Hi there all - I'm a new member of EVC - and a large part of the reason I joined was to learn more about this pretty fascinating place in which we live.
I was reading some of Cavediver's post's about how our universe is comprised of a number of overlapping fields (possibly aspects of one overall field), and that subatomic particles are excitations within those fields at any one point.
What was particularly fascinating was Cavediver's explanation that one field's excitations represented what we perceive as distance. Would it be possible for someone to try to answer for me (an intelligent non-scientist) the following questions:
1. In the context of that explanation of fields, how would all of the various sub-atomic field excitations that make up me (or anything else), moving from what I perceive to be one place to another, be expressed ?
2. How would the expression (in that context) of that movement differ, dependent upon my velocity (in my perceived 3 dimensional terms) ?
3. And moving on from there, (and given what we know about my velocity in space time being C) how is velocity (in 3 dimensional terms) at closer to C (or in a photon's case, at C) expressed in those terms ? In other words, what is the relationship between these fields and time ? (If time can be treated as separate in this context).
These are questions which I think I need to answer, to try to help my understanding of this.
And just as likely, I may need to know why these are ignorant questions, to try to help my understanding of this ;-)
There aren't many things that shouldn't be questioned, but question the rest.
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