Tomorrow's Science Today "If a complete unified theory was discovered, it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified ... and taught in schools, at least in outline. We should then all be able to have some understanding of the laws that govern the universe and are responsible for our existence." ("A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, Introduction by Carl Sagan - Bantam Press 1988, page 168) So let's give credit where credit is due and encourage the scientists to pursue the mathematics and measurements which we may find boring and tedious, but let's remind them occasionally that maths and measures are nothing unless they give everyone understanding which can show the way when scientists get lost in their details and competing theories. I saw a video ("Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace") in which it was stated that mathematicians are free to imagine anything while physicists work in a very different environment constrained by experiment, and that the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) said scientists work in a straitjacket. Well, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" so let's see what happens when we throw away everyday tradition and conformity, let our imaginations fly (while trying to stay grounded in science and technology), and thus release science from its straitjacket! This article has its beginnings in cellular automata (in mathematics and computer science, collections of cells on a grid that evolve through a number of discrete time steps according to a set of rules based on the states of neighbouring cells) and grew into a belief that the universe (electromagnetism, gravitation, space-time and, as we'll see, 5th dimensional hyperspace) has a digital (electronic) foundation. It logically leads to assertions of instant intergalactic travel, time travel into the past as well as the future (neither of which can be altered), of unification of the large-scale universe with small-scale quantum particles, that the universe is a computer-generated hologram, that everyone who ever lived can have eternal life and health, that motion is an illusion caused by the rapid display of digitally generated "frames", that the entire universe is contained in (or unified with) every one of its particles, that the terms "computer-generated" and "computer" do not necessarily refer to an actual machine sending out binary digits or qubits, that we only possess a small degree of free will, that humanity could have created our universe and ourselves though unification physics says a being called God must nevertheless exist and likewise be Creator, and that Einstein's E=mc2 equation could be modified for the 21st century, reflecting the digital nature of reality. Though these things may be unbelievable in 2011, we should not ignore the possibilities of their being true or of their showing that reality is indeed digital because they are the logical product of already demonstrated electrical engineering and trips into space, science is investigating time travel and unification, the notion of motion has been suspect to some ever since the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (490?-420? B.C.) argued that motion is absurd, and many religions worldwide speak of God and have some concept of survival of bodily death.
About the Author: G´day from the Land Down Under! To be exact: from a town called Stanthorpe, which is in the southern part of the state Queensland, in Australia. I´m a guy who was born in this town in 1956. At age 15, I left High School to become an apprentice printer at the local newspaper. In the 1990s, I had a regular column in a desktop-published magazine called "Inspire". This gave me an opportunity to express the ideas I´ve also presented here and filled me with great satisfaction. I decided to quit Inspire in 2000, for personal reasons. Of course, many of the thoughts in this book have received further development since my Inspire days - most are even totally new. With Inspire, these writings of mine were offline. In 1999, they went online when my computer-whiz brother Darryl set up a website for me (I called it "Rod´s Room"). This book is also dedicated to the other immediate members of my family - Dad, Mum, and sister Allison; my extended family; and everyone I've ever met, for giving me good memories and learning experiences. After 3 years, I changed my Internet Service Provider in an attempt to escape the spammers. That turned out to be Mission Impossible ... and I managed to lose my website in the process (the old ISP deleted it). I've been writing this book since the 1970s and it's a total obsession with me. At first my ideas were few and far between but they developed into short articles within a few years and a little paperback in 2006 (at the time I decided getting a POD - Print On Demand - publisher to print my ideas was the only way I'd ever get published). In the last 5 years, my ideas have taken off like wildfire and my simple goal is to share them. In 2009, this resulted in a revised version of my first book which I think is more complete and written much better. The 1st book was called "Rod's Room - A New Earth and A New Universe" (and was published by Xlibris) while the 2nd book is simply "A New Earth and A New Universe" (published by PublishAmerica). Then, in 2010, I took a few ideas from the 2nd book, combined them with a few entirely new ideas of mine, and produced "Humans and their Universes" (published by CreateSpace). I wonder if there is any more writing hiding inside me?