Creations, Ages, Space and Time Tavel
There were two ages (cycles) and one to come.
I say that insecure because some things I’ve got contradict evidences I’ve gathered scientifically. I’ll sound crazy, but there is a kind of mess, so, why not - speculate; for fun or discussion’s sake, perhaps.
So - hypothetically and without any proof I can say - there were three ages already and fourth to come. It’s pure speculation and not only a religious but scientific heresy too. Don’t take me seriously there, that means - I’m ready to discuss it. It's a theory made of glass and maybe is a good idea not to touch it.
This planet is older than 7000 years as some Christians claim but four point seven millions of years old.
It is the second earth age we live in now, the second creation of life, which is about 7000 years old.
Cryptically speaking Earth was re'shiyth bara' and bad guys played the game “we are the gods”, Earth become tohuw bohuw, and we live in the second creation or precisely - second earth age.
I couldn’t figure it out why Christians place Jeremiah 4:22-27 in more recent history instead at the end of first age. Okay, I must admit, this complicates few things, and if people cannot comprehend millions of something (money they can!) how to expect.
Yes, that’s exactly what has been surprising me over and over. Christians read Genesis alone and miraculously overlook Isaiah 45:18.
My “speculative” story place one stage more between - let’s say - “clear” Earth was populated with autochthonic inhabitants (flora and fauna) and “corruption” and then infestation comes as separate “stage” in the from of presence and involvement of our “beloved” “gods”.
One fact gives credibility to such theory. Scientist has tracked down migration of our specie (humans) from Africa, where whole story started - okay? But there comes the puzzle - The gap of artifacts and proofs from all over the world from circa 13500 to some 7500 years B C. Puff! - Lot of evidences of migrations and then - nothing! Then miraculously presence of the humans started again. The puzzle, isn’t it?
Huh, I’ll stop here.
I am always ready - to learn and apply new ideas, what is definitely NOT a characteristic of many today who sit in their trenches defending own castles of innocence, pride and self pedestaling, castles filled with rooms full of mirrors. Their mountain castles are made of porcelain and it doesn’t matter what damage some intruder could inflict, in their fighting against windmills and with their own demons as allies, believe me, they will break their walls by themselves, sometimes involuntarily.
It looks more like harvesting, what isn’t a static but very dynamic endeavor, where archived knowledge communicates with contemporary collected data performing a miracle of connecting the dots and layering afterwards upon knowledge already gained (but previously refreshed as an random access memory in computers).
Think of the growers who have thousands of melons to worry about. They have to harvest the crop with almost military precision and at a pace almost as hectic as war.
To predict that perfect moment, growers have little to go on other than years of experience and rules of thumb passed down through the generations - plus a lot of guesswork. It would be nice to have something more scientific.
So, obviously many empaiktes today and many “assistants” in apollumi.
Yes, I’ve reed “Rebellion”.
“When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
There are over 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe. The number of stars in each galaxy varies widely, but each galaxy probably has a couple billion stars on average. Talk about alot of stars!
All the stars we see with our eyes are part of the Milky Way galaxy. All others are too far away! Almost all stars are in a galaxy, they aren't just floating around in space. Scientist believe this is because stars are made of dust and gas, things found in galaxies. Why should they leave if they have everything they need! A few stars are expelled in massive collisions, but the majority belong in a galaxy. Nebula that we see in books like the Orion Nebula are all in the Milky Way galaxy as well. There are many in other galaxies too, but we can't get take such beautiful pictures of them because they are too far away!
The number of planets in our galaxy is tough to answer, because we haven't been able to look closely at the vast majority of stars for planets that might be circling those stars. The number of known planets is less than a hundred, but there must be a lot more that we haven't seen yet.
So far, astronomers have discovered about 100 planets outside of our solar system. Only one so far discovered is more than 160 light years from Earth (our galaxy is 90,000 light years across!), and all are large planets like Jupiter. About 30 billion stars in our galaxy are roughly "Sun-like", and astronomers guess that between 5 and 90 percent of those have planets like Jupiter. So there might be between 1.5 and 27 billion Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. There may be many more smaller ones!
