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pgs), Helium.com, December 15, 2008.. "Which came first the chicken or the egg?
( Lets go back farther!)
WHICH CAME FIRST, MOTION OR GROWTH, OR BETTER, ENERGY OR MASS?
by Ted Erikson
Time does not really exist for light (electromagnetism can be "everywhere" at once in
our world). But light cannot validate itself without creating, that iis "sparking" mass to
gain a surface from which to reflect, absorb, diffract, refract, etc. Any particle of mass
will do but mass itself needs time to validate its existence. So let us place panpsychism
in perspective by stating that such that an awareness, or consciousness, exists for any
particle of mass. It "recognizes" that it must be of a greater size, i.e. larger, bigger, or
more complex to gain more time of "life".
This idea was introduced by Kleiber (1) which has been verified in allometric biological
studies. That is, life spans increase as size for many species that vary from bacteria to
whales (24). Extrapolating this verifiable information down to the size of the ubiquitous
charge carrying electron suggest it's "lifetimes" might be of orders less than attoseconds
(impossible to measure). It certainly is extremely small since it can appear and reappear
about an atomic nucleus. Quantum probabilities are required to localize regions where it
may be found.
Thus, ight controls motion and mass controls evolutional growth. But light "needs" mass
and mass "needs" time. This is the real philosophical question of which came first.
Panpsychism, an ancient idea of consciousness in ALL things is a most sensible
answer.
REFERENCES
(1) "Kleiber's Law" http://www.search.com/reference/Kleiber's_law
(2) "The consequence of Size"
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:ImLqCzhajywJ:labspace.open.ac.uk/file.php/3619/
S324_4_bk3_ch3.pdf+%22bacteria+to+whales%22+Kleiber&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=u
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(3) "Live Fast, die young" http://www.uaf.edu/news/a_news/20060908161137.html
(4) "Size, life history and ecolgy in mammals"
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119604011/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=
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