We are unaccustomed to thinking of time as having a speed that varies, and variance in the speed of time as having an effect on health. Yet we know from Einstein’s 1907 Theory of General Relativity that clocks will run more quickly at higher altitudes.
The theory proposed here is simple: as the universe expands (“climbs a mountain”), time is indeed speeding up—but as time accelerates, light is slowing down. The speeds of light and time move in tandem.
Perhaps we exist vis-à-vis a fabric—time. Time has a baseline (consensus) speed—”sea level.”
When time is artificially slow (as at the bottom of the ocean), energy production has to be artificially high. Slowing time down via dopamine can cause me to hyper-methylate.
When time is artificially fast (as on top of a mountain), energy production has to be artificially slow. Speeding time up via serotonin can cause me to hypo-methylate.
In other words, we have to harmonize with time. If time is slow and we are slow, we freeze. If time is fast and we are fast, we burn up.
But having to keep energy production artificially low or artificially high is inefficient. We want to be “at sea level,” so to speak, where the background and foreground are in sync. Where the speeds of light and time match.
Even if I give my brain clean information about the relative speeds of light and time, time is changing. Does our accelerating, expanding universe have a “finish line”—a tipping point? I believe it does, and that tipping point is the speed of light.
“[O]ur observable universe is at the threshold of expanding faster than the speed of light.” ―physicist Lawrence M. Krauss
In this video, emergency room physician Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell—who was also profiled by The New York Times—describes the ways in which what he sees in COVID patients resembles decompression pulmonary sickness. I believe Dr. Kyle-Sidell is onto something, and that his observations and insights deserve a second look.
