ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE, MANY POSSIBILITIES

I’ll begin with a brief paragraph describing my regular daily routine. At 5am I wake up and do a couple of hours of mindfulness exercises prior to getting out of bed. As soon as I pull off my blankets I start looking for my clothes and begin to get dressed. Once I’m fully dressed I have my breakfast, medication and finish everything that I need to do before I begin my work. If at home during the day I write my blogs, answer various emails or do work on my business. Sometimes I go out on weekdays for travel training with a support person. Perhaps I’ll go to the shops and buy a few things that I need/want; or maybe I’ll visit places such as our local historical village which is so fascinating and run by lovely people. Many younger people have become more interested in this place after a paranormal show investigated the site and reported it to contain a few ghosts. Once I return home (and/or finish my work) in the evening I have dinner, have a shower, brush my teeth, watch television, play Minecraft, pull on my pyjamas and read in bed before falling asleep at around 11pm.

In this present day and age the paragraph above appears to be a perfectly ordinary, mundane weekly routine. There appears to be nothing different or exciting about it at all. For so many years I took every small detail of those experiences for granted. However my eyes opened up to another perspective of those exact same experiences when I was gifted a book for my birthday, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

For three days I couldn’t stop reading this book until I finished it. At that time it was written nearly two decades ago. But the topics within it involved science and knowledge that were well and truly futuristic. In addition to being fascinated by relativity, time, blackholes and the very existence of the universe, I also enjoyed the book equally for another reason.

Initially I most probably would have mistaken the daunting feeling of trying to comprehend such intense science as being a result of me not being able to understand it. Though when I was a third of the way through this book I realised that it wasn’t due to me not being able to understand the concepts. It was purely a result of me not wanting to except them, out of fear of uncertainty and change. A millennium ago it was widely believed and documented that the earth was flat and that our planet was right in the centre of the solar system (and the entire universe), which we now find ludicrous. Yet whenever people centuries ahead of their time voiced ideas that are common knowledge today, the world back then was mind blown and fearful about their knowledge of existence having to change. The way in which we view ‘out of the box’ ideas today by people like Stephen Hawking is hardly any different to how Nicholas Copernicus’ idea of a sun-centred solar system was thought of 500 years ago.

I imagine that in another 500 years people will look at relativity and knowledge of time as common sense. This won’t necessarily be a case of humans becoming more intelligent. It would merely be a result of people being taught and conditioned from childhood that those ideas are just fact.

Going back to the initial paragraph that I wrote about my daily routine, I can use what I gathered in A Brief History of Time to look at it all from a different perspective. It’s highly probable that in my lifetime I have unknowingly come across a few time travellers from the future. Surely if these people were trusted enough to visit the past for the purpose of research, they would be learned enough of the current age to know exactly what we now wear, how we talk, and about our present technology and current affairs.

It was also suggested in this book that different moments of time can happen simultaneously, as time is not uniform and can be changed by certain conditions of physics. Perhaps this could explain the many reports of hauntings and ghosts.

Something else which is fascinating about time is that it always appears in a past to future motion, and changing its speed or reversing it the other way appears to be very challenging. According to the theory of relativity we can slow down the passage of time by travelling towards the speed of light, and it’s also been speculated that we can reverse time by going down a blackhole. Is there another way of us changing our own experience of time which is compatible to conditions on Earth and what our own bodies are able to do?

In conclusion it can be said that we may think that we know everything based on what we’ve read, watched, listened to and been conditioned to understand according to the present day and age. This has been the case for as long as humanity has existed. Centuries and millennia ago people weren’t any less intelligent than we are now. They were merely conditioned into believing and thinking in a certain way (and in some areas people were more skilful in the past).

Though if we’re brave enough now to think outside of the box and try and view life from another reasonable perspective, the possibilities of what has existed, does exist and will exist are endless!

For more thorough information on relativity, time travel, the universe, blackholes and more please take a look at this Amazon link to the book: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168