Theoretical Physics
& The Concept of a Spiral Time
As Interpreted by an Artist
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This article is based on an e-mail which Linda Gruber at Novel Art sent to the author in September 13, 1998. Two of her images are presented at Spirals & Art.
Linda writes:
"I have not thought about it, or I should say, not been able to think about it enough to have an actual theory. I have too hard of a time thinking about time NOT in linear terms. Before I can get it to jell in my thinking I get muddled by the terminology that I have to work with."
She mentions her own experience:
"I think the whole concept that I got in the automatic writing was that there actually is no past or future. Every moment is this moment. The trees on the single groove of the record concept was my attempt to think of that single groove as all time. Each tree has a different perspective on the events occurring around it. We perceive the moment differently if we view it from different perspectives, but it is all occurring concurrently. It appears chaotic if you are among the trees on the spiral. Any direction you move could be considered from the perspective of another person/tree within the forest as being a motion back or forward. Time is relative to the perception and awareness of the individual. It is real enough, but the terminology that humans have invented to express it is fake. Time must be real to have mass, and it must have mass to be bent by the tremendous gravitational force of a black hole."
Linda mentions also the experience of others as the e-mail was about her conversation with friends:
"Since I've had psychic experiences, as I know you have too, I view things from a different perspective than someone who has not been aware of this kind of perception. It makes sense to me that a possible explanation for precognition would be that there are points where perceptual realities may just touch. Like two identical record grooves on the same spindle, but one is turning at a different RPM than the other. The turning speed causes the spirals to lift upward into a conical form. The spirals are not exactly side by side. The one turning faster gets more strung out and wobbly than the other. Suppose that the two happened to touch. At this tangent, the two realities may interact. It could be that a person perceiving this from one spiral would say they got a glimpse of a past life while the person perceiving it from the other got a glimpse of the future."
Here Linda elaborates on the dynamism and the fractal nature of the spiral concept of time:
"Now suppose the two people perceiving it were really the same person. As in a choose your own adventure story, the two spirals were just believable possibilities that took on their own spiraling thread of reality. Two series of events spinning off as a result of a given action that was taken or not taken. The person whose perception it is, is somewhat altered by the circumstances causing the spinoff events, but exists in some fragmented way within both possibilities. Now each tree has a number of spirals spinning from it at different angles and speeds. At this point I begin to think of this in terms of a fractal pattern."
