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I was reluctant to post this one yesterday because of its abundance of dramatic effect, but after making some more or less haphazard improvements which turned out well, perhaps it is worth posting after all.

I once saw someone on one of the garbage channels (DC, NGC; not to be confused with the sewage channels HC, AP, TLC etc.) mention that during the initial moments of the Big Bang light speed plummeted. Later I tried looking it up, but to little avail. I did like the idea though, not only because I have always had a problem with light speed being a constant in an absolute sense, but also because the combination of 'light' and 'fall' - where have I heard that before? And not just the biblical story of Lucifer, the Light Bearer being cast out of heaven: the idea also seems to match the Gnostic claim that the reality we are part of is nothing but a cosmic error. But as said, even if the notion exist in scientific cosmological circles, it hardly appears to be very mainstream.

Considering light speed a constant is of course fairly obvious at least for practical purposes. Albert Einsteins theories are ultimately about observation, in which light speed plays an obvious key role. Allowing it to be potentially 'wobbly' would probably amount in some exceedingly complex models. And unnecessarily complex too, because everything we know is ultimately based on observation. Without observation, there would be little we could ever see, know, feel, experience, do, create. Or at least from an everyday, feet-on-the-ground, and scientific perspective that is.

A mystic would passionately disagree: they believe in 'intuitive knowledge', passed directly from God / the Divine. A related concept, found in a.o. Platonism and Buddhism, is that of preexisting knowledge: being of a divine nature, our 'souls' already know everything there is to know, and if we aren't consciously omniscient it is because the divine knowledge inside ourselves is being obfuscated by the distractions offered by the everyday, material reality (the same contempt for the 'real' world found among Gnostics).

It is easy to dismiss the mystical claim of direct knowledge as ridiculous. No mystic has ever come back from the world above with a working design for a rocket engine for example. Such things are the product of rational thought (which the more New Age-ey mystics, which includes the Eastern Orthodox, tend to either completely reject as false, or look down on as inferior). On the other hand, there is a claim that the discovery of zero (0) was the result, not of mathematical exercise, but rather of mystical contemplation. And especially from a hard scientific perspective, zero can safely be considered the biggest human invention EVER. If this viewpoint is correct, then mysticism should be placed up there in the realms of fundamental research: useless in itself, but with great spinoff potential. There are also theories that mysticism brings societies down and leaves their population vulnerable to conquest and enserfment. Maybe, like everything else, it just has different and often conflicting aspects.

Anyway: Fall To Light Runner!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=65QAjU…

Description
I was reluctant to post this one yesterday because of its abundance of dramatic effect, but after making some more or less haphazard improvements which turned out well, perhaps it is worth posting after all.

I once saw someone on one of the garbage channels (DC, NGC; not to be confused with the sewage channels HC, AP, TLC etc.) mention that during the initial moments of the Big Bang light speed plummeted. Later I tried looking it up, but to little avail. I did like the idea though, not only because I have always had a problem with light speed being a constant in an absolute sense, but also because the combination of 'light' and 'fall' - where have I heard that before? And not just the biblical story of Lucifer, the Light Bearer being cast out of heaven: the idea also seems to match the Gnostic claim that the reality we are part of is nothing but a cosmic error. But as said, even if the notion exist in scientific cosmological circles, it hardly appears to be very mainstream.

Considering light speed a constant is of course fairly obvious at least for practical purposes. Albert Einsteins theories are ultimately about observation, in which light speed plays an obvious key role. Allowing it to be potentially 'wobbly' would probably amount in some exceedingly complex models. And unnecessarily complex too, because everything we know is ultimately based on observation. Without observation, there would be little we could ever see, know, feel, experience, do, create. Or at least from an everyday, feet-on-the-ground, and scientific perspective that is.

A mystic would passionately disagree: they believe in 'intuitive knowledge', passed directly from God / the Divine. A related concept, found in a.o. Platonism and Buddhism, is that of preexisting knowledge: being of a divine nature, our 'souls' already know everything there is to know, and if we aren't consciously omniscient it is because the divine knowledge inside ourselves is being obfuscated by the distractions offered by the everyday, material reality (the same contempt for the 'real' world found among Gnostics).

It is easy to dismiss the mystical claim of direct knowledge as ridiculous. No mystic has ever come back from the world above with a working design for a rocket engine for example. Such things are the product of rational thought (which the more New Age-ey mystics, which includes the Eastern Orthodox, tend to either completely reject as false, or look down on as inferior). On the other hand, there is a claim that the discovery of zero (0) was the result, not of mathematical exercise, but rather of mystical contemplation. And especially from a hard scientific perspective, zero can safely be considered the biggest human invention EVER. If this viewpoint is correct, then mysticism should be placed up there in the realms of fundamental research: useless in itself, but with great spinoff potential. There are also theories that mysticism brings societies down and leaves their population vulnerable to conquest and enserfment. Maybe, like everything else, it just has different and often conflicting aspects.

Anyway: Fall To Light Runner!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=65QAjU…