The nature of time is challenging for some Christians-Since apologists have sought to renormalize Genesis for cosmology even seeking to find vestiges of instant creation in the Universe to support their interpretation of Genesis cosmology disconformity with scientific paradigmata have increased. Yet is not only Usherians that have difficulties with the philosophical implications of new cosmology. I recently learned of a new version of a five-dimensional Universe inclusive of time as a dimension. The August 2014 issue of Scientific American featured. The idea by Afshordi, Mann and Pourhasan is that a 5 dimension Universe with four spatial dimensions may have had a four-dimensional star collapse into a black hole with and event horizon. Our experienced three-dimensional Universe (and another dimension of time) exists at that event horizon somewhat like a holograph would appear to outside observers. This is one way that science can interpret the observable data of the apparent Universe-it is quote interesting to read about, although I have a differnet paradigm for Genesis that I wrote of in Creation and Cosmos; The Literal Values of Genesis.
I have had quite a few ideas about the directionality of gravity attracting mass to itself. The concept of singularities of mass-energy arise as a logical extrapolation of concatenated force, yet of course like the speed of light there may be some ultimate limit to gravitational force whereat it switches off. Mass could free-fall in another direction beyond that threshold, be repulsed or convert into something else like energy. If there are an infinite number of extra dimensions the potential configurations in which any given configuration of mass, energy and dimensions exist may be selected in a vary convoluted process-simple for God may be yet challenging beyond belief for human or even computational discernment of veritas.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-black-hole-that-birthed-the-big-bang/
I believe it was while considering the outlook of angels that I regarded their trans-dimensional propensity or not readily morphing to a consideration of dimension and their number. Why not an infinite number of dimensions as an infinite series? One already has the example of Cantor's trans-finite sets and perhaps trans-finite dimension sets too, if the string and membrane theory concept that some dimensions may be larger or smaller, embedded to transcendent and interacting with others. Perhaps multiple dimensions interacting produce a different sort of compound dimension in effect creating qualitative as well as quantitative distinctions.
I ought to point out that time is relative in reference frames with extra-dimensions. Time may cohere with the direction or thermodynamic order of mass and energy. If an event horizon has a Universe on it that seems holographic to outside observers, its time continuum is proximally that of the field of mass-energy comprising the event horizon/bubble/membrane. The thermodynamic processes and time of other regions located within or without that event horizon could be configured at their own pace. Plainly though, it might be possible to have to different thermodynamic-time reference systems interacting within a given field locally changing the pace and nature of the passage of time-just as different gravitational fields may interact such as the moon and sun upon the Earth. Christians ought not to be too troubled about interpreting time parameters for Genesis I think-it is enoughthat atheists disinterpret that for-themselves.
In the Revelation angels are referred to quite a lot. They seem almost to be a referent-term for a sector or nexus of sentience within the spiritual realm with the possibility that human sentience in some way is a sub-category of particular angels (perhaps with a higher dimensional protocol). John takes letters to the angels of churches such as that of Smyrna. Considering how natural philosophy describing the natural world intersects the spiritual plane of metaphysical, theological and philosophical interest is interesting. Consideration of the metaphysics of dimensions is fascinating yet less important except as it informs one of inferences and possibilities about God's way of being.
God probably is the issuer of dimensions as non-contingent being. There may be a rational mechanics of relations amidst dimensions from divine design rather than slots in empty space into which dimensions place mass and energy. Paul Erhenfrest saw the necessity of three spatial dimensions for matter to fully cohere, yet there may be more templates and courses for the interaction of mass and energy in other forms with more or fewer dimensions.
One must wonder if dimensions cohere in empty space as qualities pre-existing mass and energy or if mass and energy naturally arrange into three dimensional configurations with one more of time. That is the simplistic way to view the matter perhaps however there is no necessity that it is so. It is somewhat more challenging to imagine membranes with endowments of mass colliding that appear to be of four dimensions at intersections of collisions (something like when the Andromeda Galaxy intersects with the Milky Way in a few billion years). In some way one would want to speculate that membranes are a natural form for dimensions to take and for mass and energy to arrange themselves in-yet that shape of flatness perhaps as a one-dimension brane seems to be inconsistent with Occam's razor. Dimensions would need to become membranes of finite area and yet appear simultaneously with an initial endowment of mass (unless God placed it there) and/or energy, or mass and /or energy would need to arise without dimensions and slip into membranes (plural) that would later intersect, or mass and/ or energy might naturally evolve membranes that would collide or rebound as developed artifacts of a primary, evolved form. The evolution of membranes or dimensions probably shouldn't be regarded as a trivial feature ancillary to the existence of mass and or energy.
