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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ \def\headlinefont{\_scalemain\_typoscale[800/]\caps\it} \def\mainstyle{ \headline={{}} - \footlinedist=14pt + \footlinedist=24pt \footline={\_hss\rmfixed \_folio \_hss}} % ---------- functionality mimicking "figures" from latex @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ \_def\_printchap #1{{\_vfill\_supereject \_prevdepth=0pt \_vglue\_medskipamount % shifted by topkip+\medskipamount {\_chapfont \_noindent \_printrefnum[@] - \hskip 0.15in plus 0.75in\leaders\hrule\hfil\hskip0.15in plus0.75in #1\_nbpar}\_mark{}% + \hskip 0.15in plus 0.75in\leaders\hrule\hfill #1\_nbpar}\_mark{}% \_nobreak \_belowtitle{\_bigskip}% \_firstnoindent}} diff --git a/behold_metatron.otx b/behold_metatron.otx index ad79f02..e10608d 100644 --- a/behold_metatron.otx +++ b/behold_metatron.otx @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ \input sal.otx \input aux.otx -\margins/2 fold (0.65,0.5,0.6,0.6)in +\margins/2 fold (0.65,0.5,0.6,0.7)in +\footlinedist=12pt \def\pbrk{\vskip 2em} \blankstyle @@ -1,42 +1,42 @@ \chap\nl -We have been moving from time-series to simultaneities. Serial and synchronous time threaten to become surreal time. +We have been moving from time-series to simultaneities. Serial and synchronous time threaten to become \e{surreal} time. -Speed and distance are functions of time. In the world of linked up computers, messages move faster at the center than at the peripheries where messages move an entirely different way. What's the center? One can propose a model: a set of rings. Messages in the inner ring move fastest: less distance to travel. Messages to and from the outer ring move slower. Dante's model. This is a conceptual device that expresses the state of communications today. However the center is in fact spread and networked all over the world. It is faster, for, say, Citicorp to get a message to Hong Kong from Lexington Avenue, than it is to deliver a message across Manhattan walking, riding a bicycle or taking a taxi. Citicorp-Hongkong is a center: 9,000 miles. Lexington Avenue-Eighth Avenue is a periphery: 1/2 mile. +Speed and distance are functions of time. In the world of linked-up computers, messages move faster at the center than at the peripheries; where messages move an entirely different way. What's the center? One can propose a model: a set of rings. Messages in the inner ring move fastest, less distance to travel. Messages to and from the outer ring move slower. Dante's model. This is a conceptual device that expresses the state of communications today. However, the center is in fact spread and networked all over the world. It is faster for, say, Citicorp to get a message to Hong Kong from Lexington Avenue than it is to deliver a message across Manhattan walking, riding a bicycle or taking a taxi. Citicorp-Hongkong is a center: 9,000 miles. Lexington Avenue-Eighth Avenue is a periphery: ½ mile. -When we take into account pricing and power, the the problem becomes even more complicated when the message traffic has to go through some center or complex of centers. It is asserted that if everyone is linked up by interactive terminals and microcomputers, this blazing center of knowledge will be available to all. This is nonsense. In the real world competitive advantage depends on your opponent's being relatively ignorant. We're not even beginning to talk about price and the horrendous effects, in the U.S., of the AT\&T divestiture. Prices of computers go down: this is true. But prices of communications not only go up, but will be unavailable to a large group of people. And anyway, one has to reeducate oneself to use these clumsy machines. +When we take into account pricing and power, the the problem becomes even more complicated; when the message traffic has to go through some center\ld\ or complex of centers. It is asserted that if everyone is linked up by interactive terminals and microcomputers then this blazing center of knowledge will be available to all. This is nonsense. In the real world, competitive advantage depends on your opponents being relatively ignorant. We're not even beginning to talk about price and the horrendous effects, in the US, of the AT\&T divestiture. Prices of computers go down, this is true. But prices of communications not only go up, but will be unavailable to a large group of people. And anyway, one has to reeducate oneself to use these clumsy machines. -If we are to make a transition to the information economy, in which information is a certain kind of currency, certain steps must be taken. Treasure is meaningless if everyone has it. Treasure, and every good, has built into it a political and business version of the second law of thermodynamics. Maxwellian demons concentrate treasure, energy and information. These are shrunk, massed, concentrated into smaller and smaller class-spaces. When knowledge becomes treasure, the value of it is meaningless if everyone has it. But there's a problem. The spread of information is limitless. If we tell a number of people something, then they all have it. So the purpose of the information revolution is to put a value, a price on information and add to the rituals of learning by technologizing it so that few may have it. In the context of the present attempt to make the grand transition to this new era, we have come to see what this means. It is a way of recapitalizing the past and to undo what Lucifer or Prometheus did. Think of the whole complex of modern telematics as one, gigantic, central, country-spanning intelligence and counter-intelligence agency. It also means that everyone outside this information economy is doomed, and that, perhaps, is half the world's population. This is important to remember. +If we are to make a transition to the information economy---in which information is a certain kind of currency---certain steps must be taken. Treasure is meaningless if everyone has it. Treasure, every good, has built into it a political and business version of the second law of thermodynamics. Maxwellian demons concentrate treasure, energy and information. These are shrunk, massed, concentrated into smaller and smaller class-spaces. When knowledge becomes treasure, the value of it is meaningless if everyone has it. But there's a problem: the spread of information is limitless. If we tell a number of people something, then they all have it. So, the purpose of the information revolution is to put a value, a price on information and add to the rituals of learning by technologizing it so that few may have it. In the context of the present attempt to make the grand transition to this new era, we have come to see what this means: it is a way of recapitalizing the past and to undo what Lucifer or Prometheus did. Think of the whole complex of modern telematics as one gigantic, central, country-spanning intelligence and counter-intelligence agency. This also means that everyone outside this information economy is doomed, and that, perhaps, is half the world's population. This is important to remember. -It is said that the speed of generating and processing messages inside of a computer may be faster than in the human brain. That's one way of looking at it. But, in fact, the permissible messages, their content and form, in a computer are enormously different than the message traffic inside of a brain, especially if one considers the development costs (which are in their way a function of time and energy). +It is said that the speed of generating and processing messages inside of a computer may be faster than in the human brain\ld\ that's one way of looking at it. But, in fact, the permissible messages---their content and form---in a computer are enormously different than the message traffic inside of a brain, especially if one considers the development costs (which are in their way a function of time and energy). -The application of abstraction to things or people creates problems. One can say two, four, six\ld: obviously the next number should be eight. But we can also pick any number at all and make that the next step after six, and invent a logical proof for that choice. A