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Et tu Albert Einstein?

Despite his genius Albert Einstein left us with as many questions as answers. The biggest among which being a puzzling dilemma regarding the speed of light as a constant. To wit: HOW is it a constant no matter the speed of the observer?

To the moderately trained discerning ear this doesn't seem very significant. There are many constants, right? What makes this one so special? Let's consider an example. Let's say you're in a van traveling somewhere. As the vehicle is being driven you are in the back bouncing a ball. If you are in the van and the van is traveling 60 mph ... then you are also traveling at a velocity of 60 mph. By that same token the ball is also traveling at 60 mph. We can prove this merely by the bouncing. If it wasn't then as soon as it left my grasp it would rush through the air to the back of the van at the 60 mph being traveled by the van. We know this to be true by experience and we know that true velocity is a relative matter.

But relativity is the problem addressed by Einstein. You see ... we measure the speed of light frequently with many different experiments and the speed is ALWAYS 186,282 mps. A constant. And the confounding part is that constant exists no matter what velocity the observer is already traveling at during the measurement. By our understanding it should be the constant velocity minus whatever velocity the observer is traveling relative to the light. Just like the ball in the van. But it doesn't. The wonders of relativity. Now if someone could only figure out why. Or have they already?

I believe we already have this answer. We're just forgetting the true nature of our reality. This screen upon which you're reading these words appears to be something in front of your head doesn't it? Looks like it's in front of you. Logic appears to suggest it's in front of you. But what's really in front of you is just light being interpreted by your mind as an object in front of you. If I have a hologram set up or a system of mirrors the actual object may be somewhere else. What you think you see as the room in front of you is really all inside your head. Your eyes,ears, skin, nose etc... all receive stimuli that is sent to your brain where it is reconstructed into the reality you believe exists. With me so far?

So this stimuli located outside of the brain is being read inside the brain. Any reality created by the brain from it would be subject to the physical restraints imposed by the bodys' limits. For instance - people who are colorblind. Their eyes are receiving the proper light stimuli but due to a genetic defect that whole signal isn't reaching the brain. The error imposed by bodily constraints affects the person's subjective reality. Their reality doesn't include those colors now. Light has been reinterpreted inside the brain to not include those colors despite having them.

Apply this same scenario to Einstein's dilemma. We KNOW there is a limitation on the speed of light and it seems to operate independent of the laws of physics as we know and/or experience them. This would seem to be a dissonance ... unless we're looking at it the wrong way. That limit to the speed of light is NOT reality. Light is instantaneous, but our measuring of it makes it subject, once again, to our physical body constraints. Much like the color-blindness. The limit, or maximum velocity, exists inside our brain in the manner of measurement because we cannot replicate instantaneous in our little hologram world. The values available to us for measure are instantaneous. The waveform immediately breaks down as though observed from the moment light "happened" even if we measure the star as being galaxies away (also a theoretical dilemma). But as all of that is assimilated by the brain it throws in our physical limits - creating a paradox between reality and observed reality. The neural pathways of the brain actually exchange information by emitting light so the limits of that light in a biological system would be felt on the measurements. This is Occam's razor in real life.

Just a thought. namaste

JeffMesser 8 July 8
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The constant speed of light is a mystery. Another mystery is the instantaneous changes experienced by two entangled quantum particles, no matter the separation distance. See [en.m.wikipedia.org].

this also resolves entanglement.

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