You may or may not have heard about Calvinism. If you have never heard of it, let me explain it to you. This religion has a doctrine that claims that God has selected certain people to go to Heaven and others to receive eternal damnation.
My World Studies I teacher, Mr. Sawyer, back in my freshman year of high school explained that being a Calvinist who was predestined to salvation did not mean that such a person would let the good times roll and never worry about spending an eternity in Hell. According to what he told me and my classmates, Calvinism was not plain and simple in that respect.
Mr. Sawyer explained that, under that same belief system, if someone was predestined for Heaven, then such a prophecy would manifest in their actions as a human being in that they would behave as a religious person should do so. On the other hand, he also explained that, under that same belief system, if someone was predestined for Hell, then they would behave in an evil way during their lifetime on Earth.
Well, I have stumbled across a scientific theory regarding time that is called the "block universe." Below is a video that explains it thoroughly.
The Block Universe Has Every Past, Present, And Future Moment Of Our Lives Written In Stone
According to the video above, none of us have free will. Everything in our past, present, and future has been predetermined. All of the mathematical equations that scientists and the likes have produced lead back to the block universe, and there has never been any mathematical equation that could discredit them.
If everything that the gentleman says in the video above is true, I don't see how anyone who believes in the block universe could be an atheist, because it is clearly identical to what Calvinists believe. That is, the Calvinists believe that everything in our lives has been predetermined and that God has made that decision for us.
I'm an agnostic, so I guess I cannot rule out the reality of the block universe. Being an agnostic doesn't mean that I completely disbelieve in the existence of God but rather that I don't know for sure whether or not he exists. Of course, it doesn't mean that I will be becoming a Christian fundamentalist any time soon. The therapist in the video below obviously does not follow the philosophy of the block universe, because she appears to contend that people do have free will.
YouTuber Gentle Path Forward Connects Prolonged Loneliness With Cardiovascular Disease
It's interesting that YouTuber Gentle Path Forward should correlate prolonged loneliness in men to cardiovascular mortality, because I came across another study that claimed that men that got married and started a family at a young age were more likely to die in their forties or fifties from a heart attack than late bloomers were. You can never tell who to trust with health-related information these days. Of course, that's another article for another time.
My question is that if the block universe is real, what would be the point of following YouTuber Gentle Path Forward's advice that she gives in the above video? If every moment of your life has been predestined so that you never find the love of your life, then it is futile for you even to make the effort to find that significant other inasmuch as you have no free will in that event.
By the same token, if the block universe is not only a theory but real, then why set forth the effort to find romance and love, because destiny will bring it your way if it is written in stone that fate will do so anyway?
There are many scientists in this day and age that believe in the block universe. However, they do not share the same perspectives with one another about it.
Some scientists strongly doubt that anyone could ever travel to the past or the future to see different parts of their lives. Others say that you could do so, but you wouldn't be able to interact with the events taking place inside of the time blocks of the block universe. Therefore, it would be kind of like Ebenezer Scrooge taking a trip with the Ghost of Christmas Past back to his youth in the Charles Dickens novel titled A Christmas Carol.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson appears to recognize the existence of the block universe, but he also seems to contend that time travel is something possible. At the same time, he appears to believe that time travel is dangerous because of prospective paradoxes that could ensue from it. Like me, Mr. DeGrasse Tyson is an agnostic.
Quantum mechanics and quantum physics are a mystery, but, at the same time, they are intriguing. Perhaps a better understanding of them could unlock all the secrets of the universe for us.
It would be interesting to be able to travel into our past to see ourselves as how we were when we were younger or to travel into the future to see what our lives are going to be like. Unfortunately, we have not developed the technology to make such a feat possible for any of us.
We are left with dealing with the here and the now for now until science and technology can figure out a way to transcend time and space. At the same time, we should continue to explore any such possibilities, but to do so in a safe way.
Join me in my mission. I'm your Spaceship Captain reporting to you.😃
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