands turning into ice as you tried to warm their hands up. You were giving them your energy, and that energy you gave them might go into the air, or into their bodies. If it goes into the air, do you breathe it? If it goes into their body, does it keep them alive? Are you helping someone stay alive?

Every single person I have interacted with has become a part of me, for their energy runs through me and mine through them. Remember that person's hand you shook?

Don't ever forget it.

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