Are You Certain - Part Two

On my way back from a lovely long walk in the sunshine I noticed
“NO NO” written on the pavement in front of me in bright blue chalk!
I stood staring at it for a few seconds then carried on down the path where I noticed another ‘message’ in the same bright blue chalk.

It wasn’t in words it was a double arrow pointing back along the path. I’m not sure why but I returned to the previous message to find it transformed by relativity into “ON ON”.

I mused on this for a short while and returned home. I started to type the question “NO odd, why?” and somehow it answered itself – Noddy :O)
So it was that Noddy was linked to Are You Certain?

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“Can you tell us about what TIME is Big Ears?”
“I’m afraid I’m not at liberty to do so. You had better ask your teacher.” said Mr Spock.
So Noddy did.

“Well, it’s a dimension.” replied Mr Science.
“Not full of monsters and ghosts like Dr Who?” asked Noddy affecting a look of alarm. The class laughed.
“A dimension is simply an aid to measurement Noddy. For the sake of convenience we assume three physical dimensions, length, breadth and height. Time is a considered as a fourth dimension even though it is not physical and apparently relative.”
“What’s relative mean.” someone asked.
“Well, it means it is related, dependent, on something else.
Like what‘s the best sweet depends on who you ask, what time is it depends who you ask and where they live.”
“I get it” said Noddy “It depends what your watch says.”
The class laughed.
“Indeed, you’re quite right Noddy, for the sake of convenience we usually set our watches according to the agreed time in out current time-zone. Err, yes, we set our watches by the TV.”
“Can you travel through time?” asked Noddy.
“Well, some people think so but I think it is unlikely, but, you can travel into the past by watching old newsreel footage.”
“Yes, but that’s not the same as really going back into the past, is it sir?”
“No, it’s not Noddy. Perhaps you should have a word with Mr Theory.”

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“Travel in time, eh? Of course you can. You just need to travel fast enough.
Get yourself in a super fast rocket and you‘re relatively travelling through time”
“Relatively, do you mean it depends on something? Said Noddy
“Well, yes, it depends on the speed of the thing you’re travelling in relative to the speed of the thing you’re travelling from.” said Mr Theory.
“Sounds a bit complicated.” said Noddy.
“Can you go into the past and to the future?” asked Noddy
“Well, not as such, it’s relative, time passes faster or slower for you than it does for somebody you left behind.”
“So it’s not really time travel it just makes my watch run wrong then?”
“No, no, if say you’re travelling much faster than your friend, if you travel long enough you could come home and find him much older than you.”
“Oh.” said Noddy, disappointed and unconvinced.

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Noddy asked Mickey Mouse about time and Mickey being magical said
“Time doesn’t exist Noddy. It’s always NOW!”
“What about yesterday and tomorrow then?”
“Well tomorrow will be NOW when today is yesterday.” said Mickey

He went on to explain that time was simply a contrivance, a means to measure change. Once upon a time it was measured by burning candles, maybe an inch an hour, but now it was measured by increasingly more complicated methods like the vibrations of crystals in digital watches.

You can’t go back to the past because it doesn’t exist.
You can’t go into the future because that doesn’t exist either.
There is only NOW.

Noddy pointed out that Mr Theory had said you can travel through time.
Mickey pointed out that Mr Theory believed a lot of silly things because he imagined things and never tried to prove them.

He explained that it is not impossible that someone could fly away to the stars and back and return looking younger than, say, his twin brother
but that would simply indicate that his aging process had slowed down. Much the same as things stay fresh longer in a fridge, but you don't call it time travel it's simply that many things naturally slow down when it's cold... maybe even watches :O)

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Noddy decided to consult an Expert.

“Nah, ya can’t take any notice of magic mice, they’re pan dimensional, inside the box and outside at the same time." Said the Time Lord.

"What you need Noddy is a TARDIS*. Well, not just one but an almost infinite array of them all connected together in a matrix.
The outside is always the same but the inside depends on what’s in it.
Anything that travels through a Tardis is affected by the relative size and shape of the inside - but the outside is always unaffected, Geddit?”

Noddy thought for a while then said “I think I can see a part of it.
If a particle passes from one Tardis to the next it can seem to speed up or slow down because even though the particle is still travelling at the same speed the inside might be bigger or smaller.”

“Yeah, well that’s a good start Noddy.
Now if the inside is relatively smaller then it passes to the next Tardis faster, so from the view outside the Tardis’ it is moving faster from ‘box’ to box (from Tardis to Tardis).

The size of the inside of the box relies on various thing so it’s relative to its position and content but the outside never changes.

A’course your viewpoint is stuck in the box and so are all your measuring devices so everything is relative and depends ON which box you’re in.”

"Oh." said Noddy.
He thought for a bit and then added “You don’t really know do you?”

“Well, ya could put it like that but it’s intuitive for us Time Lords.
If you want to know the definitive answer you’ll have to ask God!”

* It has only just dawned on me that some may not know what a TARDIS is...
well, the only known remaining TARDIS is a box, a telephone box, well, it looks like one from the outside.
However, TARDIS is an acronym for 'Time and Relative Dimensions In Space' and Dr WHO uses it to travel in and though these dimensions.
The inside of the box bears no relation to the outside, other than it IS inside the outside :O)
The upshot of this is the inside is much bigger than the outside and has rooms and corridors.

