**Brie:** https://www.flickr.com/photos/185448132@N07
**Orange Jeff:** I like snapping pics. I have a stoner Facebook page too, although they just banned me for 3 days because I posted a boob today. Whoops.
Flickr doesn’t care.
**Brie:** Lol!
**Orange Jeff:** It’s filled with fantastic avatar art.
I also hang out here when I’m high and get women stoned on all the Second Life drugs.
**Brie:** Haha. Dope.**Orange Jeff:** I kind of like all the drugs in both universes. You?**Brie:** Earthling, there is only one multiverse.**Orange Jeff:** Ha. Even the name “multiverse” is non-singular.**Orange Jeff:** “Multiverse”… from the book *Snow Crash* I think.**Brie:** That’s not how that works. There is a singular infinite multiverse.**Orange Jeff:** I see. When I am in SL it is my universe.**Brie:** No. I own the universe.**Orange Jeff:** Cool. Do I call you master then?**Orange Jeff:** I have my own theories of the universe.**Brie:** Yes.**Orange Jeff:** I’ve done a lot of psychedelic drugs.**Orange Jeff:** It never occurred to me that my theories would fit inside your theories.**Brie:** They might.**Brie:** Explain your theories.**Orange Jeff:** Let me toke first.**Brie:** Yeah, do it.**Orange Jeff:** I believe that each of us is our own finite universe. From conception and the joining of sperm and egg, our universe begins. The big bang. Our cells multiply quickly and we begin learning and saving memories. Everything in my universe is either the stories I’ve been told or the stories I tell, but it’s all saved in my universe with my bias. The universe exists only in the moment of now, flowing forward at the speed of light. Everything I do enlarges my universe as I save the input from my senses.
**Orange Jeff:** I cannot speak to you… but everything in my universe is the result of my memories.
**Brie:** Close, but you got a few things incorrect.
**Orange Jeff:** I choose in the instant of now.
**Orange Jeff:** Sometimes my universe works for me.
**Brie:** Do you understand the concept of string theory?
**Orange Jeff:** Yes.
**Brie:** The fifth dimension is reality.
**Orange Jeff:** Also a great movie.
**Orange Jeff:** What are you calling reality?
**Brie:** Everything and nothing.
**Orange Jeff:** But it still exists in the moment of now. The past doesn’t actually exist. Just the stories we tell.
**Brie:** The past does exist, as does the future.
**Brie:** Time is a plane of existence.
**Orange Jeff:** Tokin’ huge dabs. In SL and RL.
**Brie:** The fourth dimension.
**Orange Jeff:** I’m not sure how the past exists. There is only now.
**Orange Jeff:** As much as I love watching time travel in movies and TV, I don’t believe we can go to the past because it is just a story we remember. It doesn’t exist.
**Brie:** Okay, think of it like this.
**Brie:** A piece of paper is flat with x and y.
**Brie:** We are 3D with x, y, and z.
**Orange Jeff:** The funny thing is, that never occurred to me until just now, and I’m fighting for it. Fifteen minutes ago I was quite content with the past. Or was I? It’s been a while since I’ve done weed. Haha.
**Brie:** Time is the 4th dimension.
**Brie:** So it goes x, y, z, time, reality, 6.
**Orange Jeff:** Oh. The past does exist in the light beams bouncing off Earth into space. That light contains a complete history of our planet since the sun started reflecting on it. If we can travel down a light beam until it ended, we would see the history of time in reverse.
**Orange Jeff:** Oh. That’s quite deep.
**Brie:** Yes, now you understand.
**Orange Jeff:** If we could travel up and down that beam of light, we could fast forward and rewind through time like a video. We could also change from that point forward or backward in history. Yeah, we can’t change the past because it’s going backward, it doesn’t. Whatever we changed would not have an effect on the forward side.
**Orange Jeff:** That may have been a little confusing. I haven’t talked about my universe theories while high in quite some time. It’s fun.
**Orange Jeff:** The interesting thing about light reflecting off Earth is that as long as you can see it, it probably has full detail. Which would mean if we could travel to another planet and see Earth, the light beam reflection could probably almost be enough to reproduce on another planet.
**Orange Jeff:** When I take LSD, sometimes I think that my version of the universe is a copy and I lose track of whether or not I’m existing in our universe or a copy of our universe. But that’s when I do too much acid.
