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Recreational schizophrenia...

Posted by jd420 on Saturday, September 20 2014 at 3:41:41PM

...the major war-actions of our depraved overlords... are also the history of the planet.

Before I continue, I'd like to assert... I'm not usually this nuts, and when I am, I try to focus it on more constructive things - like teleporting our entire planet to a more hospitable space-time with my mind, or something. This is just a mix of recreation, and what the CIA (err, that other one, no, the other other one) would have euphamized as "being thorough" when researching psychics and plotting elaborate assassinations with self-garrotting underwear.

The precambrian was a great time in history. Among its other accomplishments, trees managed to invent themselves. It took a second...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Plants

....and I'm regrouping the era by the plant-atmosphere relation, and classifying the coral-like Margaretia as the beginning of "tree," which may not be entirely accurate if one is classifying by indigestible matter... but it makes a lot more sense on geological grounds to consider the age of plants an uninterrupted progression. Suffice to say, at almost exactly the end, trees with much cellulose were invented.

This... provided a slight problem, which would be evident if one just did one simple thing... tried to eat a tree-trunk. Most creatures can't; at the time, none of the creatures could. This created a slight problem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precambrian#Planetary_environment_and_the_oxygen_catastrophe

Currently, the precambrian is "unhappening" - and its place in earths' history is one reason why the "unoxygen catastrophe" gets so much more press than other potentially-lethal issues of global warming, such as synthetic heat islands and glacial soot deposition.

The other majorly noted time, as far as "gee, that's an interesting invention," would be, perhaps, the Cretaceous. Before a slight dusting of Iridium, it was the "age of child-friendliness" - its inventions include flowering plants, nurturing semi-lizards, and birds.

Currently, the Cretaceous is "unhappening" in the applications of concentration camps to those who share similar sentiments. Likely, history will end up "purged" beyond the damage already done once this is complete.

Now, any concerted effort to address these would have to occur from within the radius of propagation of its latest-most event, in some theoretical systems. Seeing as the Cretaceous came to an end about 65 million years ago, that's merely a search radius of... 32-million light years.

(See now why I gave the "I'm not usually this nuts" and "recreational purpouses only" disclaimer? My meds are fine, I swears - this is for thoroughness and mere interestingness).

So, I figured to myself "gee, that should limit it. while the history of the planet is being 'unhappened' at the lowest possible level, what stars are within the range specified?"

No problem, right?

Well, no. That radius includes what is known as the "Local Group" - it's a galactic cluster. It also includes the M74 galactic cluster. 'n possibly others.

For those thinking to themselves "well, gee... paraluminal travel is a bit extreme, maybe you should narrow it"... no. I could do it. It's oldtech, and that's in this later, primitive period. All one really needs is an energy source...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

...which this guy invented a pretty high-efficiency converter for... and then, a way to keep from splattering one's self with the acceleration, which I've got. Like I said, oldtech from the recent primitive period.

So, no narrowing on those grounds.

So, while earth's history is being "unhappened" at a relatively rapid pace, a 32-million-light-year search area, while feasible, is not entirely helpful.

So, I began looking... for a narrower search area. 'n in trying to select something arbitrary, I figured that an approximate millenium between some mexican guy named "Jesus" and the expulsion of the Jews/reconquista/etc would give some field of "by the way, people whose religion involve hanging some guy from a tree are going to fix a few of these problems" and "a slight slowdown in moderate success."

So, does that search field encompass a lower number of galaxies?

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy some 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

Great. So, we're probably within the galactic arm. Ours is called the "orion cluster," and incidentally, most of the luminescent matter visible in the constellation averages to about 1,000 light years, give or take. We can actually see most of the search field with the naked eye.

Incidentally, I hate being so primitive in the technologies of 4+-dimensional space. I shouldn't be. The founding conference on time between the migration of gardens and the migration of clay, forming the first few lines of "Genesis," I'm fairly familiar with - it's mostly the importance of the direction known as "increase" and the direction known as "decrease," coupled with the arbitrary directionality and individual nature of the personal timeline within a common broader medium, which you probably know as "economics." I'm familiar with the (mis)application of feynman paths to macroscale space, which basically sum up as the notion that the fact that you are not a magical unicorn with pink and purple sparkles does not change the fact that, were you not a magical unicorn with pink and purple sparkles, you would not be the you which you are right now. 'n neighboring technologies, such as the notion that the visible universe is a byproduct of a circle-shaped soviet discussion circle whispering the telephone game in directions in which the unseen are seated in directions known as "left" and "right" (because you needed some directional metaphor, and because you figured it's not a technology if you can't explain it to a one-dimensional being), I'm starting to at least familiarize myself with...

...not to mention that last, big consideration - the fact that a pair of observer stations situated quite some distance from the target, and two light years apart, have (2x2=) 4+ years to agree on something called an "arbitrary trivial," and reconstruct from there across contradictory spacetimes.

...and yet, with all these advantages, I find myself undercapable of teleporting the apparent planet to a more cheerful probable outcome for the present, y'know, instantly and without effort. "Increase" would be a nice vector(s), and a little important for... literally everything. With all my advantages, however, I underperform. I consider it a personal failing - someone has to take up a sense of responsibility.

Nonetheless, the expulsion of the jews was sort of the point at which things started to go not-quite-as-good, when routine mop-up suddenly started becoming the reverse issue. Incidentally, if one maps successful resistance in North America - northern california and the dakotas - the resultant circle has its epicenter at about the exact point at which the portugese were no longer involved in the expansion efforts.

Maybe it's "keep off the bridge" in heimdall fashion - which would be calling these guys blue-eyes-white-dragon of yu-gi-o fame. Or maybe those who guide us have a similar reading of history.

Nonethless, the gap between allegations-of-Jesus and the expulsion-of-jews is about the distance to the orion nebula, in any given direction. The gap between this and the fuck-the-age-of-plants-and-the-cretaceous-the-earth-rode-in-on is another millenium. Viewed as a round trip, that's a symmetrical half-millenium either way.

The gap between the two periods directly under attack, otoh, is 320 million light years, or about 640 million years of arbitrary trivial agreement.

I'm not trying to suggest (or dissuggest, if that's how you're so inclined) that aliens on another star system are fucking with the time stream. I could make that argument much, much, much closer to home, using slightly more established claims.

What I have done, however, is succeded to map the scale of our current state of conflict in both time and space. The stakes have been targeted at 0.5(pi^2)(320x10^7)^4 worth of spacetime in seperation, give or take, and approximately 0.5(pi^2)(400x10^7)^4 - apparently, a small volume for someone. The action time is within a field of 500 light years.

Having failed at direct folding for social and temporal improvement, giving it a shape and a space (err, technically neither a "space" nor a "field" mathematically, but what the hell...)... well, it was the next most interesting thing I could do. Having both a radius and a time in three-dimensional space gives it an interesting property in terms of navigating it - there are larger and smaller concentric spheres for each of the critical points. Each of them can be reduced by one dimension and plotted to different directions, then revisualized as a higher-dimensional nested sphericonical vectors.

That is the space our current conflict takes place in. 'n while apparently zarking useless, that is vaguely god-damned interesting...

We now return you to your regular programming.


jd420





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