There appear to be over 100 billion galaxies in the part of the universe we can see. However, the total number depends on if the universe is infinite or not. If it is infinite, there are probably an infinite number of galaxies. If it is not infinite, there are probably a few trillion galaxies.
All the galaxies are moving through space away from each other. The Milky Way is moving in space at a speed of about 600 kilometers per second. Our Sun, which goes around the Milky Way at about 250 klometers per second takes about 220 million years to go all the way around the Milky Way.
I think the most interesting thing about galaxies is that there are SO many of them, and they move SO fast. It's hard to imagine such huge numbers.
I study the galaxies and space and other science stuff because I like to know how and why things work. I like to find out how stars make light, and what makes wind blow, and why we need oxygen to live. That is what being a scientist is--finding out how things work, and then using the knowledge to do things like make medicine or travel to outer space.
Even in a scientifically sophisticated film such as Carl Sagan's Contact, we run into our culture's preoccupation with life beyond our planet.
In that movie, in a conversation with Palmer Joss (young ex-priest) , Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) gives a calculation of sorts to explain her confidence in life having evolved elsewhere. She is looking up into the plethora of stars in the nighttime sky and says, "If just one in a million of those stars has planets, and if only one in a million of those has life, and if just one in a million of those has intelligent life, then there are millions of civilizations out there." It is a little surprising that a film of such high caliber would get this one wrong. If you take each of those probabilities and multiply them together, that's one in a million million million, or a billion billion, or in scientific notation, 10 to the 18th power. Current estimates suggest that the stars number approximately 10 to the 22nd power. That would technically leave only 10,000 civilizations in the universe, not millions. That would mean that we are alone even in our own galaxy.
The movie Contact tells us of a more realistic scenario for a first encounter with an alien civilization, than, say, Men in Black. A radio signal is received from space that is broadcast at a frequency that is equal to the value of hydrogen times pi and gets our attention by counting the prime numbers from 1 to 101 in sequence. The message is authenticated as coming from the star Vega, 26 light years away. The message is eventually decoded and found to contain the plans for constructing a machine for one person to apparently travel out into the galaxy. Ellie Arroway, a young astronomer who discovers the message, eventually boards the machine and travels out into space for a close encounter of a supposedly more realistic kind.
A very tantalizing line is repeated three times in the course of the film. When Ellie Arroway, as a child, asks her father if there are any life forms out in the universe, he says that if there isn't, it would be an awful waste of space. Palmer Joss repeats the line to an adult Ellie as they engage in a conversation under a starry sky in Puerto Rico. It is a poignant scene as Ellie clearly is stunned as she recalls her father saying the same thing. Ellie, herself, repeats the phrase at the end of the film as she is addressing a group of school children and is asked if there is life out there in space.
So, tonight I’ll watch the sky and I’ll say it:- it would be an awful waste of space.
About Time Travel:
Destiny, Causality, and Temporal Divergence
Causality
Before one can understand the effects that time travel has on causality, it is necessary to understand the forces that govern causality in the present.
While some people may find comfort in the delusion that they have free will to determine the outcome of spontaneous events, in fact the outcome of every event was determined with the creation of the Universe. The same natural laws govern all matter in the Universe -- whether that matter makes up stars and planets, or whether it composes the cells in a person's brain. Gravity, electromagnetism, and quantum forces determine the interaction and outcome of all events in the Universe.
While some events, such as flipping a coin or rolling a die, may seem to be random, their outcomes are determined by the forces of nature. This can be illustrated by tracing the contributing causal forces of an event backwards in time:
When a coin is flipped, it lands tails-up. This is due not to random chance, but to forces acting on the coin, including air density and wind, local gravitational forces, the force and trajectory at which the coin was thrown, and the weight of the coin itself. While these and other factors may seem to be random and spontaneous, each force acting on the coin was in turn caused by another force. For example, the force at which the coin was thrown was determined by the neuro-muscular development of the person throwing it, which in turn was determined by the person's experience, diet, environment, and genetic makeup. The person's genetic makeup was determined by which genes were passed on from the parents, which were determined by when the parents conceived the child, which was determined by when the parents first met, which was determined by the geographic locations of the parents, which could be traced back through economic, political, geological, and evolutionary causal forces, which in turn can be traced back to the creation of Earth and the Solar system, which in turn was determined by the forces existing at the creation of the Universe.
