Anonymous

If you were a photon, wearing a wristwatch, your wristwatch would never tick. From birth to death it’s an instant. Though for others watching you hundreds of thousands of years may have passed. Time is relative to the observer. When the observer approaches speed of light, time slows down. At the speed of light it stops. And at greater than speed of light it reverses. That is to say what we say as cause and effect happen in reverse. But in that world, that is the norm. So one would never know. That anything is amiss. If you are a photon leaving the sun and reaching the retina of an earthling, the 9 minute journey seen by the earthling is instantaneous for you. You cover 90 million miles in zero time. Souls are like that. Timeless. Time doesn’t tick for them. Time is like a picture.

Imagine a 2D ant. Living in flatland. Has no idea of depth. Only length and breadth. You drop another ant on to this flatland. It seems to appear out of nowhere for the first one. Because “drop” is not conceivable. It requires a height or depth. And that has no meaning in flatland. If you were a 4D surgeon. And you had to treat inner ear infection of a child. You would not need to make a hole in the eardrum to get to the fluid behind it. You could just appear in the inner ear without travelling from any 3D direction, because you have access to the 4th. ...... There’s a little catch : The 3D patient would not see the 4D surgeon's instruments as they are. Only 3D projections of that. The flatland analogy is : If you put a sphere on a 2D paper, the 2D ant only sees the point of contact as it cannot perceive depth. ...... If you push the sphere through the paper the ant sees a circle which is a 2D projection of the 3D object. As the sphere passes through the ants, a circ...