logical proof can be invented to justify \e{any} arrangement. (We are moving toward a consideration of time-series in a modern, quantized, relativized, financial, informationalized context.) +The application of abstraction to things or people creates problems. One can say two, four, six\ld\ obviously the next number should be eight. But, we can also pick any number at all, make that the next step after six, and invent a logical proof for that choice. A logical proof can be invented to justify \e{any} arrangement. (We are moving toward a consideration of time-series in a modern, quantized, relativized, financial, informationalized context.) -There are values, variables, with a multiplicity of identifiers, from different yet convergent frameworks, assigned to the stored-up residues of past, present and future human activity. It may be a genetic identifier, a financial identifier, a cliometrical identifier, a literary identifier, a physical identifier. The arrangements of history and the sequence of the buildup of capital of all sorts (taking into account the falsified and adjustive historiography as common practice: for instance, CIA or Church historiography) is somewhat like a problem in scheduling information traffic in a computer. It must be controlled by timers managing the sub-routines, moving and saving bytes, using loops, querying the memory, all contributing to the flow of traffic, done as events happen, after events happen, before events happen; a sort of time-travel. Given something abstracted, but accepted as an act of faith and so lived-by, as a pool of credit, one can fill in any history one wants. +There are values, variables, with a multiplicity of identifiers, from different yet convergent frameworks, assigned to the stored-up residues of past, present and future human activity. It may be a genetic identifier, a financial identifier, a cliometrical identifier, a literary identifier, a physical identifier. The arrangements of history and the sequence of the buildup of capital of all sorts (taking into account the falsified and adjustive historiography as common practice: for instance, CIA or Church historiography) is somewhat like a problem in scheduling information traffic in a computer. It must be controlled by timers managing sub-routines, moving and saving bytes, using loops, querying memory, all contributing to the flow of traffic; done as events happen, after events happen, before events happen; a sort of time-travel. Given something abstracted, but accepted as an act of faith and so lived-by as a pool of credit, one can fill in any history one wants. -But in order to do so requires that one overcome deviant memories and histories. One has to fight to control the history, its event, its passions, its humans, its meaning. This we surely know: people died miserable to contribute to that pool. Defining the meaning of that pool becomes a political and ideological fight over good will. The winner writes history. +But in order to do so requires that one overcome deviant memories and histories. One has to fight to control the history, its event, its passions, its humans, its meaning. This we surely know: people died miserably to contribute to that pool. Defining the meaning of that pool becomes a political and ideological fight over good will. The winner writes history. -The derivation or invention of any series takes place both in historical contexts and according to \dq{deeper needs.} But these \dq{deeper needs} are not to be found in nature, or \dq{Man,} but are the shared desires of a small part of the world's population who constantly fine-tunes the ancient methodologies of series\slash simultaneity-making. The \dq{facts}---whatever those are---or processable specifications, establishes a background theory for those \dq{facts.} The accumulation of many forms of capital is required, each as a contribution to the information economy, for we are no longer in that age when the wishes, ceremonies, sacrifices and incantations of priests and shamans seemed to control the universe: although the sacrifices still continue. +The derivation or invention of any series takes place both in historical contexts and according to \dq{deeper needs.} But these \dq{deeper needs} are not to be found in nature, or \dq{Man,} but are the shared desires of a small part of the world's population who constantly fine-tune the ancient methodologies of series\slash simultaneity-making. The \dq{facts}---whatever those are---or processable specifications, establish a background theory for those \dq{facts.} The accumulation of many forms of capital is required, each as a contribution to the information economy; for we are no longer in that age when the wishes, ceremonies, sacrifices and incantations of priests and shaman seemed to control the universe\ld\ although the sacrifices still continue. -For capital to be accreted and stored, there must have been sets of people arrayed in some time-sequence, laboring to build it up (and also wasting it) during the historic process of production, circulation, consumption, storage and reproduction for that subset of humans who are series-makers and remembrancers. Certain goods may have decayed, but they can still be stored eternally, retrieved, called up, as information. +For capital to be accreted and stored, there must have been sets of people arrayed in some time-sequence, laboring to build it up (and also wasting it) during the historic process of production, circulation, consumption, storage and reproduction for that subset of humans who are series-makers and remembrancers. Certain goods may have decayed, but they can still be stored eternally, retrieved, called up as information. -There's a limit to how long actual grain can be stored but there's no limit to how long we can store the abstractions standing for the grain. It is possible to sell a ton of grain harvested in Pharaonic times now. The only thing is that it cannot be \e{eaten}, only bought and sold perpetually. If the buyer and seller agree, one can sell the Pharaonic grain and use the money to buy real grain. Perhaps it is only the designator, \dq{Pharaonic grain} which throws us. Can't we sell a cargo of grain a thousand times, symbolically moving it from port to port without that cargo actually moving? +There's a limit to how long actual grain can be stored, but there's no limit to how long we can store the abstractions standing for the grain. It is possible to sell a ton of grain harvested in Pharaonic times now. The only thing is that it cannot be \e{eaten}, only bought and sold perpetually. If the buyer and seller agree, one can sell the Pharaonic grain and use the money to buy real grain. Perhaps it is only the designator, \dq{Pharaonic grain} which throws us. Can't we sell a cargo of grain a thousand times, symbolically moving it from port to port without that cargo actually moving? At issue is the relation of symbols, information to the non-informational world. What happens if the informational world collapses? Panics, depressions, bubbles, inflation are all \e{informational} collapses. The non-existent crowds out the living. -If we have a pool of symbolic capital, which stands for, and is used for, stored energy, stored value, stored time, stored space, dreams and aspirations, then we implicitly have an accompanying population-continuity and \e{population-simultaneity}. It may be fictional but can also be considered a storage of real and fictional genetic sequences. We may consider how real people adapt to their changing environments, but we must also think about how fictional populations adapt to material environments and how real populations adapt to fictional environments. For if they are valued, their fictional lives impinge on the lives of the truly living. +If we have a pool of symbolic capital which stands for---and is used for---stored energy, stored value, stored time, stored space, dreams and aspirations, then we implicitly have an accompanying population-continuity and \e{population-simultaneity}. It may be fictional but can also be considered a storage of real and fictional genetic sequences. We may consider how real people adapt to their changing environments, but