Brain Gain 6 - Our Anachronistic Existence

To this day, the speed at which light travels within the universe is considered the maximum speed in our existence. In fact, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, the speed of light is even referred to as 'the cosmic speed limit'. Although the speed at which light travels through space-time is called the fastest movement in the universe, the universe itself - simultaneously and confusingly - expands at a speed greater than that. This is known as the Superluminal Expansion of Space. The 'boundary' of the Universe is moving faster - away from us and towards infinity - than the light originating from that same boundary is reaching us on Earth, practically making the expansion of the Universe invisible. Because cosmic information reaches our Earth at a maximum speed of light, the time-related relevance depends on the distance between the transmitter and the spectator. However, since mutual distances within our physical reality are never zero and the maximum speed is bounded in light, everything we observe is inevitably subjected to essential delay. What we know, do, and predict belongs to the past, and what is contemporary beyond our limits of observation is fantasy*. Observing the past is (re)acting in the past. Humans always live in retrospect. We lead an Anachronistic Existence.

Our Anachronistic Existence

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Whatever happens in contemporary (or real) time somewhere beyond our limits of observation is fantasy since it is an untouchable reality. This definition of fantasy is coined also in 'Aide-Mémoire 6 - Ebryonic Biases; The First Limits of Identity'.