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The Living Universe - Duane Elgin [82]

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the mass of an object increases as it accelerates toward light speed. As the object approaches light speed, it will have to draw ever greater increments of energy from the larger ecological system as it attempts to move ahead of the ecological processes that dynamically create it. Increasing energy is required to approach light speed because, in reality, the object is trying to overcome itself in the process of becoming itself—a self-limiting process that requires drawing ever greater increments of energy from the larger cosmological system. As the object draws down ever-greater increments of energy to maintain its dynamic structure, mass must also increase, given the convertibility of matter and energy.

With regard to slowing relativistic time, as an object approaches light speed it runs into itself in the process of its own becoming and compresses what otherwise would have been realized actuality back into the domain of unrealized potential. The process seems analogous to walking against the direction of motion on a moving conveyer belt, or walking up an escalator as it moves down. By walking against the direction of movement, dynamic stasis is approached. Similarly, as an object approaches light speed, it increasingly runs into its dynamically generated structure, thereby compressing itself relative to the rest of the freely manifesting cosmos—one measured result being a slowing of relativistic time. If the object were to reach light speed, then it would be running into itself as fast as it manifests, and this would effectively cancel out its process of becoming relative to the rest of the four-dimensional flow—thereby effectively stopping relativistic time.

Ernst Mach attributed inertia (resistance to motion) to an object’s interaction with the totality of matter throughout the universe. However, Mach’s theory presents a major difficulty: An unknown force must act instantaneously among all material objects throughout the cosmos and yet, within the confines of a four-dimensional cosmology, it is impossible for forces to act instantaneously. The continuous creation model provides a source for instantaneous connection—it assumes each object is a dynamically generated resonance pattern that is always connected with the entire cosmos at each instant. Inertia results when an “object” presses against the “cosmos”—a giant, unified resonance pattern. If an object moves outside the natural flow of the surrounding cosmos, it will push against the flow of the cosmos becoming itself, and this will be experienced as resistance to motion, or inertia. Inertia is a measure of the energy required to change the motion of an object relative to the natural momentum of the entire fabric of the dynamically manifesting cosmos. To accomplish a path change anywhere requires an instantaneous and compensating change everywhere.

As to coordinating the interweaving of an entire universe, it is helpful to consider Planck’s constant, which may be a conversion factor for continuous creation. No matter what energy level a photon of light may have, it must be packaged (as a quanta) in such a way that its combined energy and wavelength are exactly equal to the universal constant h, or Planck’s constant. A shorter wavelength is accompanied by higher frequencies and higher energies, and vice versa. Assuming four-dimensional reality is generated at light speed, Planck’s constant could represent the conversion factor for keeping all differences in motion, mass, and energy in precise orchestration with one another—thereby preserving the unbroken fabric of four-dimensional reality. Differences in the frequency, wavelength, and energy of light (as it coalesces from the fifth-plus dimensions and into the fourth), could be used to produce the diverse material world we inhabit. Planck’s constant seems to be the conversion factor for precisely governing the flow of light as it enters into four-dimensional reality and visible manifestation.

This cosmology may also be useful in resolving the dilemma of the arrow of time. Stated differently, a key conceptual

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