ENERGY

Imagine there would be no energy.
There would be:
- No motions
- No sounds
- No light
- No warmth
- No thoughts
- No life
- There would not even be mass, as mass equals energy.
So, there would probably only be a whole lot of empty space!
(It might even be so that space is a form of energy also, but that's not sure)
But there is energy, and energy behaves like energy does.

We are energy
That I find to be a higher truth than all the things we learned from our parents, learned in school, and use in daily life: We are energy. Not just humans are energy, everything/everybody is a shape of energy!
Being human, we need to use or virtual reality (the "reality" we create in our mind), but it's important to know of what stuff the real reality is made of.

How energy behaves
We should continue the search for the most fundamental 'laws' of energy. We can discover a lot and write that down, but no matter what we think of it; the reality will stay basically the same.
The theory of everything, when if we discover it, it can in theory explain: everything.

The speed of energy & time
Imagine that all motions of energy in this universe could be paused, and resumed after a couple of millions of years later (relative to an other universe?!). The whole of reality would then continue as if nothing has happened, which is true. Time stood still.
If the speed of energy in one region is slowed down or speed up, time shifts. Time is relative. The speed of time is depending on the speed of energy.
Next question is if the direction of energy can change...

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Imagine that the whole universe could be re-winded 10 years and played again, would everything happen exactly as it did the first time? Would you make exactly the same choises the second time? (Your mind is re-winded also, so you aren't aware of the situation). If not, then you don't really have a choice. If you can make a different choice, how is that possible since everything is exactly the same?
Now we're getting the major question; are all happenings a logical effect of the previous causes, or do things happen without cause also?!

The idea of Time
Time is no dimension. The idea of time is product of the human mind.
To me it seems like many people find it hard to accept the continues change motion is, and rather choose the thought of "time", where there's one situation first followed by a next one, cutting the continues motion into time-frames, consequently creating "past time" "present time" and "future time" and other kinds of nonsense. The idea of time is a product of the mind, because the mind needs to compare situations in order to predict. Without a dynamic memory, a brain can only experience and react instantly (a thing Buddhists like to do). I do use a clock, a very handy tool it is, but time is no fundamental dimension to me. There's only "now" and shapes in motion.

Cause = Effect
So, things change shape, framed or not. From cause to effect, and every effect becomes a cause, and one question open; how did it all start? When not believing in the "time dimension", this question is pointless because there is no start.
If the universe could fit in a box, we will probably see that although it's in motion, the stuff it's made of is constant value.

Games
A game of Go or chess starts. The first moves are of great importance to the game; if you make a dumb move, it will effect the whole rest of the game and if your opponent plays well, you'll probably lose. A master of the game (not likely a human) knows who will win the game very soon because all possible effects of the first moves are clear. A game is fun as long as there's something to learn and a worthily opponent to beat.

Humans play games all the time, real games where the most important things are at stake. Here too can a dumb move early in life have great negative effects on the rest of the days. But it's not that simple; the game is complex and nobody is in total control of his/her life. The first years of life, probably the most important ones, are in the hands of the parents (if there are parents..).

It might on average be so that the ones who win one game have more chance to will the next one also, and the ones who lose at first will most likely lose the next game also. Of course this is on average thus there will always be opposite examples. If this is true, the government should make a choice how big the gab between losers and winners may be. If rich or poor is no matter of personal quality but of a continues effect of good or bad luck, we should support the ones with bad luck a bit more, especially in the first years of life. Too much a difference between the powerful and poor isn't good for the whole society, not good for just about everybody. One thing though; happiness is not for sale.

I don't believe in the power of money, I believe in the power of being well organized, working together. Money is simply a trade-tool, worthless otherwise. The effects of poring money into a "poor" country, is poor compared to organizing the country in a way that pleases most. I believe that there's no reason for a country to be poor, in theory. But most countries aren't well organized, have a government that's not fair to the majority of the population, and is especially unfair toward other countries. Powerful people don't wanna be less powerful, and powerful countries don't wanna be less powerful. All very childish, dump causes that will have their effects.

Do things always have a cause or do effects happen spontaneously also? This is a very important question. Many of today's (2006-01) scientist believe they spot effects without causes (on sub atomic levels). My instincts tells me the fact that they don't see the cause means that they don't see the cause. Creating the idea of a new reality is a complicated method of saying "I don't know". But what if my instincts are wrong? My instincts are adapt to this very narrow human environmental area, and thus blind to most of reality. If on nanoscale things just happen, without a cause, then the fate of our lives is not set also, and the power of choice is strong, but if there's nowhere a causeless effect to be found in this universe, then the idea of having a choice is yet another illusion.

Small choices can have great effects. If I hadn't trusted the young tired drivers in this cheap bus on unknown roads, and took a train instead, then I would not be paralyzed now (unless caused by an other event). But in most events, the effects of a little change won't be significant, like if I now do or do not blink my eyes, will probably not change the future much. Missed the train and met the love of your life? What if..


Energy = Time
Without change, there is no time.
Therefore; what we call time is a part of Energy.
Note that there is only now. The past and the future are like properties of the mind and have nothing to do with reality.
If somehow energy can speed up or slow down; so will what we call time.
If the speed of energy could be reduced to zero, that would be like freezing time, but reversing time can not be done .. I think.

Giesbert Nijhuis