Is Time Travel in the Social Imagination... ???

    Time travel is usually understood by most as going back to a bygone era or jumping forward to a point in the future. But how much of the idea is based in reality? Is it possible to travel through time? 

    According to NASA, time travel is possible, just not in the way you might expect. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity says time and motion are relative to each other, and nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second. Time travel happens through what’s called “time dilation.”

     Time dilation, according to Live Science, is how one’s perception of time is different to another, depending on their motion or where they are. Hence, time being relative ~ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2022/09/10/time-travel-possible-science/7847346001/

    Again, is time travel possible? Given the popularity of the concept, this is a legitimate question. Theoretical physicist, Peter Watson, Emeritus professor, Physics, Carleton University, thinks that there are several possible answers to this question.

   The simplest answer is that time travel cannot be possible because if it was, we would already be doing it. One can argue that it is forbidden by the laws of physics, like the second law of thermodynamics or relativity. There are also technical challenges: it might be possible but would involve vast amounts of energy.

    There is also the matter of time-travel paradoxes; we can hypothetically resolve these if free will is an illusion, if many worlds exist or if the past can only be witnessed but not experienced. Perhaps time travel is impossible simply because time must flow in a linear manner and we have no control over it, or perhaps time is an illusion and time travel is irrelevant.

 

COMMENTARY: I put in bold and or underlined the key or important words/phrases from the excerpts above.  As a sociologist (PhD), not a social worker, I can only give my expert take on the idea of time travel. Since, I study people, society/culture and their information reality, the social imagination, it is obvious to me that the idea of time travel stems from what it would mean to an individual to do so. 

There is no 'studied/researched' group of people who wish to time travel as a group with one given purpose to do so. Why? Probably because they couldn't really trust one another's motives to time travel. They somehow intuitively know that each person has his/her reason to do so. Sure, there could be a group of people that might be interested in time travel as a kind of tourism and or sightseeing; saying... "I would like to 'have been there", i.e. 

The point being, whether one man or many, meaning has everything to do with the desire to time travel. And, what time to travel to because the choice also means something. And, would they actually find the meaning they are looking for? Probably not. Why? 

Firstly, my assumption is that all time is in the social imagination, its a necessary illusion. And, thus we could say that time travel is irrelevant. And, I would go as far to say that its unobservable for the traveler in the sense of whether or not the traveler would know that they have actually 'time traveled'.

The social imagination, the social reality, is relational. All relationships in the social imagination are subjective in that they are necessary for the one among the many; hence, no man is an island. They, relationships, are created or grow up in the social imagination because that's the only place they can and do exist.  

And, in that context of growing up, our social reality is becomes grounded in agreement and disagreement through relationship building. Both agreement and disagreement compliment and complete the experience of social reality relationships. The more we agree on what it is 'real' and what is not through relationships, the more we become embedded in them and in it.

Regarding time travel, once, the so-called transportation back in time occurs, we would need to or rather have to immediately engage relationships: the surroundings and everything in that 'time'. In order to feel that something happened, we need to be able to confirm something happened by connecting with and interacting with the people and all things appearing before us to be able to discern if the time travel happened. 

Also, I suppose, to have an actual experience, if possible... we would not want to give away our identity knowing that whatever we had in our previous social reality, social imagination would likely not fit to this alternative or past... or jeopardize the experience. So, we would have to look and be 'like them' just to get around and take in 'understand' the information provided to not only discern the event indeed happened, but to enjoy it. 

In this 'process' of fitting in or adjusting to the 'new' relationships, in context of either the 'past or future', necessary in order to experience the event, we could easily be deceived by the social imagination into thinking... nothing happened simply through agreement of what actually is before us. 

I imagine that we could easily forget (instantly or over a short period of time) where we came from. In fact, we may necessarily have to forget the place where we came from. Essentially, erased or interpreted by the previous social imagination as a dream and the new reality is where you landed or end up. 

This is why a I can say time travel would be unobservable in the long run or over time... and perhaps still dreamed of as 'possible'.

CERN ~ The Large Hadron Collider is Looking for Dark Matter...

 

On Tuesday, July 5, 2022, scientists at CERN will begin collecting data for their experiments, and the Large Hadron Collider will run around the clock for almost four years. It’s the third run for the massive machine, with greater precision and discovery potential than ever before thanks to the upgraded data readout and selection systems, as well as new detector systems and computing infrastructure.

