Revisiting Paradise Part 1

REVISITING PARADISE

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON WELL KNOWN HINTS - PART I

A day is as a thousand years with God... The Standard Paradise Day Paradise-Havona standard day is based on the length of time required for the planetary abodes of the first or inner Havona circuit to complete one revolution around the Isle of Paradise; and though their velocity is enormous, owing to their situation between the dark gravity bodies and gigantic Paradise, it requires almost one thousand years for these spheres to complete their circuit. 37,000,000 worlds [based on the number of worlds in the first Havona Circuit] take 1,000 earth years to make a revolution around Paradise. In 1,000 of our years, 37,000,000 worlds will pass by one point on Peripheral Paradise as they revolve around the outer edge of the outer circuit of Paradise satellites (seen as the outer ring of 7 worlds in the image above). Let's look at this concept for a moment, mathematically...

37,000,000 worlds divided by (/) 1,000 earth years, means that 37,000 of those worlds have passed by any point on the extreme periphery (circumference) of Paradise, in one earth year. That's cruizin' right along! In one earth day - using the exact length of one earth year: 365.242199 days (being 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds) about 100 worlds (actually, it is 101.3) :) pass by that same point. Remembering that there are about 86,400 seconds in a day, 4.2 worlds pass in an hour, and 1 world passes by every 14.2 minutes (or every 852.9 seconds). That is about how many worlds would be passing by an observer on Paradise, of course that is with 21 Sacred Spheres moving in and out of the field of view. Looking in at Paradise from one of the worlds of the inner-most circuit would look something like this (though this is seen from about a 20 degree angle above Paradise), one still gets the idea of where those 21 Sacred Spheres might be at any one time...

Paradise System Side View

Many months ago I proposed some hypothetical measurements for Paradise at UBRON. For lack of even a clue, I used the light year (LY) as a unit, and then applied that to the Paradise Ratio. The Paradise Ratio: RP = x:y:z (1.67:1.0:0.1), but in this case I made the Isle 7:6:0.6 LY. I've chosen the 7:6:0.6 because it is closer to the numeric translation of the UB text. In form Paradise differs from the inhabited space bodies: it is not spherical. It is definitely ellipsoid, being one-sixth longer in the north-south diameter than in the east-west diameter. The central Isle is essentially flat, and the distance from the upper surface to the nether surface is one tenth that of the east-west diameter.

My original guess for a Paradise measurement... If 1 Paradise Unit = 1 LY x = 7.0 LY (North – South) y = 6.0 LY (East – West) z = 0.6 LY (Upper - Nether) So, using a deductive approach, going by the first whole numbers as Paradise Units, and assigning a one light year measurement to each Paradise Unit, I theorized the above. Of course, the guess was completely arbitrary since the earth's orbit around the sun doesn't seemingly have anything to do with the rate at which light propagates. But you have to start somewhere. And that's where I started... For a more graphic idea, axes x and y are laid down in a flat plane, superimposed through a greatly flattened, ellipsoid (The Paradise Isle - First Physical Source [FPS]), and should look something like this...

Well, to finally start getting to the new point... I believe that there may actually be a relation of light speed* to distances on Paradise after all. I will be getting to that relation in Part II. For now though let's examine the problems and possible pitfalls to this argument, along with some other cosmologically considered numbers. Life in the Paradise-measuring world would be much easier if we knew what the Paradise unit of measurement really was. And, it would be really really nice if the actual size of the Isle would be related to the speed of light. How much time does it take a ray of light to travel from one side of Paradise to another? The speed of light is = 186,282.397 miles/s. If we were actually fortunate enough to find a correlation between the Isle of Paradise and the speed of light (or any universal constant), then we will have the key to unlocking the (probable) sizes of Paradise, Sacred Spheres, and Billion Perfect Worlds. If we know that, then we can surmise the amount of local space that the Central Universe takes up. Then we can more closely figure how large our Superuniverse of Orvonton must be. Once that is accomplished, we are told that the giant Andromeda Galaxy is outside of the Superuniverse, so estimates for the size of the Grand Universe might begin to be tendered by comparing the sizes of these immense systems. That Andromeda is so relatively close (anywhere from 1 to 2.6 million LY's from us), we might as well begin to estimate a chart the Primary Outer Space Level (OS1), where we are also given the hint that there are no less than "375 million" galaxies. For the shape of OS1, think of a torus (a donut) filled with 375 million galaxies. At it's center is the Grand Universe with 7 somewhat distinct "aggregations of matter" around it's center, each being a Superuniverse. They would maintain an orbit around their center of gravity, which brings us back to the Central Universe, and at IT'S center, the Isle that holds the whole bloomin' thing together!

