Space-time and memory
J.R. Silva Bittencourt
Space-time and memory Image: The hard drive Some hard drives of modern DVD recorders adopt a working principle that resembles that of our own memory, although they are comparatively much more limited. The ability of our brain to store information is also limited as a hard disk, but it holds the potential to expand to infinity in the presence of continuous motion. That is what seems to happen as we shift the center of observation along with the physical position we occupy in space. This would be the case, for example, of one of the rare observers hitching a ride on a modern space shuttle and who is currently moving from Earth to the Moon. His visual horizon is limited in time but is gradually expanding as the spacecraft moves, without changing the dimensions of the radius of the circle, from which the observer occupies the center of observation. In the case of the DVD recorder, as soon as the memory limit is reached it will undo some of the content already recorded, which is continually replaced by new recordings of programs. These can be viewed in real time or, if you prefer, will be played in playback within the limits of the ability to archive the information. In our
case, it looks like these disposable information is being passed on to other storage centers in our brain. We could say that space-time is that universe that our memory can describe, which implies that there is an implicit delay in the process of translating information that the true universe makes available. Space-time is not the hard disk that our brain represents, for the latter would be integrated directly into the infinite universe. Space-time is only the expansionary memory that this disk contains. Expanding consciousness, as we can see, does not imply in increasing the storage capacity of information, but in making it "float" in space and time within its finite limits. Our event horizon could thus be expanded to infinity without depending on the total storage capacity of our memory. Anyone gifted with such a memory would be stuck continually in the center of an information bubble, moving even when he did not live the place. If the event horizon, materialized in the form of the sensory stimuli you receive, expands a few million miles into space, so many more are likely to be subtracted from the "outside" of the bubble, keeping the energy of the system constantly balanced. The detail, however, is that even though it is potentially capable of expanding without altering its capacity
for storing information, our memory has definitively disassociated itself from the reality of the infinite universe, both in its microstructure and in the astronomical scale, look at it in an indirect way or "from the past". That is to say, even if our brain and the other particles that make up our physical body were in a single timeless (present) dimension, our virtual memory eventually expelled us from there, under penalty of not having a conscience that would allow us interact with this universe. In this case, the image of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, described in the book of Genesis, could be considered a true blessing on the part of the Creator, not a punishment. What is the purpose of a splendid creation if it can not be admired, or that is not allowed to be delimited three-dimensional in space by our observation? It is a well-established finding that stars that shine in the night sky at varying distances can be traced by their light within our three-dimensional event horizon, which means that we can not directly observe them. Thus the present of the nearest, as is the case of the Alpha of the Centaur, which is 4.4 light years from us, should be more within reach of our time than the others, although this can not be confirmed. In principle, for lack of direct access to
the information that is placed in our future (the information contained in the starlight needs time to reach us), everything in the infinite universe is in the same dimension of time, which is also with our brain while hard disk. On the other hand, our memory contains only the universe that can be observed outside of its own time, or with the appearance it had in the past. At the same time this memory would be contained in the hard drive of the infinite universe, the only true one. In a strange coincidence, observers seem to be separated from each other only by the time each can perceive subjectively, although all are integral parts of this same universal disc as conscious memories. Thus, although the universe is one, we could conceive the existence of innumerable observable universes, separated by the independent dimensions of time. For this reason, the information would have to be present also in the future, even if for some reason it could not be accessed directly. If information were to cease to exist at any level of matter, we would have to work with the unlikely hypothesis of the existence of another universe, coexisting with ours at the same moment of time. When we raise our heads to the celestial vault at night, we tend to conclude that we look at the stars as they would have been in the distant past. In fact,
we are not looking at the past of the stars; we just look at their present in a way that is out of time, or as if only we have been in the past! The idea that the space-time universe began in a single big bang in the remote past, at an extremely hot spot, and whose size would be smaller than a needle hole, probably as a result of the specular inversion of the collapse of a large mass body forming a black hole, suggests that the boundaries of our event horizon would have been defined at the subatomic level of matter. In this case, probably an informative big bang would have set the maximum storage capacity of the memory of our individual hard drive, the seemingly continuous booming energy bubble in which we occupy a centralized position. This is something that would be in line with the idea that information at this very moment could be traced in the direction of the big bang, very close to the actual time of the event. An isolated big bang would not explain, however, the remarkable way our memory "floats" in time, shifting the horizon of events even if the observer does not abandon his physical position in space. Since space-time, in principle, has only one side (the inside), where the hard disk of our brain can
access information continuously, we can never say if there was only one big bang or if a lot of it continues to happen here and now, even though its direct record has been forever excluded from our observable reality. I'm more likely to think that our universe is really static "out" of time (or outside our brain). Therefore, the universe should have no side. When one affirms that there is only the inside of space-time, he is leaving implicit the forcible existence of an "outside", as predicted by vain philosophy. We have to keep in mind that when it comes to our point of view, there is only that which can be remembered. At the very moment when we consult the archives of our memory, the concept of laterality is born. On its part and as dark matter, the hard disk of the true universe can not be delimited directly into space, because it excludes itself from the memory contained in it.
Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, 02/21/2018.
Note: To better understand this way of approaching the theme, in much more detail, follow the Issuu website and look for "The Adventures of Ben-Hur and Padilha in outer space". There are five episodes of much information.