GrowingSmaller
Muslm Humanist
Think of the hypersurface of the present in physics, i.e. all the world and skies, heavens etc viewed as a flat sheet.
Next reduce that sheet by another dimension into a hyper-line, so you have a light-sheet rather than a time cone coming from it.
Then reduce that line to a hyper-dot, the hyper-dot of the present, so that the "light cone" emanating from it becomes not a cone, not a sheet, but a light-line.
There we have it, a path it is not possible to veer from, the light-line of the future:
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But, just as photons can have wavelengths, maybe we can have moral influence in a deterministic world?
Our freedonm is not to somehow fall off the line, but to change wavelength!!!
So we habve "sirat al-mustaquim", the "straight path" in Islam, but it is also fitting correct proper etc.
Just as we can imagine spilt tea on in the world around us, also in a light cone, a sheet, a line....
Just as we can imagine a badly lived life, like spilt tea, like the wrong frequency of light etc, all possible in the one line of action.
Note, a light cone diagram from Wikipedia:
Next reduce that sheet by another dimension into a hyper-line, so you have a light-sheet rather than a time cone coming from it.
Then reduce that line to a hyper-dot, the hyper-dot of the present, so that the "light cone" emanating from it becomes not a cone, not a sheet, but a light-line.
There we have it, a path it is not possible to veer from, the light-line of the future:
_______________________________________________________________
But, just as photons can have wavelengths, maybe we can have moral influence in a deterministic world?
Our freedonm is not to somehow fall off the line, but to change wavelength!!!
So we habve "sirat al-mustaquim", the "straight path" in Islam, but it is also fitting correct proper etc.
Just as we can imagine spilt tea on in the world around us, also in a light cone, a sheet, a line....
Just as we can imagine a badly lived life, like spilt tea, like the wrong frequency of light etc, all possible in the one line of action.
Note, a light cone diagram from Wikipedia:
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