Monday, May 7, 2007

Churning Out a Universe

Existence is not an attribute of the universe,
for it has no meaning or purpose
outside of a mind in thought,
and has no meaning outside that instant
which we call the ‘present’.
The past does no longer exist,
just its memories,
sometimes making it
to the kept accounts of history,
invariably subject to the pens bias
and human fancy-
to be in turn passed on to the past itself.
And the future,
that is yet to come into existence
is an obscure, perhaps opaque,
function-
of an overwhelming multitude
of variables,
each one firmly established
in the present instant.
Some defined and assigned values
only for the one instant,
others living on for longer.
And yet there are those
that seem to exist
since the start of all things
and will probably be
till its end.
Some of these variables seem constant,
unchanging with time,
some now well known,
and then perhaps others
are yet to reveal their existence,
or value.
Then there are those variables,
that are ever transient,
changing their value at every instant,
at ever varying rates
with time.
They are the parameters
to the function
that tirelessly has been doing
the singular task
of churning out
the next state of the universe
from its present state.
If this universal function
is invariant,
and continuos,
then it follows,
the values received by the observer,
who exists only
and always in the present,
are our only clues,
to the values of the variables
in the previous instant.
They are a chain of clues
to the state of the universe
at any instant in the past,
and can predict its state
at any time in the future,
by simple extrapolation.
These variables and constants,
are the keys to a code,
that obfuscates all
and reveals all.
They are accurate messages
being passed down through time,
to whomsoever that may care to read them.
Only the worthy
shall decipher them,
And recieve the fruit
of omniscience.
.
The function is probably
like a encrypting stream,
perhaps ever increasing
the time complexity
of decoding the messages.
The constants
are however plain and raw,
and thus our biggest clues
into the past
and the future.
They are transmissions
in the realm of logic,
being sent to us,
from the very start of time,
and will be there for us
till the end of time
if such a thing were to come.
Perhaps if all the transients
depended on the constants,
then we could work them out,
by simple substitution.
Then we would be left
with just the constants.
The implication is immense,
for that will allow us to guess the function itself
and so doing, allow us to know
all states of the universe,
for all times.
The problem is no doubt a difficult one,
but who knows-
who knows what limits,
the worth
of a mind in motion.
.
.
.
.

This passage is a result of my mindless pondering on- all and forever
Tukul Chakraborty

(also Noetic Novice and now also @rationalDude on twitter.com)

Epilogue-

If we could get past the time complexity of the problem, and deduce such a Universe Function (or just guess it blindly!) , we would then have solved all mysteries of all time, space and logic and everything else!!!
Words of a Novice you say? Well, maybe so, but of the Noetic kind!

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