All roads lead to this big question.  what is it that we are all striving for?  the answer lies in time.  not pleasure, or sex, or money, or children, or even art.  these are just immediate pacifiers for what we really want:  the time to do, see, and feel everything and everyone we want.   once this breakthrough occurs, we'll have a new set of problems, but that is the state of how things are now.   we are aware of death and time, and we're trapped.  we can't go anywhere with it so we have this annoying need to hurry up and get everything done before we buy the farm.  so who's going to build the first time machine?   or do we even need a machine?  maybe that concept is a bit archaic and needs updating.

http://fusionanomaly.net/time.html  

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This may not answer your question, but I think we are capable of doings unbelievable things. But we cant cheat is Death!

The Universal forces are out there for us to harness, either for the betterment of our humanity or the destruction of our hmanity.

But all roads lead to death of an animal, star, amoeba, plant, human etc.

There's a school of thought in mainstream physics which suggestst that time is just an illusion created by our limited perspective of all thats out there. It's kinda like how a painting or photograph that shows only an instant in time can suggest dynamic motion.



Similarly the higher dimensions that we are (currently) unaware of leave us unable to reconcile changes in "instants / moments" of our reality without inventing Time as being the cause of the changes. However, the suggestion is that when we percieving time it is us who create time it in order to make sense of the observations. We invent time as a result of the limited prespective of our physical senses.

It's kinda like how gravity is "created" by the influence of fourth dimension [i.e. the sun doesn't "pull" the earth towards it [or vice versa] - rather the earths path is distorted by the sun. The earth is really travelling in a straight line however, it can only be perceived as straight in four spacial dimensions.

Did I mention that the electromagnetic force is an illusion created by reconciling the 5th spacial dimension?

I'll get my coat  

This is fascinating stuff. What do you think of the String Theory which consists of Multiple Dimensions?

I believe they are on the virgue of finding the "Theory of Everything"? This will hopefully, unite quantum mechanics and general relativity in to a one inch long formula that will explain how Universe is held together.

Anyways, I digress!
I agree very much so, that everything is an illusion and that our 5  senses never actually touch the source. Life as we perceive it, is just an image of electrical pulses in the back of your head.

So we must ask, who is I? What is this Ghost in the machine? What is I, that perceives this "Eveything"?

Antz? Where is the Door???  

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