Time and space are finite. But not to us. Only to someone outside our universe. To them we are an amusement, perhaps a small component of a bowl of Cheerios. To us there is a heaven and a god, to them, breakfast. Relativity brother, get real, there are some thoughts the human mind simply cannot comprehend. Like what is at the edge of the universe, gotta be something, can't be nothing because nothing has to be somewhere and somewhere has to be made of something. All these spherical universe theories just make us seem more pathetic. You think you are looking out into space, the infinite horizon of the future. Well think again, some bozo scientists will tell you that you are actually looking behind you and it's 500 billion years ago. But I know the truth, and it hurts boy. We are just a little self absorbed speck of energy, perhaps an electron of some ungodly large atom in some obscenely large molecule in the mother of all fuckin' Cheerios. A fractal joke played on us by the cruel reality of natural phenomenon. Our minds cannot fathom the twisted dimensions and alternate realities and cold hard facts that exist. Our biggest limitations are in comprehending time and space. First, we can only calibrate our minds in centuries. Of course, we can only judge distance relative to our size, hell, it's a haul to Chicago from here, and that ain't even half way to the Moon! How much smaller the galaxy must appear to a solar system size critter.
The size of our minds too is also too tiny. Why would any intelligent being assume that our known universe/dimension/reality is IT? I mean, if this is really IT, I mean all that ever was and will be and is Period then reality really isn't what it's cracked up to be, is it. Lets look at the Really Big Picture: Time, we can estimate how long since the big bang, but what happed before that? What measure of time is it that our universe is in existence? If we can measure the beginning and end you know there is something wrong. It can't be that simple. Maybe time is like light, many different wavelengths make up the spectrum of time. We are riding on our personal wavelength, but longer and shorter wave time are invisible to us. The real key to time travel is to jump over to another wavelength, since speed is relative, you could go forward or backward. Cool, huh, I just thought of this as I typed it.
But look inside your computer, how many universes could be in there? Look at the mold in your cup of coffee, how many universes, inhabited by billions of species evolving over eons of their time own exist there? Eons to them passing in seconds for us. What does any of it mean? How can we know what you are supposed to know, the dilemma of think or not think, wonder or accept, regular or decaf.
my time is up, relatively speaking.
go - by terra incognita