John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readNov 27, 2019

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Then there is space itself. If you remove all physical properties from space, it still has the non-physical qualities of infinity and equilibrium.

Infinity, because there is nothing to bound it and equilibrium is implicit in General Relativity, as the frame with the fastest clock and longest ruler is closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum. The unmoving void of absolute zero.

The vaccum that is presumably always fluctuating, but still must be, in order to fluctuate.

So space is the absolute and the infinite.

Time is simply an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc. It is just that as mobile organisms, we experience our reality as a sequence of perceptions, so think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, but it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Potential, actual, residual.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it, aka, causality and conservation of energy.

That which fills space, energy and the forms it manifests, go opposite directions of time. Energy, being dynamic, is constantly changing form, thus going past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Galaxies are energy expanding out, toward infinity, where everything fades out, while form coalesces in, toward equilibrium, where everything cancels out.

We fluctuate somewhere in-between.

Energy bubbling up, while form coalesces in. Desire and judgement. The head and the heart.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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