 “When we do research we hope that we will find something unexpected, a surprise. That would be the best result. But of course the answer is in the hands of nature, and it depends on how nature answers open questions in fundamental physics,” said Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, in a video posted on CERN’s website.

“We are looking for answers to questions related to dark matter, to why the Higgs boson is so light and many other open questions.”

CERN’s scientists will study the properties of matter under extreme temperature and density, and will also be searching for explanations for dark matter and for other new phenomena, either through direct searches or – indirectly – through precise measurements of the properties of known particles.

“While all the results obtained so far are consistent with the Standard Model, there is still plenty of room for new phenomena beyond what is predicted by this theory,” said CERN theorist Michelangelo Mangano in a news release.

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe and has previously been detected by its ability to create gravitational distortions in outer space. So, what is dark matter? Dark matter is thought to be nonluminous material that is postulated to exist in space and that could take any of several forms including weakly interacting particles (called - cold 'old' dark matter ) or high-energy randomly moving particles (called - hot 'new' dark matter).

“The Higgs boson itself may point to new phenomena, including some that could be responsible for the dark matter in the universe,” said Luca Malgeri, a spokesperson for CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid), one of the four big Large Hadron Collider experiments, which is built around a huge electromagnet[https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/europe/cern-hadron-collider-third-run-scn/index.html].

In light all of this new phenomenon and its research at CERN, many have inquired to the safety of such experiments.  In fact, on CERN'S own webpage you can read about the possibility of creating microscopic blackholes and strangelets. The first you are aware of I am sure... But, what is the other generated phenomenon? Strangelet is the term given to a hypothetical microscopic lump of ‘strange matter’ containing almost equal numbers of particles called up, down and strange quarks. 

According to most theoretical work, strangelets should change to ordinary matter within a thousand-millionth of a second. But could strangelets coalesce with ordinary matter and change it to strange matter? This question was first raised before the start up of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC, in 2000 in the United States. 

A study at the time showed that there was no cause for concern, and RHIC has now run for eight years, searching for strangelets without detecting any. At times, the LHC will run with beams of heavy nuclei, just as RHIC does. 

The LHC’s beams will have more energy than RHIC, but this makes it even less likely that strangelets could form. It is difficult for strange matter to stick together in the high temperatures produced by such colliders, rather as ice does not form in hot water. In addition, quarks will be more dilute at the LHC than at RHIC, making it more difficult to assemble strange matter. Strangelet production at the LHC is therefore less likely than at RHIC, and experience there has already validated the arguments that strangelets cannot be produced [https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider/safety-lhc].

Now, to the laymen, this sounds scientific and probably safe... but is it? We cannot really know the extent of entanglement that can be generated causing strange appearances in our given reality or if in fact, the very fabric of the universe could be cut wide open from such experiments as the strangelets move toward the center of the earth and back again and then back towards the center and back up again... Or if any microscopic blackhole could suddenly grow and swallow up all that we think we know. 

Now, you have to wonder if CERN scientists have taken into consideration the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a physical law that forms part of quantum mechanics. It says that the more precisely you measure the position of a particle, the less precisely you can know its motion (momentum or velocity). 

And the more precisely you measure a particle's motion, the less precisely you can know its position. This is contrary to our everyday experience of life, where these measurements are independent of each other, and can be measured as precisely as we'd like... as we would like. That's hypothetical too. What does it mean... as we would like? It only means that and that's the measure used at CERN. 

Only time will tell ...and certainly over a four year period a lot could happen on the atomic level given the so called nature of dark matter that could change our given reality; and ironically, we may not even notice until its too late or even be able to notice if any changes happened at all. We might become aliens on our own planet and never wonder what was before us or if it was us. 

 

Living in an Information Reality... Real or imagined, isn't it the same?

As abstract as it may seem, even on the quantum level or computer terminology...reality is all coded information. That is the essence of the universe and all  social reality. Whether we find it in elegant mathematical equations or bits of data in a sequence or spinning orbits of electrons: Electron spin is a quantum property of electrons. It is a form of angular momentum. The spin angular momentum associated with electron spin is independent of orbital angular momentum, which is associated with the electron's journey around the nucleus.

Yes, its just information coming together and not without purpose. The only reason we can recognize such 'orbital angular momentum' and agree that it is something is because it exists and it exists in the form of 'being as in streaming' information. Because of that, we are be able to understand what something is and is not and that nothing can be held together... rather that something holds all reality together just as the electron is held together in its spin and its journey.  No thing is held together by nothing, something does.  

