The Living Universe - Duane Elgin [81]
A “cosmic now” is assumed to embrace all the workings of the fifth dimension and beyond, even while each object is assumed to retain a unique time status in the lesser dimensions. Our cosmos is continuously recreated with millions of years of time-delay or relativistic lag-time built into its fourth-dimensional aspect (for example, the time it takes a signal to travel from the Andromeda galaxy to our own), while simultaneously being completely up-to-date in its fifth-dimensional aspect. “While relativity theory rightly dismissed simultaneity in four dimensions, continuous creation cosmology reintroduces simultaneity as a basic property of the fifth dimension and beyond. Simultaneity serves a vital purpose—to instantaneously distribute operating information regarding the status of sub-systems to all parts of the cosmos and thereby keep the dynamic structure of the universe in equilibrium with itself. With simultaneity in the fifth and higher dimensions, no interval is required to factor changes into the flow of manifestation of the overall cosmos. Each object has its unique four-dimensional existence and, at the same time, all objects share equally in the flow of continuous creation. Therefore, irrespective of relativistic differences (separation in time and space), all things throughout the cosmos share equally in the flow of continuous creation. The NOW of holo-dynamic, five-dimensional manifestation is the same for all entities, and all places, throughout the cosmos. Relativistic time in four dimensions is stretchy and varies for each object, while the time of the fifth dimension is absolute and unvarying for all objects. Time flows within the relativistic framework of four dimensions and dissolves into holographic simultaneity in five dimensions and beyond.
To visualize the dynamic of continuous creation, imagine that the universe is a unified hologram that is being projected into existence at each moment with all relativistic differences fully coordinated out of a context of five dimensions or more. Also imagine that a spacecraft inside this giant hologram is being beamed into existence along with everything else as a continuous flow of manifestation. Then imagine that the spacecraft begins to move ahead at an increasing speed so that it approaches the speed with which the hologram-universe is being projected into existence. Since the craft is a projection as well, it cannot move outside of the hologram of which it is an integral part because if it tries to do so it will increasingly run into itself becoming itself, producing the seemingly impossible conditions at the extremes of relativity theory (becoming shorter in the direction of motion, increasing mass, and relativistic time slowing down). To reiterate, I assume that the constancy of the speed of light at the local scale is a result of a larger process occurring at the cosmic scale—the precise consistency of manifestation of our entire cosmos as a single, standing wave embracing both the fabric of space-time and matter-energy.
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