I have always wondered just how things might be different today, if at the time in our past when both Arabs and Jews were making major advancements in both math and the understanding of the world through science – just how different things might be today, if Judaism and Islam had never even been in the equation. What would the world look like today if the Egyptians had advanced science, while leaving behind superstition and religion? And without all of this other deluded nonsense, would Christianity have even evolved?
Over the past 25 years or so, I have pondered many of these questions and a lot more of them as well. I have written many stories about what our world might look like today if we had left our superstitious-religious ignorance behind us (some just for fun). In some of these stories, I have contemplated what might have happen if the Jews never had a competing religion – would the rest of the world have simply followed a more cohesive version of religion based solely on the Jewish mythology? Or would most of the Jews have simply found enlightenment much sooner and began working together with everyone else in making the world a better place for all?
Baconsbud 96p · 765 weeks ago
john_poson26 93p · 765 weeks ago
There is nothing in our current understanding of physics which precludes time travel – in fact it’s been proven that time slows down when someone goes into space relative to ones motion – time even runs slower at the speed and altitude where the GPS satellites orbit. One of the theories that I just find mindboggling is of the multiverse (an infinite number of hypothetical universes) where reality is only relevant within the particular universe itself. Within the theory, somewhere in some other universe, WWII is still going on. And in another, Hitler is a nice guy.
I have always enjoyed working the math end of these theories, and not so much thinking about the ramifications!
Baconsbud 96p · 765 weeks ago
AndrewHall 95p · 765 weeks ago
rblevy 101p · 764 weeks ago