**Brie:** Omg, my mind is exploding.
**Orange Jeff:** Sorry if you weren’t expecting such a complex conversation.
**Brie:** You can’t just throw so much knowledge into someone’s brain like that without warning.
**Brie:** You just messed up my world. What the heck.
**Brie:** So nothing matters.
**Orange Jeff:** So if we discover a way to warp or wormhole to locations far farther than light speed, and we can still see the reflections of Earth, they’re probably HD. And we would experience that light being reflected onto a screen in real time.
**Brie:** NOTHING MATTERS.
**Brie:** AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
**Orange Jeff:** Now, are you ready for a real mind-blowing experience?
**Brie:** Yes.
**Brie:** Do it.
**Orange Jeff:** Imagine for a moment that we could travel one light day away and find a planet that could see Earth. Then, on that planet, we create a giant mirror that reflects the light back to Earth. So on Earth, we would be looking at a real-time feed of the Earth two days ago. And we could potentially refocus that and emit anywhere on Earth and see what was happening 2 days prior.
**Orange Jeff:** I can’t think of any flaw in that logic. While high.
**Brie:** Because that makes logical sense.
**Brie:** I use it to manipulate time.
**Brie:** I just did. Go reread what you wrote.
**Brie:** It’s different now.
**Orange Jeff:** I’m still trying to figure out a theory that explains how psychic phenomenon and deja vu and other mystic things.
**Orange Jeff:** I understand that when the egg and sperm meet, they contain far more data than we can comprehend. One thing people often don’t think about is that infinity works in both directions. You can always make something half as small or twice as big.
**Orange Jeff:** Wait, why is everything in French now?
**Orange Jeff:** By the way, I will probably be blogging this conversation. It’s the most fun I’ve had in a while.
**Brie:** Oui.
**Brie:** True, but do you know the theory about when light reflects off of time particles?
**Orange Jeff:** I’m too lazy, and high to go through the effort of actually translating this and then pasting it in French.
**Orange Jeff:** I do not. I haven’t considered time as a particle.
**Brie:** Well, try to.
**Brie:** Because it is.
**Brie:** Time moves around us.
**Orange Jeff:** Could you explain that, using more words?
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**Brie:** https://www.flickr.com/photos/185448132@N07
**Orange Jeff:** Thanks… although one pic? Ha ha… you need a driver buddy for adventures.
**Orange Jeff:** And pics.
**Brie:** I just started 🙂
**Orange Jeff:** I know. I was teasing. Sorry if it came across as rude.
**Brie:** Noo, you’re fine! 😀
**Orange Jeff:** I like snapping pics. I have a stoner Facebook page too, although they just banned me for 3 days because I posted a boob today. Whoops.
**Orange Jeff:** Flickr doesn’t care.
**Brie:** Lol!
**Orange Jeff:** It’s filled with fantastic avatar art.
**Orange Jeff:** I also hang out here when I’m high and get women stoned on all the Second Life drugs.
**Brie:** Haha.
**Brie:** Dope.
**Orange Jeff:** I kind of like all the drugs in both universes. You?
**Brie:** Earthling, there is only one multiverse.
**Orange Jeff:** Ha. Even the name “multiverse” is non-singular.
**Orange Jeff:** Not singular.
**Orange Jeff:** “Multiverse”… from the book *Snow Crash* I think.
**Brie:** That’s not how that works. There is a singular infinite multiverse.
**Orange Jeff:** I see. When I am in DL it is my universe.
**Brie:** No. I own the universe.
**Orange Jeff:** Cool. Do I call you master then?
**Orange Jeff:** I have my own theories of the universe.
**Brie:** Yes.
**Orange Jeff:** I’ve done a lot of psychedelic drugs.
**Orange Jeff:** It never occurred to me that my theories would fit inside your theories.
**Brie:** They might.
**Brie:** Explain your theories.
**Orange Jeff:** Let me toke first.
**Brie:** Yeah, do it.
**Orange Jeff:** I believe that each of us is our own finite universe. From conception and the joining of sperm and egg, our universe begins. The big bang. Our cells multiply quickly and we begin learning and saving memories. Everything in my universe is either the stories I’ve been told or the stories I tell, but it’s all saved in my universe with my bias. The universe exists only in the moment of now, flowing forward at the speed of light. Everything I do enlarges my universe as I save the input from my senses.
