Resting Light Theory

[Wick]

I think our problem in looking for the TOE is that we look at the universe as being a complete whole. We fail to see that there are forces and instruments working upon the universe from its outside.

As long as we try to understand the universe based upon the assumption that this observable universe contains all there is, we will fail to understand that part of the greater universe escapes our view because it lies beyond our capacity to see or sense.

So I choose to think of the universe as a skin, because a skin cannot exist in and of itself. It must by nature serve as the phase boundary of something else. It is evidence of something deeper...of blood and breath and bone lying just under the "skin".

Wick

[Wick]

Another way of putting it: We are trying to read the universal book by its cover. But conventional wisdom would indicate that you can't do that. Its what lies beneath the cover--the pages upon which nature is written--that the answer lies. But oddly enough the observable universe bears trace evidence of what lies upon the pages. Our problem is that we fail to understand the trace evidence because we come to believe that the trace evidence is the whole body of evidence. It is not.

Wick

[Mikal]

I cannot therefore assume that the point of Wick's birth exists somewhere in space and time. Since I cannot observe that moment's existence, I must refrain from assuming that that configuration of time and space is somehow captured upon some eternal and imaginary fabric.



Hi Wick…in light of one of my experiences with the metaphysical which occurred in or around 2002, I wonder about your above statement.

In tangles with the metaphysical, perception and sense probably function at their highest possible level. In other words it is an experience of seeing, feeling and hearing beyond our normal human capabilities.

Concerning a male friend (he was 52 at the time) and a deeply platonic relationship I ask God one night for help understanding this particular person in my life. I would have to tell you that in a nano-second after that request I found myself observing and viewing a long-past scene from this man’s childhood where he was probably 7 or 8 years old.

Throughout viewing this scene, I noted the layout of his childhood home, the furniture, placement of windows, his mother (whom I never met or had ever seen) the color of her dress, the designs on her dress, how she wore her hair. I noted the book he was reading to his mom, how he wore his hair as a child and what he did and where he went from the moment he was finished reading (he hid his book.)

After I composed myself with the fact that this had happened, I met with him and I told him…”while I am explaining this to you, please say nothing, add nothing….just listen.”

When we parted he said I am going to retrieve some family pictures from my mom and then I am going to show you my actual childhood home. He sighed and said…”I don’t understand how all this happened but I have no choice but to believe it because the scene did happen, you did see into a past childhood scene in my life, you did just explain the layout of my childhood house….and absolutely nobody ever knew where I hid my book so I am astounded by that fact alone…I am troubled by the voice that spoke to you, what you have told me was said, is deeply relevant to some of the deepest feelings I have about life….”

According to this experience it seems there is some eternal fabric that is configuring the time and space from birth for everyone’s life. I have no answers beyond this experience Wick but I do know that this eternal space exists and I am not the only one to have viewed and experienced it…..I have no doubt about this experience, my friend proved its relevance to the truth of his own life….


Regards Mikal

[MJA]

Nice story Mikal, one without explaination.
So how rare is the inexplicaple?
I would answer that with another question: In an infinite universe, what can we explain?
Thanks,

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MJA

[Wick]

According to this experience it seems there is some eternal fabric that is configuring the time and space from birth for everyone’s life. I have no answers beyond this experience Wick but I do know that this eternal space exists and I am not the only one to have viewed and experienced it…..I have no doubt about this experience, my friend proved its relevance to the truth of his own life….

Thanks for your thoughts, Mikal. I have also had similar experiences. I don't rack these up to a fixed space and time in the way Einstein described it. Instead I rack it up to an eternal record kept.

Occasional I have watched home films which protray an event in the past. Usually these are footage of a birthday party or some other special event. Yet when I watch such films, I remain very aware that I am watching a record of an event, not the event itself.

I trust that the past is well recorded. Many holy texts suggest that a record is kept in heaven of all that transpires in the falling universe. But the record of those events is not equal to the events themselves.

What you saw was not an example of Mikal going back in time to experience the past moment of a friend. Instead it was a brief showing of a friends past record. The difference may seem subtle but it is not.

If Mikal thinks she actually went back in time, she must also believe that spacetime is a fixed fabric in which free will is merely a human illusion and no one can be held accountable for their actions. If she thinks that what she saw was a record of some past event (like a heavenly version of home videos), then she believes that free will is an eternal principle according to which human beings remain accountable for the good and evil that they bring into the world.

I am of the latter opinion. I respect Mikal whatever her mind might be, but I suspect she errs on the side of freedom.

Best Regards!

Wick

[Wick]

I've been thinking a lot about thermodynamics of late and have come to some strange conclusions.