In that case, what should really concern most scientists is what is the nature of reality, right? Well, that is the concern. And in that concern must be the observable condition of a fallen nature... you see, the universe is in a state of decay so is the information we have streaming in as to or what about the universe and the nature of reality? Does that have an effect on social reality? Yes, and it effects the social imagination of it. 

Is there seemingly new information out there or as in new to us? It appears that way but it is not really new. We are just engaging it for the first time but that does not make it new; after all, there is nothing new under the sun. Just because things appear to us... having not seen, observed or engaged a certain thing before, does not make it new. And, we must take into consideration that our observation or engagement is subject to decay even upon our experience of something (also in a state of entropy) which seems to be 'new or different in some way'.

For example, the Bose-Eisenstein Condensate seems to new but its not. Of the five states matter can be in, the Bose-Einstein condensate is perhaps the most mysterious. Gases, liquids, solids and plasmas were all well studied for decades, if not centuries; Bose-Einstein condensates weren't created in the laboratory until the 1990s.

A Bose-Einstein condensate is a group of atoms cooled to within a hair of absolute zero. When they reach that temperature the atoms are hardly moving relative to each other; they have almost no free energy to do so. At that point, the atoms begin to clump together, and enter the same energy states. They become identical, from a physical point of view, and the whole group starts behaving as though it were a single atom.

Information reacts to temperature as it seems and so does the universe, so does life, so does social reality - the social imagination. Temperature either slows the spread of information or speeds it up changing its appearance or potential as does motion as in acceleration which too generates heat.

Temperature is a complicated catalyst for all information and that applies to all sciences; including the social sciences: demographics, social psychology, socioeconomic, and political science which study and attempt to manipulate social imagination and its behavior in order to reshape it for particular and certain potential advantages.

You see, whenever there is a 'bombardment' of certain information in the social imagination events take place. Thus, one can observe that when certain information is dispersed to target certain groups behavior, social interaction dependent upon the social imagination, things become stirred up and... well, things really heat up and the social imagination gets 'stretched' causing a change in social behavior which an become out of control or at least 'chaotic', right? Well, one could suppose that depends on who is targeting certain 'target' groups and who isthen observing the behavior and calling it out as to what seems to be really happening.

It may be that what appears as chaotic or weak or over active or inactive social behavior is the result of a kind of interfacing of misinformation resulting in a kind of misbehaving or unusual interaction. That, in fact, may or may not look like  'metaphorically speaking' either, a Bose-Einstein Condensate or a Higgs Boson event which is observed in a field, called the "Higgs Field", existing throughout space, and when excited it breaks some symmetry laws of the electroweak interaction, triggering the Higgs mechanism which therefore causes the W and Z gauge bosons of the weak force to be massive at all temperatures below an extreme high value.

Both events have temperature involvement that when applied seeks to change or unlock and or lock onto certain information in order to control it. If it looks like a Bose-Einstein Condensae, wherein a large fraction of bosons are subject to absolute zero they tend to occupy the lowest quantum state, at which point microscopic quantum phenomena, particularly wavefunction interference, become apparent macroscopically... we then get 'magic', as in presto chango, right? The social imagination reacts similarly in regards to 'temperature' (hot/cold excitement) manipulation.

All in all, the one constant in all of this is that information, even that which is subject to entropy, exists/interacts/slows/speeds up/rejoins...  does not evolve, and it does not die. It looks like it changes appearance; but, only because someone or something is manipulating it. And, information can even appear to 'die' but that is impossible. It cannot and can never be extinguished into nothing.... we could never recognize it as 'no thing' because no thing does not and cannot exist in our information reality, the social imagination. Hence, information is always something... even and especially in the social imagination.

DNA is information... don't let anyone unlock/lock onto yours in order to manipulate it! There agenda may or may not be the same as yours...





ONLINE SOURCE~ https://www.livescience.com/54667-bose-einstein-condensate.html

Reality as Streaming Information ~ Only in the Social Quantum Analysis...

As abstract as it may seem, even on the quantum level or computer terminology...reality is all coded information. That is the essence of the universe and all  social reality. Whether we find it in elegant mathematical equations or bits of data in a sequence or spinning orbits of electrons: Electron spin is a quantum property of electrons. It is a form of angular momentum. The spin angular momentum associated with electron spin is independent of orbital angular momentum, which is associated with the electron's journey around the nucleus.