This is just one small chain of causal events that determines the outcome of a coin toss. While it seems there is a near-infinite number of forces acting on the coin, and while the outcome of the coin toss may actually be unpredictable to any kind of human perception, in fact the outcome of the coin toss was destined to happen in only one way since the birth of the Universe.
Destiny
No event -- from the collision of planets to a subatomic event at the quantum level -- is spontaneous. Nothing is random. Every event in the Universe was caused by something, and every causal event has an effect on something. This basic principle is known as Destiny.
Destiny should not be confused with Fate. Fate is the religious belief that the gods are directly intervening in causal forces, determining the outcome of events supernaturally. Belief in Fate, or divine intervention, requires faith in certain religious philosophies. Destiny, however, is a fact -- a force of nature, like gravity or magnetism that requires no faith, just an understanding of causal forces.
Once a person comprehends the basic principles of causality and Destiny, it is possible to understand the concept of temporal divergence caused by time travel.
Temporal Divergence
Temporal divergence results when the natural chain of causal events is broken by a spontaneous event arising from another causal continuum -- e.g., a time gate being opened from a future timeline.
The opening of a time gate and the arrival of a time traveler from a future timeline have no prior causal links in the past timeline, but the time traveler’s actions -- even his mere existence -- in the past timeline can have significant causal effects on subsequent events.
There are varying degrees of temporal divergence: quantum, molecular, genetic, historical, evolutionary, geological, and universal. Each level of divergence is increasingly severe, and each level causes the next, though it may take hours, years, or billions of years to have any significant effect at the next-higher level.
The opening of a time gate at the atomic level for only a brief amount of time can cause temporal divergence at the quantum level. This might cause a single electron or photon to be created, destroyed, or moved in a different way than it was destined to be. This change may have absolutely no noticeable effects on the flow of time for a very long period of time, but the fact that the total energy state of the Universe was altered even slightly will eventually and inevitably lead to molecular divergence.
Molecular divergence occurs when god or a time traveler moves just a few atoms or molecules. This may alter local gravitational forces, temperature, fluid dynamics, and other molecular traits. As described in Twentieth-Century chaos theory, moving a single molecule can lead very quickly to significant seismic and climatic changes around the world. For example, moving a single air molecule in South Africa could alter the wind patterns in the immediate area, which in turn could alter the weather throughout the Southern Hemisphere, which in turn would cause a storm in a specific location, which could lead to temporal divergence at the genetic level.
Genetic divergence occurs when a single individual ceases to exist -- or is created -- as a result of divine intervention or time travel. Every person's unique genetic code is determined by a specific sperm cell fertilizing a specific egg. A man produces a different sperm cell, containing different DNA, every few seconds, and a woman produces a different egg every month, so if a time traveler causes even a one-second delay in a chain of causal events, a different sperm cell will fertilize an egg, creating an entirely unique individual who never existed in the home continuum (and causing the person who existed in that continuum never to have been born in the divergent timeline).
This brings to mind the "Grandfather Paradox," a Twentieth-Century theory postulating that if a time traveler went back in time and killed his own grandfather before he met his grandmother, then the time traveler would never have existed. Of course, time travelers cannot change their own past -- they can only enter divergent timelines and cause changes there, so this grandfather scenario is not really a paradox. In addition, the time traveler does not need to kill the grandfather, just delay him a few seconds before his first meeting with the grandmother, so that when they do eventually conceive a child, it will have a different genetic structure, and therefore one of the time traveler’s parents will never be born.