I still like Leibniz's spiritual monad theory of divine interaction with energy/mass. It is easy to take that as a general paradigm for God's spiritual issuance of forms that appear as energy-mass. Basic partitioned fields seem to need to set apart energy-mass from infinities anyway. Quantum valence shells and quantum uncertainty within a field or fields with constructions that have ordinal and finite set matrices of force seems a practical way of supporting a steady-state of mass entangled Universe.
I have had quite a few ideas about the directionality of gravity attracting mass to itself. The concept of singularities of mass-energy arise as a logical extrapolation of concatenated force, yet of course like the speed of light there may be some ultimate limit to gravitational force whereat it switches off. Mass could free-fall in another direction beyond that threshold, be repulsed or convert into something else like energy. If there are an infinite number of extra dimensions the potential configurations in which any given configuration of mass, energy and dimensions exist may be selected in a vary convoluted process-simple for God may be yet challenging beyond belief for human or even computational discernment of veritas.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-black-hole-that-birthed-the-big-bang/
I believe it was while considering the outlook of angels that I regarded their trans-dimensional propensity or not readily morphing to a consideration of dimension and their number. Why not an infinite number of dimensions as an infinite series? One already has the example of Cantor's trans-finite sets and perhaps trans-finite dimension sets too, if the string and membrane theory concept that some dimensions may be larger or smaller, embedded to transcendent and interacting with others. Perhaps multiple dimensions interacting produce a different sort of compound dimension in effect creating qualitative as well as quantitative distinctions.
I ought to point out that time is relative in reference frames with extra-dimensions. Time may cohere with the direction or thermodynamic order of mass and energy. If an event horizon has a Universe on it that seems holographic to outside observers, its time continuum is proximally that of the field of mass-energy comprising the event horizon/bubble/membrane. The thermodynamic processes and time of other regions located within or without that event horizon could be configured at their own pace. Plainly though, it might be possible to have to different thermodynamic-time reference systems interacting within a given field locally changing the pace and nature of the passage of time-just as different gravitational fields may interact such as the moon and sun upon the Earth. Christians ought not to be too troubled about interpreting time parameters for Genesis I think-it is enoughthat atheists disinterpret that for-themselves.
In the Revelation angels are referred to quite a lot. They seem almost to be a referent-term for a sector or nexus of sentience within the spiritual realm with the possibility that human sentience in some way is a sub-category of particular angels (perhaps with a higher dimensional protocol). John takes letters to the angels of churches such as that of Smyrna. Considering how natural philosophy describing the natural world intersects the spiritual plane of metaphysical, theological and philosophical interest is interesting. Consideration of the metaphysics of dimensions is fascinating yet less important except as it informs one of inferences and possibilities about God's way of being.
God probably is the issuer of dimensions as non-contingent being. There may be a rational mechanics of relations amidst dimensions from divine design rather than slots in empty space into which dimensions place mass and energy. Paul Erhenfrest saw the necessity of three spatial dimensions for matter to fully cohere, yet there may be more templates and courses for the interaction of mass and energy in other forms with more or fewer dimensions.
One must wonder if dimensions cohere in empty space as qualities pre-existing mass and energy or if mass and energy naturally arrange into three dimensional configurations with one more of time. That is the simplistic way to view the matter perhaps however there is no necessity that it is so. It is somewhat more challenging to imagine membranes with endowments of mass colliding that appear to be of four dimensions at intersections of collisions (something like when the Andromeda Galaxy intersects with the Milky Way in a few billion years). In some way one would want to speculate that membranes are a natural form for dimensions to take and for mass and energy to arrange themselves in-yet that shape of flatness perhaps as a one-dimension brane seems to be inconsistent with Occam's razor. Dimensions would need to become membranes of finite area and yet appear simultaneously with an initial endowment of mass (unless God placed it there) and/or energy, or mass and /or energy would need to arise without dimensions and slip into membranes (plural) that would later intersect, or mass and/ or energy might naturally evolve membranes that would collide or rebound as developed artifacts of a primary, evolved form. The evolution of membranes or dimensions probably shouldn't be regarded as a trivial feature ancillary to the existence of mass and or energy.
I still like Leibniz's spiritual monad theory of divine interaction with energy/mass. It is easy to take that as a general paradigm for God's spiritual issuance of forms that appear as energy-mass. Basic partitioned fields seem to need to set apart energy-mass from infinities anyway. Quantum valence shells and quantum uncertainty within a field or fields with constructions that have ordinal and finite set matrices of force seems a practical way of supporting a steady-state of mass entangled Universe.
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