excepts - first retrieved by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/17/2024 10:00 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-may-actually-one-big-180200313.html
Yahoo! News
Time May Actually Be One Big Illusion, Says a New Study
Caroline Delbert
Mon, June 17, 2024 at 11:02 AM PDT
The theory is called Page and Wootters mechanism, and Coppo has studied it for years. It’s a quantum mechanics idea that dates back to 1983.
Stargate Universe - "Darkness" - tv series Season 1 Episode 4 - 10/16/2009
(from internet transcript)
Elsewhere, Vanessa James opens the doors to the Observation Deck and escorts Eli inside. His hopes of anything more interesting are quickly dashed when he sees several people waiting inside. Riley walks over and closes the doors again. Eli looks around at everyone nervously.
Vanessa JAMES: Look, we just wanna talk.
(Eli walks closer to her and speaks quietly.)
WALLACE: You said "alone."
JAMES: Well, how else was I supposed to get you out of there?
(Spencer walks over to them.)
SPENCER: What's going on, Eli?
WALLACE: You mean right now?
JAMES: Don't be an idiot.
WALLACE: Wow, you must be getting to know me, because I respond really well to that(!)
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/08/2023 ~ 03:24 AM
I wrote once somewhere long ago that anything never alive can not ever be considered as 'dead'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpart_(TV_series)
Counterpart (TV series)
From Wikipedia
Release December 10, 2017 – February 17, 2019
Counterpart is an American science fiction thriller television series starring J. K. Simmons.
Premise
Howard Silk, a gentle, quiet office worker, has been working for a Berlin-based United Nations agency, the Office of Interchange (OI), for thirty years. His position is too low for him to be told what his work—exchanging apparently nonsensical messages—really involves. The OI oversees a checkpoint below its headquarters between parallel Earths (the "Alpha" and "Prime" worlds). The parallel Earths were created in 1987 during an experiment by East Germany when only a scientist named Yanek was on-site. The "Alpha world" Yanek met his "Prime world" counterpart, and they soon began studying how the initially identical Earths diverge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction
Parallel universes in fiction
From Wikipedia
A parallel universe, also known as an alternative universe, parallel world, parallel dimension, alternative reality, or alternative dimension, is a hypothetical universe co-existing with one's own, typically distinct in some way. The sum of all potential parallel universes that constitute reality is often called the "multiverse". Another common term for a parallel universe is "another dimension", stemming from the idea that if the 4th dimension is time, the 5th dimension—a direction at a right angle to the fourth—is a direction into any of the alternative spacetime realities.
Fiction has long borrowed an idea of "another world"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_(2024_TV_series)
Dark Matter (2024 TV series)
From Wikipedia
Dark Matter is an American science fiction television series created by Blake Crouch, based on his 2016 novel of the same name. It premiered on Apple TV+ on May 8, 2024
In August 2024, the series was renewed for a second season.
"The Box" He agrees to work with Velocity, claiming he wants to regain his memories. Jason #01 studies Jason #02's research and realizes the latter discovered a method to travel between dimensions by sealing the traveler inside a metal box and injecting them with a chemical compound to inhibit areas of the prefrontal cortex and induce a state of superposition.
"The Corridor" Jason #01 and Amanda find themselves in an infinite corridor with doors leading to infinite alternate realities. They use the ampoules and go through numerous doors hoping to find Jason #01's reality, but every world they visit happens to be desolate and ruined.
From 12/17/1903 ( the first powered aircraft flight of the Wright Brothers ) To 3/16/2021 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, referenced here ) is 42824 days
42824 = 21412 + 21412
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/17/2024 ( ) is 21412 days
From 5/16/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Wagon Train"::"The Nancy Davis Story" ) To 6/17/2024 ( ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
From 2/16/1985 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: More terminals, new regulations facilitate campus computer use ) To 6/17/2024 ( ) is 14366 days
14366 = 7183 + 7183
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/3/1985 ( premiere USA film "Back to the Future" ) is 7183 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-may-actually-one-big-180200313.html
Yahoo! News
Popular Mechanics
Time May Actually Be One Big Illusion, Says a New Study
Caroline Delbert
Mon, June 17, 2024 at 11:02 AM PDT
Time May Actually Be One Big Illusion
Could the observable universe be exclusively composed of layered, mutually entangled systems?