**Orange Jeff:** I cannot speak to you… but everything in my universe is the result of my memories.
**Brie:** Close, but you got a few things incorrect.
**Orange Jeff:** I choose in the instant of now.
**Orange Jeff:** Sometimes my universe works for me.
**Brie:** Do you understand the concept of string theory?
**Orange Jeff:** Yes.
**Brie:** The fifth dimension is reality.
**Orange Jeff:** Also a great movie.
**Orange Jeff:** What are you calling reality?
**Brie:** Everything and nothing.
**Orange Jeff:** But it still exists in the moment of now. The past doesn’t actually exist. Just the stories we tell.
**Brie:** The past does exist, as does the future.
**Brie:** Time is a plane of existence.
**Orange Jeff:** Tokin’ huge dabs. In SL and RL.
**Brie:** The fourth dimension.
**Orange Jeff:** I’m not sure how the past exists. There is only now.
**Orange Jeff:** As much as I love watching time travel in movies and TV, I don’t believe we can go to the past because it is just a story we remember. It doesn’t exist.
**Brie:** Okay, think of it like this.
**Brie:** A piece of paper is flat with x and y.
**Brie:** We are 3D with x, y, and z.
**Orange Jeff:** The funny thing is, that never occurred to me until just now, and I’m fighting for it. Fifteen minutes ago I was quite content with the past. Or was I? It’s been a while since I’ve done weed. Haha.
**Brie:** Time is the 4th dimension.
**Brie:** So it goes x, y, z, time, reality, 6.
**Orange Jeff:** Oh. The past does exist in the light beams bouncing off Earth into space. That light contains a complete history of our planet since the sun started reflecting on it. If we can travel down a light beam until it ended, we would see the history of time in reverse.
**Orange Jeff:** Oh. That’s quite deep.
**Brie:** Yes, now you understand.
**Orange Jeff:** If we could travel up and down that beam of light, we could fast forward and rewind through time like a video. We could also change from that point forward or backward in history. Yeah, we can’t change the past because it’s going backward, it doesn’t. Whatever we changed would not have an effect on the forward side.
**Orange Jeff:** That may have been a little confusing. I haven’t talked about my universe theories while high in quite some time. It’s fun.
**Orange Jeff:** The interesting thing about light reflecting off Earth is that as long as you can see it, it probably has full detail. Which would mean if we could travel to another planet and see Earth, the light beam reflection could probably almost be enough to reproduce on another planet.
**Orange Jeff:** When I take LSD, sometimes I think that my version of the universe is a copy and I lose track of whether or not I’m existing in our universe or a copy of our universe. But that’s when I do too much acid.
**Brie:** Omg, my mind is exploding.
**Orange Jeff:** Sorry if you weren’t expecting such a complex conversation.
**Brie:** You can’t just throw so much knowledge into someone’s brain like that without warning.
**Brie:** You just messed up my world. What the heck.
**Brie:** So nothing matters.
**Orange Jeff:** So if we discover a way to warp or wormhole to locations far farther than light speed, and we can still see the reflections of Earth, they’re probably HD. And we would experience that light being reflected onto a screen in real time.
**Brie:** NOTHING MATTERS.
**Brie:** AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
**Orange Jeff:** Now, are you ready for a real mind-blowing experience?
**Brie:** Yes.
**Brie:** Do it.
**Orange Jeff:** Imagine for a moment that we could travel one light day away and find a planet that could see Earth. Then, on that planet, we create a giant mirror that reflects the light back to Earth. So on Earth, we would be looking at a real-time feed of the Earth two days ago. And we could potentially refocus that and emit anywhere on Earth and see what was happening 2 days prior.
**Orange Jeff:** I can’t think of any flaw in that logic. While high.
**Brie:** Because that makes logical sense.
**Brie:** I use it to manipulate time.
**Brie:** I just did. Go reread what you wrote.
**Brie:** It’s different now.
**Orange Jeff:** I’m still trying to figure out a theory that explains how psychic phenomenon and deja vu and other mystic things.
**Orange Jeff:** I understand that when the egg and sperm meet, they contain far more data than we can comprehend. One thing people often don’t think about is that infinity works in both directions. You can always make something half as small or twice as big.
**Orange Jeff:** Wait, why is everything in French now?
**Orange Jeff:** By the way, I will probably be blogging this conversation. It’s the most fun I’ve had in a while.
**Brie:** Oui.
**Brie:** True, but do you know the theory about when light reflects off of time particles?
**Orange Jeff:** I’m too lazy, and high to go through the effort of actually translating this and then pasting it in French.