As I have tried to fit thermodynamics into RLT, I have found that I have to interpret the observations of experiments in thermodynamics in a surprising way.

Let's consider what happens when the process of heating occurs in a system. In thermodynamics it is said that the heating process causes the molecules in the system to work harder (they move more). This has long been the accepted way of looking at the heating process.

But in RLT we don't speak of the heating process in this way. Because RLT considers space to be a 3-dimensional phase boundary (or surface) it also permits space to bend in the same way that general relativity permits space to bend. As a surface, space can bend in any number of ways. The way that space is commonly known to bend is through the influence of matter and the greater the matter, the more acutely space is bent.

But we have chosen not to think of energy in this same way. Instead we have turned to a principle we call duality and said that light presents itself both as a wave and as a particle. So in a thermodynamic sense, the energy in a system (or in other words the light in a system if we use broadest sense of the word) possesses wave-particle duality. In other words we link the wave nature and the particle nature together and say those two natures are the same thing.

But in RLT we make a distinction. Particles are particles. Waves are waves. All waves are simply oscillations or changes in the shape of space. This is true if we are talking about gravity waves (which are massive like the bow waves of a passing ship) or a gamma ray (which is the most subtle of ripples from the tiniest droplets of water. In both cases space is oscillating or bending.

So in thermodynamics, we don't merely see an increase in the motion of particles. Instead we see conditions in which the matter and space are interacting. As the matter oscillates, it disturbs the spatial phase boundary upon which it rests and causes it to begin oscillating along a fourth axis or degree of freedom. The space inside the system is actually increasing and to a certain extent thinning which causes the matter to move more freely and with greater speed. In water this causes molecules to move more quickly (to boil), in living tissures, this causes the tissues to begin to break down as the space they occupy expands.

In this way, RLT tells us that when we see what we think is a wave, we are really seeing a change in the shape of space (never anything more). What's more, the shape and waving motion of space is always dependent upon how matter behaves upon the surface of space. As matter accumulates in one place it changes the shape of space in a way we chalk up to gravity. When sub-atomic particles of matter oscillates through the surface of space they cause waves upon the 3-dimensional phase boundary of space and we chalk this up to light. In both cases we are talking about the interaction of matter upon the 3-dimensional phase boundary we call space.

Hope this makes sense. It means that what we call space has more properties than we have heretofore considered. Space is not simply nothingness. It is the 3-dimensional phase boundary of a 4-dimensional sea of light. As such, space is a thin 3D membrane of light inside a much deeper universe--a universe in which we will find the so-called "dark" matter and "dark energy we have been seeking. We can't currently see them because they don't occupy the 3D membrane even though they are attached to it and exert influence upon it.

Wick

[Mikal]

Thanks for your thoughts, Mikal. I have also had similar experiences. I don't rack these up to a fixed space and time in the way Einstein described it. Instead I rack it up to an eternal record kept.

Occasional I have watched home films which protray an event in the past. Usually these are footage of a birthday party or some other special event. Yet when I watch such films, I remain very aware that I am watching a record of an event, not the event itself.

I trust that the past is well recorded. Many holy texts suggest that a record is kept in heaven of all that transpires in the falling universe. But the record of those events is not equal to the events themselves.

What you saw was not an example of Mikal going back in time to experience the past moment of a friend. Instead it was a brief showing of a friends past record. The difference may seem subtle but it is not.

If Mikal thinks she actually went back in time, she must also believe that spacetime is a fixed fabric in which free will is merely a human illusion and no one can be held accountable for their actions. If she thinks that what she saw was a record of some past event (like a heavenly version of home videos), then she believes that free will is an eternal principle according to which human beings remain accountable for the good and evil that they bring into the world.

I am of the latter opinion. I respect Mikal whatever her mind might be, but I suspect she errs on the side of freedom.

Best Regards!

Wick

Hi Wick, thanks for your response.

I think you may have misunderstood my statement that it seems like there must be some eternal space that is configuring the time and space for everyone from birth.

You might need to explain your term “fixed” to me because if the man was 52 and what I observed was a recorded event when he was 8 or 9 does not that imply the recorded event is fixed in some eternal space? After all it would have to be fixed there in order for me to observe a recorded event that happened 44 years ago….or is there a better word we could use rather than fixed??

Beyond the experience which was in and of itself very complex I told you I have no answers. There is nothing concrete that proves I went back in time (although the higher intelligence that did take me to observe this, initiated the experience by taking me by the waist and flipping me backwards.) I have just always wondered why and why backwards??