The passage of time puzzles quantum physicists, who seek to fit it into a cohesive model.
One wild theory posits that time visibly passes because we’re entangled with... well... everything.
Time has puzzled scientists for many decades. Does it meaningfully exist apart from our experience of it as everything moves toward the disintegration of entropy along its irrefutable arrow? You can’t put the “spilled milk” of the weirdness of time back in the jug.
In new research published in the American Physical Society's peer-reviewed journal Physical Review A, scientists from Italy (led by Alessandro Coppo) try to translate one theory of time into real life—or, at least, closer to it. The theory is called Page and Wootters mechanism, and Coppo has studied it for years. It’s a quantum mechanics idea that dates back to 1983.
While general relativity (in the classical physics model) lets time be a variable—like the perception-dependent difference between time on Earth and time in space in stories like Interstellar—quantum physics requires it to be nailed down. That means instead of a dependent variable (something defined by an external property, like local gravity or an object’s distance from Earth), time must be independent, and there must be some way to measure it as such.
This may seem counterintuitive. After all, quantum mechanics is considered the newer version of things—the one that destabilizes the foundation of physics in order to be reconciled with the classical model. But time has a unique role in quantum systems. After all, everything in a particular time, defined in some objective way, is knitted together through quantum interactions until it forms a capture of the entire universe (if you zoom out enough).
In their paper, Coppo and his coauthors turn the Page and Wootters approach into a real concept for a clock. Within quantum physics, a clock isn’t much like the one you wear on your wrist or hang in your office—it’s anything that has a predictable and uniform behavior that can be used as a measurement. (For example, this 2021 Quanta article lists increasingly stinky garbage as a kind of clock!)
New Scientist explains that Page and Wootters wondered if our world is so quantumly entangled within itself that any visible passing of time is a symptom of entanglement. They also suggested that we ourselves are implicated in that entanglement just by seeing the passage of time—because someone outside of the entangled system would see it standing still. The “clock,” therefore, is the item within the entangled system that shows time passing.
It’s easy to see why this theory has stayed mostly abstract for over 40 years. To turn it into something with measurements based in real life observation, scientists took iconic physics equations and restricted them to conditions that match the Page and Wootters scenario. They considered two systems that are entangled but do not interact, where one system is a harmonic oscillator—like a quartz timing in a watch, or a pendulum.
Their solution may prove to be consistent within classical and quantum mechanics, because when enough particles are placed into each quantum system—when it reaches the threshold called “macroscopic,” based on mass—the systems align with classical physics as well.
That‘s a big deal - if our entire, very macroscopic world fits into this definition of time based on entanglement, it means everything around us is entangled. Things would need to be entangled almost by definition in order to be part of our observable world. And it would mean that anything we see where time passes (no matter how far away it is) is linked with us in a vital way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)
Identification (literature)
From Wikipedia
Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
[Picard's quarters]
(classical music is playing)
RIKER: Bizet?
PICARD: Berlioz. What do you have?
RIKER: We've finished our first sensor sweep of the Neutral Zone.
PICARD: Oh, fascinating. Twenty particles of space dust per cubic metre. Fifty-two ultra-violet radiation spikes and a class two comet. Well, this is certainly worthy of our attention.
RIKER: Captain, why are we out here chasing comets?
PICARD: Let's just say that Starfleet has every confidence in the Enterprise and her crew. They're just not sure about her Captain. They believe that a man who was once captured and assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a situation where he would face them again. To do so would introduce an unstable element to a critical situation
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: Lieutenant Hawk. Set a course for Earth.
HAWK: Aye sir.
