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One may ask if we can really know that the room will exist at any future moment. This is where induction enters the picture, since in truth we
cannot know with certainty. There is no absolutely rigorous way of establishing that. But we can make the inductive leap of faith that has to
do with accumulated experience. We project that the existence of the room will remain a boundary condition, but in principle in the next ten
minutes there could be an earthquake and this building might not be left standing. However, for that to happen, the boundary condition will
have to be radically disrupted in some unexpected and improbable manner.
What is so curious is that such a thing could occur. That is what the timewave allows one to predict, that there are conditions under which
events of great novelty may occur. There is, however, a problem with it. Because we suggest a model of time whose mathematics dictate a
built-in spiral structure, events keep gathering themselves into tighter and tighter spirals that lead inevitably to a final time. Like the center of
a black hole, the final time is a necessary singularity, a domain or an event in which the ordinary laws of physics do not function. Imagining
what happens in the presence of a singularity is, in principle, impossible and so naturally science has shied away from such an idea. The
ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of the universe. We are asked by science to believe
that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for
no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. It is a notion
that is, in fact, utterly absurd, yet terribly important to all the rational assumptions that science wishes to preserve. Those so-called rational
assumptions flow from this initial impossible situation.
Western religion has its own singularity in the form of the apocalypse, an event placed not at the beginning of the universe but at its end. This
seems a more logical position than that of science. If singularities exist at all it seems easier to suppose that they might arise out of an ancient
and highly complexified cosmos, such as our own, than out of a featureless and dimensionless mega-void.
Science looks down its nose at the apocalyptic fantasies of religion, thinking that the final time can only mean an entropic time of no change.
The view of science is that all processes ultimately run down, but entropy is maximized only in some far, far away future. The idea of entropy
makes an assumption that the laws of the space-time continuum are infinitely and linearly extendable into the future. In the spiral time scheme
of the timewave this assumption is not made. Rather, final time means passing out of one set of laws that are conditioning existence and into
another radically different set of laws. The universe is seen as a series of compartmentalized eras or epochs whose laws are quite different
from one another, with transitions from one epoch to another occurring with unexpected suddenness.
To see through the eyes of this theory is to see one's place in the spiral scheme and to know and anticipate when the transition to new epochs
will occur. One sees this in the physical world. The planet is five or six billion years old. The formation of the inorganic universe occupies the
first turn of the spiral wave. Then life appears. If one examines this planet, which is the only planet we can examine in depth, one finds that
processes are steadily accelerating in both speed and complexity.
A planet swings through space two billion years before life appears. Life represents a new emergent quality. The instant life gets started, a
mad scramble is on. Species appear and disappear. This goes on for a billion and a half years and then suddenly a new emergent property
takes the stage: thinking species. This new epoch of
mind is brief in comparison to what preceded it; from the dumb confrontation with chipped flint to the starship is one hundred thousand years.
What could that era be but the ingression of a new set of laws? An emergent new psychophysics is allowing our species to manifest very
peculiar properties: language, writing, dreaming, and the spinning of philosophy.
Like rattlesnakes and poplar trees, human beings are made by DNA. Yet we trigger the same energies that light the stars. We do this on the
surface of our planet. Or we can create a temperature of absolute zero. We do these things because, though we are made of mush and mud, our
minds have taught us how to extend our reach through tools. With tools we can unleash energies that normally only occur under very different
conditions. The center of stars is the usual site of fusion processes.
We do such things using mind. And what is mind? We haven't a clue. Twenty-thousand years from nomadic hunting and gathering to
cybernetics and spaceflight. And we are still accelerating. There are yet more waves to come. From the Model-T Ford to the starship: one
hundred years. From the fastest man on earth being able to move thirty miles per hour to nine miles per second: sixty years.
Most puzzling are the predictions the timewave theory makes of near term shifts of epochs made necessary by the congruence of the timewave
and the historical record. The timewave seems to give a best fit configuration with the historical data when the assumption is made that the
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