Yes, its just information coming together and not without purpose. The only reason we can recognize such 'orbital angular momentum' and agree that it is something is because it exists and it exists in the form of 'being as in streaming' information. Because of that, we are be able to understand what something is and is not and that nothing can be held together... rather that something holds all reality together just as the electron is held together in its spin and its journey.  No thing is held together by nothing. 

In that case, what should really concern most scientists is what is the nature of reality, right? Well, that is the concern. And in that concern must be the observable condition of a fallen nature... you see, the universe is in a state of decay so is the information we have streaming in as to or what about the universe and the nature of reality? Does that have an effect on social reality? Yes, and it effects the social imagination of it. 

Is there seemingly new information out there or as it new to us? It does appear that way (new) but it is not really new. We are just engaging it for the first time but that does not make it new; after all, there is nothing new under the sun. Just because things appear to us... having not seen, observed or engaged a certain thing before, does not make it new. And, we must take into consideration that our observation or engagement is subject to decay even upon our experience of something (also in a state of entropy) which seems to be 'new or different in some way'.

For example, the Bose-Eisenstein Condensate seems to be new concept or occurrence but its not. Of the five states matter can be in, the Bose-Einstein condensate is perhaps the most mysterious. Gases, liquids, solids and plasmas were all well studied for decades, if not centuries; Bose-Einstein condensates weren't created in the laboratory until the 1990s.

A Bose-Einstein condensate is a group of atoms cooled to within a hair of absolute zero. When they reach that temperature the atoms are hardly moving relative to each other; they have almost no free energy to do so. At that point, the atoms begin to clump together, and enter the same energy states. They become identical, from a physical point of view, and the whole group starts behaving as though it were a single atom.

Information reacts to temperature as it seems and so does the universe, so does life, so does social reality - the social imagination. Temperature either slows the spread of information or speeds it up changing its appearance or potential as does motion as in acceleration which too generates heat.

Temperature is a complicated catalyst for all information and that applies to all sciences; including the social sciences: demographics, social psychology, socioeconomic, and political science which study and attempt to manipulate social imagination and its behavior in order to reshape it for particular and certain potential advantages.

You see, whenever there is a 'bombardment' of certain information in the social imagination events take place. Thus, one can observe that when certain information is dispersed to target certain groups behavior, social interaction dependent upon the social imagination, things become stirred up and... well, things really heat up and the social imagination gets 'stretched' causing a change in social behavior which an become out of control or at least 'chaotic', right? Well, one could suppose that depends on who is targeting certain 'target' groups and who isthen observing the behavior and calling it out as to what seems to be really happening.

It may be that what appears as chaotic or weak or over active or inactive social behavior is the result of a kind of interfacing of misinformation resulting in a kind of misbehaving or unusual interaction. That, in fact, may or may not look like  'metaphorically speaking' either, a Bose-Einstein Condensate or a Higgs Boson event which is observed in a field, called the "Higgs Field", existing throughout space, and when excited it breaks some symmetry laws of the electroweak interaction, triggering the Higgs mechanism which therefore causes the W and Z gauge bosons of the weak force to be massive at all temperatures below an extreme high value.

Both events have temperature involvement that when applied seeks to change or unlock and or lock onto certain information in order to control it. If it looks like a Bose-Einstein Condensae, wherein a large fraction of bosons are subject to absolute zero they tend to occupy the lowest quantum state, at which point microscopic quantum phenomena, particularly wavefunction interference, become apparent macroscopically... we then get 'magic', as in presto chango, right? The social imagination reacts similarly in regards to 'temperature' (hot/cold excitement) manipulation.

All in all, the one constant in all of this is that information, even that which is subject to entropy, exists/interacts/slows/speeds up/rejoins...  does not evolve, and it does not die. It looks like it changes appearance; but, only because someone or something is manipulating it. And, information can even appear to 'die' but that is impossible. It cannot and can never be extinguished into nothing.... we could never recognize it as 'no thing' because no thing does not and cannot exist in our information reality, the social imagination. Hence, information is always something... even and especially in the social imagination.

DNA is information... don't let anyone unlock/lock onto yours in order to manipulate it! There agenda may or may not be the same as yours...





ONLINE SOURCE~ https://www.livescience.com/54667-bose-einstein-condensate.html