Inevitably, within a generation of an instance of genetic divergence, history will begin to diverge. If just a few people in a society are changed in a timeline, different events will occur, and history will begin to unfold on a different path from the history of the original timeline. Imagine if Adolf Hitler's parents had conceived a daughter instead of a son, or if Julius Caesar had never been born; the change of a single person could have rapid and significant effects on history. And since one historical event leads to and causes the next, a single change in the past will expand geometrically until the future bears no resemblance whatsoever to the future society of the original timeline. This would be called total genetic and historical divergence, where no person or event in one timeline has an analog in another timeline.
Temporal divergence far enough in the past can lead to changes at the evolutionary scale. For example, traveling a million years back in time could change the course of hominid evolution so that Neanderthal man would become the dominant species on Earth instead of Homo sapiens. Traveling back one hundred million years into the past could cause evolutionary and geologic changes that would prevent the mass extinctions of the dinosaurs, allowing them to replace mammals as the dominant life forms on the planet.
Geological divergence occurs when god or a time traveler causes changes that will eventually change the appearances of the planet itself. Moving a single rock in the distant past could cause changes in wind and water flow in the area, leading to different erosion patterns -- after a long period of time, these simple changes could alter the course of rivers and the shape of continents. After billions of years, plate tectonics would be altered, causing entire continents and oceans to be different.
After billions of years, geological changes to a planet could alter its gravitational field and orbit, which could have minor effects on other planetary bodies. After billions or trillions of years, entire galaxies could be altered slightly by temporal divergence -- and this all could have been caused by a time traveler moving a few molecules in the distant past.
Of course, there are physical limitations that prevent time gates from being opened too far into the geologic past, and it is unlikely that time travelers could directly cause temporal divergence at the universal scale, unless they use an interspatial starship to travel to other star systems in the past timeline.
In general, the degree of temporal divergence in a past timeline is determined by the size of the time gate that is opened, how long the time gate is open, and what the time traveler does while in the past. However, regardless of these factors, the mere act of opening a time gate into the past will cause some degree of divergence, and after enough time has passed after the point of divergence, history will eventually reach a point of total divergence -- i.e., become totally unrecognizable.
A wise time traveler will try to minimize the amount of temporal divergence he causes in the past, so that the past timeline will be as close to his own history as possible. This will allow him to anticipate events before they occur, giving him an advantage over other people in the past. However, shortly after the time traveler arrives in the past, so-called "random" events in his immediate vicinity will have different outcomes. Dice rolled at a casino craps table will land on different numbers; a lightning bolt will strike a different location; and a freak accident might be averted or caused by the time traveler’s presence. The time traveler has no control over these events, but society in general should remain the same for months or years if the time traveler is careful. The same officials will be elected, the same countries will go to war, and earthquakes will strike the same cities.
Eventually, though, even these events will become unpredictable.
Peace and blessings.
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Post Scriptum
Waste implies misdirected design. If the universe was created for us and we are alone, why does it have to be so big? Surely we could have survived quite well in a much smaller and economical universe. But if you think about it, Scripture proclaims that the heavens declare the glory of God, not man (Psalm 19:1). Indeed, if the universe was created only for man's benefit, then it is a waste of space. We don't deserve it. But if the main purpose of the universe is to glorify the splendid, eternal, all-powerful God, it could never be big enough.
On the clearest night you can see about 2000 stars. Of the 25 brightest stars (all visible to the naked eye), the one farthest away (Deneb) is a mere 1600 light years. The farthest star that we can see under the best of conditions is probably about 4075 light years away. The nearest galaxy to ours is about 40 times farther 170, 000 light years. We can't see individual stars that far with the naked eye.
The fact is that light takes time to reach us, so in fact the Universe could be infinitely large and the stars we see today are remnants of light sent out long, long ago. It’s strange to think that many of the stars we see in the sky do not exist anymore, since they could have easily moved millions of years ago, but their light that we see was sent out billions of years ago.
And - universe is expanding.
So, this night you’ll see a snapshot of the nigh sky and stars from the past.
