If you don’t know what the “Bootstrap Paradox” is, I
encourage you to look at it prior to reading this entry.
There are a myriad of items and artistic themes ranging from
minimal to great importance such as the pencil, Beethoven’s Fifth, and the
toilet bowl plunger, that have all become subject to this paradox since the
prolific use of time machines in the late twenty-fourth century.
It began with the Society of Scientific Inquiry and Progress
using the first time machine to go back and retrieve great minds of the distant
past, transporting both over space and time, to inquire of them potential
solutions to our modern day problems (growing lack of food supply, housing
density, space exploration via the dark matter engines, etc.). What came from
that what a rather interesting batch of questions.
Thomas Edison seeing the standard earbuds and holographic
watch displays for communication, Jeffrey Gunderson having a sudden
issue with our own plumbing after experiencing the need to “visit the lou”,
seemed to us at the time, small things, inconsequential things, things that to
us, at the time, were inconsequential.
At that time...
Now we have a come across the Bootstrap Paradox in our own
lives and are left wondering where items originated.
I posit, that this items or artistic and creative creations
do not conform to our notions of time. For these items, time does not exist to
them, nor do their laws. They are eternal items and ideas, things only meant to
be seen, spanning across time and space. These items do not exist on the time
line, rather, the idea of a “time line” does not even apply. To attempt to
apply time to them in a hypothetic of solving the paradox is useless.
The ever growing list of items that fall under the Bootstrap
Paradox are ever growing, and we, as a culture, must understand that these
items never NOT existed. Beethoven’s Fifth has always existed, but just needed
to be seen by the right persons in the right places, in order to comply with
our two dimensional time oriented brains.
With the advancement and understanding of dark matter
engines, and the collective creation and manipulation of gravitational waves,
and our furthered capacity to transcend space and time for discovery, our
mindset must also shift to understand that time no longer applies, but rather,
the discovery of ideas, of concepts, and cultivating creative minds in our
future, so that when things are seen that, to us, fall under the Paradox, we
can harness those opportunities, and recognize that in those moments, eternity
is opening itself to us, and it is up to us to act upon those truths that
transcend the laws we aspire to give them.
For the advancement of discovery, I bid you adieu –
Dr. E. F. Mannum