we must also think about how fictional populations adapt to material environments and how real populations adapt to fictional environments. For if they are valued, their fictional lives impinge on the lives of the truly living. -What sort of time-sequence-storage does a genetic sequence in any one human represent? What we are supposed to have is life, enormously compressed, a serial simultanized, represented by pools of credit. The pools of credit are as folded up as any crumpled helix of gene-strings. And if the production of engineered humans becomes possible---given enough money (taken from where) to suspend the laws of nature---capital and genetics can be compared, even equated. A look at the bio-engineering markets is in order. Where do these fictional populations \dq{live}? On everted globes, on satellites and space colonies, or ribbon planets, in chip architecture, on paradisaical islands before, beyond or at the end of time itself? What operations must we do with these time series\slash simultaneities, these lives, real and false? But what's time? +What sort of time-sequence-storage does a genetic sequence in any one human represent? What we are supposed to have is life, enormously compressed; a serial simultanized, represented by pools of credit. The pools of credit are as folded up as any crumpled helix of gene-strings\ld\ and if the production of engineered humans becomes possible---given enough money (taken from where?) to suspend the laws of nature---capital and genetics can be compared, even equated. A look at the bio-engineering markets is in order. Where do these fictional populations \dq{live}? On everted globes, on satellites and space colonies---or ribbon planets, in chip architecture, on paradisaical islands before, beyond or at the end of time itself? What operations must we do with these time series\slash simultaneities, these lives, real and false? But what's time? -We have been bound by several perceptions of time, subject to various revisions. We have been tied to the tyrannous cycle of ageing, risings and settings of suns, rounds of seasons (and seen the priests control those rounds, inserting themselves between us and the sky), birth, growth, death: \e{felt} duration. Our biological clocks can be fooled. +We have been bound by several perceptions of time, subject to various revisions. We have been tied to the tyrannous cycle of aging, risings and settings of suns, rounds of seasons (and seen the priests control those rounds, inserting themselves between us and the sky), birth, growth, death: \e{felt} duration. Our biological clocks can be fooled. -The perception of time became industrial gradually, introduced in the 15th century or so. Time's continuity was fragmented into equal lengths, matched up against factory and production ties; unit time, unit goods, unit prices, unit consumption, units of exchange, but all arranged into the cheerful, progressive, accumulatory one-way-up trajectory. This vision was introjected into the consciousness of those inhabiting the industrializing world. It is being introduced now into the consciousness of those inhabiting the underdeveloped world. +The perception of time became industrial gradually, introduced in the 15\textsuperscript{th} century or so. Time's continuity was fragmented into equal lengths, matched up against factory and production ties; unit time, unit goods, unit prices, unit consumption, units of exchange, but all arranged into the cheerful, progressive, accumulatory one-way-up trajectory. This vision was introjected into the consciousness of those inhabiting the industrializing world. It is being introduced now into the consciousness of those inhabiting the underdeveloped world. Time zones were created in relation to the sun's passage, marking the business day and year: market time. But all renegotiated time-schema retained this long range trajectory, the primal beginning and the ultimate end. Enter, just before the industrial revolution, the modern magicians. First wave: mathematicians, scientists, logicians, topologists (and technicians), the Founding Fathers of the New Age, \e{circa} the 17\textsuperscript{th} and 18\textsuperscript{th} century\ld\ followed quickly by accountants and business topologists, the time and money managers. -But Leibniz and Descartes were primarily mystics: Galileo faked the results of experiments. As for Newton, the evidence is that he was more interested in gnostic\slash astrological\slash alchemical\slash hermetic thought than science. In astrological thought, for the stars to affect life, and conversely, \e{instantaneous} transmission of forces are required. Perhaps for Newton the enterprise of regularizing the universe was required to give a sound and calculable foundation to astrology. The astrological requires order and regularity as well as an orderly medium for the transmission of heavenly signals affecting human life, thought and destiny. Newton tried to formulate a precise scientific methodology for dating events, using Scripture and Greek myths. For Newton, time was teleological. He related time to a history of royal, Hebraic dynasties. He matched up time, considered abstractly, to a special kind of ethnic\slash dynastic genetics (although he didn't use those words). He felt that the ancient Jews had secret knowledge which filtered down to the Pythagoreans. He considered the music of the spheres a metaphor for the law of gravity. He believed that the dimensions and configuration of Solomon's Temple concealed alchemical formulae which corresponded to a divine unity in nature. He explored sacred geometry, practiced alchemy (along with Robert Boyle), and was of course that perfect kind of compulsive dualist in all things. Newton was also alchemically and financially involved with gold; he was Master of The Mint. Given this, Newton's \dq{beginning} is religious, extrapolated to Nature. +But Leibniz and Descartes were primarily mystics; Galileo faked the results of experiments. As for Newton, the evidence is that he was more interested in gnostic\slash astrological\slash alchemical\slash hermetic thought than science. In astrological thought, for the stars to affect life, and conversely, \e{instantaneous} transmission of forces are required. Perhaps for Newton the enterprise of regularizing the universe was required to give a sound and calculable foundation to astrology. The astrological requires order and regularity as well as an orderly medium for the transmission of heavenly signals affecting human life, thought and destiny. Newton tried to formulate a precise scientific methodology for dating events, using Scripture and Greek myths. For Newton, time was teleological. He related time to a history of royal, Hebraic dynasties. He matched up time, considered abstractly, to a special kind of ethnic\slash dynastic genetics (although he didn't use those words). He felt that the ancient Jews had secret knowledge which filtered down to the Pythagoreans. He considered the music of the spheres a metaphor for the law of gravity. He believed that the dimensions and configuration of Solomon's Temple concealed alchemical formulae which corresponded to a divine unity in nature. He explored sacred geometry, practiced alchemy (along with Robert Boyle), and was of course that perfect kind of compulsive dualist in all things. Newton was also alchemically and financially involved with gold; he was Master of The Mint. Given this, Newton's \dq{beginning} is religious, extrapolated to Nature. Or maybe he wanted regularity and predictability because he lost money in speculation. @@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ How much better than Velikovsky was Newton? It was this complex of thought upon which the reconstructions in relativity and quantum physics are based. -With the introduction of artificial light, divisions into day and night begin to end. With sealed, climate-controlled environments, the seasons begin to become irrelevant. the conversion of the natural world into the artificial world, from the raw to the processed, continues. For some the world is already the atemporal control room of a space ship where the ever-chilled, perpetually running, energy-consuming computers, spinning out their fantasies, are attended.
