Taking a break, do you recall that, according to a New York Times op-ed, Knowing the universe is a simulation will end it…? Here’s an even better one: Dinosaurs had an advanced civilization but then it just disappeared without a trace. So we found the fossilized poop but not the laptops and the androids?:
The idea, a thought experiment crafted by The Atlantic writer Peter Brannen, is meant to illustrate how all of the damage done to the world by humanity happened in the blink of an eye in terms of geological timescales — meaning that an archaeologist in the future might not even know that we were ever here.
Dan Robitzski, “The Atlantic: it’s possible dinosaurs had a whole civilization ” at Futurism
From that perspective:
If, in the final 7,000 years of their reign, dinosaurs became hyperintelligent, built a civilization, started asteroid mining, and did so for centuries before forgetting to carry the one on an orbital calculation, thereby sending that famous valedictory six-mile space rock hurtling senselessly toward the Earth themselves—it would be virtually impossible to tell. All we do know is that an asteroid did hit, and that the fossils in the millions of years afterward look very different than in the millions of years prior.
So that’s what 180 million years of complete dominance buys you in the fossil record. What, then, will a few decades of industrial civilization get us? This is the central question of the Anthropocene—an epoch that supposedly started, not tens of millions of years ago, but perhaps during the Truman administration. Will our influence on the rock record really be so profound to geologists 100 million years from now, whoever they are, that they would look back and be tempted to declare the past few decades or centuries a bona fide epoch of its own?
Peter Brannen, “The Anthropocene Is a Joke” at The Atlantic
Worse, all the great ideas the dinosaurs had were wiped out too, right, by that one miscalculation?
Actually, the Anthropocene is mainly a testament to the enormous power of immaterial ideas to shape things, for good or ill. It is the best argument against materialism and it is right under our noses.
In real life, the dinosaurs never had that.
See also: Knowing the universe is a simulation will end it…? Wow, magic. No, cosmology, according to the New York Times. At least the crackpot cosmologist is mostly scaring himself. The rest of us are wondering whether those water bears could survive on the moon. That’s all the “space aliens” we can be sure of.
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Hmmm,
Well that certainly is a pretty bleak situation for those of the Atheistic persuasion who believe that this temporal world is the only world that we will ever inhabit, and that we are just an unforeseen and accidental product of time and chance. Fortunately, for the rest of us who believe in God and eternal life, they are wrong.
First, this temporal world is not the only world that we will ever inhabit but there is a ‘higher dimensional’ eternal world that awaits us after we pass away from this temporal world.
Eternal life not just some pie in the sky hope that Christians cling to to offset the emotional distress of our impending demise, but is now a verified feature of reality. Verified by some of our best science, i.e. special relativity.
Special relativity, one of our most stringently tested theories ever in the history of science, reveals, just as Christianity has always held, that an ‘eternal’ higher dimension actually does physically exist above this temporal dimension.
To grasp the whole concept of time coming to a complete stop at the speed of light a little more easily, imagine moving away from the face of a clock at the speed of light. Would not the hands on the clock stay stationary as you moved away from the face of the clock at the speed of light? Moving away from the face of a clock at the speed of light happens to be the very same ‘thought experiment’ that gave Einstein his breakthrough insight into special relativity. Here is a short clip from a video that gives us a look into Einstein’s breakthrough insight.
The only way it is possible for time not to pass for light, and yet for light to move from point A to point B in our universe, is if light is of a higher dimensional value of time than the temporal time we are currently living in. Otherwise light would simply be ‘frozen within time’ to our temporal frame of reference.
In fact, the higher dimensional nature of special relativity was a discovery that was made by one of Einstein math professors in 1908 prior to Einstein’s elucidation of General Relativity in 1915. (In fact, in 1916 Einstein fully acknowledged his indebtedness to Minkowski)
One way for us to more easily understand this higher dimensional framework for time that light exist in is to visualize what would happen if a hypothetical observer approached the speed of light.
In the first part of following video clip, going to the 3:17 minute mark, which was made by two Australian University Physics Professors, we find that the 3-Dimensional world ‘folds and collapses’ into a tunnel shape as a ‘hypothetical’ observer approaches the ‘higher dimension’ of the speed of light.
To give us a better understanding as to what it would be like to exist in a higher dimension, this following video, Dr. Quantum in Flatland, also gives us a small insight as to what it would be like to exist in a higher dimension:
Moreover, to further validate the Christian’s claim that heaven is actually physically real and actually exists we don’t have to rely solely on our scientific evidence from special relativity. But we can also reference the many testimonies of people who have died for a short while and come back to tell us what they saw. These testimonies are termed Near Death Experiences.
Many of the characteristics found in Near Death Experience testimonies are exactly what we would expect to see from what we now know to be true about Special Relativity: For instance, many times people who have had a Near Death Experience mention that their perception of time was radically altered:
In the following video clip, Mickey Robinson gives his Near Death testimony of what it felt like for him to experience a ‘timeless eternity’.
And here are a few more quotes from people who have had a Near Death Experience, that speak of how their perception of time was radically altered as they were outside of their material, temporal, body.
As well, Near Death Experiencers also frequently mention going through a tunnel to a higher heavenly dimension:
In the following video, Barbara Springer gives her testimony as to what it felt like for her to go through the tunnel:
And in the following audio clip, Vicki Noratuk, who has been blind from birth, besides being able to see for the first time during in her life during her Near Death Experience,,,
,,, Vicki also gives testimony of going through a tunnel:
And both of the following quotes testify that they firmly believed that they were in a higher dimension that is above this three-dimensional world and that the primary reason that they have a very difficult time explaining what their Near Death Experiences felt like is because we simply don’t currently have the words to properly describe that higher dimension:
Thus, according to one of our most stringently verified theories ever in the history of science, i.e. Special Relativity, and according to testimonies from NDEs, the Christian is not just whistling Dixie when he talks about a higher heavenly dimension being above this temporal world, but he is talking about a reality that is physically real. A physically real heavenly ‘kingdom of light’.
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This is every bit as ridiculous a thought experiment as the one with enough monkeys and enough typewriters. Both are easy to challenge. If there were a civilization that predated humans, then we would have found some evidence that it had existed. The only evidence of civilizations that we have ever found is from our own history. As for the monkeys and typewriters, I’ll give an infinite amount of both and say that not one page would ever be typed. Not one monkey from the infinite would load the paper into the type writer, line it up to ensure it will feed straight, back it up to the proper starting point and then start typing.
If ours is anything to go by, all the dumps of unrecycled trash they left lying around.
Except for the fact the dinos did not have hands to make the packaging that we use…
Robitzski didn’t think it through. There would be plenty of surviving traces if the dinosaurs had evolved an intelligent species that developed high technology. Mankind in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would have found that most of the petroleum and gas and coal fields, and accessible metal ore deposits, had already been pumped and mined out. The development of our present technology would have been largely prevented by this. To say nothing about the fact that some products of our present technology are virtually impervious to the ravages of geological time and will still remain trapped in the rock layers millions of years later. For instance the millions of lowly ceramic toilets. The intelligent dinosaurs would presumably have had something equivalent though differently shaped of course.
I’m surprised nobody has brought up Dilbert, the dinosaurs “are just hiding”!
Dogbert Evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhbtCWHj1g
Through the power of imagination, dinosaurs evolved into chickens/ birds. Imagination is a powerful blind watchmaker evolutionary mechanism.