Only one star

[fink]

Had a deep trip a while back that brought me a wild concept.

What if there is only one star, our sun, and everything we see of the universe is our sun at a different point in time all at once?

The milky way is formed by billions of snapshots of time being visible simultaneously. All just one star. Just us.

Every galaxy is a snapshot of time showing our milky way in different stages of development.

Down to something as fundamental as our belief that nothing can travel faster the light.

Imagine we as a solar system are actually travelling faster than light in intervals to periods of slower than light movement.

Then it would be possible to project light from a position in space time, move faster than light somewhere else, then slow down and receive that light while simultaneously existing.

An artistic god would surely work out how to show unreachable images of everything that has ever happened, or will happen to one, beautifully created star system all at once.

 

[Sakkadelic]

That's similar to the one-electron universe idea. it's easier to imagine it on the electron level with all the quantum magic. It reminds me also of a thought I used to have as a kid, that there's a completely duplicate life to ours on the sun or some planet made of fire and we're a reflection or projection of that.

 

[fink]

'As above, so below'. Micro to macro repetition!

 

[Seagull]

The possibilities are endless. I know i would then be forced to stand closer to my truth. Because from your logic, if you would do 'good' then only more good comes out of it.
Maybe if you know what you want? You will discover what it means by traveling into the future and back or back to the future to see the results.
But what matters too is the journey, right?

 

[northape]

What if there is only one star, our sun, and everything we see of the universe is our sun at a different point in time all at once?

It would be somewhat similar to the idea of an infinite universe, where any possible number of variants could manifest.
I prefer to see the Cosmos full of endless creativity. Just look at the variety of life we have on Earth. Why stop here?
Most likely, similar solar systems are scattered all around, and I hope that creative impulse is lively even in those places.
It would be so boring and dull otherwise. Whatever samsara is, it's not boring. This abundance of distractions and plays shields us from its true nature.
It's much more difficult to look inside our own mind than at a plentiful illusion of so-called reality. Sorry for my rant.
Peace

 

[fink]

The journey matters, I would agree Seagull.

I love the expression of creativity. 'Why stop at earth?' viewpoint.

As creationism philosophy...what if ...it is so incredibly difficult to create the perfect star system, one that can sustain stability sufficient for life? All that debris zooming about. Molecules too.

Couldn't it just as easily be that everything we see outside Sol's bubble was a failed attempt? An infinite wasteland of not quite right.

In an infinite void, you wouldn't bother to tidy up previous works. You'd just make sure all of it was going away from you at an exponentially increasing rate.

If the whole universe has complexity like we do here, why would a diety be spreading everything so far apart?

 

[northape]

The journey matters, I would agree Seagull.

I love the expression of creativity. 'Why stop at earth?' viewpoint.

As creationism philosophy...what if ...it is so incredibly difficult to create the perfect star system, one that can sustain stability sufficient for life? All that debris zooming about. Molecules too.

Couldn't it just as easily be that everything we see outside Sol's bubble was a failed attempt? An infinite wasteland of not quite right.

In an infinite void, you wouldn't bother to tidy up previous works. You'd just make sure all of it was going away from you at an exponentially increasing rate.

If the whole universe has complexity like we do here, why would a diety be spreading everything so far apart?

I feel the notes of loneliness and existential angst here

It is much more reasonable to think that a simple ape from a small planet can't comprehend the grandeur of the majestic design that it finds itself in.
We're limited by our biology that was developed here. This is one of the reasons I don't believe in Musk and space travel. Show me a working settlement on Mars first.

In one mushroom ceremony many moons ago, I was playing with the idea of distance. How far is the Sun exactly? I started with simple units that I could comprehend, like kilometers and so on, but when I kept adding zeros, it all became very ambiguous. How can we reach such a distant place when we can't even comprehend the distance? You need to imagine the possibility first before making it real.

I don't believe in any creator deity. Most likely there are worldly gods that govern nature's laws and elements, but they are part of the cosmos. Creative impulse is embedded in space itself and a lever of magnitude both deeper and higher than a normally perceived reality. God is everything you see and feel; it's the space in between, and it's the space where even these concepts manifest. That's the biggest quest of our lives: Who am I, this Being that learned to be human?

 

[fink]

I'd say a man who raises children with a woman is never lonely! I dont think it's existential angst. More of a long term perversion of mine to allow myself to wander into the mind of a fictitious god and look around. Fictitious because it's only in my head.

For a long time I've enjoyed exploring the perspective of god. A god that is just another human, who ended up in charge of a universe accidentally.

My commonly explored god is something like an Arthur Dent character from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Annoyed, sceptical and slightly lost as to what is actually going on here.

 

[northape]

I'd say a man who raises children with a woman is never lonely! I dont think it's existential angst. More of a long term perversion of mine to allow myself to wander into the mind of a fictitious god and look around. Fictitious because it's only in my head.

I was obviously joking, but my sense of humor is edgy

For a long time I've enjoyed exploring the perspective of god. A god that is just another human, who ended up in charge of a universe accidentally.
My commonly explored god is something like an Arthur Dent character from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Annoyed, sceptical and slightly lost as to what is actually going on here.

It's a nice mental exercise at the very least. By imagining that scenario, we keep on exploring ourselves and the world at large.
Maybe our deeper layer is that kind of God - someone who saw it all and slightly nudges us into the right direction without any expectation.

 

[fink]

We are so wrapped up in seeing a god figure as all powerful, umpteen levels of conciousness above us.

It's a pleasant shift when we see god as an accidental deity, thrust into this madness the same way we are. Without choice or control.

When asked, what's all this about then god? The answer might just as well come back as 'Help me! I have no idea how to make it stop!'

 

[northape]

I'm old