\ No newline at end of file +With the introduction of artificial light, divisions into day and night begin to end. With sealed, climate-controlled environments, the seasons begin to become irrelevant. The conversion of the natural world into the artificial world, from the raw to the processed, continues. For some the world is already the atemporal control room of a space ship where the ever-chilled, perpetually running, energy-consuming computers, spinning out their fantasies, are attended.
\ No newline at end of file @@ -1,53 +1,53 @@ \chap\nl -Einstein's thoughts (building on and reconstructing Newton, the alchemist's thought) on simultaneity become instructive, as do the thoughts of modern bankers as they scan their electronic spread-sheets. For bankers and physicists meditate on states of simultaneity, relative to those who do not, \e{cannot} have access to this distance-insensitive equipment. This is to say bankers enjoy abstract immortality in relation to the banked, along with quantum physicists and metaphysicians and magicians. +Einstein's thoughts (building on and reconstructing Newton, the alchemist's thought) on simultaneity become instructive; as do the thoughts of modern bankers as they scan their electronic spread-sheets. For bankers and physicists meditate on states of simultaneity, relative to those who do not, \e{cannot} have access to this distance-insensitive equipment. This is to say, bankers enjoy abstract immortality in relation to the banked; along with quantum physicists and metaphysicians and magicians. -For Einstein a number of events can be considered to be taking place at the same time, but only in relation to an observer recording different signals from those events and timing them with coordinated clocks. (Compare the delicate timing of an international arbitrage operation which requires relative speed, or relative simultaneity, and at the same time requires relative ignorance---or relative distance---on the part of one's opponents.) Everything depends on the observer and the recording instruments and relative accumulations of knowledge (the instruments being a manifestation of assumptions built into them) and speeds of transmission to determine what looks like simultaneity. +For Einstein, a number of events can be considered to be taking place at the same time---but only in relation to an observer recording different signals from those events and timing them with coordinated clocks.\fnote{Compare the delicate timing of an international arbitrage operation which requires relative speed---or relative simultaneity---and at the same time, requires relative ignorance---or relative distance---on the part of one's opponents.} Everything depends on the observer, the recording instruments and relative accumulations of knowledge (the instruments being a manifestation of assumptions built into them) and speeds of transmission to determine what looks like simultaneity. -Simultaneity has nothing to do with where those events are happening (unless you are being shot at from two directions), but rather when they are perceived. Perception is a function of distance and the tools required to transmit knowledge. A corporation, our chimera, in the \e{contemplation} of law, this society of the anonymous and hidden, an organic being (more than the sum of activities of individuals and groups), with stored-up misery-and-energy, lives converted to credit, may be scattered over a wide geography and over time. All things in it and of it and about it may be considered simultaneous from the point of view of an auditor contemplating this balance sheet. When the accountant's sheet is computerized, constantly receiving information from all over the world and interconnected with the product of statistical projections from all over space and time, then all operations are happening simultaneously, including invested-in future events, since they are handled in the present. +Simultaneity has nothing to do with \e{where} those events are happening (unless you are being shot at from two directions), but rather \e{when} they are perceived. Perception is a function of distance and the tools required to transmit knowledge. A corporation---our chimera, in the \e{contemplation} of law, this society of the anonymous and hidden, an organic being (more than the sum of activities of individuals and groups), with stored-up misery-and-energy, lives converted to credit---may be scattered over a wide geography and over time. All things in it, of it and about it may be considered simultaneous from the point of view of an auditor contemplating this balance sheet. When the accountant's sheet is computerized, constantly receiving information from all over the world and interconnected with the product of statistical projections from all over space and time, then all operations are happening simultaneously; including invested-in future events, since they are handled in the present. -Similarly, it is said that any complex of genetic material contains the complete history of the organism and all preceding organisms (a genetic archeology, but still alive). By the process of combination and recombination of its memory elements, amino acids, etc., since it contains all past, probable, potential and possible organisms, even pre-organisms; and like the elements of, the combinatorial rules of, say English (rules which are derived after the language is mature), is subject to the same operations, containing all past and future literary works, even those that Shakespeare forgot to write. Implicit in all these observational operations is the notion of the simultaneity-observer of all genetic and\slash or linguistic, and\slash or monetary possibility. And thus genetics, if seen as information, is the remembrance of things past (all the organic---and inorganic---universe, all the realized and unrealized beings, objects and forces) which generate the organisms which invent various schema of remembrance, which then remember the complex that recollects it. +Similarly, it is said that any complex of genetic material contains the complete history of the organism and all preceding organisms (a genetic archeology, but still alive). Through the process of combination and recombination of its memory elements---amino acids, etc.---since it contains all past, probable, potential and possible organisms, even pre-organisms; and considering the elements and combinatorial rules of, say, English (rules which are derived after the language is mature), are subject to the same operations, containing all past and future literary works\ld\ even those that Shakespeare forgot to write. Implicit in all these observational operations is the notion of the simultaneity-observer of all genetic and\slash or linguistic and\slash or monetary possibility. And thus genetics, if seen as information, is the remembrance of things past (all the organic---and inorganic---universe, all the realized and unrealized beings, objects and forces) which generate the organisms, which invent various schema of remembrance, which then remember the complex that recollects it. -But for Einstein there was an upper limit: the speed of light. The quantum physicists, introducing indeterminacy, and the intervention of the observer and his instrumentation, implied that in a certain sense, all events were in fact simultaneous, regardless of clocks, for they had distributed Mind into the universe, a notion Einstein rejected. +But for Einstein there was an upper limit: the speed of light. The quantum physicists, introducing indeterminacy and the intervention of the observer and his instrumentation, implied that in a certain sense \e{all} events were in fact simultaneous, regardless of clocks, for they had distributed Mind into the universe, a notion Einstein rejected. -Let's take a side trip to paradise and consider time there. What happens before the beginning, or after the end, is a question to which Kabbalists and gnostics address themselves. This problem has been transmitted right down into modern times in a new form: what happened \e{before} The Beginning, the Big Bang (itself a construct