In this freewrite I summarize my theories of FTL existence based on my next-to-nothing background information and credibility (IE: Youtube + my limited understanding of physics mixed with imagination). It is still interesting to just dream and think about. Even if this is pure and utter rubbish it is still an intriguing topic, at least in my opinion. This was a paper I wrote before I began investigating physics, this is purely a lamens theory. Feel free to read it and disagree (especially if you have facts that either support or discredit this claim. I'm curious as to how far off or close-to science I really am having no background at the time.
Envision the world in an objective sense. Not as you see it, but as you feel it. Close your eyes and see with your senses and feel with your mind. Physically imagining this after reading will help set up and drive home the point I'm about to make.
Think about everything you know about the universe and think about how it is based in only a fraction of the existing and measurable universe. Think about the trees you saw growing outside in the sun today, picture the car you drove and the seats you sit in while you drive. Imagine the pencil you write with and the paper that becomes written on. Know all these things and picture them, remember them. Feel them with your senses; how they feel, what they sound like, perhaps how smell. Our entire reality we see it but a biased glimpse of the universe. Have you ever put on infrared goggle, or seen anything through night vision? Have you ever looked at a photo or video through the negative lense? Did you ever look in a mirror to see a backwards world that was but wasn't? Well if you haven't you should try it. It also helps illustrate the picture I'm painting.
You know the perceivable universe. You're not dumb. You can at least read and hopefully comprehend what you're reading. Even if not, that is OK, just keep reading this and every time you may discover something knew. Like watching the movie inception, but in a philosophical text form. Anyways I digress.. You're at least open to thinking, or after this you might be. If not that's o.k. too. You have a grasp of "reality" but what if I told you that your grasp of reality needed a vision test because your perception of it isn't exactly 20/20. You see what you see and think you know what you know, but even then you're not grasping it all. As hard as you try you're witnessing the whole of reality through a subjective view IE: You're prejudiced by the limitations of you're whole self, and even more so the limitations of the visible light spectrum.
Everything I just said should at least make some sense. You've lived, you've learned things, you've shaped a world view (how you think the world "works"). Be it through textbooks, reading, schooling, or self-discovery, you've known stuff. But than I throw in the whole "You're prejudiced by the limitations of you're whole self, and even more so the limitations of the visible light spectrum." So what the Fudge does that mean? well here is what I mean by it so clarity can be reached and we're on the same level (and so I can begin with my point): When you're born you're born with a set of genes (We must suppose this is true just for the sake of my argument). So when you're born you've already got a biased in which you perceive the universe. You might not have 20/20 vision, or you might not have perfect hearing. You could have hypersensitive touch, or the intuition to be more prone to instinct rather than to be conducted by logic and reason (which I'm not commenting on one way or another. It is an example), you might be super tall or super small. Either way you could suppose that already we all don't view things through a single "lense".
Even take it so far as to include social background, environmental upbringing, religious or philosophical basis for the known world and you already have countless variables for shaping a world view. Regardless, you see the world how you see the world, you might see red but actually see green, but you still associate it with red, it happens. But there is that bias already. However there is the one key thing most wouldn't even think to take into account. We base our whole perceivable reality on the notion that it exists in the visible light spectrum.
"What is the visible light spectrum" some might ask and it is simple. This spectrum is the frequency in which the human eyes perceive the universe. So it is not the whole picture per se, but just a blurred vision of actual reality (depending on your definition of what reality is. I'm using it in an objective sense, like how "god" could perceive). The universe as we know it, as is based on and backed by our modern sciences, is based on frequencies, and our eyes act like antennas we just perceive what we see in physical reality and assume that's how it is. How you see a tree without glasses and having bad vision wouldn't be the same as seeing that same tree at night, or with infrared goggles.
