I was cruising through the Hive stream when I fell into a deep hole of thoughts when I came across a certain rabbit speaking on gravity. I couldn't understand if I was falling down or flying up to a new overstanding.
I don't want you to think what transpires here is the truth. Infact, what proceeds is just me visual interpretation of what I have read, observed and experienced in psychedelic DMT trances. I am by no means a math genius. To be honest I barely have algebra down. But I am very curious and exploratory in nature and have a wild imagination and think too much. So below is just a philosophical point of view and theory on what gravity is and how the universe works.
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All I'm trying to do is articulate the different thn the norm of visual reality after these certain experiences melted away.
I am going to stem away from the mainstream definitions and I again I remind you this is not to be taken seriously. Just a theory.
What if gravity isn’t really a “force” the way we think it is?
These thoughts started after I read an article on gravity by @builderofcastles, you can read that here. I kept thinking about buoyancy and pressure gradients: how water separates from oil, how helium rises through air, how denseness sinks through less dense things, even contemplating how the planets stay in such a neat orbit around our current Sun. Everything, it seems, to organize itself through invisible gradients and balancing acts.
Then I started wondering if what we call gravity is just another version of that happening on a larger scale. Not objects magically attracting each other across empty space, but by some kind of deeper pressure or entropy structure we don’t directly perceive. And before someone says “but buoyancy requires gravity,” yeah I know, according to the current model it does. I’m talking philosophically here. What I’m asking here is, what if the thing underneath both of them is the same process being described differently?
Then my mind went into another direction entirely.
What if space isn’t empty at all? What if every point in space has activity in it? Motion and spin in it sll. Not spinning one direction like tiny marbles, but motion in every direction constantly, like reality itself is turbulent underneath the surface. And maybe what we experience as matter are just stable patterns forming in that turbulence.
That’s honestly more of what reality started feeling like to me after psychedelics. A continuous field of movement organizing itself into temporary forms and not just solid objects moving through emptiness.
Some of this also got triggered by reading weird alternative cosmology stuff and sci-fi. Electric Universe ideas, Saturn theory rabbit holes, people talking about Venus being “born” from Saturn in ancient texts, Saturn maybe once being a brown dwarf, all that kind of stuff. I’m not saying I believe all of it literally. I don’t really know. Half the time I’m just fascinated by the symbolism and the patterns people keep noticing. But it does make me wonder if ancient people perceived the sky very differently than we do now.
And honestly, I think what interests me most isn’t whether any specific theory is “correct.” It’s the possibility that reality is way more dynamic and more process based than our normal current language makes it seem to be.
Sometimes I wonder if our brains and dreams simplify reality into “objects” because that’s easier for survival, while underneath it all existence is closer to flow, pressure, redistribution, resonance, and self-organizing patterns. Maybe gravity is exactly what they say it is.
Maybe it isn’t.
I think they did perciueve the sky differently - it would have looked different let alone had different myths and cultures mapped on it. I love how some cultures see between the stars, the space in between, for images/stories. Symbols and patterns are fascinating - but it's easy to rabbit hole it and make shit up, which is how we arrive at truths anyway, sometimes...
I think once you've done psychedelics your brain gets better at organising or understanding stuff like this. Years later you find yourself completely straight and drug free and looking at the universe through a meditative lens and seeing it like this too. Like your hand could pass through it all.
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I wish I could understand half of that. Perhaps I need some psychedelics!:)
Lol yeah I was basically giving just the atmosphere of what was unfolding in my head. I'll have to write more posts later on describing the mechanics behind it. But I understand too. It's not easy to grasp for myself either.
https://xcancel.com/RedpillDrifter/status/2052496016562069564#m
MIT professor on gravity.