I definitely do not think that free will is an illusion and I have my own knowledge and knowing on the meaning of accountability for actions and I have learnt throughout my own journey that liberation is outer and freedom is inner.

To err is to be human; I think and feel it’s how we learn the most important things in life but I don’t think the journey to find understanding, to ask for help understanding is about erring. I think it is about asking for another person’s judgement of a situation so one can mesh a little more detail into their own journey to understand something. So I thank you for what you have shared and the adding of thoughts and detail and impart to you that my post was not about challenging your ideas or your theory but was just me reaching out for help in finding and securing a more stable formation of what exactly I would understand.

Regards Mikal

[Wick]

Thanks Mikal,

I think I understand what you mean.

You saw the past of a friend in exquisite detail. If so, that past must exist in some form in the universe.

I agree that it exists. But its the form in which that past exists that I would like to emphasize.

Einstein said that the past literally exists. In other words, were it possible you could go back to that past and observe/interact with it. Yet Einstein never believed that observation/interaction with ones past would be physically possible. Nevertheless for him past events were just as real as the present...which where just as real as the future.

Such a concept of space and time requires us to believe that all time is already configured and set. In other words, there is no real freedom or accountability, only the illusion of freedom and accountability. If the universe has already configured everything, the universe is the only responsible and accountable thing. And as such, we must openly admit that all things that happen are both desireable and necessary.

I reject that notion.

For me the past only exists as a record kept. Where it is kept and how it is kept I do not know. Perhaps the past is recorded perfectly in the mind of God and betimes we are permitted to view that perfect record. But a glimpse into the mind of God does not mean that the past is literally configured in spacetime. It only means that that past was recorded.

Our past is not configured in space and time. It is configured as a memory...as a movie in 4 dimensions.

You were able to view a portion of that movie for reasons only you and God might know. But you did not have the power to alter the "movie" or to interact with it. You were an observer only. You could only observe because what you were watching was not the actual past, but a record of the past. The record was not configured in spacetime. It was configured only as a record in a format we don't yet completely understand (the divine equivalent of a DVD).

Why your guide directed you backwards may have no more significance than that's where the divine DVD was playing.

Also when I suggested you err on the side of freedom, this was not a criticism. I err on the side of freedom as well. I don't mean the word err in the context of error, but in the context of choosing a path by faith and judgement rather than knowledge. I do not know that the universe is a free place. I choose to think that it is. As such I err on the side of freedom, and I'm happy to do so. If this choice is indeed error, then perhaps Einstein can set me straight at some future date!

Best regards, Mikal. I took none of your comments as criticism. But even if I had, I welcome criticism as well. I don't think I have a corner on the market of wisdom...and I have often read your comments and felt magnified by having read your thoughts. You're are always welcome in this thread. Your comments help to flesh out the theory in ways that I have not thought of. Thanks for your insights as always and please return.

Wick

[Mikal]

Thanks Wick for your response. I follow your thread faithfully and know that you are gentle, kind and patient with posters attempting to grasp your Theory.
I feel you must be patient to take up this endeavour to understand Light and its place in the Universal System.
Thank you for further expanding for me, it certainly helps me to put things into a perspective with greater clarity.
Concerning free will I have trust and faith it is ours and is about cause and effect and what goes around gets around and comes back to you...I think it is ours up to a possible line where we cannot interfere in the Cosmic Divine Plan but that is just my personal thoughts based on my life experiences.
Now you have given me some details to work with so I'll go off and see if anything more coherent develops....

Regards Mikal

[Wick]

Your comments present some interesting questions, Mikal. As you suggest that we are free (and I agree whole-heartedly), we also must admit that as we move through the universe, we tend to reconfigure the universe for the better or for the worse. There are laws of nature that control certain events. We have no control over those. So if I step off a cliff without any device to suspend my weight and thereby slow my rate of fall, the law of gravity on earth means that I plummet to the earth and perhaps die. I can choose to stay on the cliffs edge or to jump, but once having jumped, I cannot choose the consequences of my actions. The universe chooses the consequences of my actions.

In a certain sense we reconfigure the universe in our immediate vicinity, most especially with respect to the actions of our bodies. We are accountable for those actions because the universe is different based upon what we have done. This is true regardless of the way in which we reconfigure the nearby universe. If we make the nearby universe a better place, then we are accountable for that good. If we make the nearby universe an inhospitable place, then we are accountable for that evil.

Unfortunately, even the best of us move the universe toward entropy. It is almost impossible not to do so.

I think your mention of a divine plan is most interesting. How would the Divine reverse the path of entropy that the universe seems inclined (even destined) to take?

Wick