Little trick to become better? (or do you not dare to?)

One thought for the mind. See for yourself what you do with it.

What is the risk of having it all? And what if you can get all that you want? You probably thinking the same as I do: you get lazy. And when you do, you don't have to think more than you need. And do you get any better then? Nope. Not much.

Reunion

Last weekend I had a family reunion. There were a lot of kids. To contribute to the entertainment my wife made a goblins hat for every child and we went through the forests to find the route of the goblin to end up at a table of goblin cookies. At the table I was sitting to sing some songs with the kids. The kids seem to love it, so what do you want more? 

We also thought of making soap bubbles. And not just soap bubbles, but really big ones. You need 2 sticks for it and a rope through ringlets. To screw the ringlets into the sticks I took a pair of tongs. Nothing special about that you think.

But that was until my oldest son came around and of course he could join me build one of these bubble sticks. I gave him my tongs, the sun was shining and I had no intention to go to the shack to get me an other pair of tongs. So I tried it with my bare hands, but it was quite a bit painful. I didn't realize at that point I was ending up pretty primitive by the lack of tools. So what I did is look around if anything within reach could help me get that ringlet onto my stick. Especially within reach! Because again, I didn't had any intention to go anywhere but my garden seat and get out of the beautiful sun and ruin this lazy morning I had. If I must, I just finished the things by hands while torturing myself. 

Then I saw a little crack in my garden furniture I was sitting on. That gave me the idea to screw the ringlet just a little bit into my stick and then place it into the crack and screw the wooden stick on to the ringlet, instead of screwing the ringlet onto the stick as I did before.

Conslusion

The screwing of the stick onto the ringlet turned out to be much easier and faster while my son was still struggling with the tongs. And with this stupid example, I realized that when you miss something, for example: tools, you are effectively finding a solution for something you didn't realize you need any solution for! So there may be tools, that you think you need, or got familiar with, which turn out to be not the most effective tools to create the things you want. So maybe you need to let go of a tool once in a while and find out for yourself. Do you know already which tool you're gonna ditch? Do you dare to loose some tools?

Time for an other subject now

It seems I got a subject favor... I think it has something to do with agility. And on this post I'm really off subject. Really, really off. This post is about time.
I saw some YouTube videos on general relativity and quantum meganics. Thé interesting thing in these subject is of course time. Time dilation, slices in space-time, observers point of view and that everybody experiences time differently. Maybe I put some urls at the end of this post and you can enjoy these videos as much as I did.

Inevitable

One of the conclusions of these videos is that the past is not gone and the future already exists. And that's what struck me and got me thinking. If everything is inevitable, what is the meaning of life and do I have a choice of how to decorate my life then? First I thought, well that's nice. Everything I do and everything I think, everything I want to change already exists, so what's the point of changing anything? On second thought, I think we do not have to worry if the future is written or not, because: think for yourself, if I want to change the way I live tomorrow, I can, right? If I choose to take a plane and go the south Africa, I can do that, whether I'm bound to do that or not. I am still in control.
A few years back there was a pilot series, I believe it was called 'flash forward'. It only lasted for a year, so season one is the only season that ever came out. But the subject was interesting. Everybody on the planet had a vision of 3 minutes of there own life in the near future. I think the time period was the begin of the year, let's say January. And the flash forward was during the countdown of the end of the year, noon new years eve. (the ones who didn't got the flash forward, well you know what's going to happen to them...) But the funny thing is that everyone who didn't like there sight of their future tried to change it. But how hard they tried to, they where destined to end up exactly how they where shown. Everything felt in place. But (un)fortunately, that was fiction. The story told us though that you can't escape time, because it was already written.

Static Assets

I came up with a theory or an explanation of time of my own. I searched for it on the internet, but it seems like no one thinks about it this way or it seems that I cannot properly search the internet. So the theory is this: time and the whole universe is static. It is made (how it is made or it evolved is not the question here) and it's staying the same. Time is static because if you think about it, time is different to everyone because time is relative, so I can imagine a perspective from a point or dimension that has no concept of time, time is just an other dimension added to the dimensions we know. So I think that you cannot say that 13.7 billion years ago the big bang happened, because time is a thing we humans experience.

An other point I find very interesting is teleporting and entanglement. It looks like it proofs the existing of more dimensions. In a two dimensional world, two points can't be at the same position at the same time. But when you fold this two dimensional world, (and while you're doing that, you are adding a new dimension), you can bring those two points at the same position at the same time and you have some sort of entanglement. So if you could do this from a two dimensional world to a three dimensional world, you can do the same from a three dimensional world to a four of five dimensional world. If you read about quantum mechanics, you know that electrons and other particles can be at different places at the same time and jump without spending any time on it to an other place in the atom. So that concludes there could be (and probably are) more dimensions then we experience in our world.

Further more I think or can imagine that we humans and every living thing is having the conception of time. But in fact (or in fiction) we are gliding along on some kind of wave through the life we live. We are moving through our life and through the world. And we experience time because we can measure it and we got confident with it. It feels real. It feels so real because it looks like we are allies with it. We are dragged along and cannot seem to go backwards on it. We are trapped.

Rephrase

This may sound like a gloomy perspective, but I think it's not. It seems to me that we humans are enlightened to know what we are and how this universe works. I find that some kind of victory to the human kind. And from my religious perspective I find it confident that I am part of the universe God made for us. And I think that if I wasn't a Christian, this whole idea troubled me a lot.

Things that we can think about thoroughly is: what are black holes then, since time completely stops there? Is it some kind of exit from space time? And wormholes may be a location through an other dimension back to our dimensions?

What a post...

I hope that scientists can figure out what's more in this universe than we can see, feel, smell, taste or hear. Let's find out in what beautiful universe we live in.
This is really the weirdest post I ever blogged and it has clearly nothing to do with agility, but I felt the urge to do so. I apologize for that.

(note: I don't think the static time theory is mine alone. There must be a lot of people out there who think the same. I was just having a great time blogging this ;-)