Comment:
Hi Bob,
I just noticed this interesting article about a new camera that can record at trillions of times a second.
If that is true, then they would be able to see the moments that all life stops and starts again.
The GWB have told us that life is created and destroyed billions of times a second.
This camera is not the first, there have been other cameras, but this is now the fastest.
So, that tells me that scientists have been able to record the creation destruction cycle for some time.
I wonder if they have seen it, or if they have, did they understand what they were looking at.
It would be fascinating to know if the scientists have observed this cycle.
Reply:
I don’t think that would work because, as the universe is being destroyed and recreated, so the camera would be destroyed and recreated.
So, the camera would not record the destruction part as it, too, would be destroyed.
Thus, the camera would only record the parts recreated. It would seem like a smooth flow of recordings.
To record the whole event(s) would require a camera outside of time and space.
Comment:
That makes sense.
Good point about the camera being part of the cycle so it would not exist in the “gap”.
It’s too bad it doesn’t work.
Reply:
I had to think about it for a while before I could visualise how such a camera would or would not work in that situation.
As you say, it is a shame, but I suppose that God’s archangels are cleverer than us.
Comment:
I have not thought about it too deeply yet.
But it is a bit of a head scratcher that the camera is being created and destroyed billions of times a second, but it is recording trillions of times a second.
But… when there is nothing in creation, there is no camera to record creation…
Reply:
What you wrote must be correct.
If nothing exists, then the camera cannot exist and so would not record the blank bit.
I was talking to my wife about this concept of everything being created, destroyed and then recreated again.
She struggles with this concept, so I used the example of a TV screen, where the image is created and destroyed hundreds of times a second.
That she could understand.
What she struggled with is why it should happen.
So, I told her that if things were not created and then destroyed, it would be like having a still frame on a TV.
If that happened, our DNA would not change, and we would be stuck in one spot of time/space for ever.
To evolve, we need this constant change.
The problem is that the process happens so quickly, that we cannot see it.
But then, we cannot see the image on a TV screen being created and destroyed hundreds of times a second either.
We just watch the image on the TV changing all the time.
Eventually, she grasped the concept.
It is good that we have TVs to use as an example because the concept of creation and destruction is counter intuitive.
I wonder how many people in the world know about this concept?
Not many, I bet.
It is also unfortunate that we cannot film this process, which makes it harder to grasp.
I wonder, if we could record sound at ultra high speed and then played back the recording slowed down, whether we would notice slight gaps in the sound bites, corresponding to the moments when nothing exists.
That might be possible.
I am thinking aloud, so to speak, here.
Imagine that we had signal generators that could make signals (sine, square or triangle) trillions of times a second.
Imagine also, that we had a means of recording those waves at that speed. We would need to play back the recording on an oscilloscope.
So, if we drastically slowed down the playback speed, what would we see?
Obviously, the waves would be joined up but, if we looked at the points where there was nothing, what would the wave(s) look like?
I posture that it might be possible to see a slight distortion in the joined-up waveforms.
But then again, no.
If everything was destroyed, there would be no signal and no recording.
As creation came back again, the signal generator and the recording device would start up again and so the waveforms would be perfect.
I think that we could not record the ‘gap’ either on sound or vision.
Comment:
I agree.
I think the GWB stated that the next frame is so similar to the previous frame that we would not be able to see anything that would look out of the ordinary.
I think it would look like one thing progressing to the next.
So, even though the camera is recording extremely fast and that creation stops and starts again, it is only recording between the moments (creation) of nothing (destruction) and as long as there is no big jump in change from one frame to the next, it would look like a seamless transition to our eyes.
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