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Could Nothingness Be Another Dimension In And Of Itself?

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
Tat tvam asi

So you're going through an Advaita phase now? OK.

So do you think you are the Andromeda galaxy? I assume you recognise that you are not the Andromeda galaxy, just comprised of the same kind of forces and elements. And dare I say it, the same kind of interactions.

Your individual mental imaginings and religious theories don't change or affect any of that, they are just ideas in your mind. "Dark energies down the rabbit hole." :p
 
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Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
I think you're confusing dark energy with dark matter. Dark energy is more like a repulsive force.
http://www.space.com/6619-dark-energy.html
No I am not...regardless of evidence of universal expansion..gravity is an attractive force between bodies of mass....and dark energy comprises 65% mass of the universe..

"Again on a mass–energy equivalence basis, the density of dark energy (~ 7 × 10−30 g/cm3) is very low, much less than the density of ordinary matter or dark matter within galaxies. However, it comes to dominate the mass–energy of the universe because it is uniform across space."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
 

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
No I am not...regardless of evidence of universal expansion..gravity is an attractive force between bodies of mass....and dark energy comprises 65% mass of the universe..

"Again on a mass–energy equivalence basis, the density of dark energy (~ 7 × 10−30 g/cm3) is very low, much less than the density of ordinary matter or dark matter within galaxies. However, it comes to dominate the mass–energy of the universe because it is uniform across space."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

Yes, you are. Note the significance of the first phrase above that I have bolded, "Again on a mass–energy equivalence basis..."

And why do you think it's called dark energy?
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
Yes, you are. Note the significance of the first phrase above that I have bolded, "Again on a mass–energy equivalence basis..."

And why do you think it's called dark energy?
Light has mass...have you not heard of gravitational lensing in astronomical science..light is energy!!! Mass-energy means the mass of the energy...:rolleyes:
 

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
If the soul exists and is a form of energy, it's effected by gravity. Which would kind of suck. I'm picturing every disembodied soul falling towards the center of Earth upon it's body's death.

Interesting point. I guess if you think of consciousness as a type of energy, then that would also be drawn down by gravity, maybe sucked into a rabbit hole? ;)
 

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
In early Buddhism, nothingness is indeed a dimension, experienced when one enters the seventh (arupa) jhana. It is said to exist on a dimension higher than consciousness itself (the sixth arupa jhana)..

Note that the jhanas are all meditative states, so don't take the descriptions too literally.
 

godnotgod

Thou art That
So do you think you are the Andromeda galaxy? I assume you recognise that you are not the Andromeda galaxy, just comprised of the same kind of forces and elements. And dare I say it, the same kind of interactions.

There is no such 'I' that thinks nor recognizes anything of the sort.

'Andromeda Galaxy' is just a notion in your head that your ego thinks is 'out there', and itself as 'over here', while still attached to form.


'form is emptiness;
emptiness is form'

...so where is the distinction between what you see as 'this' and 'that'; between 'observer' and 'observed'?
 
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mystic64

nolonger active
Anything with mass is subject to gravitational force....yes...

bigbang_dark_energy.jpg

Ok ben d, will you help me with something because you know about this stuff? Everything in Creation blinks on and then off (it goes somewhere else part of the time). When things blink off, what is left here or is it just empty? And because everything in Creation has a wave frequency and an anti wave frequency, can dark energy be cancelled with it's anti wave frequency? If so what effect would that have on faster than light travel? And what effect would that have on the "zpe" forces that are in play normally and their affect on the creating of ineria? There seems to be some evidence that there are some folks from somewhere else that have huge vehicles that move without enertia and they blink out of one place and then blink in at another place :) . How could this be done? And could this phenomenon be related to the OP question?
 
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AndromedaRXJ

Active Member
Light has mass...have you not heard of gravitational lensing in astronomical science..light is energy!!! Mass-energy means the mass of the energy...:rolleyes:

Light doesn't have mass in the classical sense. Nothing with mass can travel the speed of light. Light has (or rather, is) energy. That's why it's effected by gravity.
 

mystic64

nolonger active
Light doesn't have mass in the classical sense. Nothing with mass can travel the speed of light. Light has (or rather, is) energy. That's why it's effected by gravity.

Not exactly Andromeda :) . Light does have mass, but that mass is only present in our reality (the reality that can be measured) half of the time. The other half of the time that mass is somewhere else.
 

AndromedaRXJ

Active Member
Not exactly Andromeda :) . Light does have mass, but that mass is only present in our reality (the reality that can be measured) half of the time. The other half of the time that mass is somewhere else.

I think you got it backwards. Light has no measurable invarient mass (AKA proper mass, intrinsic mass, rest mass).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_mass

But it has gravitational mass and inertial mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass#Definitions_of_mass

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/does-light-have-mass.13745/
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
Ok ben d, will you help me with something because you know about this stuff? Everything in Creation blinks on and then off (it goes somewhere else part of the time). When things blink off, what is left here or is it just empty? And because everything in Creation has a wave frequency and an anti wave frequency, can dark energy be cancelled with it's anti wave frequency? If so what effect would that have on faster than light travel? And what effect would that have on the "zpe" forces that are in play normally and their affect on the creating of ineria? There seems to be some evidence that there are some folks from somewhere else that have huge vehicles that move without enertia and they blink out of one place and then blink in at another place :) . How could this be done? And could this phenomenon be related to the OP question?
Hi Mysitic....only 2.5% of the universe is detectable matter....and matter is comprised of the atomic elements... So universal bodies when they die explosively, be it galaxies, stars, etc., mainly revert to the energy state before once again reforming under gravitational forces. This is an eternal state of affairs, but nothing ever actually disappears absolutely...for example you talk of matter and anti-matter...when any particle mates with its anti-particle, say an electron and positron...there is annihilation according to E = MC^2, but the resultant energy in the form of a gamma ray will, when it comes in contact with matter, revert back to the the electron and positron.. Nothing can ever be taken from the universe, nor can anything ever be added to it...

So far as inertia is concerned...some of the 'pressure' of zpe energy present here is due to the nearest stars, if the stars around these parts were to snuff it, then inertia would be reduced. There is nothing known about the 95% dark energy and matter and so we can't speculate much except to say that the associated energy would be a part of the zpe frequency continuum.

As to your question concerning zpe and FTL travel, yes...they would blink on and off as see by an observer in the physical domain....here is a link for a paper suggesting such a propulsion system using zpe to create a gravity center in front of the spacecraft....http://www.padrak.com/ine/ZPEFLIGHT.html
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
Light doesn't have mass in the classical sense. Nothing with mass can travel the speed of light. Light has (or rather, is) energy. That's why it's effected by gravity.
Yes..... How would the mass energy stuff work out in a FTL (faster than light) spacecraft system as proposed in the paper linked to above?
 
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