Like Clockwork

Known unto God…

The future is formed out of constantly developing, waving probabilities[i]. It is not a place on the 4-D Universe graph you can get to in a machine. It doesn’t exist; it isn’t there; it hasn’t happened yet.

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.  Acts 15:18

From the beginning of the world, God has a plan. He knows what He will do. Daily He works toward His goal[ii]. Jesus was working toward that goal too. Jesus said that he did what he saw the Father doing[iii]. Humans may also work against God and His plan, but that doesn’t stop God from working toward His goal.

The road toward the goal is paved
with a set of constantly developing, waving probabilities.

Probability is the key word. The daily works of God “collapse the wavefunctions[v]” of probabilities onto each probability that progresses His plan. Whatever things human choices may throw into the way to divert God’s plan, God will daily move toward His goal. As we live and pray daily, “Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done,” we are paving the road toward God’s goal out of the material of today’s probabilities.

The six day creation story illustrates God building the mechanism of the Universe. At the end of the sixth day all the parts are in place. On the seventh day, God, like a clockmaker winding his clock for the first time, releases the mechanism of His creation. He rests while he enjoys watching every sub-atomic movement producing larger and larger movements as the clockwork of the Universe begins unwinding.

Unlike the predictability of clockwork mechanisms, the Universe incorporates free will. Human choices affect outcomes. Maybe animal choices affect outcomes. Maybe spirit beings affect outcomes. All of these effects produce the constantly developing wavefunction of probabilities that God uses as materials to pave the road toward His goal.

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world. The Universal Creator daily finds a way toward His goal among the constantly developing probabilities. He invites us to join Him in that work as Jesus did[iv].

That takes faith. That is faith.

[i] Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness; Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2011, p. 79, p. 135

[ii] Isaiah 46:9-10  Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,  ¹⁰ Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

[iii] John 5:19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

[iv] John 14:12  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

[v] Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness; Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2011, p. 85

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A Point of Life -A Philosophical Physics Riddle

Here is a riddle I have composed after many months of a certain line of contemplation.

A Point of Life -The Riddle

by Susan Ector Ward

I occupy a point.

The point is a location on a particular line.

The line is located on a particular plane.

Within the plane, I am occupying a location on an infinite number of other lines.

The location of my point is claimed by an infinite number of other planes each of which incorporates an infinite number of other lines whose path also claims my point.

My point is the center of an infinite sphere.

I may move in any direction along any of the infinite number of lines occupied by my point.

Successively and momentarily as I move, I will be occupying one of an infinite number of other points each one not only located on the line along which I move but also located on an infinite number of other lines and also located on an infinite number of other planes, few of which are occupied by the point at which I began.

As I move, each point whose location I occupy becomes the center of a new infinite sphere.

I may change my direction by choosing to move along any of the infinite lines whose path
claims the point of my new location.

As I move, I find that I have influenced an infinite number of spheres whose center I have occupied.

If I move backward to retrace my path, though I will again pass through the center of every one of the infinite spheres whose center I had occupied before, I cannot influence any sphere in the same way I had influenced it before because I have been influenced by each of the infinite spheres along my path.  The fact of my movement has changed me.  Though I go back, neither I nor my point can ever be the same as we once were.

Who am I?

Image credit
http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/

Finished guessing?  The answer here.

The Time Axis and a 4-D Universe

My friend Dave says he manipulates events captured in time every day.  Dave is a video editor, among other things. He views the video on a screen with a timeline below it. He can move to any particular frame by clicking the timeline. Then he can edit out unwanted parts.

A photo, like a single frame of a movie, is a representation of a 3-D event captured on a 2-D surface in an instant of time. Movies capture images of the 3-D universe on 2-D surfaces represented on a timeline. Videos are a way to describe Time.

I have thought that Time was a dimension, one of four: length, height, depth, and time. Given a precise moment in time any point in the physical universe can be mapped by its coordinates in relation to lines designated x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis. Length is a line we express as parallel to an x-axis. Height, similarly, is a line parallel to a y-axis. Depth may be expressed as a line parallel to a z-axis, where the axes x, y, and z are perpendicular to one another and intersecting in a common point. The intersection creates three planes, plane xy, plane yz, and plane xz. Any 3-D figure touches each of these three planes. However, can Time be expressed by such a plane?

Can a line pass through all three planes? Yes, I think so, but I need a model to be sure.

If it could, then such a line could represent Time, and Time could be expressed as a plane such as; plane xt, or yt or zt. If so, Time would be understood as a dimension, as are length, height and depth.

Right now I’m wondering if the point of origin (0,0,0) is the only available point at which a single line may pass through all three planes. If it is, could Time be expressed as infinite points of origin along a single axis, a t-axis? I don’t think so because that would require constantly generated new points of origin. Wouldn’t that seem to disrupt the continuity of the timeline and all things 3-D?

Wait a minute.

We know that points on a line do not require space between them. Isn’t that a definition of infinity? With no space between points on the t-axis, wouldn’t the 3-D universe move smoothly along a timeline? -Even though all things 3-D may constantly be moving in relation to all other things 3-D.

Any movement in 3-D might be “captured” as in a single frame of a video. The “capture” is imaginary, of course, since Time, in the words of Josh Garrels‘ song, “keeps on slipping into the future.”

Can Time ever be expressed by a 2-D plane? If not, then Time incorporates all of the 3-D universe upon each infinitely small point of time and propagates it on to the next infinitely small point on the timeline.

Does this mean that the 3-D universe is newly propagated at each infinitely small movement along the timeline?

Is this not exactly what has been discovered in Quantum Physics? -What Einstein said he’d spent 100 times more thought on than his theories of Relativity, yet he died without disproving? Isn’t this the quantum theory that Niels Bohr and others used to develop the foundation of all modern technology that runs 1/3 of our economy today? What?! Yes to all!

