My Theory of Everything
This is going to be sort of a draft / post compost heap. I’m unsure as to exactly what this is going to turn into, but it will hold a collection of my thoughts as relating to the universe, time, and pretty much everything.
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Something is wrong here.
There is everything. This statement needs clarification. For myself, we exist in a state parallel to many other states of being. For example, there is one ‘universe’ that contains me in my present situation — sitting at a computer, typing to nobody. However, there is a ‘parallel universe’ where I am, let’s say, outside playing rugby. And another where I am eating, or sleeping, so on and so forth. In this way, there is everything — all at once.
What is making up this ‘everything’? Energy. Einstein had it right: E=MC^2. Energy is mass (times the speed of light squared). Energy is mass. Massless particles always travel at (or faster than) the speed of light. A particle which has no rest mass can contribute to the total mass of a group of massless particles, as its momentum will be canceled by another particle. This, in turn, causes a contribution to the group’s mass, due to the particle’s energy. Odd concept, certainly, but true. The things we experience in our day to day lives — brick walls, lightbulbs, computers, everything — are merely groups of massless particles that have somehow synchronized to the point where we experience them as objects of mass.
On a different note, what is life? Life is a relative term – useless when defined biologically. People, plants, animals, sure — but what of a rock? That starts its life as a chip off a cliff. Tumbles down a mountainside. Erodes. Returns to the dust from whence it came. How can one define what ‘life’ is, when each object that we’ve ever experienced has gone through it’s own (life) cycle? What is the threshold on life? Entropy — a tending towards disorder. Thus, it stands to reason that order defines life. To an extent.
Time is defined as the ‘indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.’
My dinner just arrived. More on this later.