Nothing Moves: Prelude

Everything is exactly as it seems - and nothing is as it seems.An intro to an incredible truth about the true nature of the physical reality we all inhabit - our universe. Quantum Mechanics is telling us that the cosmos is way, way different from how it seems. Are you ready for that ultimate red-pill/blue-pill moment??We live in a universe full of motion, at every level. How would it be, then, if you could be shown that, at a deeper level there is NO motion at all?? This post is a gentle introduction to that concept, to be followed up by Nothing Moves: The Big Picture.This is the audio version of the Substack post of the same name - text version available at: https://drgblackwell.substack.com/p/nothing-moves-prelude

Take a trip through time! Explore the background to this enigma which in one way is the backdrop to our whole experience - then at the next instant seems to have no real substance at all! See how the drum-beat of time opens up our understanding of all that we see, hear and believe! See how the very concept of time has so much to tell us about what's actually going on 'behind the scenes', so to speak, of our everyday (and not-so-everyday) experience.This is an audio version of a Substack post: a transcript of this post can be seen here , including a fair number of relevant links. You can also read an article on this subject, Time, Light & Consciousness, as published in the journal of the Scientific & Medical Network, here.

Clue: It's NOT Relativity.Have you ever wondered how bodies like planets, stars, galaxies 'curve spacetime'? What it means, exactly, to say that spacetime is 'curved'? Or why objects follow those curved contours under the effect referred to as gravity ??None of these proposed cause-and-effect consequences are explained by General Relativity. We're simply told that they happen.Strap yourself in for a journey through space and time to pin down the very first clear and coherent explanation of the causal mechanisms that give rise to the effect known as gravitation. Get a handle on the basics of how "Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve" (which you can follow up in detail in a later Substack post: Gravity II: the Sequel - also includes audio).A transcript of this podcast is available here. Links referred to in this post, including links to other Substack posts, are included in that transcript. Full details of all associated posts can be found at the Substack channel Beyond Spacetime.

Learn why light appears to travel at the same speed for everyone — and why Relativity has nothing to do with it. Hear about research findings from a number of leading scientists, including Nobel laureates, which show that effects attributed to Special Relativity (such as speed-related time dilation) are not due to any special properties of light or the universe but follow naturally from the photon-based structure of matter.. Notably, find out how Einstein's first postulate is a direct consequence of particle structure. All explained in simple non-technical terms accessible to all.A transcript of this podcast is available here. Links referred to in this post, including links to other Substack posts, are included in that transcript. Full details of all associated posts can be found at the Substack channel Beyond Spacetime.

A radically new look at the nature of our physical reality, including: What causes Relativity? How does 'curved spacetime' cause gravity? What is matter made of? Is light speed really an absolute limit? If so, how come quantum entanglement? Is time an illusion? What IS antimatter? Is wave-particle duality really a thing? How can photons behave like they do? What causes electric charge? Where does consciousness fit into all of this?Plenty to think about - and plenty to talk about, in future episodes.