02/15/2011

Yesterday my friend Brad from Arizona was over visiting and he and I talked a bit about psychology and physics.

My own ideas of physics are very much akin to determinism. I was thinking the other day of how I could construct a series of thought experiments and arguments to elucidate some of my ideas. Unfortunately, I really am hampered by a lack of knowledge in these areas. I really with I could just sit down one day with someone who knew a lot about this stuff and go over my ideas with them. Anyway, here's some of what I've thought.

Time is an illusion extant due to our capacity for memory of previous perceptions.
What we consider time is actually nothing more or less than relative motion.
If any system is accelerated to the speed of light in one direction, time within that system ceases to exist, as no relative motion is possible.
Any force applied to a system in order to accelerate it can either accelerate the entire system or cause the system to become unstable and destruct.
All systems are composed of energy and all energy travels at the speed of light.
Any observation apparently contradicting this last statement is only due to the fact that the object being measured is a system in motion at less than the speed of light, as the relative motion of its components demands.
What we know of as inertia is the necessity of a system to adjust the relative motion of its components in order to accommodate a change in the motion of the entire system.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is inaccurate as it assumes the only method of measuring a particle's position and velocity is to effect the particle by an application of energy.
A particle's position and velocity could theoretically be known by measuring the effect of that particle's gravitational force upon its surroundings, independent of any application of energy to the particle.
If all systems are composed of energy, the complete destruction of a system into its elementary particles could yield perfect information concerning the composition of the original system, assuming every elementary particle's position and velocity could be measured.
If such measurement could occur, the system in question could theoretically be reassembled in exactly the same form it existed in before its destruction.
Such destruction could theoretically be accomplished by the application of antimatter to an object.
The information required to reconstruct an object's "past" is necessarily contained within that sphere defined by the radius that object's past times the speed of light.
Therefore, the entire history of any object could be known if only the destruction of all contents of such a sphere and the subsequent recording of the remaining elementary particles were affected.
If travel exceeding the speed of light were ever to become possible, it would be theoretically possible to reconstruct the entirety of human history, assuming that sufficient matter existed in the universe to accomplish the record of such history.