The Bootstrap Paradox – Dr. E. F. Mannum

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.

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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