I find all this stuff really interesting, I got really interested in alternative dimension theories a while back and this sort of ties in with that I think, but personally I'm not convinced. I sort of came to the conclusion that I don't believe alternative dimensions can exist (or 1st/2nd/4th/5th etc dimensions), although I'm still open minded to it all. But I get the impression from what he's saying that you have to buy into that (although I've only had a quick read and I'm not going to pretend to understand it all

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I actually think concepts such as origin of time are things that are possibly beyond our understanding, like we're just not built to be able to understand it rather than it being something that we need to discover more about like with things involving physics. It's similar to how an ant could walk across an ipad, and understand that there is an object there, but have no comprehension of what it's function is and wouldn't understand even if someone/something were able to communicate it to the ant, we see that other creatures have limited understanding of things and see there world in ways that are unique to them and I think the same is probably true of us and there are many things we observe in the world that are beyond our potential for understanding, and the concept of time I think is one of them. I'm not sure if I'm making sense because I'm rushing

but yeah it's very interesting and it's really impressive how he thinks about things. I'll read more about it when I have time (

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