Saturday, February 25, 2017

Some philosophy about relativity

It looks like someone has had this thought before... According to the relativity theory, a distant observer will see a traveler's time and movement slow as the traveler approaches the event horizon of a black hole.  Upon crossing the event horizon, the traveler will appear eternally paused at the event horizon edge to the observer.  Conversely, the traveler will observe that the passing of time increases for the observer as the traveler approaches the event horizon.

With that in mind, to the traveler, all of time would therefore be encapsulated and instantly completed upon his crossing the event horizon.

This impresses upon my mind the concept that heaven lies outside the realm of time and that once we arrive in heaven, all of time is already finished as if we were already present there while we view life here.  This is because from the point of view of heaven, the end of time has already passed.

It's only an idea, but I wonder how close the idea is to truth.