open to doubt)? +Let's take a side trip to paradise and consider time there. What happens before the beginning---or after the end---is a question to which Kabbalists and gnostics address themselves. This problem has been transmitted right down into modern times in a new form: what happened \e{before} The Beginning, the Big Bang (itself a construct open to doubt)? -\e{All} matter, energy, space and time (and thus all possibility) was contracted into a dimensionless point (or nothingness)\ld\ so the mythic tale goes. Infinite mass, for if the point was susceptible to measurement, even of the most miniscule kind, then its mass was less than infinite. If all matter, space, motion, energy, time---and potentially, perhaps inevitably, all life---in the universe was massed into this dimensionless point, then there could be no time or space \e{outside} this dimensionless, infinite-massed point. Infinitely compressed matter and energy (which included, potentiality, all life) meant that there was no one to measure it, not even any automated measuring tools. So all Mind was there too. Perfect simultaneity, \e{but not objective simultaneity}, which, being involved with signals, distance and time, couldn't be measured. It was therefore eternal inside the dimensionless point, a feature of all paradises. +\e{All} matter, energy, space and time (and thus all possibility) was contracted into a dimensionless point (or nothingness)\ld\ so the mythic tale goes. Infinite mass; for if the point was susceptible to measurement, even of the most miniscule kind, then its mass was less than infinite. If all matter, space, motion, energy, time---and potentially, perhaps inevitably, all life---in the universe was massed into this dimensionless point, then there could be no time or space \e{outside} this dimensionless, infinite-massed point. Infinitely compressed matter and energy (which included, potentiality, all life) meant that there was no one to measure it, not even any automated measuring tools\ld\ so all Mind was there too. Perfect simultaneity, \e{but not objective simultaneity}, which, being involved with signals, distance and time, couldn't be measured. It was therefore eternal inside the dimensionless point, a feature of all paradises. -Time is not a term that stands by itself, nor does any other term: all terms are multireferential, bootstrapping every other term into the air where it hovers like some plasma, contained away from the apprehension of most people. But the multi-referentiality (as well as the breakdown into terms of a complex of things) indicates the intervention of mind inside the universe. If Mind is an emanation of that pre-moment---physical, chemical, biological, monetary, literary, religious---it might be possible to \e{remember} this paradisaical past now, as we \e{remember}, say, Eden, a lower-level and later paradise. It is out of logic, the mathematics, the equations---a form of metaphorical activity---the statistical retrojection---a specialized and leached-out form of memory---and the observation of the distribution of matter in space, and the Red Shift, that we might infer, and remember, the Big Bang. +\e{Time} is not a term that stands by itself, nor does any other term: all terms are multireferential, bootstrapping every other term into the air where it hovers like some plasma, contained away from the apprehension of most people. But the multi-referentiality (as well as the breakdown into terms of a complex of things) indicates the intervention of mind inside the universe. If Mind is an emanation of that pre-moment---physical, chemical, biological, monetary, literary, religious---it might be possible to \e{remember} this paradisaical past now, as we \e{remember}, say, Eden; a lower-level and later paradise. It is out of logic, the mathematics, the equations---a form of metaphorical activity---the statistical retrojection---a specialized and leached-out form of memory---the observation of the distribution of matter in space, and the Red Shift, that we might infer, and remember, the Big Bang. -It is over this Big Bang that modern physicists, ancient priests and shamans, magicians, Kabbalists and communications artists come together. +It is over this Big Bang that modern physicists, ancient priests and shaman, magicians, Kabbalists and communications artists come together. -Given this compulsive activity, this associative, similizing, metaphoric, organizing, disorganizing, ordering, concentrating, distributing, interventionary, aesthetic activity of humans, and the compulsive necessity to lay on one hundred and forty four interpolations where there appears the slightest gap (indeed to invent gaps) we can also say that all economic observations contain the purified metaphysical and stored-up simultaneous record of all activity. And we can add that the genetic material is not only an information-analogue, but a factory and clock analogue: the gamete's growing becomes an analogy to the ever repeated evolution, a biological mini-Big Bang. +Given this compulsive activity---this associative, similizing, metaphoric, organizing, disorganizing, ordering, concentrating, distributing, interventionary, aesthetic activity of humans---and the compulsive necessity to lay on one hundred and forty four interpolations where there appears the slightest gap (indeed to invent gaps), we can also say that all economic observations contain the purified metaphysical and stored-up simultaneous record of all activity. And we can add that the genetic material is not only an information-analogue, but a factory and clock analogue: the gamete's growing becomes an analogy to the ever repeated evolution, a biological mini-Big Bang. -Since all credit is meaningless unless linked to an active, perpetually moving market, linked to people to believe in it and to the institutions they inhabit, given these massive flows of \e{perceptions}, symbols and signs standing for life, space, factories, and given the increasing velocities, we have reached the age of Einsteinianism in business, approaching (as in Dante's Paradiso), simultaneity \e{inside} this system and serial, laborious time and ageing (the post-paradisaical universe) \e{outside} the system. It is with the arrival of the computers and high-speed communications, with perpetually operating, around-the-world-all-time-on-line-markets, time and time-zones, for some speculators, mean less and less, but are needed more and more. +Since all credit is meaningless unless linked to an active, perpetually moving market; linked to people to believe in it and to the institutions they inhabit; given these massive flows of \e{perceptions}, symbols and signs standing for life, space, factories; and given the increasing velocities; we have reached the age of Einsteinianism in business, approaching (as in Dante's Paradiso), simultaneity \e{inside} this system and serial, laborious time and aging (the post-paradisaical universe) \e{outside} the system. With the arrival of the computers and high-speed communications---with perpetually operating, around-the-world-all-time-online-markets---time and time-zones, for some speculators, mean less and less\ld\ but are needed more and more. -The zones, after all, are merely a hangover of local dawns and sun-settings, a way to start and end the business day (but at the same time have reference to eternity). For those, time becomes a manipulable commensurable, a function of price to be adjusted seasonally, daily, hourly, minutely to the financial needs of different credit\slash time\slash zone-spanning topologies. Linked-up, high-speed computers, telexes, with their internal and communicating velocities, working all the time to coordinate long and short term messages become like the matching up of different infinities. +The zones, after all, are merely a hangover of local dawns and sun-settings, a way to start and end the business day (but at the same time have reference to eternity). For those, time becomes a manipulable commensurable, a function of price to be adjusted seasonally, daily, hourly, minutely to the financial needs of different credit\slash time\slash zone-spanning topologies. Linked-up high-speed computers and