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Well, the speed of light is an interesting concept. We use it on a daily basis in fission-fuled powerplants, E=MC^2, and it's proven itself over and over again. What light actually is raises alot of other questions.

There's an interesting paradox that arises from the idea of traveling faster than light. If we were somehow able to do that we would infact be traveling back in time, Einstein pondered that too for a while. However, if we were to invent a way to travel back in time we could just head back a few years and provide the civilization at that point in time with the "blueprints" for our timemachine. So if I get a visit by myself (a future myself) tomorrow and I hand myself the blueprints for a timemachine and I decide to build it and head back and give myself the blueprints again, where do the blueprints actually originate from?

This metaphysical paradox would seem to prove that nothing can travel faster than light and that no matter how hard we try we'll never be able to travel back in time.

This is not a very spiritual or drug-related topic and it might actually be better of posted on some physics-forum. But I would never have the understanding of the mechanics of the universe if it weren't for that evening when I yet again surrendered to the realms of DMT and had a revelation. Actually it was not as much of a revelation as a missing piece of the infinite puzzle we call reality. I've never been a very spiritual man. The mushroom didn't change that, neither did the DMT or mescaline. I'm a man of science. To me "God" is my never ending search to understand the world around me, enlightenment if you will.

Einstein spent years dreaming about what it would be like to ride a photon at the speed of light through the universe, I have experienced his dream. By definition there's a clear correlation between speed and time. Speed is measured in distance by time put in relation to another object. If i drive my car all alone on a road my speed put in relation to the road might be 60mph. If i meet a car driving at the same speed in the opposite direction our relative speed will be 120mph. Now imagine that I was actually riding a photon and not a car, I would be traveling at the speed of light. If I met another photon heading the opposite direction our relative speed would not be twice the speed of light as logic would dictate, it would still be the speed of light. No speed can exceed that limit. What does this actually implicate?

To an outside observer, standing in between the two photons, both photons will appear to be traveling towards them at the speed of light. To explain this paradox-like phenomenon there is only one logical conclusion. Time passing by "outside" the photon must be infinitly small to make sure that the speed relative to another object does not exceed the speed of light. Yet we can measure the lifetime of a photon. From our point of view it takes about 8 minutes for a photon emitted by the sun to reach earth but seen from the photon it must reach earth so fast that the time passed is not even measurable. That must mean that the destination of a photon is known at the time of it's creation.

This hypothetical scenario really raised alot more questions than it answered to me. If the destination of a photon is known at it's creation, is it some kind of "photon-precognition" or simply destiny? If so, what else in our universe is predecided? Is our entire reality based on a predecided destiny? Are our lives controlled by destiny as well? If our lives are bound to a destiny, is free will an illusion? Can we, human kind, also develop precognition in some way? Or perhaps we're destined to...

I find the topic most interesting, I'm not sure my fascination is shared by very many here at SPF but I'd love to hear your thoughts about it. After all, almost everyone here is highly philosophical and thinking beeings.

/Maco