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Six - PENDULUM UNIVERSES

  If the Primal Cause of everything had a beginning as we know it,
then what made It?
If existence is infinite without beginning or end,
then existence either is or is not.
If it is not, we are not actually here.
If it is, why is it?
Either way, we can enjoy the illusion.  

Apparently, we exist in time-type one (duration), remember time type-two (the sequential), measure time-type four (the illusion of relative movement), are slaves to time-type five (the submicroscopic), and feel time-type six (the subjective). All of the foregoing are variable except duration, and duration just IS. Sequential time passes according to the dictates of subjective time and is seldom the same. The illusion of relative movement varies with velocity as does submicroscopic time. And subjective time varies in the rate of its passage according to what is being experienced and who is experiencing it.

Real time is different. We see it in memory and in projections of possible futures, but we never actually see it. What we actually see is sequential time which is a consequence of real time. I call real time "real" because it is perceived as the closest thing we have to a time with a constant rate of flow. I believe real time is the nether flow into the fourth dimension, and the fourth dimension is like the time line.

The nether flow does not change appreciably with low vorticle velocity because it must move at a speed which will create nearly constant centrifugal force. The centrifugal force varies slowly as duration continues because the nether pressure slowly drops. But we do not live long enough to notice this drop in pressure. What we would be able to notice is masked by the slowing of the other time-types which are consequences of real time.

If the real time dimension is where nether goes, this dimension could be considered a time line along which we move. Behind us is the nether "exhaust" of our passing.

As an analogy, think of our three-dimensional (3D) universe as if it were a two-dimensional plane. Two-dimensional beings live in this two-dimensional plane. The two-dimensional (2D) plane is moving along a time line which is a third dimension that the 2D inhabitants cannot see. The nether from the 2D universe exhausts into this third dimension which is analogous to our fourth dimension.

The nether exhausts at more than lightspeed through a nearly infinite number of vorticles, to become a nearly infinite number of nether trails which weave among one another according to the continuing motion of the vorticles of the 2D universe. Exhausting from our 3D universe, they would be a record of our passage through time just as contrails are a record of an aircraft's passage through our atmosphere.

The 2D beings in the 2D universe cannot see the third dimension. In our 3D universe, we cannot see the fourth dimension. We can only see our three dimensions and note that the nether disappears into the nothing place.

Universes Moving Through Time

Perhaps the fourth dimension is not a form of time at all, but it acts like a form of time. We cannot see it, it is at right angles to our three spatial dimensions, and it remains as constant as possible in this universe of change. And now, we move on to a separate but related subject.

The grandfather clock is an impressive time-piece from an age past. When properly adjusted, it keeps such perfect time that it can favorably compete with our digital clocks. And for those who can afford one, the grandfather clock is still quite popular.

The principle of the old clock is the pendulum. A pendulum is a vertical rod, suspended at the top with a weight at the bottom. The top of the rod is made to allow the weight at the bottom to swing from side to side. The hypnotic swinging of the pendulum with the accompanying tick-tock is a large part of the charm of the grandfather clock.

Each movement of the pendulum, each journey of the weight from one side to the other, releases a spring-driven wheel to turn one notch which causes the hands of the clock to move a short distance. The wheel is driven by a clockspring which must be wound periodically, and the wheel exerts enough pressure on the pendulum to keep it swinging. Otherwise, friction would cause the pendulum to slow and the clock would eventually stop.

The clock must be started for it to function. Starting the pendulum means to move its weight to one side and to let it fall. When the weight "falls," the rod guides it so that it falls sideways. Gravity provides the necessary force for it to arrive at the center of its travel which means that the rod is pointing straight down. Momentum causes it to move past the center and upward again to arrive on the other side in a position that is the mirror image of its first position. Gravity stops it, it pauses, and then swings back past the center again to arrive once more at its first position. And this cycle is repeated until the clockspring once more requires winding. Each swing of the pendulum is displaced in time from the one before it and from the one behind it.

The old mechanical wristwatches use a spring for power as does the grandfather clock. To take the place of a pendulum, there is a flywheel with a hairspring attached to it. When the watch spring is not wound, the watch stops and the flywheel is centered without tension on the hairspring. When the watch spring is wound, the little flywheel quickly moves to the most extreme travel allowed by the hairspring, a spring so small that it resembles a human hair. The hairspring and pressure from the watch spring pushing on another wheel then drive the flywheel to its center position and past it to an opposite extreme position. From this opposite position, the flywheel is driven back to its first extreme position and the cycle continues. The flywheel and hairspring act, for the watch, just as the pendulum and gravity act for the clock.

The newer wristwatches use a crystal that is in the shape of a tiny, thin wafer which bends when electricity moves through it. The bending is resisted by the tensile and compressive mechanical stresses in the wafer, and the wafer moves back to be bent into the opposite curvature. The bending of the wafer causes the electric current to vary as it passes through, and to vary in a cyclic manner so that the wafer acts like a small pendulum.

In each of the foregoing cases, we see that the governed cyclic rate of the "time keeper," whether a pendulum or a tiny substitute, is the key to keeping the time rate of the time-piece constant.

There is always an imbalance which is the driving force to make a time-piece function. Without the imbalances, the universe itself cannot exist. There is the major imbalance between nether pressure and the vacuum which causes the inflow of nether into a vorticle and ultimately results in gravity, static charge, magnetism, light, and the lesser phenomena. Consequential lesser imbalances exist such as differences in the "nobility" of metals which lead to electrolytic phenomena, differences in concentrations of sodium and potassium which can lead to muscular contraction, or temperature differences which can lead to weather patterns. On the human social level, differences in income lead to increased ambitions, and the desire we call love leads to courtship, marriage, and children. Everything here, and all activities, are based upon imbalanced conditions.

If our universe were formed from nothing along with at least one "negative" universe, and if there were a fourth-dimensional (time) separation between our "positive" and the following "negative" universe, we might consider the negative universe to be like the opposite side of the pendulum's swing which follows after the initial fall of the weight. If a positive universe caused an imbalance as is found when one starts a pendulum, then a negative universe would follow, which would cause another imbalance leading to another positive universe. Without friction or its equivalent, the universes would continue be borne in an infinite progression of alternating positives and negatives.

Perhaps the initial imbalance that started all this was a beginning, or perhaps there never was a beginning and there never will be an end. Perhaps we live in a universe that is one side of the swing of a frictionless "pendulum" which swings back and forth eternally. If so, there would be a series of universes forever within the eternal NOW, having no beginning and no end, all formed from nothing and with a total of nothing.

 

But what is nothing? From the Kabbalah comes the following:

The Eternal is the intensest form of existence,
pure being unlimited by form or reaction;
but it is existence of another type than that to which we are accustomed,
and therefore it appears to us as non-existence because
it conforms to none of the requirements we are accustomed to think of
as determining existence.
 

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