PICARD: Maximum warp. ...I am about to commit a direct violation of our orders.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
TROI: What?
PICARD: I can hear them.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: This is Captain Picard of the Enterprise. I am taking command of the fleet. Target all of your weapons onto the following coordinates. ...Fire on my command.
DATA: Sir, the coordinates you have indicated do not appear to be a vital system.
PICARD: Trust me Data.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: Mister Hawk, before we lost internal sensors what were the exact environmental conditions in main engineering?
HAWK: Atmospheric pressure was two kilopascals above normal, ninety-two percent humidity, thirty-nine point one degrees Celsius.
PICARD: Thirty-nine point one degrees Celsius. ...Like a Borg ship. They knew their ship was doomed, our shields were down and somehow they transported over here without being detected. They'll assimilate the Enterprise, and then ...Earth.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
LAFORGE: Captain, we've been out in space for nearly a year now. We're ready! The Enterprise-E is the most advanced starship in the fleet. We should be on the front line.
PICARD: I have gone over all this with Starfleet Command. Their orders stand.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: The first thing they'll do in engineering is establish a collective, a central point from which they can control the hive.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: It's a subspace transmitter. If they activate the beacon they'll be able to establish a link with the Borg living in this century.
CRUSHER: But in the twenty-first century the Borg are still in the Delta Quadrant.
PICARD: They'll send reinforcements. Humanity will be an easy target.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/31/2023 12:04 AM
I had it done that way because I like to think she's a god and doesn't need it
WarGames (1983)
Quotes
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
WarGames (1983)
Jennifer: What's so special about playing games with some machine?
David Lightman: Oh, no... No, it's not just some machine.
by me to Real Love Sex Dolls (vendor):
March 16 2021 @ 11:56 PM
You said: I just placed the order a few minutes ago. Can I make that request now that the order has gone through? I would like to have it manufactured without the anal orifice if it's not too late Can you update the order for me?
WarGames (1983)
Jim: This didn't come from Protovision.
Malvin: You bet it didn't! Ask him where it did come from, Jim! Go ahead, ask him!
David Lightman: I told you already.
Malvin: Looks military to me. Definitely military. Probably classified, too.
David Lightman: Yeah, but if it's military, why does it have games like checkers and backgammon?
Jim: Maybe because those are games that teach basic strategy.
David Lightman: Jim, how do I get into that system? I wanna play those games.
Malvin: You're not supposed to see any of that stuff. That system probably contains the new data encryption algorithm. You'll never get in there.
David Lightman: Hey, I don't believe that any system is totally secure. I bet you Jim could get in.
Malvin: Yeah, I bet you he couldn't!
David Lightman: I bet you he could.
Jim: Well, you'll never get in get through the frontline security. But you might look for a back door.
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim!
Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
9:43 PM August 1, 2022
NOW IT'S TIME for another installment of:
Things I Noticed Only Today For The First Time Ever
From 12/2/2017 ( ordered by me: "Evelyn" - named by vendor ) To 3/16/2021 ( ordered by me: "Hope" - cluelessly named by me after-the-fact and before checking this code-pattern of my original-work ) is 1200 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) is 1200 days
From 1/20/1928 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Osborn Confident Coming Asiatic Expedition Will Find Remains Of Earliest Shape Of Man ) To 6/3/1983 ( premiere USA film "WarGames" ) is 20223 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 20223 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 8884 days
8884 = 4442 + 4442
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/31/1977 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"The Man Who Would Not Die" ) is 4442 days
From 6/30/1965 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: New York became the first state in the United States to require apartment building landlords to provide a peephole for all entrance doors for apartment units. ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 20348 days
20348 = 10174 + 10174
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/10/1993 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "The X-Files" ) is 10174 days
From 5/21/1969 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and in 1973 the law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 18927 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/28/2017 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Preacher"::"Backdoors" ) is 18927 days
From 6/5/1993 ( Princeton University, Commencement Week for Class of 1993, Graduate School reception ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 10146 days
10146 = 5073 + 5073
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/1979 ( premiere USA TV series "Trapper John, M.D." ) is 5073 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 2/9/1998 ( from Time Magazine publication: The Case for Cloning ) is 1200 days
From 12/2/2017 ( ordered by me: "Evelyn" - named by vendor ) To 3/16/2021 ( ordered by me: "Hope" - cluelessly named by me after-the-fact and before checking this code-pattern of my original-work ) is 1200 days
From 3/1/2017 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Expanse"::"Paradigm Shift" ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 2/9/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Return to Tomorrow" ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 19394 days
19394 = 9697 + 9697
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/21/1992 ( premiere USA TV series "The Real World"::series premiere "This is the True Story..." ) is 9697 days
From 10/25/1979 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"The Lost Colony of Roanoke" ) To 3/16/2021 ( ) is 15118 days
15118 = 7559 + 7559
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/14/1986 ( premiere USA film "Aliens" ) is 7559 days
"Requiem For Methuselah" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 14 Feb, 1969
(from internet transcript)
MCCOY: Physically human but not human. These are earlier versions of Rayna, Jim. She's an android.
