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+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, \emph{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 observor
+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 observor 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.
+
+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 percieved. Perception is a
+function of distance and the tools required to
+transmit knowledge. A corporation, our
+chimera, in the \emph{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 recieving 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 proscess 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 languge 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-observor of
+all genetic and\slash or linguistic, and\slash or monetary
+possibility. And thus genetics, if seen as
+information, is the rememberance 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
+rembererance, 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 observor 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.
+
+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 Kaballists and gnostics address themselves. This problem has been transmitted
+right down into modern times in a new form:
+what happened \emph{before} The Beginning, the
+Big Bang (itself a construct open to doubt)?
+
+\emph{All} matter, energy, space and time (and
+thus all possibility) was contracted into a
+dimensionless point (or nothingness) ... so
+the mythic tale goes. Infinite mass, for if the
+point was suseptible 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 \emph{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, \emph{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 \emph{remember}
+this paradisical past now, as we \emph{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.
+
+It is over this Big Bang that modern physicists, ancient priests and shamans, magicians, caballists 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 nescessity
+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 \emph{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 \emph{inside} this system and serial,
+labrorious time and ageing (the post-paradisical universe) \emph{outside} the system. It is
+with the arrival of the computers and highspeed 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.
+
+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.
+
+Now, it is said, \emph{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... 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 \emph{movement of the records of humans and their endeavors}
+change the notion of time, timeing 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 bizzare
+when time becomes not only mensurable,
+but something that can be corelated to a set
+of logic games.
+
+After the reconstruction, or rememberance
+of the Big Bang, time was said to move only
+in one direction: \enquote{forward.} An anomoly.
+This asymetricality 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 \enquote{forward,} along a
+\enquote{line,} as if trying to move away from, or
+perhaps forward into an enormous pool of
+pre- or post-existent, paradisical pre-creation.
+If there are chronons, positive, forward-moving time-particles, then there should be anti-chronons, negative, backward-moving timeparticles. (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 reunifiction, 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 \enquote{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 negantropy.
+
+This crisis, this terror of conceptual, informational,
+ideological inflation, is seen in finance, physics, cosmology, genetics...
+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 ... 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 nescessary 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
+repond 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 timequanta 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? Be % TODO be -> by
+making it into a commodity; the businessman's trick. Commodity means \enquote{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 \emph{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 ressurrection.) 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 monetarize it, but in a
+\enquote{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.
+
+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).
+
+The speed of light is the ultimate standard,
+the limit, Einstein's \emph{primum mobile}. Since
+everything is defined in terms of everything
+else, there can be no such thing as a \emph{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 iterest
+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... 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.
+
+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, \emph{real}, \emph{actual} immortality (for whom
+and at what price to everyone else?)
+
+The difficulty lies in any human's being able to \emph{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 ...
+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 \emph{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
+aeons 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... Which yield amusing
+stories to frighten and amuse the young, but
+does not yield any Magellan's passage to an
+India-Paradiso.