Okay. Guys, I think on the verge of figuring something out. It’s not complete, but close. The thing is, I don’t know what I’m figuring out, so it’s a bit confusing, but I’ve been obsessed with this topic for like a year now. Here we go:
∞ x c possibilities
- Change can happen in infinity directions at maximum speed of the speed of light ©. I can move my arm in any direction in 3D space up to the speed of light. Apply this to everything, and that is the amount of possibilities that can occur.
2 options for reality
- Similar to Yoda’s wise words, something happens or it doesn’t. There are only 2 options for reality. Did my arm move up or did it not. That’s it. It either happened or it didn’t happen. Whether you thought about it, there were other options, etc., that doesn’t matter. Something happens or it doesn’t happen. There is no in-between or third option. There is no half-moved or double-moved. There is no other move. Yes or no. Nothing else. A switch is either on or off. It can’t be kinda on, kinda off, or kinda another option.
1 reality
- Only one reality exists. There is only one story line. Once something happens, it happened. It cannot be changed. The thing happened or it didn’t happen, but both didn’t happen at the same time.
So the model In reverse is that there is only one reality that occurs. There is only one physical reality that is occurring. The options that reality cares about are if something happened or didn’t. What can or cannot happen is a combination of ∞ directions with the limit of the speed of light.
Limitations: The limits of possibilities is probably wrong. I know that length and time have a smallest: plank. The shortest distance that makes sense is plank length, while the shortest time that makes sense is plank time. Both of these may set limits on possibilities. If there is a shortest length, is there a shortest angle (direction)? This is something I don’t know. But if there is a shortest angle, then that sets a lower limit to direction. Moreover, since there is a shortest distance and time, that means there is a shortest speed because speed is distance over time. The creates a lower limit to the speed part of possibilities.
Okay, what do you think. Please critique the logic. I am obsessed with this and have to figure it out so I can move on. Also, what am I trying to figure out?? Is this really about time? For the future is endless but with a limit, the present is either something is happening or not, and the past is set forever. What am I trying to figure out‽
inb4: quantum mechanics, Schrodinger’s cat, double-slit experiment, & wave-particle duality
Not a specialist in physics but I still think I can help with some of this.
About plank length/time: this isn’t the “smallest length/time that exists”, it’s just a limit under which we know our commonly used model for distance and time stops making sense. To help you understand this, think about something such as temperature: you probably have an intuition about it (unless of course you are like me and your perception of temperature is completely screwed up), you can feel that some things are cold and some other are hot, and you are probably able to imagine what would it be like to have something “hotter than this” or “colder than that”. From that you can imagine temperature as a property of matter. Now take a blob of gaz (one that is, let’s say, at 20°C). Cut it in half: both of the two halves will be at 20°C. Cut it again: still. Imagine an ideal cutting tool, one that lets you cut extremely thinly without adding heat. When you reach chunks of sizes around a few molecules, this notion of temperature stops making sense: temperature simply only makes sense for stuff that is composed of enough small elements that we can’t consider each of them individually. To say it differently, if we were able to know precisely the state of all the molecules in a room, then the notion of “temperature of the room” would stop making sense. Distance and time are somehow like that: they work fine for most of the stuff we encounter in our everyday life, but we also know they are not a perfect description of the details of what happens.
