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Thread #130995   Message #2951252
Posted By: Donuel
24-Jul-10 - 06:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Thought experiments
Subject: BS: Thought experiements
Introduction to the thought experiment.

Some of us can read and write music. Some of us may perform music better than those who read and write music. And some of us experience music more deeply than the rest, but may be unaware they are different. Depending on the wiring of your mind you might see music in color or see music in perfect pitch colors, or maybe feel music in an enhanced 3-D that flows from mind to body in pure dance. While we are talented differently, no one, not even the genius, can have every talent possible any more than one may have every perspective and point of view in the universe.
The interplay of musical sound and light that forms in our mostly visual brains is at the heart of our humanness. In our minds we can transform pictures in new ways as simply as we change a tune for the better. This is our unique talent which allows us to ride upon a thought experiment that sometimes reveals the mysteries of the universe to us in remarkable ways.
When Einstein was stuck mathematically when trying to integrate time and space the simple thought experiment of seeing the town square clock as if upon a beam of light racing away from the clock at the speed of light showed him that time virtually stops at the speed of light. The clock reads 12 continually if you were the light beam but to people in the town square the clock keeps ticking away.
This brings me to the point of a recent thought experiment I had which was as spontaneous and enjoyable as hearing a new symphony in my head. First thing needed was darkness so that the light from within could be seen. Like booting up a computer I closed my eyes and pictured the immediate environment until It felt like I could see everything in the dark. The next step was to open my eyes in the totally dark room and still mentally see everything clearly in the muted tones of night vision, whether they were really visible or not. To go where you want to go in this state is as easy as driving. Just step on the gas…
Every thought experiment must have a clear destination or question well beforehand like the time I asked about a future power source and I envisioned a circle in a triangle. While I knew the image was symbolic I am embarrassed to say that it took years later to interpret the single circle and the triangle as Lithium and Hydrogen or as Lithium hydride batteries. The thought experiment yesterday was directed at reconciling surprising cosmological discoveries into a dynamic flowing picture of the universe!
I sought to include all the surprises such as the acceleration of our space time universe and dark matter and energy, as well as tiny and massive black holes and every other cosmological teaser that exists today as a loose strand of knowledge in the tapestry puzzle of the cosmos. What I saw was beautiful and simple within a framework of musical vision, only if you consider the idea of infinite fractal dualities simple.
If this were a joke, this would be when Spaw would now awaken with an intense Eureka moment of discovering he had incredible intestinal cramps and had to reach the bathroom in seconds from his bed 20 feet away. This is not a joke however and the effort of now describing the dynamic picture I saw will require eloquence beyond my use of language, so bear with me even if you think I am just full of shit or maybe on to something important.
What you bring to the table in response to what I have to describe is most important. For example it took Professor Szilard to have first read H.G. Wells book describe something called the atomic bomb to be the first person to understand that the newly discovered neutron would cause a chain reaction and actually make such a science fiction atomic bomb a reality.

I will take a short drive to put some of the right brain pictures into left brain words a bit better.

end of intro.