Ask A Genius 850: Michael Taylor
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2023/07/02
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Rick Rosner: Twitter has taught me that when somebody is front paging Jesus in social media, at least in America, there’s a high chance at least on Twitter that they’re super Trumpy and not at all Christian. I mean they call themselves Christian but anyway maybe this comment will be from a better Christian than Twitter Christians.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is from Michael Taylor. “Dear Mr. Rosner, my name is Mike Taylor. It is an honor to speak with you today. I am performing a personal study of very high IQ individuals in the way they use their minds. I personally hypothesize that intelligence and IQ can be increased by regular individuals who learn to use their minds like the very highly intelligent do. So if you don’t mind me asking and wouldn’t mind sharing with me, how may I ask you do you use your mind when pondering a subject or learning something new. Do you perform any meditative like practices? Do you imagine and visualize any constructs and interact with those constructs in your mind? Do you ever miniaturize yourself in your mind to sort of imaginarily go inside of an invention or concept to understand it more fully or anything like that? How much time have you spent before in mental pondering for a certain product? Any feedback or insight from you would be greatly appreciated. Thank you sir and God bless you”
Rosner: God bless you too, Michael. Yeah, I do all that stuff but because I’m lazy I don’t do it nearly as much as I should. I did it a lot more before I got extra lazy in my old age. When I think about physics, you get an idea and then you have to chase it down to make it kind of comport to everything else you know about physics. You get an insight, for instance, that a photon is a handshake between the past and present. I mean between one time when the photons emitted and a different time when the photon is captured but in the experience of the photon, no time has passed so it’s really the same time. So it’s a handshake between two different times and the insight I had a zillion years ago which is consistent with I think a lot of people having a similar insight, is that it’s an agreement. A photon emission and capture is a thing that A) exists outside of time because the photon experiences no time and also a deal made between, if you’re looking at the emission as the present, then it’s a deal you’re making with the future.
Once you have that insight, I had it when I was living in a frat house in 1982 maybe, and then I had to think about it a lot like what are the implications? Does this comport with everything else I know about physics? Can you build anything from it such as the idea that the universe that we live in is some kind of minimizing function for all these exchanges? Say that you’ve got a set of all handshakes between the present and the future, all photon emissions and captures and is it possible that the world we live in is built from all these deals, these handshakes arranged in such a way to minimize something because physics is often looking for the least action or least time. Is it something like least aggregate distance traveled of all photons that the three-dimensional space is somehow a construct if you look at all these interactions as pixie sticks which is a crappy toy that comes from 50 years before you might know of it? It was just a bunch of plastic sticks that you threw on the ground in a pile and you tried to pull the sticks out of the pile without disturbing any of the other sticks. It was the 70s and everything was crappy. But do we live in a pixie stick universe where somehow the set of lines emitting nuclei and intercepting nuclei?
This is somehow arranged in a certain way that you’ve got the set of pixie sticks and you’re trying to rank that the most efficient way to arrange them is a three space plus one time dimensional universe. So yeah, I did a lot of thinking about that and sometimes I think about it until I get really tired, confused and often horny. Too much thinking often made me horny with frustration but then I’d stop and sometimes I would quit thinking about something like this for weeks or months and then when I came back to it, I’d maybe have a lot more insight just because my brain had been percolating on it while I hadn’t been thinking about it overtly. So yeah, I do most of the things you mentioned in your set of questions I’ve done and I should have done a lot more so that my theory of stuff would be much further along. Thanks.
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