Synchronicity

Consider a factory that produces many identical measuring sticks and many identical clocks. By identical we mean the sticks are all the same length and the clocks keep the same time. Choose all regions of space and use these sticks to set up a grid of locations at rest with respect to each other and place clocks at each of these grid points. If we agree upon how to synchronize the clocks, we have constructed a coordinate system of a space-time frame.

The problem is that we cannot be sure if the rate of our clocks is independent of their history. That is, the clocks may not be synchronized after they are placed at the grid points even if they were synchronized when they were together. Indeed, traveling through space at whatever speed will slow down any clock reaching its location from the factory.

One operational approach is to place all clocks at their grid points and designate one master clock used to synchronize the other clocks in the coordinate system. When the master clock emits a burst of light at t = 0, the other clocks start at (distance from master clock)/(speed of light) when the flashbulb is seen. This synchronizes the clocks.

Now suppose an observer from earth uses a powerful telescope to track the time of all these clocks. The smaller a clock looks to that observer, the older the time the clock reads. And everybody would agree that such a time occurred on earth at some point in the past.

But if the universe is similarly uniform and always synchronized, it leads to a disturbing conclusion. What we actually observe when we look towards deep space is that the farther the galaxies are, the faster they are moving. But we must not forget that the galaxies are not moving fast, they WERE moving fast. It means that WE were moving fast in the past at some point.

What happens when one moves fast? Time slows down. Therefore, and the proof is simple, the universe has always existed and there never has been any so-called "Big Bang". Because when we go back in time, we move faster and time slows down accordingly. It means that at the very beginning, the universe was only light moving at the speed of light where no time can take place.

But God's hand has defined time by speeding down the universe and converting light into matter. He said wisely that creating a living image of Him through man was only a "matter of time"!

I got a few technical problems with that shot. Performance problems and even major artifacts coming from the lack of precision of matrix stack when dealing with such a deep recursive request. At first I used a highly detailed watch with roman numbers made of polygons, etc. But it got too slow very quickly. Instead I rendered the watch once and used the result as an alpha-channeled texture for the dial and still keeping the 3D shell. The performance was still too slow, and I decided to use 3D watches only for the first front rows. The other ones are displayed as single texture-mapped rectangles.