Our experience in the universe is full of these little nodes or gaps. They are like dots in our awareness of existence. They aren't just experiments waiting their turn, they are connected in a separate way. Once you start to connect the dots your perspective begins to change. It's humbling.
In any case, you also have the paradox that is apparent between a universe which, by all evidence, is composed as a temporal realm juxtaposed with the concept of eternity, and an infinite symmetry, which defies the notion of the temporary. When you begin to figure the linear nature of time you have the additional quandary about experience only existing in the present moment.
The evidence is bound in a closed system of thought, one that does not account for the existence of very real paradox and alternative explanations. It is also based on an instrumental scientific view of the universe (Observation and measurement instruments). Much of it is based on presumptions that ignore the plausibilities of other explanations. It is actually quite practical from the instrumental point of view.
The fact, however, is that scientific endeavor should always be an open system, as much a product of creative consciousness as it is the use of instruments. The universe is rife with paradox and possibilities.
Zeno's paradox of dividing distance and time into infinite number of intervals making movement from one finite point to another impossible, confounds the computer but falls apart when we make the observation of a real circumstance, because we are aware that in real nature we can divide time anyway we want... as a limited segment or infinite number of times. |
