Stand completely still. Do not move and do not think. Empty yourself of all motion, physical, mental, psychic. Are you still? No. Are you solid? No. You are composed mostly of vacuum. Teeny weeny little electrons are whizzing around big brother protons in the atoms that comprise your body, moving at unbelievable speeds. Between the planetary-like distances that separate them from their nuclei is vacuum. Your entire human machine is building and destroying and changing chemically. Complex and unimaginable, even your brain is powering surges of electrical energy that, unbeknown to you, are nevertheless coursing through familiar paths and performing the functions of your life as they have since you were born. These things are senseless to you.

You are not still. Your body is moving at incredible speed along with the surface of the Earth as spins on its axis. The Earth itself is hurtling through space in its orbit around our sun. And the sun is orbiting the cluster of stars in which it resides that is moving in its particular wave through the Milky Way galaxy of which we are a part. Finally, the galaxy itself is flying out at a speed nearly equal to that of light from the center of the universe from which it was born when reality exploded and began to exist. These things are senseless to you.

You are not still. No one can be. At our current stage of evolution it is impossible for any one of us to holistically comprehend the motion of which he or she is a part. Not until we acquire this ability will we be able to traverse the unimaginable expanses of space and time in the reality continuum in which we exist. We will not accomplish this by means of rocket ships, warp drive, and other physical gimmickry. But attain it we will as we evolve a greater understanding of our place in the universe. This final state of awareness involves the integration of information into our experience. Information as an entity of reality separate from mass and space and time.

Ed Fredkin says that mass and space and time are phenomenon of the information matrix in which we exist. Hold your hand, palm forward, in front of you and look at it. Consider that the reality around you is composed of infinitesimally small units of information. Consider that there exists a unit that communicates a composite message that you perceive to be part of the back of your hand. Consider a separate informational unit immediately in front of your palm as one whose composite does not include the message that you consider to include a part of your hand. Move your hand forward toward the non-hand informational unit.

Have you moved your hand? Has anything, in fact, actually moved? Or have the informational units changed? Perhaps the informational unit that communicated, “I am part of a hand” that “had been” part of the back of your hand changed to communicate, “I am not part of a hand.” At the same time the unit that communicated “I am not part of a hand” that is (was?) in front of your palm changed to say, “ I am part of a hand.”

Nothing moves through space.

How long did it take? Time as we have learned to perceive it is a function of the movement of mass through space. A “year” is the “length” of time required by the Earth to circle its star (give or take some number of seconds.) But at any given moment, the universe is frozen. It does not remain frozen for “a very small amount of time.” It remains frozen forever. Like a book etched into concrete (although a more permanent medium might make a better analogy) it does not change. But the information we receive about might change. Does the Earth change one second later as it nears is solstice? Or does it change ten thousand centuries later as the Earth nears its solstice? Who knows? We only know that some information has different and expect that other information will change, too.

Time, if it exists, is irrelevant.

There is no space. There is no mass. There is no time.

This is, in a nutshell, the fractal theory of reality.