Radio waves travels out and in at the speed of the light.
Think about that.
I say that insecure because some things I’ve got contradict evidences I’ve gathered scientifically. I’ll sound crazy, but there is a kind of mess, so, why not - speculate; for fun or discussion’s sake, perhaps.
So - hypothetically and without any proof I can say - there were three ages already and fourth to come. It’s pure speculation and not only a religious but scientific heresy too. Don’t take me seriously there, that means - I’m ready to discuss it. It's a theory made of glass and maybe is a good idea not to touch it.
This planet is older than 7000 years as some Christians claim but four point seven millions of years old.
It is the second earth age we live in now, the second creation of life, which is about 7000 years old.
Cryptically speaking Earth was re'shiyth bara' and bad guys played the game “we are the gods”, Earth become tohuw bohuw, and we live in the second creation or precisely - second earth age.
I couldn’t figure it out why Christians place Jeremiah 4:22-27 in more recent history instead at the end of first age. Okay, I must admit, this complicates few things, and if people cannot comprehend millions of something (money they can!) how to expect.
Yes, that’s exactly what has been surprising me over and over. Christians read Genesis alone and miraculously overlook Isaiah 45:18.
My “speculative” story place one stage more between - let’s say - “clear” Earth was populated with autochthonic inhabitants (flora and fauna) and “corruption” and then infestation comes as separate “stage” in the from of presence and involvement of our “beloved” “gods”.
One fact gives credibility to such theory. Scientist has tracked down migration of our specie (humans) from Africa, where whole story started - okay? But there comes the puzzle - The gap of artifacts and proofs from all over the world from circa 13500 to some 7500 years B C. Puff! - Lot of evidences of migrations and then - nothing! Then miraculously presence of the humans started again. The puzzle, isn’t it?
Huh, I’ll stop here.
I am always ready - to learn and apply new ideas, what is definitely NOT a characteristic of many today who sit in their trenches defending own castles of innocence, pride and self pedestaling, castles filled with rooms full of mirrors. Their mountain castles are made of porcelain and it doesn’t matter what damage some intruder could inflict, in their fighting against windmills and with their own demons as allies, believe me, they will break their walls by themselves, sometimes involuntarily.
It looks more like harvesting, what isn’t a static but very dynamic endeavor, where archived knowledge communicates with contemporary collected data performing a miracle of connecting the dots and layering afterwards upon knowledge already gained (but previously refreshed as an random access memory in computers).
Think of the growers who have thousands of melons to worry about. They have to harvest the crop with almost military precision and at a pace almost as hectic as war.
To predict that perfect moment, growers have little to go on other than years of experience and rules of thumb passed down through the generations - plus a lot of guesswork. It would be nice to have something more scientific.
So, obviously many empaiktes today and many “assistants” in apollumi.
Yes, I’ve reed “Rebellion”.
“When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
There are over 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe. The number of stars in each galaxy varies widely, but each galaxy probably has a couple billion stars on average. Talk about alot of stars!
All the stars we see with our eyes are part of the Milky Way galaxy. All others are too far away! Almost all stars are in a galaxy, they aren't just floating around in space. Scientist believe this is because stars are made of dust and gas, things found in galaxies. Why should they leave if they have everything they need! A few stars are expelled in massive collisions, but the majority belong in a galaxy. Nebula that we see in books like the Orion Nebula are all in the Milky Way galaxy as well. There are many in other galaxies too, but we can't get take such beautiful pictures of them because they are too far away!
The number of planets in our galaxy is tough to answer, because we haven't been able to look closely at the vast majority of stars for planets that might be circling those stars. The number of known planets is less than a hundred, but there must be a lot more that we haven't seen yet.
So far, astronomers have discovered about 100 planets outside of our solar system. Only one so far discovered is more than 160 light years from Earth (our galaxy is 90,000 light years across!), and all are large planets like Jupiter. About 30 billion stars in our galaxy are roughly "Sun-like", and astronomers guess that between 5 and 90 percent of those have planets like Jupiter. So there might be between 1.5 and 27 billion Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. There may be many more smaller ones!
