The blockchain is considered immutable. Because the data is distributed across otherwise unrelated servers an attack on any server or region does not delete or alter the data. Drunk posting therefore is not recommended, as no one can remove the ravings, ramblings, and randy photos which employers, mothers, and daughters can run across without heed forever more.
The universe is also, essentially for the same reason. Gravity takes no time to propagate across distance, because it is not a force like light, but a property of universe. The relationship of matter, energy and spacetime is partially described by gravity, and just as size or distance take no time to propagate, neither does gravity. It doesn't go anywhere, it just is an aspect of the relationship between these things, just as their size or the distance between them, just like space itself, thus no time is expended in the exertion of it's effects.
It takes no time for space to exist, and it takes no time for gravity to exist either. Indeed, space, time, and gravity are aspects of one thing. I couldn't craft a clever equation to express it, but I can see that it is so necessarily.
So, since gravity is an effect of the relationship between components of the universe, all components of the universe distribute the information regarding their state throughout the universe instantaneously, because gravity takes no time. The universe is decentralized; it's data distributed and immutable.
You are part of the universe. Every act you undertake is a part of the interactions gravity is defined by, even if the act is infinitesimal in impact. A butterfly flapping it's wings is chaotically connected to typhoons and sunspots and galaxies instantly, because the movement of it's wings changes, however slightly, the relationship of aspects of the universe which gravity reflects. So does every word, thought, and act you commit.
My life has been a constant state of shock at how people act. Lava flows downhill, just as you'd expect a viscous fluid to, but people can be surprising. They can pretend, dissemble, and lie in order to cause you harm, for whatever ineffable purpose, and seem to do so with dismaying regularity.
I have almost become resigned to seeing people act like they're going to do things a certain way, and then actually doing things in such a way as to take advantage of those that expect them to act as they say they will, like knowing that lava will flow uphill just to pounce on folks avoiding it's gravity driven path.
When I was faced with the reality that local, regional, and extranational governments coordinated with private parties in order to exert control over them and achieve, maintain, and extend their mutual power and aggrandizement, I was surprised. I was naive, and kind of silly. Ah youth!
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The reason I point this out is that wealth is like gravity. It's a feature of the reality you exist in, not something you acquire. It's specifically not money, for example. We see fortunes of fiat (or tokens) as wealth, but in reality wealth is the necessary features of the world around you on which you depend for your quality of life, like the air you breathe, the water you bathe in, and the friends and family you love.
Money can affect your wealth, like jet fuel can affect gravity, but money does not effect wealth just as jet fuel does not effect gravity. Folks that don't understand the difference tend to act accordingly, and this is the reason for the duplicity and harm done in the world. Don King sells people for cash, but people are far more valuable than money. They are real wealth while money is but a veil behind which wealth is concealed.
Cecil Rhodes is a good example of this. He found a way to extract massive amounts of money from the wealth in the world around him, and proceeded to destroy that wealth in ways beyond my ability to reckon. He seemed to fancy the English way of life, and set about to affect the wealth of the world to effect English hegemony, savaging the African continent and peoples in the process.
Then he died.
As James Corbett points out, we are still reeling from the consequences of his actions today, more than a century later.
This matters to Cecil Rhodes, despite the fact of his death.
The universe retains all information, including the life and loves of Cecil Rhodes, you, and I. This may be difficult to grasp, but bear with me a moment, and some of you will understand.
Consider weather forecasting. As data processing technology improves, our ability to predict weather improves with it. We collect data on the extant conditions of the atmosphere and the relevant impactors (such as the Sun, volcanoes, and seasons), compare it to our understanding of how weather has evolved historically, and reckon how it'll change. Over time, we gain better perspective on how weather has changed, install more data collection points, and improve our tools for reckoning.
Moore's Law predicts that computer processing power will double about every 18 months, and it's held true for nearly 50 years. If we extrapolate from our present ability to calculate how the atmosphere is acting into the future using Moore's Law, we can see that our ability to grasp the state of the atmosphere will continue to exponentially improve until we can know where every single molecule in the Earth's atmosphere is, what it's doing, and what affects it.
Today we may have a data point for each cubic kilometer of air. A few years ago we had a data point for each hundred cubic kilometers of air. In a few years we may have a data point for each cubic meter of air, and eventually we'll progress to each actual molecule. It's just a matter of time and engineering. Political will doesn't even enter into it, because that only affects the rate at which we progress - time - not whether we will progress.
There are various physics incantations that say we can't know this or that, or that random stuff happens, but I don't believe in magic, and reckon hubris blinds physicists to their incompetence. We see that this happens in the sciences, along with far too much corruption, as theories cherished by those gatekeeping eventually are overwhelmed with data, or are abandoned when those whose grants depend on the theories being protected die off. American archeology is a good example of this, but it's as true in physics as in any science.
Physicists are just people too, and as poorly understand reality as any carpenter might, which causes them to err for what they consider profit, just like soldiers, miners, and captains of industry like Cecil Rhodes do.
The point is that there are qualitative changes in what we can do with data when we have enough of it, the processing power to use that data effectively, and the understanding of how to do so. The universe has the data, we're gaining it at ever increasing speed, and our understanding (despite our hubris and denial that causes error) is growing as well. Extrapolate forward and how each molecule in the atmosphere acts will be something we can control.
Presently such capacity is overwhelmingly difficult to grasp, because we don't have those things yet. Just like Dick Tracy wristwatch TVs were once utterly fantastic, such technology has become so facile that such devices are play toys for babies to keep them distracted, and so will be the weather.
Human beings are not more magical or complex than the universe of which we are components. When we can manufacture each individual raindrop and direct it to it's targeted leaf on the savannah, manufacturing people will be just as easy.
There is room enough in the universe for an unimaginable horde of people. There's no end to the universe, so no end to how many people can occupy it profitably. There will never be enough people to crowd the universe, when the technology I foresee comes to fruition. In fact, no matter how many trillions of folks are around, I predict a shortage of good company in parts.
So, I am pretty sure that early on in the expansion of people throughout the universe, it will be easier to resurrect them as have already died than to make new ones from scratch, and the resurrection will be undertaken. Note that I am not predicting this out of religious belief, or prophesying based on some kind of faith, but simply extrapolating from extant conditions to what is likely to come about based on the technology that exists and will probably be unavoidable in time.
We see all sorts of BMI (Brain Machine Interfaces) and improvements in how we grasp and process data being developed now. I have no doubt that the kinds of hubris and error that presently, and have throughout history, characterize human nature and engender the evils we do one another, will be reduced, perhaps altogether eliminated, in time. It's really impossible to know what limitations will exist in yet to be developed technology, but it's not impossible that some limits on understanding and knowledge may be insurmountable.
So, Cecil Rhodes, who raped and pillaged across Africa in order that English hegemony would assume primacy, will be resurrected to see the consequences of his hubris and misunderstanding of wealth. He will be thereafter immortal, to forever contemplate and regret his errors, while being able to act to repair what he has destroyed.
Forever is a long time, my friends.
If you're chasing the dollar, consider that real wealth, not money, is worth having and creating forever, and you might be surprised by the changes you find worthwhile to undertake. For all you have authority to do, you have responsibility for, and that guilt or acclaim will be just as immortal.
Be good.