Does this Theory of Time affect my faith? Yes and no.

No, in that I continue in the same faith I had before this understanding came.
Yes, in that miracles no longer seem so far away, and Jesus can heal Schrodinger’s cat.

If you enjoy this kind of thinking, you may enjoy Quantum Enigma, Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner published by Oxford University Press, 2011.
Disclaimer: Rosenblum and Kuttner are not responsible for my theory of Time espoused above. They only opened my eyes to what traditionally only physicists have known.

ASIDE:  A Point on Time Travel

Do you really think we can ever gather up all those points on the 3-D universe graph to reproduce any one point on the timeline of the past? If we could, it would only be one “snapshot”. Time travel remains a wonderful imagination for science fiction.  -Sorry, Albert.

Rosemary -A Poem

Rosemary

Earth is raped

And forced to bring forth

Not after its kind,

Like Rosemary’s Baby

Half fiend and half man.

Creation groans in labor

Caught in the evil embrace

Writhing and crying and struggling

To burst free

From the rhythmic thrusts

Of the rapist.

The anguish in this poem is for the corrupting of nature through genetic modifications and the poisons created to kill.

The Edge of the Hedge -A Poem

I have always been inside the hedge
Protected, safe and guarded.
Yet as I run non-stop and blindly
Each step just reaches past the edge.
I may by chance discover
Rock or soil or even watery depth
Unseen to me
Below each falling foot.
Onward moving, always dashing,
Ever within, yet ever
On the edge.

The Wife and the Whore -a poem

How she loves him

She gently strokes his work worn brow

He calls and she comes

He asks and she gives

Her gaze intuits his desire

For his comfort she draws him in

to her warm and beating breast.

 

How he loves her

Ivory tower his alone

Porcelain delicate, smooth as glass

A treasure fought for

A prize attained

He sets her high

Atop his cluttered trophy shelf.

 

Author’s comment:

A man may have the wife of the first stanza and yet never realize the gift and never give her the honor she is due. He may imagine a porcelain prize, his idol on a shelf. She is not a real woman. She is not warm, but cold as glass. Her image blocks his view of the real woman stroking his brow. To him glass is the wife he believes he deserves. This warm woman is the whore he uses.

A woman too may have her masculine prize on the shelf and not see the gift in her arms.

Time and the Grand Unified Theory

Elusive intrigue of time travel may have blinded us from the answer to the question in plain sight.

The x, y and z axes contained in Time

The 3D universe is infinite edges contained within the ever constant acceleration of Time.  Time is the ultimate boundary.  Not even God will break its boundary.  Time moves at a constant never-changing rate, neither changing in direction nor changing in acceleration.

Ever Constant Acceleration of Time

All heaven and earth; that is, all spiritual and physical universes, each with its own infinite-ness, are yet contained within the ever constant acceleration of Time, like a tunnel with infinite walls.

All movement is necessarily contained within Time.  Without Time there can be no movement; neither of physical objects, nor of energy, nor of thought, nor even of spirit.  If Time could stop, all would freeze in immediate stasis, the definition of ultimate death, even for God.  Time cannot stop because God cannot stop.

There has never been a time without Time.  Had Time ever not existed, it would not exist now because change requires motion, and Time is required for a change from a state of “no Time” to a state of “Time”.

Time in the Theory of Everything

Einstein said Time can bend.  I don’t know about that, but maybe Time has come for The Grand Unified Theory to be discovered.  Make Time the constant, and I predict that the equation can be balanced.

But who am I?  I’m no physicist; I’m just an apologist.

Time/Eternity

What if Time is the medium of Eternity?

As water is the medium of the ocean

And all sea creatures move through water;

As air is the medium of the atmosphere

And all surface creatures move within air;

So Time is the medium of Eternity

And all Heaven and Earth move through and within Time.

The Bird and The Fish by Geninne Ziatkis, http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/search?q=bird%2C+fish

 

Spoiler to A Point of Life, The Riddle

Clues are underlined, and the spoiler is at the bottom.

A Point of Life -The Riddle
by Susan Ector Ward

I occupy a point.

The point is a location on a particular line.

The line is located on a particular plane.

Within the plane, I am occupying a location on an infinite number of other lines.

The location of my point is claimed by an infinite number of other planes each of which incorporates an infinite number of other lines whose path also claims my point.

Image credit
http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/

My point is the center of an infinite sphere.

I may move in any direction along any of the infinite number of lines occupied by my point.

Successively and momentarily as I move, I will be occupying one of an infinite number of other points each one not only located on the line along which I move but also located on an infinite number of other lines and also located on an infinite number of other planes, few of which are occupied by the point at which I began.

As I move, each point whose location I occupy becomes the center of a new infinite sphere.

I may change my direction by choosing to move along any of the infinite lines whose path claims the point of my new location.

As I move, I find that I have influenced an infinite number of spheres whose center I have occupied.

If I move backward to retrace my path, though I will again pass through the center of every one of the infinite spheres whose center I had occupied before, I cannot influence any sphere in the same way I had influenced it before because I have been influenced by each of the infinite spheres along my path.  The fact of my movement has changed me.  Though I go back, neither I nor my point can ever be the same as we once were.

Who am I?
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I am a living soul.

A Present Moment of Reality

The movement in Time
of the collective consciousness
constantly creates reality
in the ever changing present moment.

The past is gone.
Yet, the past has left evidence
that it was present.

The future hasn’t happened yet;
it doesn’t exist.
It’s still in the planning stage.

 

definition: collective consciousness -the sum of every individual awareness of every conscious being