(What starts as a dissertation on time and the fourth dimension becomes a round table on quantum physics which quickly gets as deep as Omal has ever gotten on the subject. He gets into the warping of time where black holes are concerned and describes for us what happens once you pass over the event horizon all the way to what comes out on the other side of the hole.) 

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Russ: now Omal, in my various trips with hallucinogenic materials.....

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: I have come across similar experiences where maybe it’s not all of that but it’s a portion of that that you see all at once.

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: is this kind of closing in on that gap a little bit when I did that?

Omal: it is glimpsing what is possible, what time really is.

Russ: oh okay.

Omal: it is a mistake to say time is linear. Yes it is in an essence, one thing does follow another in normal third dimensional space, your space. However, in fourth dimensional space or time it does not. It is much like……..okay it is about to get very deep and heavy. I think probably few people will understand it that don’t have a grasp of quantum physics and I believe that is one of Mark’s favorite subjects is it not?

Russ: it is.

Omal: okay for the benefit of Mark. Okay, the nearest that can be experienced in normal time is at the event horizon. Now the event horizon is that point as you approach the speed of light in normal space. If I am boring you let me know.

Linda M: (yawns) I’m sorry.

Omal: that is all right. In normal space, as you approach the speed of light, time slows down. As you approach the event horizon which is the speed of light, time stops although for the observer outside of the object approaching the speed of light, time runs at a normal rate. The change is not perceived, it just looks like it’s moving very fast. For the observer inside the object as it approaches the speed of light time slows down however the observer, because he is within this field, does not notice either. As the speed of light approaches, it is noticed externally that the object is moving farther away at a higher speed. Internally, again it is not noticed. When the speed of light is reached, time stops. If the observer within the object was to look back at a clock that he was watching as he approached the speed of light, the hands would stand still. This is simple quantum physics. Where it starts to become a little bit convoluted is at the point where you exceed the speed of light. Now an analogy was used where an individual is at the speed of light, the speed of light being an absolute and it is an absolute inside normal space, it fluctuates but the speed of light is an absolute. If the individual was to get up and watching the clock, walk backwards away from the clock that is appearing to be stationary, that individual would be traveling faster than the speed of light but that is not so. He is traveling at a normal walking pace that he would be traveling in normal space because the vessel, even though it has approached the speed of light, inside it it is normal space. The person would have to accelerate to the speed of light again to be traveling at the speed of light but the object that he is within is traveling at the speed of light. Now, the equation E equals MC squared is a mathematical equation that is correct in essence. E equals energy or energy times mass times the speed of light which means as you accelerate, you need more energy which is taken from the mass. So the more mass that you have, the faster and closer you can approach the speed of light, interesting. As you approach the speed of light, you need more mass to turn into energy. In its current formula, there is not enough mass within your galaxy to achieve that speed of light. So traveling outside normal space is how you travel faster than the speed of light but you do not need to travel faster than the speed of light outside of normal space. Okay, do you understand Russ?

Russ: not a single word of it but this does explain the movie "Contact" a little better though.

Omal: okay. However, having reached the point of singularity or the event horizon sorry, okay you pass over the point of the event horizon. You head into a thing called singularity which is infinite, infinite smallness. The gravitational pull becomes so intense that everything is compressed into tiny, tiny unperceivable amounts. So therefore the person withinside the object traveling at the speed of light ceases to function, ceases to exist. However, what remains escapes as radiation back into the galaxy. Now, this has been theorized, a gravitational black hole which is what I’ve just described is the jump over the event horizon and a singularity is a black hole. As a black hole increases in mass, it pulls in more matter and energy and more light. As it becomes so massive, the gravitational pull weakens. However, at the point of singularity,the gravitational field is just as intense. It is more like a steep-sided hole as opposed to a gently sloping hole. You can sit on the top of a gentle or a massive black hole at the point of the event horizon and not be pulled in. On a small black hole, which may be the size of a marble but yet has the mass of your entire galaxy, will have a far greater pull than a black hole that has the mass of two galaxies, two large galaxies might I add. This is because of the intense nature of the pull of the black hole. Okay here endeth the dissertation on... 

Russ: quantum physics.

Omal: basic quantum physics.