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“God, I hope you don’t mind me asking but can you tell me about TIME?” said Noddy.

“Why do you ask, Noddy?” I said.

Noddy thought for quite a long time and then he said “I thought I wanted to know but I realise that it’s not important, that the important question isn’t ‘How does my world work?’ but what is my purpose in it? I’m just an entertainment in your story aren’t I?”

“Much more than that Noddy. You’re an education. You have helped some other characters realise that most of the things they thought were certain aren’t certain at all.
That they have a fair amount of free will and their part in the story can be as important as they want it to be!”

“Yes, but it’s hard work god, I’m tired, have I done well?
You know my dream – can I have it?”

“You have done wonderfully well and you do deserve to live happily ever after, Noddy!”

And so it was that Noddy lived happily ever after in Toyland.

“Now, if only my God will be as kind to me!” I thought.

The End?

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Of course not!

"You didn't really expect to get away with the Noddy manoeuvre did you? Surely you realised you were the mouse?"

"Not really a manoeuvre more of a hint." I replied.

"Okay, I'll tell you one Absolute Truth as a reward for your persistence" He said.

"What's life about?" I said grabbing my chance.

"Well, that's a simple one: many people have made the mistake of thinking that it's finding out more about ME when it's simply about discovering more about YOURSELVES!"

"The Time Lord was almost correct" He continued.
"The TARDISes, the magic boxes, aren't telephone boxes but brain boxes. Inside is the mind which is as big or as small as its contents.
Each mind has a different viewpoint but they are all part of one gigantic..."

"Of course!" I interrupted excitedly.
"We all live in our own seperate Universe in one dimension but yet
we share the same Universe in another!
Who are You, God, Buddha...?"

"So, you want to put me in a box too?" He laughed.
"You've had your question, now off you go."

And so I did.

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Notes.

Of course we are so used to thinking of time as a measure that we think of time as ALLOWING things to change!
In reality things change and we call that change time.

Under normal circumstances, from observation we can usually, eventually, predict how many times something which changes very fast will have changed while the other change we are predicting will complete.
We could choose to measure it by , say, heartbeats. However, as we all know most things are not perfectly constant and so for precision we search for ever faster, more reliable cycles as ticks for our clocks.

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I intended to argue that much of modern scientific theory is bunk because they are trying to understand the world using false premises and since the data doesn’t fit their theories they simply invent ever more unlikely “dark-this or dark-that” or blame singularities etc. to try and explain why it doesn't fits :O)

I will instead argue that they are simply wrong.

Modern scientists don't seem to realise that they are -
stood BETWEEN the LIGHT and WHATEVER they EXAMINE...
and so most of the time they are simply learning more about the intricasies of their own shadows

Relativity has a fundamental misunderstanding of time.
Time is a MEASUREMENT OF CHANGE against the constant clock tick of the cosmic computer.

Relativity only explains why things look different depending on your viewpoint.

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Notes For A Modern Aether
I am astounded to find that in 1704 Sir Isaac Newton postulated an Aether (a medium for transmitting vibrations faster than light) which puts light into “Fits of easy Reflection and easy Transmission” as an explanation of refraction and diffraction.

The Aether has a long history after that in which it waxes and wanes in scientific popularity but was assumed to be fluid like (I expect it’s because it’s so easy to think of the sea when you imagine waves) and transmit light as a longitudinal wave. Eventually it was pointed out that it was more likely to be a transverse wave and things looked up for the aether concept until Maxwell.

Maxwell showed that light was an electromagnetic wave which needed matter to propagate and it must always travel at the constant speed, C, in a vacuum.

However, we know that light can travel through empty space where there is no matter.
Yet, if there were an aether it seemed that the mechanical qualities would have to support the high frequencies of light waves. That it had to be massless and without viscosity, otherwise it would visibly affect the orbits of planets and it should be completely transparent, non-dispersive, incompressible, and continuous at a very small scale.

Now my theory gets around some of these problem by having the Aether be an array of ‘bags’ (a bit like bubbles) which pass light as Newton imagined by vibration, so long as the bag is empty.
Hence C is the speed of a lightwave rippling through the array of bags and not inside the bags themselves.

If, however, a bag has matter inside it then the particle aspect of light is evident WITHIN the bag.
Now these bags ARE compressible and that is exactly what mass in the bags does, it causes the bags to deform, and this deformation is what we call gravity.
Because we are in the bags ourselves we don’t notice the deformation directly as it deforms all our rulers to. But we do notice the effects of these deformations in the movement of objects and the fact that it requires ever increasing amounts of energy to propel an object as it approaches C.

NB Since the Michelson Morely experiments used the interference of light to try and detect the aether it could not hope to succeed.

After my chat with Dr Who I've decided that the Aether IS incompressible and that it is simply that the inside of the bags warp and curve space, while the outside is unaffected!

I've also decided that there is none blinder than those who DO NOT WANT TO SEE! So I'm wasting my TIME trying to show them where they went wrong.