2008-11-28 - 5:08 p.m.

organised structures in our universe: a bi-product of a steady flow of energy, a variety of varying surface properties of a bunch of base material in different states of excitation and the passage of time.

cell division: a pinnacle self-reproducing structure that can exert itself on its environment, possibly affecting nearby structures. in other words another category of structure than something that is purely reactive.

let's call this spirit. because we can never know where it will lead.

the key is in the phrase "varying surface properties" because we are seeing something vastly complex in a very simple way.

the movement of atoms, their true nature in a visual representation, cannot be seen by our eye because our eye is itself a meta-structure of the atoms' base structure. but it's nature can be discerned.

careful analysis of its behaviour reveals strict laws that it must adhere to. bizarre hard-to-understand structures become the product of simple rules, a fact only obvious once the rules are known.

all this passage of time and intricate inter-dependence of the structures evident in matter evolve in a parallel fashion making predicting their outcomes impossible except in the immediate future in some cases.

each region of space depends on the other at every stage of our unfolding reality, and as we consider an increasing number of regions' interactions with each other

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I know what time is now.

each region of space moves in relation to each other: gravity.

on a small enough scale, spatial regions are discrete

there I've said it

it all moves in the steps, but the question has always been, how are the steps separated?

if the universe advanced in an iterative fashion, unfolding the outcome would be as sluggish as calculating it in detail in one of our simulations ;)

no, there are not x steps per unit of time across the universe in an equal grid, with the actual matter moving against this backdrop of perfection. well, maybe in a mathematical sense when we extrapolate over-simplified equivalents of too-complex-to-calculate unfoldings over time.

no, the time flows steadily foward in each reference frame, as the inputs from surrounding reference frames comes in.

it is possible to move to another place where there would be a change in the flow of these frames. streams of frames can come in and leave, if we accept that space bends around a black hole, and that the universe can be separated into discrete shells.

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imagine a beginning. our universe befores there was any complexity in it.

matter, but in a static structure perfect in the sense that it has an absolutely even distribution of density across a given function.

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err..

considering all the reference frames from the beginning, at first there was no interaction. all was in one reference frame.

as its density pattern can be represented by a unique function, any calculation necessary can be performed in one operation. there is nothing to calculate.

a hypothetical wave coming from an 'outside' would product a simple result based directly on one function on one side and its own definition on the input side. there would be no more than one possibility for the presentation vector that the universe would provide.

but I won't consider any possibility of 'outside' interaction or the possibility of other universes which is beyond the scope of this math.

no, the discrete nature of the universe's original reference frame gives it the background it needs to be discrete at the level of each reference frame, as the edge is met.

you see, the edge of the universe isn't somewhere out at the edge of the visible space we have all around us. it's edge doesn't contain, like a bubble, a vast bulging mass.

no, the edge is everywhere. the edge runs through everything, folding back against reality at every step, never touching.

how though? instead of imagining fancy rules or guidance from the outside, consider the truth.

the universe is discrete, it is the sum of all we know.

it unfolds, falling in towards itself over time.

its mass collects in regions that are claimed to have no volume.

volume however is directly related to time. and the trick is that from the outside, there is still some interdependence left to be worked out. some part of the structure may decide to turn tail and flee and not be swept in to the path of the black hole.

inside the black hole, from our point of view, is to be nowhere, crushed. every thing touching every other thing as tightly packed as possible means nothing to calculate. it's density is the result of a single function.

any interaction with it is easy to calculate. it does not move and something falls into it.

a region unwinds to the edge and disappears

a region that through a twist in the edge of the universe had been carried by the other regions, repelled by their edge and "kept afloat" as it slid through the matrix of interconnections. eventually it had no interactions to calculate any more. getting outside the set is to give your final input.

a human couldn't get there though. we are meta-meta-structures of the base matter. at least that many layers.

when I say an edge repels another, that's not true. they move as if this were so because of the simple path each started out on, following one rule: falling toward its neighbors.

falling in towards your neighbor happens because it is easier to be unwound.

the fact that there is something to unwind in the first place... ? who can know? guessing

an initial state, being the result of one function, should stay perfect. but there is something about reality. one side is always slightly bigger than the other. you can never have exactly half of one thing. one half has to be slightly more or slightly less. otherwise everything would still be perfect.

so. what happens to a static initial structure that is bigger on one side?

I'm not sure I believe that possibility. how can one function define an imperfect structure? and that's the key. there can be no perfect structure in reality. not if the outcome in each region depends on many others.

gah.. is it the idea of an eventual random drift and a falling in or a coalescing ridge of reverberating force?
maybe both, seen from different ways

gah only partly legible tonight. hehe

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consider an initial state: a sphere of mass

the more waves intersect in a given region, the more time it takes to calculate what happens there

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anyway, the time bit

in my mind was a sphere, evenly constituted, each portion resting on another.

then was a division making it two halves, represented by two points at each half's center of mass and a vector

no wait

two halves, each falling directly toward the other, and being equal, each supporting each other perfectly.

except that there must be other "universes". damn.

because we know in reality two halves couldn't stay balanced. one would have to be slightly heavier than the other, and for the same reason, when the other moved slightly to accomodate this fact, it could never move directly to the mathematical center of the other, because.. err

because a line has no area, a point has no volume. to get from one point to another in the universe you have to negotiate all the intervening regions and their state.

well.. assuming it would fall directly toward the other half, but in a sense that it could never be exactly equal, never exactly perfect.

whew

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