The Cross of Mithras Vol. 1: EOD Operation Welcome to Hell (28 page)

  “Yes.”

  “Do you humans believe that time and space is separate, or the same thing?”

  “Some people believe that it is separate, some people believe that it is the same.”

  “What about your scientists?”

  “I think that they believe that it is the same thing.”

  “Have they ever argue whether or not it is the same thing, or not?”

  “Not to my knowledge.”

  “I’m not going to say whether it is, or isn’t, since there are too many arguments both for, and against, that it is the same thing. So let me ask you this: what precisely is time?”

  “We don’t know. We only have theories.”

  “Relativity holds the key. When an object is traveling at a certain speed, time begins to slow down. But is time the same as mass and/or energy? The only way to know is to run a certain speed test. A scientist would need to use two atomic clocks and test them at many different types of speeds. Both atomic clocks would need to travel to the same destination, with one traveling slightly faster. If both clocks are in perfect synchronization, and one clock, especially at low speeds, is out of synch with the other one, than time and space must be the same. If a certain speed must be reached before both of the clocks are out of synch with one another, than time and space is separate. Has any human scientists ever conducted that type of an experiment before?”

  “Not to my knowledge.”

  “It is Relativity and the speed test of time that proves what time is. When the inertia of an object increases, and it needs more energy to go faster as a result, did the mass of the object really increased, or is it something else? To imply that it increased in mass is to assume that the mass was always there. Air resistance can explain it on a planet, but not in space. If an object weighs one pound, and it travels fast enough so that it could weigh a ton, did it always weigh a ton?”

  “No I guess not.”

  “Then where did it get that extra weight from if it didn’t come from itself?”

  “From its speed in the form of energy?”

  “Let’s suppose a space probe was traveling fast enough to where time has slow down, the space probe would continue on long after it has run out of fuel. Now let’s suppose it was traveling at the speed of light, and then the space probe has ran out of fuel, would it slow down, or continue on? There has got to be something that is acting as a mass, when it doesn’t come from the object traveling at the speed of light. Since energy equals mass and inertia is energy, than time must be energy. But how could that be? Simple. If you remove both potential and kinetic energy from an object, wouldn’t it be the same as if you were to stop time?”

  “Yes. Oh... I got it now.”

  “Clearly time is a different type of energy than that of the energy that mass is. Would you, or would you not, agree?”

  “Yeah I agree.”

  “Than you can see that time and space is two different things. Can you?”

  “Yeah.”

  “So now we go back to what is the fourth dimension. If the fourth dimension is time, and the third dimension has both time and space in it, as well as a two dimensional object known as a shadow, than how could the fourth dimension be created before the third?  Since time is of a different energy than that of space, and both of them are separate, than we must ask ourselves, ‘how could space exist before time’. Since it is impossible that space could be created before time, than we can deduce that the fourth dimension is not time. But something else is.”

  “So... which dimension is time then, if it is not the fourth?”

  “It’s the first.”

  “How’s that?”

  “As you know the third dimension is length, width and height. While the second dimension does not have height, and the first does not have width. And the zero-dimension would of course have no length to it. So we must first start out with the zero-dimension, along with the understanding of the dualism of the universe. You know, love-hate, up-down, good-evil, youth-old age, etc.”

  “Yeah.”

  “So, how do we know that the zero-dimension exists? If you were to equate the zero-dimension to a dot, and then you were to expand that dot, it would look like a circle. Now let’s look at the circle. A circle is composed of an infinite number of lines and dots. Case in point: look at a triangle with only three lines and three dots to it. Now look at a square with four lines and four dots to it. Now look at a pentagon with five lines and five dots to it. And of course, look at a hexagon with six lines and six dots to it. And so on. What you would notice is that it keeps on looking more rounded.

  To say that there are four dimensions raises the possibility that there could be more of them. To say that there is only four dimension, without any proof, is not only unscientific, but it is also absurd. So when we look at the circle, the only thing that we are saying is that maybe, just maybe, there could be an infinite number of dimensions, and that they all somehow, in someway, go back to the beginning to the zero-dimension. So in that case it is all in the eye of the beholder.

  Now we use the dot to represent the zero-dimension because it is the only way we can understand it. That we are dealing with something that is infinite in size, and in depth. It has no beginning or no end to it. It is neither here nor there, but everywhere. So what is it then? It has to be some form of energy. A type of energy that creates other dimensions. This makes a lot more logical sense than to ignore how the dimension could have come into existence. What it all comes down to is the cause and effect of how each dimension came into existence. Do your scientists ever talk about that?”

  “No.”

  “It’s not surprising since Ynuo’stole said that nobody likes to talk about it. Especially scientists, since it suggests that the zero-dimension could be the gods.”

  “You mean god.”

  “Only if you believe that there is one god. The existence of the house is proof of its creator. Not the number of those who created it.”

  “Did Ynuo’stole mention how the zero-dimension could create the other dimensions?”

  “Yes. What is the opposite of something without direction?”

  “Direction?”

  “Exactly. But because of the dualism of the universe it would naturally be a direction with a bipolar opposite. If we were to put a dot on the right side of a dot, and then put another one on its left side, we have direction. We have a length. But in order to get that length we must ‘pull’ that dot to the infinite. Why? Because the dot is infinite. A simple way to explain it would be: an infinite number of dots on the right, and an infinite number of dots on the left. And then, and only then, do we get length. After we have length we now have the first dimension. In order to go from the first to the second we must find the opposite to length, which should be width. And the opposite of width should be height, and so on. I know... so ask Ynuo’stole why that is.

