My mind just wonders why we have to see the speed of light as something. I am reading Lee Smolin's book "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" and not really focusing on a view of the world as he sees it. Instead in my mind, I am blowing apart and light is standing still.
Ideas are the fodder of understanding or chaos. Ideas don't seem to have mass, but they are forceful because of their motion. Crazy ideas can cause real human suffering. Our world is dominated by explosions and we need to understand why. Ideas explode within our mind. The world explodes all around us. Why is an explosion caused ultimately by an idea? Why is a butterfly flapping its wings able to cause a hurricane?
For example, we can see how in Berlin a lecture intended for founding a university of thought can turn into an explosion of negative energy. The story begins with the ideas of David Lynch, who appeared on the Jay Leno show. We know that the galaxies and the universe are blowing apart because scientists have measurements that show us that. They don't have measurements that show me blowing apart. We know that ideas can have the force of monstrous explosions, as for example some ideas such as German invincibility you may wish were blown apart, if they were not so ridiculous. What we are dealing with as human beings is the world not of objects but of processes. Ideas have force, and are at a critical stage in the production of a process of energy release. When ideas are lined up, linked to pent-up kinetic energy, they can form the trigger for motion that can release unbelievable energy and destruction. The secret activities of the Nazis who orchestrated the Second World War is a case in point.
Madame Blatavsky, the theosophist from the 1800's, had ideas that were absorbed by leaders of the Nazi movement, which adopted very old spiritual symbols such as the Swastika. It is my understanding that it was her theosophist publication systems that were to become the basis of the Nazi propaganda machine. The Swastika has become the most hated symbol of all time because of the way it was used to unite German Nazis and the population at large into a misdirected attempt to reshape the world. Germany of the past in the name of the nationasl hero Hermann had been able to withstand the encursions of the Roman empire. Many Germans drew up this past to derive a sense of nationalistic pride. The Nazis used the same information and similar logic to justify a purity of race. These two notions when combined released enormous negative energy upon the European landscape the likes of which had never been seen before. In a very real sense very specific ideas marxshalled kinetic energy to bring about this explosion of violence upon the world.
The universe as process
As Lee demonstrates very aptly our universe is entirely process. The relativistic world of Einstein is a world of process in which events are caused by other events. There are no things in our world, our universe, but there are processes.
What is, is not 'ising' very long. Things don't last, and even rocks are being processed. In this sense, Lee is right to say our universe is like a giant computer. Nothing is, but all is in motion. This whole understanding of events and motion, and we as moving observers of that motion makes sense to me, and reinforces my view that we are being blown apart and that is what gives us our energy. What we see as energy is the energy of our motion being blow apart and the relative motion of events happening at relatively different speeds.
We are exploding networks, but we are not as fast as what we are standing on
We know that when processes of explosion occur the heavier processing goes faster and what is closest to it gets carried along. That is what gives us a sense of gravity. Gravity is the feeling we have of being blow apart, but not so fast as the huge process underneath our feet, the ground we stand on.
Gravity is our feeling of acceleration as the heavier stuff tries to blow past us, but cannot because we are sitting on a boat which we call the earth's crust. The boat is like Noah's ark and is keeping us moving along. It stops us from falling behind and the network that we call ourselves from disintegrating.
Our view of things as objects is replaced, in my universe, by things being processes formed by complex networks of cause and effect and motion. Like streams flowing towards the sea, the simpler networks are carried along at a faster rate while the more complex networks form dams and trap the force within that is blowing the networks apart.
Nuts in a jar
If you shake a jar of nuts, i.e. ' a bunch of processes that have the quality of being nutty', you will find that the larger nuts rise to the top and the smaller nuts sink to the bottom. This seems illogical in the sense that bigger objects would probably have greater weight, if you guessed, and it seems strange that size matters in the process of sinking towards the pull of gravity. The chunkiness of our networks of motion help in keeping up our motion relative to the networks of motion around us. Nuts down deep are not like fish although some nuts contain the same oils as fish.
Within our simple world of motion there are leakages or excessive motion as when we see a volcano spewing forth molten rock, or when we see price inflation spreading from an urban area into provinces around.
The movement of prices and supply and demand reflect the motion of released energy that drives not only our economy but everything that we observe around us. The networks or logic nets that we observe around us are cause and effect networks, but we are correct to be puzzled that gravity is impacted by the complexity of the networks which move along with us.
We survive by sitting on top of complex networks forming ships below us
If the earth is a heavier network than we ourselves, why is it that we are above the network, i.e. sitting on stone and not sinking towards the center of our earth. The reason is because we are sitting on a network that is exploding beneath our feet faster than we can say boo to a goose. We are however exploding at all points and not just from the portion of us that lies beneath our feet.
Thus, it is that we can look sideways at something that is exploding towards us, and yet in relative terms normally does not hit us unless it is of a greater mass.
The interesting thing is observing light which has no apparent mass, and this cause all sorts of confusion in the mind, when you think of light as moving. However, what happens if I am right, and it is us, as a causal network that is in motion. We are not only moving by virtue of our exploding, but we are moving by virtue of our being part of a network organized in some causal manner, such as a tornado, or human beings that have little streams flowing through them and lots of holes and leaks and mini tornadoes.
What is our true speed and energy?
The speed that we are moving is the sum of the speed of our expansion, plus our network speed. These two add up to a speed that is faster or slower than 186,000 miles per second, the speed we gave to light, but since light is not moving, the speed that we possess. Perhaps, someone can then show why we exhibit red and blue shift, as well as all the other colours in between.
Our true speed means that we can alter our position within the universe only by speeding up relative to the positions of other networks within the universe. Speeding up is accomplished by taking the kinetic energy of our exploding and combining it is a way that is additive, such as when we put water in a kettle and heat it up. The speed of one network is channelled into a smaller more direct stream and as a consequence speeds up. Eventually, we see are very fast speed caused by the fact that in our universe no two processes can occupy the same place. One process forces the other ahead of itself repelling it forward and away. If this is translated into the kinetic energy of the moving field, where we have energy in a stream pushing anything ahead of it that would occupy the same place. Such magnetic energy is additive to the energy of our exploding.