Wednesday 6 June 2012

The implications of teleportation for non-linear time




Time is a dimension, in the same way that height, length and breadth are dimensions. If you consider the traditional three dimensions you find that they appear, from your perspective to be linear, that is in order to move from point A to point B along a plane you have to pass through the intervening space, you travel along a line in the direction of travel. In science fiction there has long been a dream of moving from point A to point B without crossing the intervening space, of moving instantaneously from one point to another. This is the dream of teleportation. In order for this to be possible it is necessary to suppose that rather than being linear, rather than having to move between points, dimensions are non-linear, that is to say that all points in a given dimension exist simultaneously and travel between them can occur without movement along a line.

If this is the case, and if time is simply another dimension that operates in the same way as the other dimensions this gives rise to an interesting proposition. It allows for the possibility that all points in time exist as discrete points and that there is the possibility of travel between them. This non-linear image of time suggests that there is no past, present or future in reality, that these are merely functions of our perception of the time dimension, in the same way that we perceive a distance between two points in physical space. The distance is in essence created by our perception of it, rather than being reality per se. The article linked at the top of this post demonstrates the progress being made in transmitting information between two points instantaneously, through quantum entanglement, providing evidence that reality and perception are incongruous.

The idea that our perceptions are at odds with physical reality is one that has been around for many years and is generally accepted by mainstream science, but what is less accepted is the question of whether, under certain conditions, it is possible to modify, or completely change our perceptions. This stems from a question over whether our perceptions of our conscious mind in isolation or whether we are fundamentally unable to experience the World in any way other that that predicated by our senses. There is a suggestion that our subconscious mind may be capable of perception independent of our mundane senses and may allow us access to non-linear perception. This supposes that the currently model of mind and the separation of conscious and subconscious is correct, a supposition that is as yet unproven. If, however, as some suggest this model is correct, and further that the subconscious is capable of non-linear perception it would go some way to explaining events such as deja-vu, remote viewing, psychic phenomena and more.

If this is the case it raises another question. If we suppose that the subconscious mind operates in this way, is it possible to close down the perception of the conscious mind and engage actively with the subconscious? If this was possible, the most likely current method would be utilising meditation and there is some evidence that prolonged and deep meditation techniques can significantly alter the way in which the practitioner views the World. There are anecdotal reports of Buddhist monks who are able to appear in two places at once, or who are considered to be able to accurately predict the future. These would be precisely the experiences that one would expect if the theories of the difference between perception and reality were correct.

So, the question is, is it possible to predict the future, read minds, teleport and so on? It seems that, in theory at least, the answer may well be yes.

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