<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Exploring/explaining my premise that motion doesn’t exist:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I posit that there is no motion (and no time). With regards to no motion, let me try to explain.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What we perceive as motion is actually a multitude of simultaneously existing static events.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Imagine that there are two hundred thousand ‘events’ - Each event is your consciousness/intellect processing a ‘node’ of existence.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Event 1: A baseball being held in the hand of a pitcher on the mound in the Coors field stadium of Denver Colorado. The bases are loaded.</li><li class="">Event 200: A baseball being held in the hand of a pitcher on the mound in the Coors field stadium of Denver Colorado. The bases are loaded, but now it ‘appears’ as if his left foot has shifted forward, and lifted slightly off the ground.</li><li class="">Event 2000: A baseball being held in the hand of a pitcher on the mound in the Coors field stadium of Denver Colorado. The bases are loaded, and the pitcher's left foot is approximately two feet off the ground, and his arm has moved backward and upward near his right shoulder.</li><li class="">Event 200,000: A baseball is inches away from an extended bat. The baseball is directly in line with the bat, and the batter appears poised as if he is extending his physical presence into the bat, willing the wood to strike the leather coated ball. The pitcher has a fully extended right arm, and his left foot is on the ground approximately four feet from the top of the mound. His right foot is in the air raised approximately two feet off the ground. His head is lowered in a slight crouched posture.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">All of these separate events exist simultaneously, but our brains/consciousness is limited (we’re mortals/mere humans/biological beings with limited computational capabilities). We can only process a finite number of these simultaneously concurrent events/nodes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We string these events together along a probability path that results in a connected string of events. We have created a reality with a semblance of motion by stringing together a series of seemingly related events. They are related by their probabilities (event 201 is likely to exist in vicinity of event 200 and 202) and we are limited in our computational capability. We can only process subsets of events that probabilistically adjacent by a certain degree of separation. We do not have the ability (we are limited mortals/mere humans/biological beings with limited computational capabilities) to connect/process events that are separated by vast probabilistic deltas. Additionally, we can only process a limited number of simultaneous nodes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we could process a greater number of adjacent events (we can), we could ‘exist’ in more than one ‘reality’ simultaneously.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What we perceive as motion is actually a ‘figment’ of our limited computational capability. Our brains/consciousness renders these connected events (processed nodes) into something that we can understand. Our consciousness orders these simultaneous events in a synchronized and specific sequence such that we can comprehend the reality we are processing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just as photons with different wavelengths are perceived by our brains as having different ‘colors’, our consciousness is creating the ‘illusion’ of motion so that we can more easily comprehend the simultaneously existing static nodes that we are processing. The differing frequencies or wavelengths of RF energy which we call light do not actually contain a property called color. Or brain assigns a color so that we can perceive the variations in a way that we comprehend. What if our brains were ‘programmed’ to imbue these different wavelengths of frequency spectrum with a property called ‘odor’? Would we ‘see’ the world as a vast array of olfactory objects that we could smell as opposed to visible objects that we see?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are 200,000 universes of reality (from the scenario above). Each is slightly different than the other. Our consciousness selects various nodes from amongst these different universes and processes them to render a ‘reality’ that we can perceive. Our consciousness is only capable of experiencing these simultaneous universes in a way that appears to be a single universe where all the events are linked through the ‘motion’ of a pitcher throwing a ball towards the batter, and the batter swinging his bat towards the ball.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually there is no motion at all. We create the illusion of motion when our conscious connects the probabilistically adjacent events through a processing function. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One can also envision the separate and simultaneously existing universes as occupying the same physical space. The events/nodes/separate universes are only separated by probability space; creating a quantum soup (or foam) of possible realities. By processing the different nodes, we collapse the quantum soup to create an apparent physical reality of a single universe where motion occurs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This probabilistic universe of many (and it’s a lot of possibilities/though not infinite) possibilities can exist without time or motion. Selection and processing of specific nodes creates or collapses various realities as we ‘perceive’ a small portion of the greater whole.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If the processing power of our consciousness were greater, we could perceive multiple realities simultaneously, we could process vastly separate sets of probabilistic events. If only we could expand our processing power beyond that of our limited intellect/processing limitations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Robert</div></body></html>