What "Flat Time" isn't
What "Flat Time" isn't
Submitted by Colm Lally on Thu, 2006-10-05 13:43.[This is a transcripted original version now containing errors]
What "Flat Time" isn't.
"Flat Time" isn't a formal scientific theory resulting from an expensive and prolonged research project involving a great deal of practical experimentation in a laboratory. (An attempt was made in 2001 to obtain funding for just such an academic research project to test the proposals of "Flat Time" by practical experiment and extensive computer modelling, working with the Quantum Gravity Department of Imperial College London. However the funding application failed to focus sufficiently on the economic profits that might arise from the potential applications for "Flat Time" in the commercial world. Luckily for the rest of us, neither the Special nor General theories of Relativity, nor the theoretical process that lead to Quantum Mechanics were ever required to satisfy such an unscientific agenda. It is clear that atomic power and quantum computing which directly derived from such theoretical advances proved of massive commercial significance. However, profit potential alone is not an acceptable or feasible qualifier for the relevance of radical scientific thought, or research as it must by definition come after the fact.
It may be an irrelevance to remember that Einstein was a Patent clerk before his theoretical work made him famous but the reasons why "Flat Time" has come from the art trajectory are rather more logical. It is just as much the artist's professional business to envisage, reflect and propose the nature of "what is the case" as is the scientist's. Both artist and scientist are concerned with the same axis, but travelling with opposite "spin", the scientist being convergent and the artist being divergent, although both move constantly forward to create the way we envisage and by thus envisaging, shape our "reality" and indeed the possibilities of our future.
Ian Macdonald-Munro
Argonaut Systems Consultancy
The business of Argonaut Systems Consultancy is "Conceptual Engineering".
Copy Right - Ian Macdonald-Munro Feb 2004
