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facts

This image represents changing views of spacetime along the world line of a rapidly accelerating observer.

In this animation, the vertical direction indicates time and the horizontal direction indicates distance, the dashed line is the spacetime trajectory ("world line") of the observer. The lower quarter of the diagram shows the events that are visible to the observer, and the upper quarter shows the light cone - those that will be able to see the observer. The small dots are arbitrary events in spacetime.

The slope of the world line (deviation from being vertical) gives the relative velocity to the observer. Note how the view of spacetime changes when the observer accelerates.

(taken from this page on wiki)

i would like to equate events (represented here as dots) with facts (i don't believe this to be an egregious error).  from our point of view - our experience of reality is holistic, consistent and intuitive.  from our perspective - reality doesn't feel like this image (even near the speed of light).  But God's-view-of-our-perspective looks precisely like this image.  The same would be true for every event given every person who has ever lived.

So the full truth (or Truth is you prefer)... the full reality - from e.g. God's perspective, would require every world line to be mapped in a similar manner - simultaneously.  This mapping would require many more dimensions to accomplish ... and still may not exhaust the full dimensionality of truth / reality that is God's.

this image isn't anti-truth. this is truth.
these ideas aren't anti-christian. this is christianity.
and this isn't anti-God. this is God's nature.

next episode - invariance!

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