Thought
Three hundred thousand kilometers per second, or one hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second, six trillion miles per year, to our nearest stellar neighbor “Proxima Centauri”, four point three light years away or let’s say twenty five trillion miles as light would travel from point A (being the Sol System) to point B (Proxima Centauri) being the voyages end would still take our fastest vessel that we have extant (traveling at two hundred and thirteen thousand two miles per hour) thirty two thousand six hundred and three years to reach our nearest stellar neighbor Proxima Centauri!
Physics has limits, it has boundaries, it has well defined parameters, things that are set in stone that can’t be broken regardless of what we do, our technology can take us from here to there! But the physical laws that govern our everyday lives have drawn a line in the sand that says that we can go here and no further, and for the mundane those laws hold true regardless of what we do or want.
Einstein had a way with thought experiments, he envisioned himself riding a beam of light and how the rest of existence would look to him if he were riding that beam of light, to him time would stop (or simply cease to be), while to the rest of the universe time would unravel at the same snail’s pace that it always does to you or I. he also put himself in an elevator that fell for an infinite distance. With respect to the outside world weight had no meaning and he would free fall for an eternity.
So even to the most enlightened mind that we have ever known (Einstein), there were limits, a lot of which were constructions of his own making, but I believe that he knew that there was another world, one which Einstein never talked of but knew on an absolute fundamental level had to exist, he practiced thought experiments on a daily basis. He understood that we as mere humans could never fully comprehend the absolute nature of Nature, he knew what the speed limit of light was (one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second), and that we would most likely never be able as a species to conquer that limit, and he is most likely right. We will as a species with all of our vaunted technology and forward thinking, we will never take a vessel of our own design and break the limit of one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second … why, because to do so we would have to make its mass infinite, E=Mc2, a theorem, a calculus that holds true today as it did eons ago before anyone even knew the name Einstein, energy equals mass and mass equals energy … to increase one is to increase the other to the point of infinitum.
Thought
I have given a great deal of thought to thought, I have found that it has no speed limit, it sees no line in the sand that says I can come here and no further, what would take our fastest vessel constructed twenty-three thousand years and more to traverse I can easily do so within the dropping of a grain of sand, I can imagine it within the breath of time that it takes me to imagine it and the actual thinking of imagining it, within a thought I can traverse a universe. Within a thought I can conquer and I can also be conquered.
Within a thought I can imagine a magnitude of horrors, a multitude of forgiveness, a time of strife, of love, and of sorrow, wars upon wars, of a time of brother killing brother and father killing son, of sister willingly lying with her brother to make her tribe whole and a brother who hated all that made them do so
And then the earth trembled, and all mortals upon the earth lay prostrate upon the ground they once stood upon because they all know that a reckoning was at hand
That reckoning wasn’t a herald of death and destruction, it wasn’t a foretelling of a future life spent in pain and turmoil, the reckoning was a remembered lifetime of a pain of the things that could have been.
We were for whatever reason spared the agony of knowing that we had the power to change things and we didn’t, why … because we didn’t exist in a time to change them, but we do now.
The speed of light in finite, my imagination knows no such bounds. It sees no line in the sand that says I can come her and no further, my thoughts recognize no limits on the future that I can and will hold for me and mine other than what I place in my own imagination.
So the speed of light is this, one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second (to put that into reference for you a beam of light could circle the entire globe seven times in one second). Or it could make it to Proxima Centauri, which is four point three light years away (which means if you flashed a light tonight toward Proxima Centauri it wouldn’t get there for four and a third years) …. HOWEVER,!!!!!
I have already been there, there and far beyond because there is one thing that travels faster than the, speed of light, fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, brothers and sisters, sisters and sisters, brothers and brothers. Anyone who has ever loved another has felt the speed with which we connect, it transcends the speed of light, it transcends the speed of an ever expanding universe.
So with a thought I have been on the moons of Jupiter, with a thought I have been to the center of our galaxy and see the gaping hole that is the super massive black hole that keeps out galaxy together … and also with a thought I have created worlds that only exist in my own imagination, and have seen the worlds that others created with but a thought because we saw no line in the sand … there may have once been a line but we made it ours.
So what travels faster than light, which is the utmost limit of what scientists deem the speed limit of the universe, I postulate that this travels faster than anything, or at least as fast as it needs to go … thought, it can take you anywhere … at any time, and at transcending speeds, never take it for granted.
Thought can take you anywhere at any speed at any time