It is interesting here to note that Bill Sadler, Jr. in his A Study of the Master Universe estimated that every Outer Space Level was 100 times larger in volume than the last. So, naturally, estimating the size of the Primary Outer Space Level (OS1), we would have a volume of 375 million "cubic galaxies" - with all the intervening space around them. We could then estimate enough room in the OS levels to (theoretically) allow... Potential Number of Outer Space Galaxies

OS1 = 375,000,000 galaxies OS2 = 37,500,000,000 galaxies OS3 = 3,750,000,000,000 galaxies OS4 = 375,000,000,000,000 galaxies

This brings the possible number of all outer space galaxies to roughly: 378,787,875,000,000 or about 378 Trillion. That's a lot. And it is really hard for me to believe it sometimes. All of this assumes that these galaxies would be packed in tightly to the same 3D unit (a "cubic galaxy" - whatever that is - may be a cube with each side = 250,000 LY?), which might not-at-all be the case. But anyway... In actuality, each torus-shaped space level, even the whole master universe, would also be stretched into the ellipse showing the general shape of Paradise and the Central Universe orbits of the Havona Circuits, as they also follow "...the curve of the great ellipse" - the outline of Paradise. Here is the quote that really gets me thinking... One Paradise-Havona day is just seven minutes, three and oneeighth seconds less than one thousand years of the present Urantia leap-year calendar. 1,000 years - 7 minutes 3 seconds 125 milliseconds... 423.125 seconds total THAT SHOULD ASTOUND YOU.

Now if that doesn't look like some kind of code I don't know what does! And notice how incredibly accurate that earth-Paradise/Havona time is when comparing the two in earth seconds... * 1,000 earth years = 31,556,925,993.6 earth seconds * A Paradise/Havona (PH) day = 31,556,925,570.6 earth seconds * The difference between 1,000 earth years and a Paradise/Havona day = 423.125 seconds To find the percent of accuracy for this comparison, we simply take the PH day (in earth seconds) and divide it by 1,000 earth years (in earth seconds) and then multiply that number by 100 to make it a percent. So... 31,556,925,570.6 earth seconds / 31,556,925,993.6 earth seconds = 0.99999998659565256496187798569975 * 100 = 99.9999986595652564961877985699% The earth's orbit could literally be used as a clock for the central universe to within an accuracy of: 99.9999986595652564961877985699%

For all intents and purposes 1,000 years of earth time IS equal to 1 PH day. Now, there are many strange coincidences in our world. For instance, what are the chances that in our sky the apparent sizes of our sun (93,000,000 miles away) and our moon (a mere 238,857 miles away) are exactly the same? Not very good you say? But in fact they are so close in apparent size that they are able to create a total solar eclipse (where the moon apparently covers the sun completely), while solar prominences are still able to be seen leaping off that same sun.

The great coincidence of a solar eclipse is not presumably planned. Neither is the 1 day to 1,000 year coincidence planned, but it is so specifically given (down to the 1/8th of a second!), that surely the information we are given was planned by the Revelators, in order that we might investigate this clue and its meaning to the relationships between Paradise, the Central Universe the Superuniverses. Lets look at this another way now... Understanding the formula for the circumference of a circle is 2rπ , we can then say that the earth travels in a mostly circular orbit, as follows ... r = 93,000,000 miles; the distance from the earth to the sun π = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795... So, 2rπ = 584,336,233.6 miles The earth's orbit takes takes the planet on a 584,336,233.6 mile path through space each year. Therefore, in 1,000 years the earth travels 584,336,233,567.7 miles through space. If the inner circuit worlds of Havona were traveling at the same speed as the earth, then they would also go 584,336,233,568 miles in that same 1,000 years. And, if 584,336,233,567.7 miles is the circumference of the inner Havona Circuit, then it would be about 92,999,999,999.9 (or 93 billion miles) from one of those inner circuit worlds to the center of Paradise. That means that the distance from the inner Havona circuit to the center of Paradise would be almost exactly 1,000 times the radius from earth to sun, or 1,000 AU's (Astronomical Units). It is important to remember that that would only be the case if these worlds moved at “earth speed.” The earth travels along its orbital path at 67,062 miles per hour. Interestingly, if this was also the speed of a Havona Circuit I world it would take a photon traveling at c (if this were even possible), an average time of 138.3 hours to travel from the center of the Isle of Light to one of these inner Havona worlds, that's 5.8 light days, or about 0.016 LY (light years).

Before I go on to talk about how all this relates to the speed of light and the size of Paradise (in Part II), I have to ask you to ask yourself: does that size 0.016 LY seem tiny, especially when considering that you still need to squeeze three circuits of Sacred Spheres in, and then the whole Isle of Paradise itself? This relatively minuscule amount of space - perhaps comparable to a large solar system - is going to accommodate the activities and beings from all future creation? Just sounds small is all. On the other hand, we at UBRON have talked before about the Havona spheres really whipping along (at near c!). For now, I would consider the circumference of that inner Havona Circuit at “earth speed” to be the absolute minimum size of that Circuit. That's where I'll pick up in Part II.

Alex Wall

Graphics by Alex Wall. Article originally posted at UBRON.org on June 22, 2008