There appear to be over 100 billion galaxies in the part of the universe we can see. However, the total number depends on if the universe is infinite or not. If it is infinite, there are probably an infinite number of galaxies. If it is not infinite, there are probably a few trillion galaxies.
All the galaxies are moving through space away from each other. The Milky Way is moving in space at a speed of about 600 kilometers per second. Our Sun, which goes around the Milky Way at about 250 klometers per second takes about 220 million years to go all the way around the Milky Way.
I think the most interesting thing about galaxies is that there are SO many of them, and they move SO fast. It's hard to imagine such huge numbers.
I study the galaxies and space and other science stuff because I like to know how and why things work. I like to find out how stars make light, and what makes wind blow, and why we need oxygen to live. That is what being a scientist is--finding out how things work, and then using the knowledge to do things like make medicine or travel to outer space.
Even in a scientifically sophisticated film such as Carl Sagan's Contact, we run into our culture's preoccupation with life beyond our planet.
In that movie, in a conversation with Palmer Joss (young ex-priest) , Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) gives a calculation of sorts to explain her confidence in life having evolved elsewhere. She is looking up into the plethora of stars in the nighttime sky and says, "If just one in a million of those stars has planets, and if only one in a million of those has life, and if just one in a million of those has intelligent life, then there are millions of civilizations out there." It is a little surprising that a film of such high caliber would get this one wrong. If you take each of those probabilities and multiply them together, that's one in a million million million, or a billion billion, or in scientific notation, 10 to the 18th power. Current estimates suggest that the stars number approximately 10 to the 22nd power. That would technically leave only 10,000 civilizations in the universe, not millions. That would mean that we are alone even in our own galaxy.
The movie Contact tells us of a more realistic scenario for a first encounter with an alien civilization, than, say, Men in Black. A radio signal is received from space that is broadcast at a frequency that is equal to the value of hydrogen times pi and gets our attention by counting the prime numbers from 1 to 101 in sequence. The message is authenticated as coming from the star Vega, 26 light years away. The message is eventually decoded and found to contain the plans for constructing a machine for one person to apparently travel out into the galaxy. Ellie Arroway, a young astronomer who discovers the message, eventually boards the machine and travels out into space for a close encounter of a supposedly more realistic kind.
A very tantalizing line is repeated three times in the course of the film. When Ellie Arroway, as a child, asks her father if there are any life forms out in the universe, he says that if there isn't, it would be an awful waste of space. Palmer Joss repeats the line to an adult Ellie as they engage in a conversation under a starry sky in Puerto Rico. It is a poignant scene as Ellie clearly is stunned as she recalls her father saying the same thing. Ellie, herself, repeats the phrase at the end of the film as she is addressing a group of school children and is asked if there is life out there in space.
So, tonight I’ll watch the sky and I’ll say it:- it would be an awful waste of space.
About Time Travel:
Destiny, Causality, and Temporal Divergence
Causality
Before one can understand the effects that time travel has on causality, it is necessary to understand the forces that govern causality in the present.
While some people may find comfort in the delusion that they have free will to determine the outcome of spontaneous events, in fact the outcome of every event was determined with the creation of the Universe. The same natural laws govern all matter in the Universe -- whether that matter makes up stars and planets, or whether it composes the cells in a person's brain. Gravity, electromagnetism, and quantum forces determine the interaction and outcome of all events in the Universe.
While some events, such as flipping a coin or rolling a die, may seem to be random, their outcomes are determined by the forces of nature. This can be illustrated by tracing the contributing causal forces of an event backwards in time:
When a coin is flipped, it lands tails-up. This is due not to random chance, but to forces acting on the coin, including air density and wind, local gravitational forces, the force and trajectory at which the coin was thrown, and the weight of the coin itself. While these and other factors may seem to be random and spontaneous, each force acting on the coin was in turn caused by another force. For example, the force at which the coin was thrown was determined by the neuro-muscular development of the person throwing it, which in turn was determined by the person's experience, diet, environment, and genetic makeup. The person's genetic makeup was determined by which genes were passed on from the parents, which were determined by when the parents conceived the child, which was determined by when the parents first met, which was determined by the geographic locations of the parents, which could be traced back through economic, political, geological, and evolutionary causal forces, which in turn can be traced back to the creation of Earth and the Solar system, which in turn was determined by the forces existing at the creation of the Universe.