telexes, with their internal and communicating velocities, working all the time to coordinate long and short term messages, become like the matching up of different infinities. -Now, it is said, \e{all} can be linked: financial markets, factories, laboratory work, electrical grid systems, voice conversations, graphic displays, on-line-in-real-time accounting systems, tax structures, banking operations, brokering, trading programs, games, military and political scenarios, telemedical diagnostic and treatment-delivery networks, point-of-sale processors, home banking and trading, data-retrieval\ld\ All change the notion of time and timing. The restlessness of these unsleeping telematic devices negates out older senses of time. The movements of humans, matched up to the \e{movement of the records of humans and their endeavors} change the notion of time, timing and human behavior. Real time begins to dance in time to telecommunicated computer time; capital-containing time-movements\slash time-containing capital movements. The human cycle of production and consumption falls out of line with the informational cycle of production and consumption. Life is driven by these abstractions and fictional populations are more suited to survive at these speeds than humans. It becomes bizarre when time becomes not only mensurable, but something that can be correlated to a set of logic games. +Now, it is said, \e{all} can be linked: financial markets, factories, laboratory work, electrical grid systems, voice conversations, graphic displays, online-in-real-time accounting systems, tax structures, banking operations, brokering, trading programs, games, military and political scenarios, telemedical diagnostic and treatment-delivery networks, point-of-sale processors, home banking and trading, data-retrieval\ld\ all change the notion of time and timing. The restlessness of these unsleeping telematic devices negates out older senses of time. The movements of humans, matched up to the \e{movement of the records of humans and their endeavors}, change the notion of time, timing and human behavior. Real time begins to dance in time to telecommunicated computer time; capital-containing time-movements\slash time-containing capital movements. The human cycle of production and consumption falls out of line with the informational cycle of production and consumption. Life is driven by these abstractions, and fictional populations are more suited to survive at these speeds than humans. It becomes bizarre when time becomes not only mensurable, but something that can be correlated to a set of logic games. -After the reconstruction, or remembrance of the Big Bang, time was said to move only in one direction: \dq{forward.} An anomaly. This asymmetrically was bothersome. After all, the universe is electromanichean. Then it was found, possibly, that for sub-atomic particles time may be bi-directional, an analogy deduced from the assumed bi-polar nature of charged particles. A question: why should time only go \dq{forward,} along a \dq{line,} as if trying to move away from, or perhaps forward into an enormous pool of pre- or post-existent, paradisaical pre-creation. If there are chronons, positive, forward-moving time-particles, then there should be anti-chronons, negative, backward-moving time-particles. (Or on the other hand, maybe the observational equipment, the human, subject to time, could not perceive time any other way---except in dreams---and thus projected this time, operationally, imposing---as mind imposes---a certain order in the universe.) +After the reconstruction, or remembrance of the Big Bang, time was said to move only in one direction: \dq{forward.} An anomaly. This asymmetrically was bothersome. After all, the universe is electromanichean. Then it was found, possibly, that for sub-atomic particles time may be bi-directional, an analogy deduced from the assumed bi-polar nature of charged particles. A question: why should time only go \dq{forward,} along a \dq{line,} as if trying to move away from---or perhaps forward into---an enormous pool of pre- or post-existent, paradisaical pre-creation. If there are chronons---positive, forward-moving time-particles---then there should be anti-chronons---negative, backward-moving time-particles. (Or on the other hand, maybe the observational equipment, the human, subject to time, could not perceive time any other way---except in dreams---and thus projected this time, operationally, imposing---as mind imposes---a certain order in the universe.) -But, if time is moving forward, and matter is moving outward, expanding, attenuating, inflating, then entropic disaster faces us and preoccupies some small, but influential set of thinkers. It is astonishing that some far-off heat-death of the universe should affect this subset with despair, as if they were faced with a black and dusty cosmos a mere ten or twenty years from now. This hints at a religious or at least an ideological sensibility. The crisis demands reconcentration and reunification, these new forms of calculational and accumulative ideology which permeates all forms of thought. There is also a peculiar aspect to this thought, a sort of despair. If the universe perpetually expands, or if it is steady-state, or expands and contracts in cycles, all seems \dq{purposeless.} Now we are not merely talking about religious thinking, but scientists have voiced these concerns. Purpose, as well as the imposition of order in all things, is negentropy. +But, if time is moving forward, and matter is moving outward---expanding, attenuating, inflating---then entropic disaster faces us and preoccupies some small, but influential set of thinkers. It is astonishing that some far-off heat-death of the universe should affect this subset with despair, as if they were faced with a black and dusty cosmos a mere ten or twenty years from now. This hints at a religious or at least an ideological sensibility. The crisis demands reconcentration and reunification, these new forms of calculational and accumulative ideology which permeates all forms of thought. There is also a peculiar aspect to this thought; a sort of despair. If the universe perpetually expands, or if it is steady-state, or expands and contracts in cycles, all seems \dq{purposeless.} Now we are not merely talking about religious thinking, but scientists have voiced these concerns. Purpose, as well as the imposition of order in all things, is negentropy. -This crisis, this terror of conceptual, informational, ideological inflation, is seen in finance, physics, cosmology, genetics\ld\ The universe-picture collapses for the physicists. All the functions of esoteric calculation-magic to keep the universe alive emerges in their logic-compared-to-the-universe. The banker's loans default, their world system is threatened with collapse, just as a star, using its energy too freely, burns out too quickly, collapsing back on itself into a black hole. The banker must reschedule or re-time his loans, or at least reform the calenders of his debtors\ld\ although he cannot retime his debtor's lives. For the banker and the physicist, the universe must balance, all things in it, thus time itself: they must hold their two-aspected world together. For the banker it may be necessary to reschedule or slow down time. +This crisis, this terror of conceptual, informational, ideological inflation, is seen in finance, physics, cosmology, genetics\ld\ the universe-picture collapses for the physicists. All the functions of esoteric calculation-magic to keep the universe alive emerges in their logic-compared-to-the-universe. The banker's loans default, their world system is threatened with collapse, just as a star, using its energy too freely, burns out too quickly, collapsing back on itself into a black hole. The banker must reschedule or re-time his loans, or at least reform the calenders of his debtors\ld\ although he cannot retime his debtor's lives. For the banker and the physicist, the universe must balance, all things in it, thus time itself; they must hold their two-aspected world together. For the banker it may be necessary to reschedule or slow down time. Can this be accepted by those living in a debtor---low-energy, low-mass---nation, since the tyranny of their bodies may not respond to this new schema? They cannot suspend their bodily functions and await the paradise of debt payoff or redemption in a hundred years. Therefore, the bankers must play games with time, population (genetics) and space. The physicists and cosmologists also reschedule time, making statistical projections and retrojections, equating (like the banker) all time with that contained in a massified and concentrated microworld which they can then manipulate with ease. -Operations can be performed with time-quanta that distort our sense of what time is. We can add it; we can subtract it; we can make it go sideways, crowd centuries into minutes. How much time was spent by Dante, going through hell, purgatory and heaven on that Easter triad of days, 1300: subjective time inside these three realms as against objective time outside of it? If time can be accumulated, can it be sold? Truly sold as a commodity? Can it be consumed, metabolized? In some sense, yes. How? By making it into a commodity; the businessman's trick. Commodity means \dq{the measured against.