FLINT: Created here by my hand. Here, the centuries of loneliness were to end.
SPOCK: Your collection of Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces, Mister Flint, they appear to have been recently painted on contemporary canvas with contemporary materials. And on your piano, a waltz by Johannes Brahms, an unknown work in manuscript, written in modern ink. Yet absolutely authentic, as are your paintings.
FLINT: I am Brahms.
SPOCK: And da Vinci?
FLINT: Yes.
SPOCK: How many other names shall we call you?
FLINT: Solomon, Alexander, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin, Abramson. A hundred other names you do not know.
SPOCK: You were born?
FLINT: In that region of earth later called Mesopotamia, in the year 3834 BC, as the millennia are reckoned. I was Akharin, a soldier, a bully and a fool. I fell in battle, pierced to the heart and did not die.
MCCOY: Instant tissue regeneration coupled with some perfect form of biological renewal. You learned that you were immortal and
FLINT: And to conceal it. To live some portion of a life, to pretend to age and then move on before my nature was suspected.
SPOCK: Your wealth and your intellect are the product of centuries of acquisition. You knew the greatest minds in history.
FLINT: Galileo, Socrates, Moses. I have married a hundred times, Captain. Selected, loved, cherished. Caressed a smoothness, inhaled a brief fragrance. Then age, death, the taste of dust. Do you understand?
SPOCK: You wanted a perfect, ultimate woman, as brilliant, as immortal as yourself. Your mate for all time.
FLINT: Designed by my heart. I could not love her more.
KIRK: Spock, you knew?
SPOCK: I had hoped I was wrong.
FLINT: You cannot love an android, Captain. I love her. She is my handiwork, my property. She is what I desire.
KIRK:: You brought me here to learn this? Does she know?
FLINT: She will never know.
KIRK: Let's go.
FLINT: You will stay.
KIRK: Why?
SPOCK: We have discovered what he is, Captain.
FLINT: If you leave, the curious would follow, the foolish, the meddlers, the officials, the seekers. My privacy was my own. Its invasion be on your head.
SPOCK: We can remain silent.
FLINT: The disaster of intervention, Spock. I've known it.
https://www.poetry.com/poem/30347/evelyn-hope
"Evelyn Hope"
Robert Browning 1812 - 1889
I.
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
IMDb
Aliens (1986)
Quotes
Ripley: I don't believe this. You guys throw me at the wolves, and now you want me to go back out there? Forget it. It's not my problem.
Burke: Can I finish ?
Ripley: No. There's no way.
Lieutenant Gorman: Ripley, you wouldn't be going in with the troops. I can guarantee your safety.
Burke: These colonials marines are very tough hombres. They're packing state of the art firepower. There's nothing they can't handle. Lieutenant, am I right ?
Lieutenant Gorman: That's true. We've been trained to deal with situations like this.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:47 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 02/22/2025