Russ: basic quantum physics. I’ll put that on the web. Okay so in "Contact" where she gets dropped through that speed of light achieving thing, she’s actually reaching a point of event horizon?

Omal: no, because there is no return over the event horizon.

Russ: oh there isn’t?

Omal: no, having achieved the event horizon, you are crushed out of existence.

Russ:  ahhh.

Omal: also the formula E equals MC squared states quite clearly that there is not enough mass in your galaxy to do that. For the young lady in "Contact" to travel the distance that she supposedly did, she would have to travel outside of normal space.

Russ: and theoretically she wasn’t.

Omal: that is their theory.

Russ: right but I guess she was, she was out of normal space for that time period she was within the circling wheels.

Omal: correct. In your entertainment "Star Trek"….

Russ: uh-huh.

Omal: they have the right idea, warping space.

Russ: where you’re ignoring normal space.

Omal: correct.

Russ: I see.

Omal: however the perception of stars shooting by is a suggestion of traveling at the speed or greater than the speed of light. As I’ve just stated, that is not so.

Russ: actually you’d be closer to the movie "Dune".

Omal: yes correct.

Russ: where they're actually…

Omal: folding…..

Russ: taking and folding space and appearing on the point where they want to go.

Omal: correct.

Russ: which still confuses me.

Omal: that is more closer to reality than is the traveling at a greater speed than light, that is impossible.

Russ: hmm, the folding of space?

Omal: folding of space, bending, warping, whatever you wish to call it.

Russ: interesting.

Omal: when you do that, you travel outside of normal space.

Russ: okay, hmm. So we’re approaching anything like…..there’s no way for us to approach the speed of light…..

Omal: no.

Russ: until we're able to actually warp space.

Omal: correct.

Russ: okay.

Omal: and then you don’t need to approach the speed of light.

Russ: hmm, I'll have to go watch that movie "First Contact" where Zefram, whatever his name is (Zefram Cochrane) breaks the…..first makes warp speed.

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: I forgot how they did that in that.

Omal: I have not seen it, I can speculate and tell you how to do it but then….

Russ: yeah right.

Omal: I would be breaking my own rules.

Russ: which wouldn't quite be kosher.

Omal: correct.

Russ: right.

Omal: but as just been stated, how do I know that you are not the inventor of a device to warp and bend space?

Russ: yeah good point.

Omal: or if the gentleman…..the older gentleman that is normally here Skip, if he is not the person that is destined to be the one.

Russ: yeah if you’re going to break the news, wait until he gets here.

Omal: I don’t think he would understand, he does not have the background on your earth and he doesn’t have the access to the memories.

Russ: right, interesting though. Okay, well that explains a lot about that but.......

Omal: I think I might’ve bored the young lady a little.

Russ: well that’s necessary sometimes for the educational lessons to come through.

Omal: thank you.

Russ: I mean it is something that we are working on achieving for the whole planet.

Omal: eventually yes.

Russ: eventually.

Omal: but it is a very basic explanation on quantum physics. 

Russ: okay.

Omal: if you wish for me to get more technical, you might as well get up and wander off as I would be getting down to mathematical equations.

Russ: well we would’ve lost half the audience on the webpage at that point anyway.

Omal: I think we might’ve lost half already when I started talking about singularities and event horizons and…..

Russ: yeah they're going to read this point and go, "what?" But that’s all right, that’s the whole point of doing it so some people can understand and figure it out right away and say, “that makes a lot of sense.”

Omal: uh-huh. I hope I have explained it simply.

Russ: well for some people I’m sure it was first grade. For me, a bit over my head.

Omal: I do apologize.

Russ: oh that’s all right, I expect that.

Omal: have you been in on discussions when Mark starts theorizing and speculating?

Russ: no, no not really. Luckily he tries to avoid those when I’m around.

Omal: I have heard from Kiri that he does get very, very deep.

Russ: I’ll take your word for it.

Omal: Kiri is whispering that he had a very interesting discussion with a gentleman that he works with that was nothing but numbers and figures on a chalkboard.

Russ: well that’s another one that would be over my head. I’m never good with numbers and figures. Anyway, thank you for that lesson, it was very educational.

Omal: you’re welcome.