Eternal

The 7-D Einsteinian Hyperspherical universe is eternal. It has no beginning and no end. As Stephen Hawking said so well: "The Universe just IS". Einstein himself said: "Time is an illusion".

From our frame of reference, time is anything but an illusion. We cannot even avoid describing the Hyperspherical Universe, except in reference to time! Yet we know that time ceases to pass at the speed of light. There are frames of reference in the universe where the universe, as we know it, can either be seen instantaneously in its entirety, or doesn't exist at all. There are parts of the universe, such as the antiverse, which are as real as we are, and yet cannot be seen, except indirectly by mass measurements, because of their unusual energy/space/time coordinates. My grandmother was talking about the 1990s some years ago, and commented that the 90s were "after her time". She was right. She died in 1971. She never heard of the 7-D hyperspherical universe but she had an intuitive sense that she had a special "place" in time. This is completely congruent with GR and QM.

Einstein's universe (to use a 1905 analogy) is like an eternal book with pages. Everything is just there. It is finished before it begins and like some huge computer chip or videotape, everything is preserved- including us. How is this possible? I am only describing a mathematical model, and, as we have seen, a well verified one: the model of Einstein. We live in a world of almost endless frames of reference, and the "chance" of Quantum Mechanics, yet the bottom line is fearsome determinism. We experience, and re-experience our lives endlessly without memory of previous excursions. Is this not the essence of virtual reality?

	Photo: The awesome stability of the Eternal, 7-Dimensional (and up) Einsteinian Hyperspherical Universe is symbolized by the ultimate fixed frame of reference on the 4-Dimensional hypersphere, the Rock of Gibraltar. It is just "there"; the "Pillars of Hercules" at the Isthmus of the unknown. Yet it WILL change. Is that change a projection of gradual universal evolution in General Relativity "free fall" over the endless cycles of our existence? We are reminded of Isaiah 54:10 in the Judeo-Christian scriptures: "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee."

The essentially unchanging nature of the 7-D Einsteinian Hyperspherical universe is the key to its stability. The existence of the whole depends on each and every part. The universe according to Einstein is much like one of the later, lighter, gigantic cathedrals in Europe. It vaults to a peak in both corners of the universe, and it shelters all of our reality. Yet so sensitive is the whole of this vast entity, that one slight change in its construction could destroy it, in the same way that removing a single block from a cathedral could bring it down on ones head! In this light it is interesting that king David, circa 1,000 BCE, in Psalm 23 of the Judeo-Christian scriptures, describes the universe as "the house of the Lord"..."surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord- forever." (Read also Psalm 139!)

Paul Davies, Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy at the University of Adelaide has perhaps detailed the fragility of our existence more than any living person. He describes the fantastic odds against such complexity arising from chaos and concludes in his masterpiece: "The Mind of God" that "we are truly meant to be here". Eternal existence is Einstein's answer, but still we sit under the shadow of the finite speed of light, and mass of the universe- and wonder.

"There are moments in mans mortal years when for an instant that which long has lain beyond our reach is on a sudden found in things of smallest compass, and we hold the unbounded shut in one small minutes space and worlds within the hollow of our hand..." -- H.B. Carpenter