Our bodies are also perceivably false. We consist of billions of independent atoms, yet when I will it, I typed each letter of this idea, and continue doing so. What you personally believe about the soul, and what that is in connection with the body is irrelevant here (not literally, for all I know it might be totally relevant. But what I mean is that for the sake of my point I'm not considering this variable because it isn't needed. Never the less believe what you want, I'm not saying one way or another), but knowing that we also exist as part of this spectrum is important to my point. So now we're about to begin now that I've caught you up to my train of original thought: We are creatures based in the visible light spectrum, up until recently it was thought faster than light travel was impossible. But initial tests at the Large Hadron Collider have prematurely concluded that faster than light travel is possible, at least in certain particles. Now assuming this isn't proved wrong at anytime than the inferences made in this argument should hold up.
So another question you might ask is "how is the our perceivability of the visible light spectrum connected to faster than light travel" and this is really what I'm asking myself. No matter how we "see" the universe, it happens the way it happens. Much like this example: Just because we didn't have the equipment to measure kinds of cancer 400 years ago, doesn't mean people didn't die from it. So first off my proposed question is this: Is faster than light travel infact just an illusion (not in an achievable sense, but just a perceivable sense), or is it something entirely different?
I could take this question two ways. The first way: We could assume that faster than light travel encompasses a grand optical illusion and is nothing more physically fancy than to navigate a transdimensional map with an X, Y, Z, space and time. Or the second way: You become something else entirely. You could literally (well theoretically) transform from a physical consciousness.
Now since the second theory is more elusive and and imaginative we will saving it for second in my argument. So to consider the first theory we must first assume several things as truth (as far as what string theory tells us). We must assume that everything in the universe has its own unique frequency. Take yourself for example: Although biologically you're made up of the same components as any human being, you're still very very different (as referenced in the beginning of this). Each of the things that make you up, like genetics or your consciousness, make a musical note in the symphony-grand-picture- that is what could be defined as "you". We must also assume that our vehicle has an ability to cancel out gravitational effects, so as to be certain no effects could harm the traveling subject matter.
We all have a unique frequency signature just like we have unique finger prints and DNA. For the sake of this argument it must also be assume, that as time progresses so does your frequency. For example: the physical you, the person that is reading this right now could represent a time stamp. No matter who you are or what you've done you're the physical manifestation of you at XX/XX/XXXX + your location in space + your location in time (for me it would be the Ryan Downs version.2.6.2012.Earth-United States-Michigan-My city- My address- My GPS coordinates-at 1:33 am). So say that all that information translated to a certain frequency and when the technology is invented you could navigate to this exact point (like typing in a space-time URL for anything ever). Although immense hypothetical fuel would be needed to reach such odds, assume that you could. How would that "look" to somebody perceiving it on earth? Even crazier, what would it look like to the subjective viewer doing the actual traveling? Could they even survive? If you could navigate point to point what would that mean as far as how the perceivable universe functions?
For my second point we will invoke a new approach: What if you become something entirely different? I'm going to draw similar conclusions from my first theory but this theory differs in the opinion that if movement over great distance were to be achieved and it wasn't an optical illusion (but actual physical movement), how might that be possible. I infer my theory based on a law in thermodynamics: energy cannot be created or destroyed but merely transferred into something else. What if my achieving a speed beyond the speed of light simply transforms the subject matter into another form on the electromagnetic spectrum (visible light: IE how we perceive the universe is only a fraction of the whole spectrum remember), like a visible light frequency "being" moving so fast it becomes based on a gamma ray form or whatever has a higher wave length. Assuming the subject matter was in a anti-gravity environment, the environment around the anti-gravity could change while exerting such frequency than "slow down" back into the visible light spectrum reality (assuming also that by becoming a different wave length based particle you could move through space time faster than slow down into your original visible light spectrum based form unharmed). Quite literally like riding a wave. A reason I infer this, is that I know some waves travel faster than others.
Just a whacky thought from a limited mind.
-Ryan Downs
2/6/2012 1:52 am
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