  So how do we go from the first to the second dimension? Once again, we take length and pull it to the infinite. An infinite number of lines on the right side and an infinite number on the left, that is. Now we have a two dimensional object. The process repeats itself to the infinite since each time you must take that which is infinite, and then pull it to the infinite. Pull it along the lines of bipolar opposite directions that is. So do you understand all of that?”

  “Yeah I think I got it.”

  “According to Ynuo’stole we can now look at time and space. So why is time the first dimension? Because it has all the properties of what you would think time should be. The first dimension start at a point, and then it travels in a bipolar opposite direction. That point is infinite just like the directions. When we look at time itself, people always divide it up into smaller parts - a year become a month, a month becomes a week, a week becomes a day, and so on. You could theoretically do this to the infinite. And therefore there is no true present since the real present is any measurement of time that is divided by infinity. As for the past and future it would lie off to either side of what could be called the present. And thus, time has the exact same properties as the first dimension.”

  “So what exactly is the fourth dimension if it’s not time?”

  “Alternate realities.”

  “How’s that?”

  “Well... Ynuo’stole ran into problems in trying to explain that. But one of his arguments explains why the time line could be altered. And why those who alter it do not cease to exist. The only way that we could understand Ynuo’stole’s argument is in the following way: let’s suppose that alternate realities are a shadow, now superimpose one on top of another. Although they may appear to be the same, they are separate. Now, imagine that there is a line that connects both shadows. And this ‘line’ is time, the time stream to be more precise. If a person were to travel, along this time stream, from one shadow to the other, what would happen to them if they were to alter their past? The answer is simple: remove one of the shadows. What happen to the time stream? What happen to the other shadow? In both cases nothing happen, they continue on in existence.

  Because time and space is separate, and the individual is in the time stream, plus there are alternate realities, the individual will not cease to exist. What happen to the original reality? Nothing. It will continue on in existence. The only thing that happen, was that an alternate reality was created. But the original could easily be restored, proving that it still exists. But how? How could that be? Simple. Let’s suppose someone went back in time and caused their grandfather to die before they were born. What would happen? Of course they would cease to exist. And thus a new reality is born. Now let’s suppose someone went back in time and created a clone of the grandfather before he died. And the clone died in his place. What would happen? The original time line is restored.

  Ynuo’stole also mentioned that there are three possible forms of space-time: Fragile, Clay and Liquid. Fragile deals with the theory that time line cannot be alter, not even in a minuscule way. He said that no matter what, all time travelers will incontrovertibly alter the time line. They do so in the minuscule way - they leave a foot print that did not exist, they disturb gravel that was never disturb, and so on. In a fragile space-time universe any disturbance of the time line, no matter how minuscule, will create a temporal paradox.  But that is strange. How could the space-time be fragile when it allows time to be slow down, when a space traveler is traveling at or near the speed of light? If you can travel into the future than you should be able to travel into the past. If time is the first-dimension.

  With the Clay theory it states that the space-time is soft enough to be change, but each time that it is changed it ‘hardens’ up. Just like clay will harden if it is put into an oven. Once the time line hardens it would then become fragile. But that too is strange. Anything that can happen already has happen. If the universe has intelligent life in it, and a few of them has discover time travel, then clearly the time line would have been altered. If it has been altered in a little way, it would still add up to a major altering of the time line. Why? A little add up to a lot. Wouldn’t the entire universe be destroyed? Or would it be just a purely localized event? If it is a localized event and there is intelligent life in the universe, they should have seen it. If they seen it, then wouldn’t that be the equivalent of alerting the time line? Were they, or were they not, suppose to have seen it? Since the universe is still here than it should be safe to assume that it has not yet happen, or the space-time continuum is not clay.

  If the universe is Liquid instead, then any altering of the past would have no affect upon the space-time continuum. Why? Because there are alternate realities. It is the existence of alternate realities that makes the space-time continuum changeable. That which is liquid cannot be broken. What about a time paradox? Would it create an alternate reality? Or would time heal itself? With the Liquid theory it is a little of both. After all, there are an infinite number of alternate realities, which would create an infinite number of possibilities, and therefore there are an infinite number of time paradoxes. So what is the space-time continuum with an infinite number of time paradoxes? The only way that can be answered is in the following way: reduce it down to, one realty with one time paradox and then ask, what would happen, and why are we still here.

  Look... I’m sorry that I took so long. I know that all I had to do was just mention the last part and not the rest... but I really wanted to mention it. So... I’m sorry that I wasted your time.”

  “No it’s okay Ikknustll. We didn’t mind.” Mad Dawg said with a smile.

  “Yeah... It was no problem.” Torrio added.

  “Well... what each of you have to understand is that when Ydxx’od’omaa altered the time line it did created a time paradox - it erased Ynuo’stole from existence. His grandfather served in the military during our Second World War and was supposed to have survived. But when Ydxx’od’omaa changed the past... Ynuo’stole’s grandfather died in the war. And thus... Ynuo’stole never was born. But since the ship RMX had a time shield it was not affected when the ripple of time caught up to the present. By ‘ripple’ I mean the changes in the time line.

  Being an historical scientist, like Ynuo’stole himself, it always bothered me that he was erased from existence. The fact that tomorrow I too might cease to exist... including all of my work.”