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Requiem for a dream, or Quantum future of Humankind in Infinite Universe

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boris kislitsin
 in dream. 2 Comments

Right, I know it’s not exactly a memory. It’s not even a dream, but rather a requiem for one. I used to think that we live in infinite Universe. I do not have any scientific background to come up with theories or statements, but as a human being I reserve my rights for beliefs. Be it belief in Jesus Christ the Savour, spirit of improvisation, Santa Claus, infinity of space and time, or belief in myself, belief is an integral part of any sentient self-reflecting being.

This belief in infinite Universe was simply based on the fact that we can’t measure it.

Of course, we have data that our Universe is 13,73 billion years old (as of the last week :) ). So we can imagine a ball 13,73 billion years in radius (given the speed of light 299 792 458 m/s and length of 1 year as 31 556 926 seconds it will give us approx. radius of 13 730 000 000 x 299 792 458 x 31 556 926 = 129893055103132202840000000 meters… so you know). But, as it took me about 2 min. to come up with this calculation, this radius became roughly 3597509496 m bigger.

We reached the point there I got bored myself. The numbers are just too big too mean anything. If you go shopping and see something cost 3 pounds 99 pence you’ll think it’s 4 pounds, right? This is what called approximation. So 129893055103132202840000000 + 3597509496 and counting… is a number I can’t imagine. It’s something like Bill Gate’s fortune, numbers beyond my grasp. I think that approximation of 129893055103132202840000000 + 3597509496 is infinity. There’s no need for me to operate with such numbers. I remember reading some anthropological reports about some aboriginal tribes in Papua New Guinea. They had numbers 1 to 5, and then groups: 1 to 5 too, so everything could be shown on 2 hands.

20 would be 4 times 5; 25 - 5 times 5 . Everything that was over 25 was “many-many”, uncountable, infinity.

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Together

Published by
Jacob Haqq-Misra
 in dream. 5 Comments

The forbidden in waking life
Taboos, prohibitions, and etiquette
Constructs, boundaries, limitations, and distance
All melt away as the world fades

Come close, for distance is illusory
Draw near, let timelessness prevail
Hold me, no one knows but us
Touch me, a reality perceived but not shared

Still, a man can dream.

Jacob Haqq-Misra

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What makes you happy?

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boris kislitsin
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Our life depends on our perception of reality. I do not remember if I told you the story of Jacob’s girlfriends’ uncle. He is serving few life sentences in America. 30 years ago before getting there he was a well known brain surgeon. He divorced his wife and left his former family and grown up children for another woman. His first wife was found dead shortly afterwards. The circumstances of her death were not clear. Some people say he was accused in murder by his children who wanted revenge and money. Indeed, he was rich. Whatever happened, if he killed her or not, nobody can tell anything now for sure – things can terrible mesh up and become very confusing in 30 years time.
In jail he learnt Jewish, Torah and became a rabbi.
When Jacob and his girlfriend went to see him, he was a very old man, in his early eighties. He told them that in the last few years his life dramatically changed to better. Apparently, they moved him to another cell, so he could see a tree from his window instead of brick wall now.

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Beaming the voice of the Humankind through time and space

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admin
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As you could see, one of our goals on our quest for the global consciousness is to define what a human being is.

This definition could be derived only from the first hands (your hands posting memories and dreams on this site :) ), via our memories and dreams. Now, after you select what’s important, interesting or simply matters, and post it, we have the first approximation of it. Memories and dreams are our life excerpts. Now we can extract even deeper meanings and emotions by using tags for our posts. They are indeed our lives keystones, shortcuts to micro-universes of human beings. Without those refined meanings the communication would be lost.  On Quintessential page of this site we put them all together. They make a  very interesting text, a collective description of our perception, a flux of Humankind consciousness, a message, if you like. Well, why don’t we beam this message into the Universe? Once again, light and radio-waves are essentially the same substance but on a different wavelength. Radio-waves are indestructible, thus travel through the vast open space forever, like light from stars dead billions light-years ago just reaching our planet. This is actually how scientists are looking for other Extraterrestrial Intelligence : scanning radio-waves for a message (an organized, repetitive message, which could be represented, for instance, by language means). So, we ask machine to read our Quintessential tag cloud on a regular basis. You could listen to our first message  and download it here.

Now you can have it pod-casted. As podcasting employs radio-waves, we started our transmission.

Make our message rich. Post your memories and dreams,  tag them. Join the voice of the Humankind travelling through time and space.

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