If we accept that time is a fabric, we might want to determine what time looks like.
In every aspect below, please insert "it would appear to be" since when applying actual math to this later, I will certainly determine that everything I am writing is nonsensical and wrong. Also, it is important to note that everything in here has probably be "plumbed (because you do plump time)" before and certainly if everything has already happened and we are merely a projection even I have done it already. Anyone wanting to point out all the answers in physics and math that have already addressed these is welcome to assist in this regard.
I am not attempting to take religion out of the equation here. While we can explain things, the closer we get to the answers the more surreal things get and the easier it is to plug in God and religion into the equation. A hologram universe where everything happens at once is a lot harder to explain than a universe where the universe expands, but both fall apart logically as one asks the basic questions "What happened before the big bang" or "If everything has already happened at once and we are a mere projection, who set everything up to happen at once and who is the projection for and why?" There are a thousand permutations to the question and each leads to conclusions that make the book of Mormon look original, logical, linear and honest by comparison (No offense to the Mormons who make as much sense as anyone else, merely a nod to the parody Broadway musical).
Over time, summing or integrating time (the application of infinitely thing layers of time to one another) would generate some sort of thick fabric. Alternatively, what if it is more wavelike, absorbing everyting that has already happened and "burning it", so there is no layer afterwards.
It is possible that everything has happened at once, everything continues to be there, happening at once. In this case, time is like a flashlight, illuminating time as it moves forward. It is less a material than a projector from our perspective. The idea of time as a wave is not new, so this is merely applying the idea of time to a universe where everything has already happened. In this case everything is not being etched in time, everything is merely being iluminated by time or perhaps raised from one "sea level" to another where it can be observed. In this case we are being carried along on this wave in terms of what we call "consciousness".
Anyway, we will examine these issues over time, quite ironically. First let's make a list of what to look at:
1) The texture of time. What does time feel like. It must have some qualities. Perhaps the better question is "if everything has happened at once and is just sitting there waiting for time to organize it" what does the texture of everything look like. Perhaps in the examination of time we are looking at the window to everything and forgetting that if we can but go out and play in the everything outside we would be somewhere more "fun". It raises the question of what we are and why we are what we are. Is natural selection really nothing more than a way of opening a window into time and if so, why make such successful bugs that care less of time than we do?
2) The thickness of time.
a) Is it instantaneous, is it a flame burning or a wave raising and dropping or is it a light (wave and particle properties) moving over existence. Can we turn the flame back and see everything in reverse. Can we turn the light on and off. Is it like some tidle wave moving through some form of space (which is everything that has ever happened).
b) is it a series of layers that possibly can be peeled back. To use the fabric analysis are we painting over and over again the same fabric, hiding masterpieces under current art or perhaps events are absorbed, so that there is a huge accumulation of gunk-history within an absorbant time material.
c) is it an observance of intelligence. I.E. are we made in the image of some outside observer so that what makes us "godlike" is our ability to observe what the maker observes. If this were the case, is time the "light" reflecting off of everything that has ever happened?
3) The manipulative qualities of time. If time is any of the things set out above, then it would be manipulated, potentially. We know we can speed up and slow down time from a relativity standpoint (move faster, your time slows down relative to my time which is me sitting still writing). There is clearly a clue in this that answers some of the questions. Note that while you can slow down your relative time, you cannot change the time we both have and when we sit down together after your "run" and my cup of coffee, we find ourselves back in the same time again which indicates something. You left my time for a while and now come back younger than me in our common time. This is unfair, but it also says something about our ability to manipulate either time or our place in time.
4) How many times are there? Note that everything has already happened. If you move faster are you moving in another time that is perhaps parallel or slightly ahead of my time? Are there times in different "universes" where different things have happened? If I turn left instead of right, that has always happened in this "universe". In fact, I have already completed this series of blogs and you have already read them (or decided not to read them) in this universe. It is predesination which makes perfect sense if we accept Einstein's view (the only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at once) and the view that we are in a hologram universe (where everything has already happened and we are merely the projection of that) and the idea in this essay (that time is some sort of material on which the hologram is based which is already inherent in the hologram). If we use the "expanding universe model" where the hologram is getting bigger like some bubble (we should ask why it is distorted); we should wonder if there are not other bubbles out there illuminating different times or perhaps even illuminating ours in other direction (backwards is "easy" to envision, but what if the universe was illuminated sideways)?
5) What is the strength of time. If you go faster and are younger, are you doing something like stretching time? If you stretch it, does it stay stretched? I'd say the answer is yes, otherwise, you would be younger for a moment and then gradually snap back to my age. The universe is not fair, so perhaps it can be stretched and doesn't snap back. Time is no resilient.
Can you tear it, block it out, destroy it, create it?
6) If people have lived past lives, see in the past or see into the future, what are they doing? If we accept that everything has already happened and time is just a way of seeing it (call it a layer of the hologram, a reflection of the hologram, etc but is is some sore of "fabric" on which events which have all happened are observable) then what are the prophets or soothsayers (forsooth) doing? They are somehow seeing something in the hologram that has happened before. Perhaps there is some amusement park penny arcade where you can move from projector to projector seeing into different videos of time as the flip one to the other in response to the turning of a crank. Perhaps we are surfers on some wave time, but all the other waves, every instant there ever was or will be are washing around us, which is perhaps self evident since everything has happened already and time is merely the way in which it doesn't all happen at once.
7) Does time have features like temperature. If it goes faster when it is "heated" can we slow it down to make it easier to observe by taking away the heat and what is the heat? It is suggested that moving faster slows one time down relative to another. This is counter-intuitive to our universe (which is a good sign since Einstein predicted a counter intuitive universe much to the chagrin of the ghost of Euclid). If moving fast "cools time" can we somehow stop and thereby see everything happening at once? Where is the brake, where is the station to get off this train? Where is the beach on which to plant our feet so the waves move by us? Is it the center of the universe? If we went to the very center and everything was moving outward relative to us, would we be stopped. Perhaps at the very edge, where nothing is expanded yet?
8) If we see the future in dreams (See the story of joseph as an example, but dream interpretation in general) what happens in dreams that allow us to see time (past and future?). This raises the question of what different ways can time be examined using senses that we already possess. If there is a unity of the universe, Gravity, Time, Space, (Matter and Energy being much of space) all being related or convertible one to the other, Time as a platform for the diplay of the other items and our ablity to see both forward and back to some small extent being accepted as a possibility (or looking off of time to see what is already there); what is it that we do in dreams that allows us, or at least some of us, to step off of the wave and see what lies about us.
This is a work in progress, why not let me know what other features we should examine?
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