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Originally Posted by joelr 
It's hard to imagine being outside of time. People wouldn't look slow unless you were still inside of time, rather we would see every moment from the beginning to present. That would fit in a 4D shape.
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joelr,
As you look at the "melon" shaped bubble of the universe from the “outside” as seen in my Big Bang thought experiment, realize that in this “virtual” context, you are, indeed, outside of time, at least outside of the space/time occurring
within the bubble itself.
Remember, in the thought experiment we are moving at the speed of thought, not light. This means that with your imagination, you can access any point on the outer “rind” of the “melon,” instantly.
(Note: the words "melon" and "bubble" in referring to the universe are synonymous.)
However, the conditions for the inhabitants on the inside of the “melon” are another story altogether.
The clockwork-like mechanistic movements of planets around stars, all governed by the speed of light, means that the earth would be moving imperceptibly slow relative to you. Or better yet, the speed of light would be imperceptibly slow relative to your "new" speed.
To envision that, imagine the Milky Way galaxy existing
inside the far left end of the “melon.”
If a rocket left the surface of the earth traveling at the speed of light heading toward the other end of the melon, in the time it would take the earth to move around the sun one revolution, the ship would have traveled only one light year of distance. And seeing how it is billions of light years of distance from one end of the universe to the other, the earth would move around the sun billions of times before the rocket would reach the right side of the interior of the melon. So obviously, from your new perspective “outside” of the melon, it would appear as if the rocket were barely moving at all.
So in viewing the bubble of the universe from the outside, you are observing a gigantic “self contained” mechanism consisting of trillions of clock-like moving phenomena (stars and planets) all producing an illusion of reality that makes total sense to the inhabitants inside the bubble.
However, to you, from the "outer perspective" (from the realm of pure thought and mind), it would be as if all activities taking place inside the bubble were set within a thick magnetic field that inhibited all movement within.
Or, perhaps not so much inhibited by a "magnetic" field, but by the very parameters written right into the informational "program" of the quantum underpinning that literally sets the pace and conditions of objective reality. And a crucial aspect of that programming states: "thou shalt not move thy body faster than the speed of light."
The minds held within physical bodies inside the bubble of the universe (meaning us) are completely at the mercy of the laws of physics written into the "software" of the holographic-like, quantum underpinning.
And the illusion of time experienced by us earthlings looking at the "real" Grand canyon, is the same illusion of time that the “tourists” held within bodies in your "dream" of the Grand Canyon experience as they move themselves around within the context of the canyon in your mind (see my prior post #6).
Of course they would not be measuring time based on the unfathomably precise mechanism of a planet moving around a star. But they would experience a semblance of time in the shear mechanistic “one after the other” pace of footsteps “ticking off” the time based intervals required to move their dream bodies from the “outcrop” down into the gorge of the canyon.
While you, on the other hand (the eye of your mind), exist outside of the space/time parameters that govern their movements, and can move "instantaneously" relative to them.
And that is the same relationship that God has to us and the bubble of this universe.
The huge proportions and vast distances of separation within the universe is the same illusion of proportion and separation that occurs within our own minds during a dream, which means that size, distance, and "time" are purely
relative.
And for an example of what I mean by "relative," realize that the dream of the Grand Canyon taking place within your mind could actually be the same size as the real Grand Canyon in God's mind. But you see,
never the twain shall meet. At no time will they ever be superimposed upon each other for comparison.
That is the essence of relativity. They exist in two separate dimensions of "subjective" reality (two separate bubbles).
Remember, there is no 3-dimensional form, separation, or distance between anything at the informational levels forming the contents of the universe or the contents of your mind. So the holographic-like, quantum informational parameters regarding the size of the 2 canyons, or any other aspect (look, feel, sound, smell, taste, movement, "time"), only have meaning to the consciousness, or consciousnesses (plural, as in the case of the universe) held "within" the context of any particular bubble itself.
So don't be overwhelmed by the vastness of the universe. For you see, from a certain perspective, our minds are the same size as the universe. Where we diverge from God is in the realm of
order taking place within our minds.
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