Einstein Devolved Time
Since such a thing as mass exists, your regrets, anxiety, and indecision have already been defeated. And it will sound like a story. Let me show you why.
The 26-year-old German savant published a mostly ignored landmark paper a century ago, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” which completed a three-century-old work known as Galileo’s Theory of Relativity.
Albert Einstein girded his predecessor’s work with thought experimentation to create a theory for far broader contexts. But only where the speed of light is constant.
And as Einstein knew, it must be beautiful if it is to be a high, unifying truth. So he imagined running alongside a beam of light in a lovely, perfect stride.
"Truth is always beautiful.
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Einstein’s single theory is unbelievably applied not only to mechanics and electromagnetism but also to much of physics itself. The theory also reconciled multiple scientific fields—then even back another 250 years, from Galileo to Newton—an event echoing both forward and backward in time.
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A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability. – Albert Einstein "
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He’s saying theories are types of arbitrage. And the wider the arbitrage of an idea, the more impressive. So stick with me here.
So, why was Einstein’s initial Special Theory of Relativity called by its modifier “special”?
Because it applies only where spacetime is flat. But natural spacetime is rarely flat because it involves gravity, heavy masses like stars, and long distances, and so it curves. His first special theory — his arbitrage of science — was limited.
Over the following decade, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity began to swallow scenarios in deep space—where gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape, such as black holes.
Einstein gifted us a greater scope—plus precision. He leaped out of Newtonian physics into special relativity and general relativity. His single mind was fixated on unifying, trusting beauty to arbitrage facts into a more valuable world.
And that’s the purpose of a maximal story with maximal arbitrage: a simple formula with the greatest possible scope encompassing not only religion but philosophy, psychology, mythology, history, my false sacrifices, and all of science. For science’s marathon is a search for Truth. Beauty’s marathon is a search for a target at which to aim. It will ingest and arbitrage all sorts of worlds, theories, philosophies, and religions to create a more valuable story with a more beautiful end.
But how do science and steps beautify? What does that mean for you as you fight evil time and your desire to give up moving ahead today?
- Imagine what your life could be like if you went to war against the fear of wasting your life.
- Imagine what you could accomplish if you took on the responsibility of living forever.
- Imagine what sort of man you could become if you were determined to take a single step of difficulty every day for the next 30 days. 60 days. 365 days.
Would you even recognize that man?
Imagine mirroring the man who follows the strongest model of persistence, competency, and giving. What could you become?
Sub-Lesson: Imagining Space-Time
Let me give you an example. Einstein gave us a new perspective to prove his theory as he ran along a beam of light in his imaginative marathon-like experiments. Time, our enemy was being attacked by this genius man as he ran.
Time’s ugliness and hopelessness tried to sink us, but it was flipped into a beautiful story. Like Einstein, you also will see that story if you will just change where you stand, or run, when you look for it. A little imagination never hurts either.
Einstein devolved time from a force into a mere mode of thinking. It was almost as if Rembrandt’s seascape had called Einstein’s Jewish mind to join the journey into the timeless canvas where Einstein’s genius was untrapped to conquer the entire dimensionality of time because a greater mind called him to take a step.
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But Einstein came along and took space and time out of the realm of stationary things and put them in the realm of relativity—giving the onlooker dominion over time and space, because time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. – Dimitri Marianoff, Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man"
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Centuries ago, a flat world was eventually cast aside for a spherical world. Suddenly Einstein entered to tell us our space-time is not flat either. He is telling us time is bent itself. We are not made to be bent by it. Specifically, time and space are “not conditions in which we live.” Yet we have a hard time accepting that the time around us is no longer as undefeatable as it once was, just as we first rebelled against the idea that the world was round.
Anything that can be bent, as light bends, will eventually break. Time itself is cracking already if such a thing as mass exists somewhere.
The light is attracted to the Sun. It is the attraction itself that warps light and bends time.
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Mind what attracts you, for it will bend you. "
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And, of course, the beauty of the earth from the horizon of space stems from the shadow of the darkness curving to escape our sunless depths. Like that darkness in Rembrandt’s stormy seascape kissed by yellow salvation.
This is a little like the love and beauty of a marathoner, or a living man, hoping to take the next step despite the pain. Hope cracks the struggle.
Mass is like hope. Any of it changes everything everywhere.
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Mass is like hope. Any of it changes everything everywhere."
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Mass creates gravity. So if there is any mass anywhere, time will forever be in the process of breaking everywhere.
And therefore, your nemesis, time, is being defeated and is merely a false enemy trying to remove your hope through regret, indecision, and the mirror you look into each morning as you age.
What Einstein’s imagination saw, as he ran along that beam of light, was what we rebelled against. But if we look with our high imagination, instead of our low intellect, we will begin to see Einstein’s running unlocked a high, unifying truth that was simply beautiful. And freeing if we will listen. Like a runner’s stride that won’t quit because her desire to reach the finish line is pulling her in like a gravitational force.
Looking for the facts, we miss the magic.
Looking for the beauty, we find the truth.
Expecting the smart man, we miss the genius.
Telling only special small-”s” stories, we disbelieve a high, unifying General Story can superintend over our time-bound tales with a mass big enough to draw us in.
Now, go forth freed to run toward the brightest future you can imagine today.
Since time is broken, you will live forever, or not at all.
Rick
