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Part 2 of 4 posts. Please read the first post to make sense of this one...
In this thought experiment, we (our minds) are now positioned on the "outside" of the bubble of light that encases the universe. And at this particular point, the universe may still seem rather immense. However, because we are moving at the speed of thought (not the slogging speed of light), all we have to do is move further out into the nothingness.
Imagine moving far enough out into the void until reaching a point where you can look back and see the entire bubble of the universe in its totality.
(Now some of the more clever of you might point out that if we can still see the universe then we are still in contact with its light barrier and haven’t moved away from it at all. However, keep in mind that this is a thought experiment and we are not literally viewing it with photon perceiving – "physical" eyes, but as a “proposition” based on the science of astrophysics, using pure mind and thought.)
So there it is – the entire universe contained within a bubble of light that, from our new vantage point, is no larger than a beach ball, or a good sized watermelon.
Just behold that vision in your mind – a holographic-like dimension of reality of a hundred billion galaxies of suns and planets existing in superlative order, all contained in an area that appears to be no larger than something you could hold in your "mental" hands.
And furthermore, somewhere within that radiant bubble is your body, sitting at a computer on a tiny speck of an orb that has now taken on subatomic particle size. (How frightening or impressive is a nuclear explosion or super-nova of a sun from that perspective?)
Now that is a vision of reality based on a logical deduction derived from the pure theoretical "physics" of materialism.
Let us now transpose that vision into the realm of "metaphysics."
Continued in part 3 ...
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