This is just one small chain of causal events that determines the outcome of a coin toss. While it seems there is a near-infinite number of forces acting on the coin, and while the outcome of the coin toss may actually be unpredictable to any kind of human perception, in fact the outcome of the coin toss was destined to happen in only one way since the birth of the Universe.
Destiny
No event -- from the collision of planets to a subatomic event at the quantum level -- is spontaneous. Nothing is random. Every event in the Universe was caused by something, and every causal event has an effect on something. This basic principle is known as Destiny.
Destiny should not be confused with Fate. Fate is the religious belief that the gods are directly intervening in causal forces, determining the outcome of events supernaturally. Belief in Fate, or divine intervention, requires faith in certain religious philosophies. Destiny, however, is a fact -- a force of nature, like gravity or magnetism that requires no faith, just an understanding of causal forces.
Once a person comprehends the basic principles of causality and Destiny, it is possible to understand the concept of temporal divergence caused by time travel.
Temporal Divergence
Temporal divergence results when the natural chain of causal events is broken by a spontaneous event arising from another causal continuum -- e.g., a time gate being opened from a future timeline.
The opening of a time gate and the arrival of a time traveler from a future timeline have no prior causal links in the past timeline, but the time traveler’s actions -- even his mere existence -- in the past timeline can have significant causal effects on subsequent events.
There are varying degrees of temporal divergence: quantum, molecular, genetic, historical, evolutionary, geological, and universal. Each level of divergence is increasingly severe, and each level causes the next, though it may take hours, years, or billions of years to have any significant effect at the next-higher level.
The opening of a time gate at the atomic level for only a brief amount of time can cause temporal divergence at the quantum level. This might cause a single electron or photon to be created, destroyed, or moved in a different way than it was destined to be. This change may have absolutely no noticeable effects on the flow of time for a very long period of time, but the fact that the total energy state of the Universe was altered even slightly will eventually and inevitably lead to molecular divergence.
Molecular divergence occurs when god or a time traveler moves just a few atoms or molecules. This may alter local gravitational forces, temperature, fluid dynamics, and other molecular traits. As described in Twentieth-Century chaos theory, moving a single molecule can lead very quickly to significant seismic and climatic changes around the world. For example, moving a single air molecule in South Africa could alter the wind patterns in the immediate area, which in turn could alter the weather throughout the Southern Hemisphere, which in turn would cause a storm in a specific location, which could lead to temporal divergence at the genetic level.
Genetic divergence occurs when a single individual ceases to exist -- or is created -- as a result of divine intervention or time travel. Every person's unique genetic code is determined by a specific sperm cell fertilizing a specific egg. A man produces a different sperm cell, containing different DNA, every few seconds, and a woman produces a different egg every month, so if a time traveler causes even a one-second delay in a chain of causal events, a different sperm cell will fertilize an egg, creating an entirely unique individual who never existed in the home continuum (and causing the person who existed in that continuum never to have been born in the divergent timeline).
This brings to mind the "Grandfather Paradox," a Twentieth-Century theory postulating that if a time traveler went back in time and killed his own grandfather before he met his grandmother, then the time traveler would never have existed. Of course, time travelers cannot change their own past -- they can only enter divergent timelines and cause changes there, so this grandfather scenario is not really a paradox. In addition, the time traveler does not need to kill the grandfather, just delay him a few seconds before his first meeting with the grandmother, so that when they do eventually conceive a child, it will have a different genetic structure, and therefore one of the time traveler’s parents will never be born.