} Is time, like other commodities, deliverable? We sell time-sharing. But those are, after all, metaphors. We can sell it as interest. We sell money, we loan money, and if we are striving for a profit, time becomes expressed in interest rates already embedded in money. All money, all that is valued, contains time, both the time of its existence and the time incorporated into it. But, to buy it is still not to \e{live} it. +Operations can be performed with time-quanta that distort our sense of what time is. We can add it; we can subtract it; we can make it go sideways, crowd centuries into minutes. How much time was spent by Dante, going through hell, purgatory and heaven on that Easter triad of days, 1300: subjective time inside these three realms as against objective time outside of it? If time can be accumulated, can it be sold? Truly sold as a commodity? Can it be consumed, metabolized? In some sense, yes. How? By making it into a commodity; the businessman's trick. Commodity means \dq{the measured against.} Is time, like other commodities, deliverable? We sell time-sharing\ld\ dut those are, after all, metaphors. We can sell it as interest. We sell money, we loan money, and if we are striving for a profit, time becomes expressed in interest rates already embedded in money. All money, all that is valued, contains time; both the time of its existence and the time incorporated into it. But, to buy it is still not to \e{live} it. -Debt redemption is the redemption of time-price. (A famous work on slave cliometrics is called \booktitle{Time on The Cross}. After the original time on the cross, came the journey into another space and the resurrection.) It is performance in production, events-to-come-treated as if they had already happened. Time is delivered from then to now. Ridiculous? If quarks are confined in larger particles and cannot be separated, but nevertheless calculated with as if separated, why not time? No one has ever seen a free quark; why not confined chronons? Matching time to value, we monetize it, but in a \dq{confined} manner. +Debt redemption is the redemption of time-price.\fnote{A famous work on slave cliometrics is called \booktitle{Time on the Cross}. After the original time on the cross came the journey into another space and the resurrection.} It is performance in production, events-to-come-treated as if they had already happened. Time is delivered from then to now. Ridiculous? If quarks are confined in larger particles and cannot be separated, but nevertheless calculated with as if separated, why not time? No one has ever seen a free quark; why not confined chronons? Matching time to value, we monetize it, but in a \dq{confined} manner. -There can be no such thing in our current financial system as a static pool of money, or near-money. Since it is restless, it has velocity, and if it has velocity, then it traverses space---what is velocity without space---in a variety of ways. A meter is now defined in terms of light travel. It was discovered that a rigid measuring rod shrunk, and so gained mass, in the direction of the movement relative to a measuring rod in a slower timeframe. Speeding clocks also slow up in the direction of velocity. We may also say that money, in perpetual motion, if massed, slows up time relative to slower moving money, or conversely, time inside a massed and concentrated pool of money slows up as the velocity of money increases. So now so many fraction-seconds of light traveled equals a meter, based on the assumption that light-travel is a constant in any time-frame. The same operation applies to money, which can define space (if not pure space, then at least real-estate). Increase the velocity (requiring what amounts of energy and investments?) to the speed of light and mass will begin to become compressed into smaller and smaller spaces approaching nothingness, infinite mass, and at the same time will be relatively eternal. Time, from the point of view of someone's going slower, appears longer. Infinity, but relative infinity. Immortality, but relative immortality. And when the speed of light is transcended (or possibly when there is enough treasure-energy piled up) then time might go backwards. We have arrived at the conditions of the black hole. +There can be no such thing in our current financial system as a static pool of money, or near-money. Since it is restless, it has velocity; and if it has velocity, then it traverses space---what is velocity without space?---in a variety of ways. A meter is now defined in terms of light travel. It was discovered that a rigid measuring rod shrunk, and so gained mass, in the direction of the movement relative to a measuring rod in a slower timeframe. Speeding clocks also slow up in the direction of velocity. We may also say that money, in perpetual motion, if massed, slows up time relative to slower moving money; or conversely, time inside a massed and concentrated pool of money slows up as the velocity of money increases. So now so many fraction-seconds of light traveled equals a meter, based on the assumption that light-travel is a constant in any time-frame. The same operation applies to money, which can define space (if not pure space, then at least real-estate). Increase the velocity (requiring what amounts of energy and investments?) to the speed of light and mass will begin to become compressed into smaller and smaller spaces approaching nothingness, infinite mass, and at the same time will be relatively eternal. Time, from the point of view of someone's going slower, appears longer. Infinity---but relative infinity. Immortality---but relative immortality. And when the speed of light is transcended (or possibly when there is enough treasure-energy piled up) then time might go backwards. We have arrived at the conditions of the black hole. If we can talk about dollars per time-unit, we can now also talk about time-units per dollar. If we change our rates, we can talk about more dollars per time-unit and more time-units per dollar. If inflation takes place, value drops or dollars per item increases, and therefore rates increase to compensate. Or conversely, velocity also contributes to inflation. By the same token, chronons per unit can be inflated. Inflation creates time. We approach immortality. -If this seems like an intellectual game, without consequence in the real world, we must consider the effects on people of short and long-term debt, defaults, accelerated payments and production, in which the whole cycle must be speeded up in order to repay. Either people work faster (and live for shorter periods of time) for less pay, or fewer people work at faster rates (aided by the ghost army embedded in robotics and computers). +If this seems like an intellectual game, without consequence in the real world, we must consider the effects on people of short and long-term debt, defaults, accelerated payments and production, in which the whole cycle must be sped up in order to repay. Either people work faster (and live for shorter