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Im stuck. I had a dream that I was floating through space, most likely lightyears from anything, with nothing to do but wait. Endlessly. My near-infinite patience completely mute. Well at least I'll starve or die of dehydration eventually. Oh wait, nope, Im being kept alive by some miraculous medical technology that also keeps me from freezing, burning, etc. No such thing as aging at this rate. Great. Well maybe theres some intelligent life out there somewhere and in a few millenia theyll find me, or I'll slowly get pulled by gravity to some object to look at, fall on, play with, something. Anything? There are no stars. There is nothing. Then I thought: "But there must be an equal and opposite to my thoughts, right?"
Then I woke up.
Good thing I have patience.

Have you ever seen a person wearing a sign that says "The End Is Near" and thought to yourself they were crazy? Or did you worry they might be right? Have you bought into others histeria about the end of the mayan calendar?
Well don't worry.
The End is Now. If you could stop time what would you see? Well... it would be like stopping an animation in 3DS MAX thats being computed by a system so fast that it only takes a planck second to render each "frame." So what does that rendering process, in a single frame, look like (represent)? A bunch of "photons" are simulated leaving the light sources (the amount depends on their luminosity etc) and bouncing out off of all the geometry in the scene (for a certain number of calculations), giving values that determine the amount of light on each surface, which are all then rendered, and that frame is complete. So watching the "movie" (realtime, real life), you could trace the "path" of a photon, and measure the change in its location over time to get a speed of 3.0x10^8 m/s. But it's a meaningless number, because in a single instant, no matter how short of a time segment the rendered frame is, the light in the scene is still moving through the entire scene, seperate from the illusion reality. Its "speed" is just how fast the computer can simulate its trajectory and info? So what is the importance of that speed, c, if its an illusion? Why would it be that specific number? What if thats the relativistic "infinite" speed, and light is moving as fast as time will allow? If it moved any faster it would be moving out of the same instant it began in? HMM. Id like to hear what anyone thinks, although if you're going to complain about the proportions of the arms, I know.

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Im stuck. I had a dream that I was floating through space, most likely lightyears from anything, with nothing to do but wait. Endlessly. My near-infinite patience completely mute. Well at least I'll starve or die of dehydration eventually. Oh wait, nope, Im being kept alive by some miraculous medical technology that also keeps me from freezing, burning, etc. No such thing as aging at this rate. Great. Well maybe theres some intelligent life out there somewhere and in a few millenia theyll find me, or I'll slowly get pulled by gravity to some object to look at, fall on, play with, something. Anything? There are no stars. There is nothing. Then I thought: "But there must be an equal and opposite to my thoughts, right?"
Then I woke up.
Good thing I have patience.

Have you ever seen a person wearing a sign that says "The End Is Near" and thought to yourself they were crazy? Or did you worry they might be right? Have you bought into others histeria about the end of the mayan calendar?
Well don't worry.
The End is Now. If you could stop time what would you see? Well... it would be like stopping an animation in 3DS MAX thats being computed by a system so fast that it only takes a planck second to render each "frame." So what does that rendering process, in a single frame, look like (represent)? A bunch of "photons" are simulated leaving the light sources (the amount depends on their luminosity etc) and bouncing out off of all the geometry in the scene (for a certain number of calculations), giving values that determine the amount of light on each surface, which are all then rendered, and that frame is complete. So watching the "movie" (realtime, real life), you could trace the "path" of a photon, and measure the change in its location over time to get a speed of 3.0x10^8 m/s. But it's a meaningless number, because in a single instant, no matter how short of a time segment the rendered frame is, the light in the scene is still moving through the entire scene, seperate from the illusion reality. Its "speed" is just how fast the computer can simulate its trajectory and info? So what is the importance of that speed, c, if its an illusion? Why would it be that specific number? What if thats the relativistic "infinite" speed, and light is moving as fast as time will allow? If it moved any faster it would be moving out of the same instant it began in? HMM. Id like to hear what anyone thinks, although if you're going to complain about the proportions of the arms, I know.