Inevitably, within a generation of an instance of genetic divergence, history will begin to diverge. If just a few people in a society are changed in a timeline, different events will occur, and history will begin to unfold on a different path from the history of the original timeline. Imagine if Adolf Hitler's parents had conceived a daughter instead of a son, or if Julius Caesar had never been born; the change of a single person could have rapid and significant effects on history. And since one historical event leads to and causes the next, a single change in the past will expand geometrically until the future bears no resemblance whatsoever to the future society of the original timeline. This would be called total genetic and historical divergence, where no person or event in one timeline has an analog in another timeline.
Temporal divergence far enough in the past can lead to changes at the evolutionary scale. For example, traveling a million years back in time could change the course of hominid evolution so that Neanderthal man would become the dominant species on Earth instead of Homo sapiens. Traveling back one hundred million years into the past could cause evolutionary and geologic changes that would prevent the mass extinctions of the dinosaurs, allowing them to replace mammals as the dominant life forms on the planet.
Geological divergence occurs when god or a time traveler causes changes that will eventually change the appearances of the planet itself. Moving a single rock in the distant past could cause changes in wind and water flow in the area, leading to different erosion patterns -- after a long period of time, these simple changes could alter the course of rivers and the shape of continents. After billions of years, plate tectonics would be altered, causing entire continents and oceans to be different.
After billions of years, geological changes to a planet could alter its gravitational field and orbit, which could have minor effects on other planetary bodies. After billions or trillions of years, entire galaxies could be altered slightly by temporal divergence -- and this all could have been caused by a time traveler moving a few molecules in the distant past.
Of course, there are physical limitations that prevent time gates from being opened too far into the geologic past, and it is unlikely that time travelers could directly cause temporal divergence at the universal scale, unless they use an interspatial starship to travel to other star systems in the past timeline.
In general, the degree of temporal divergence in a past timeline is determined by the size of the time gate that is opened, how long the time gate is open, and what the time traveler does while in the past. However, regardless of these factors, the mere act of opening a time gate into the past will cause some degree of divergence, and after enough time has passed after the point of divergence, history will eventually reach a point of total divergence -- i.e., become totally unrecognizable.
A wise time traveler will try to minimize the amount of temporal divergence he causes in the past, so that the past timeline will be as close to his own history as possible. This will allow him to anticipate events before they occur, giving him an advantage over other people in the past. However, shortly after the time traveler arrives in the past, so-called "random" events in his immediate vicinity will have different outcomes. Dice rolled at a casino craps table will land on different numbers; a lightning bolt will strike a different location; and a freak accident might be averted or caused by the time traveler’s presence. The time traveler has no control over these events, but society in general should remain the same for months or years if the time traveler is careful. The same officials will be elected, the same countries will go to war, and earthquakes will strike the same cities.
Eventually, though, even these events will become unpredictable.
Peace and blessings.
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Post Scriptum
Waste implies misdirected design. If the universe was created for us and we are alone, why does it have to be so big? Surely we could have survived quite well in a much smaller and economical universe. But if you think about it, Scripture proclaims that the heavens declare the glory of God, not man (Psalm 19:1). Indeed, if the universe was created only for man's benefit, then it is a waste of space. We don't deserve it. But if the main purpose of the universe is to glorify the splendid, eternal, all-powerful God, it could never be big enough.
On the clearest night you can see about 2000 stars. Of the 25 brightest stars (all visible to the naked eye), the one farthest away (Deneb) is a mere 1600 light years. The farthest star that we can see under the best of conditions is probably about 4075 light years away. The nearest galaxy to ours is about 40 times farther 170, 000 light years. We can't see individual stars that far with the naked eye.
The fact is that light takes time to reach us, so in fact the Universe could be infinitely large and the stars we see today are remnants of light sent out long, long ago. It’s strange to think that many of the stars we see in the sky do not exist anymore, since they could have easily moved millions of years ago, but their light that we see was sent out billions of years ago.
And - universe is expanding.
So, this night you’ll see a snapshot of the nigh sky and stars from the past.
Radio waves travels out and in at the speed of the light.
Think about that.
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