periods of time) for less pay, or fewer people work at faster rates (aided by the ghost army embedded in robotics and computers). -The speed of light is the ultimate standard, the limit, Einstein's \e{primum mobile}. Since everything is defined in terms of everything else, there can be no such thing as a \e{primum mobile} other than the one those who set the standards impose on us. While time is closely linked to light and the traversal of space, if we link time to compound interest formulae, the parameters change. While we have been reticent, resistant to play with time because cycles of hunger, fatigue and death drain us, it is happening nevertheless, in our practice. But biological time still lurks somewhere in our perceptions; yielding to an artificial immortality terrifies us, like submitting ourselves to heaven and hell. It should be remembered that an infinite amount of money must be spent in order to become equivalent to an infinite amount of mass and energy, to an infinite amount of space, lives, energy, history, time\ld\ High technology, capital intensivity compresses the mass of commodities. Capitech-intensivity increases its mass-energy-time-velocity in relation to a slower-moving, starvation world. +The speed of light is the ultimate standard: the limit, Einstein's \e{primum mobile}. Since everything is defined in terms of everything else, there can be no such thing as a \e{primum mobile} other than the one those who set the standards impose on us. While time is closely linked to light and the traversal of space, if we link time to compound interest formulae, the parameters change. While we have been reticent, resistant to play with time because cycles of hunger, fatigue and death drain us, it is happening nevertheless; in our practice. But biological time still lurks somewhere in our perceptions; yielding to an artificial immortality terrifies us, like submitting ourselves to heaven and hell. It should be remembered that an infinite amount of money must be spent in order to become equivalent to an infinite amount of mass and energy, to an infinite amount of space, lives, energy, history, time\ld\ high technology and capital intensivity compresses the mass of commodities. Capitech-intensivity increases its mass-energy-time-velocity in relation to a slower-moving starvation world. -All operations that can be performed with credit also indicates a relative immortality, for the possessor of the accumulation of credit possesses a huge accumulation of stored energy-lives, time, in a very small space: a great mass, which, because it still can't be metabolized, must manifest itself in certain expenditures; cars, houses, military potlatches, estates, hotel rooms, airplanes, pomp. This, of course, is reckoning backwards; we are deriving certain laws to explain the insane behavior of the rich. And yet, a dream persists: of one could only store enough mass-accumulation, then you can store, perhaps, enough time in a small enough space to transcend, or at least reach the speed of light. The question here is, of course, \e{real}, \e{actual} immortality (for whom and at what price to everyone else?) +All operations that can be performed with credit also indicate a relative immortality; for the possessor of the accumulation of credit possesses a huge accumulation of stored energy-lives, time, in a very small space: a great mass, which, because it still can't be metabolized, must manifest itself in certain expenditures: cars, houses, military potlatches, estates, hotel rooms, airplanes, pomp. This, of course, is reckoning backwards; we are deriving certain laws to explain the insane behavior of the rich. And yet, a dream persists: if one could only store enough mass-accumulation, then you can store, perhaps, enough time in a small enough space to transcend, or at least reach the speed of light. The question here is, of course, \e{real}, \e{actual} immortality (for whom and at what price to everyone else?)\ld The difficulty lies in any human's being able to \e{metabolize} an extreme amount of time, or mass, or energy, or velocity, or convert information (which is also a function of all these terms) to something like flesh\ld\ convert energy, etc., into usable energy in an assimilable form. (As Ahab, an insatiable hunter, desiring a sort of immortality, dreamed of swallowing the power of the sun concretized in the symbol of the White Whale, Moby Dick.) Thus, in the abstract and therefore in the real world, the rich create a vacuum around them by sucking up the abstractions, the information standing for the energies of the world, which then siphon off the actual energies of the universe. -But there is something saving after all. The real, ultimate constant may not be the speed of light at all, but \e{felt duration}, after all, give or take a little of the average lived life. The felt duration of people ina different time and speed frame seems subjectively to be the same (although no one knows) even though the person in the fast lane is said to live æons longer. It is such calculations that produce vast masses in time and timer-space, creating a blind impasse, the existence of the concept of black holes, out of which no light or energy escapes\ld\ Which yield amusing stories to frighten and amuse the young, but does not yield any Magellan's passage to an India-Paradiso. +But there is something saving after all. The real, ultimate constant may not be the speed of light at all, but \e{felt duration}; after all, give or take a little of the average lived life: the felt duration of people in different time and speed frames seem subjectively to be the same (although no one knows) even though the person in the fast lane is said to live æons longer. It is such calculations that produce vast masses in time and timer-space, creating a blind impasse, the existence of the concept of black holes, out of which no light or energy escapes\ld\ which yield amusing stories to frighten and amuse the young, but does not yield any Magellan's passage to an India-Paradiso. @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ \chap\nl -If the \e{mythology} of the past is \e{ever-present}, at least in the \e{memory} (distant signals presently felt, but not in any order) then it too is simultaneous even though the event is long gone. Seen this way, event, and thus time, and thus life, become merely informational; that is to say an abstraction that can be handled in a non-real way with real effects. This is, after all, what dreams and surrealism are all about. A financial institution is not only an information-handling and communicating company these days, but a clock, an observatory with \dq{eyes} that see electronic impulses in which all the events it scans are simultaneous and fused. It is a dream state. +If the \e{mythology} of the past is \e{ever-present}, at least in the \e{memory} (distant signals presently felt, but not in any order), then it too is simultaneous; even though the event is long gone. Seen this way, event---and thus time, and thus life---become merely informational; that is to say, an abstraction that can be handled in a non-real way with real effects. This is, after all, what dreams and surrealism are all about. A financial institution is not only an information-handling and communicating company these days, but a clock, an observatory with \dq{eyes} that see electronic impulses in which all the events it scans are simultaneous and fused. It is a dream state. As we continue to struggle on toward demonstrating this unified field theory as it is in practice, we see we have arrived at a dangerous, earth-devouring system of thought and illusion. We take the whole development of modern cosmological and physical theory to be, at the present time, a function of the \e{culture} of modern transnational capital. When a certain level of interconnectedness is reached, what will happen is that the universe's symbolic energy (affecting real energy systems) will move so fast that it will burn itself out, explode into a nova (a cosmological financial-informational bubble), collapse and compress back into a black hole\ld\ leaving the universe outside quite the way it was for billions of years. |