**Orange Jeff:** I do not. I haven’t considered time as a particle.
**Brie:** Well, try to.
**Brie:** Because it is.
**Brie:** Time moves around us.
**Orange Jeff:** Could you explain that, using more words?
Sure, here is the conversation without timestamps:
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Brie: Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
Brie: Time flows around us like the breath of the wind.
Orange Jeff: That one confuses me a bit. Our bodies obviously grow,
Brie: No. That’s caused by us consuming matter and becoming one with the burrito.
Orange Jeff: Oh yes, of course.
Orange Jeff: And I always feel energized by the sun and a blue sky. It gives me happiness and energy. I think that’s what they called vitamin D. But people definitely get depressed without sunlight. They even sell artificial lamps on Amazon.
Brie: We need to be recharged with SunnyD.
Orange Jeff: And solar energy. Awesome. But it never occurred to me that all light contains… time? No, I don’t think so.
Brie: Then explain why we die when we run out of time.
Orange Jeff: I have imagined how evolution works without problem. The thing that most people don’t take into consideration is that before we started paying attention to time, two million years was nothing to the difference between a crocodile and an alligator.
Brie: As long as you have time, you can never die.
Orange Jeff: I think the human lifespan was a part of evolution because my theory of why the dinosaurs vanished is that when you don’t have anything that can kill you, you live forever. Imagine a planet where reproducing dinosaurs did not die. Eventually, the entire planet would be completely filled with gigantic dinosaurs and nothing to eat.
Brie: Some infinites are bigger than other infinities.
Orange Jeff: So the only things that survive are the things that somehow have the ability to not be seen and eaten by their own kind. The survivors, even if there are only 4 or 7 or 8, all have one thing in common: they reproduce. So in one cycle, all dinosaurs might die, and the dinosaurs that looked a little bit like alligators breed, and we go from billions of dinosaurs to 7 alligators, and nothing can kill them, so they grow.
Orange Jeff: People look at those butterflies that look like rocks, and I just say those were descendants of the only two butterflies to survive when a predator came into town and ate all the others. The two that looked a little bit like a tree survived and mated, and a new species was born. I’ll shut up about evolution now.
Brie: Explain what infinity times 2 means for modern science.
Orange Jeff: I think infinity is just a word somebody gave to something that keeps going. Most infinity is just a human concept. We like to play with those concepts, like saying things like infinity plus one.
Orange Jeff: The trick is, there are as many odd numbers as there are numbers altogether. There are as many sevens as there are numbers altogether. Infinity fails.
Brie: Then explain infinityX.
Orange Jeff: My universe is finite. It is the compilation of everything up until the moment of now.
Orange Jeff: Isn’t InfinityX a sports team or something like that? Is it a power drink?
Brie: That is truly confusing.
Orange Jeff: Math isn’t perfect. I like to say if math was perfect, we could split something into thirds, but we can’t, and they created the concept of infinity. It is confusing. There are many words that are technically wrong, like “exactly the same.” I don’t believe that’s possible either.
Brie: Fuck math.
Orange Jeff: Exactly.
Orange Jeff: I’m pretty impressed that the entire world agreed on a standard of time. There’s no Chinese time that’s separate from American time. Although we didn’t have time zones until somebody in Canada invented them.
Brie: Because I decided for it to be so.
Orange Jeff: I guess the Jews and the Chinese have different calendars because this is the Chinese New Year. But Monday is always Monday.
Orange Jeff: I forgot that you are the owner. Did you create it, or did you just pick up the lease cheap?
Orange Jeff: Oh cool. I just thought of something about my time theory. Other planets would be able to see the entire history of our planet before they arrived. Even if it took them four hundred thousand years to travel to Earth, the entire way they could be watching the reflection of our planet in real time and learning everything about us.
Orange Jeff: And likewise, when we finally figure out a way to create a pinhole camera that works on the light from other stars and planets, we would be seeing the entire history of those planets and stars.
Orange Jeff: Even our sun is either 8 or 18 minutes away, and the light that we see is stale and old. If the sun were to explode, we wouldn’t actually know it for either 8 or 18 minutes. My theory in action.
Orange Jeff: By the way, I’m using voice-to-text translation, which is why some of the words might be odd and hard to figure out.
Orange Jeff: I wonder if Voyager can see Earth?
Orange Jeff: Oh master, do I receive any prize for figuring out the secret to the universe being more than just 42?
Orange Jeff: I hope you don’t mind my ramble. One hit and my mind just goes.
