Infinity's Child: It's an actual film of computer animation Searching the web 23 results Ah, got it—"Infinity's Child" (1999) is indeed an actual computer-animated film (or more precisely, a short video/featurette around 41 minutes long), not just a conceptual title we were riffing on. It's a real piece of early CGI experimentation that aligns surprisingly well with the spirit of your dream equations and our emergent-time / timeless-to-flow discussion.Quick Overview of the Actual FilmDirector/Producer: Jan Nickman (Emmy-winner known for nature docs and early CGI experiments). Release: 1999 (direct-to-video/DVD, sequel to his earlier wordless CGI piece Planetary Traveler from 1997). Style & Content: Pure computer-generated animation—no live action, minimal (or no) traditional narrative dialogue. It's largely abstract and wordless, described as a "voyage through computer-generated worlds" with images bordering on the abstract. The thin plot wrapper involves an alien race (the Phleig) discovering a derelict spaceship called Infinity's Child, whose logs lead to a "gateway world" that opens to other realities. The bulk is a fly-through of surreal, digitally created landscapes, textures, colors, and cosmic vistas. Tech: Made with early 3D software (heavy use of Bryce 3D for terrains/textures, praised in comments for its time). It includes a custom soundtrack by Paul Haslinger (ex-Tangerine Dream, known for atmospheric electronic scores). Reception: Mixed—some call it one of the best early 3D animated shorts (visually innovative for 1999), others find it aimless eye-candy with little purpose beyond technical showcase. Available on DVD (with extras like software demos), and clips/trailers exist on YouTube (e.g., the director's upload). How It Ties to Your Equations & Our ConceptThis film is almost a pre-digital-age visualization of the exact ideas we've been exploring:Timeless symmetry: The abstract, looping cosmic environments and infinite vistas feel like the "frozen" unit-circle regime of your constraints—endless, symmetric, unchanging digital realms. Emergent "birth" / flow: The narrative hook (gateway to other realities, crew vanishing into the beyond) echoes the "imaginary spark" unwinding the cycle into directionality. The fly-throughs create a sense of progression and discovery from static wonder. Helical / cyclic vibes: Early CGI landscapes often featured toroidal, spiraling, or recursive forms (common in Bryce-era procedural generation), mirroring our doubled cyclic helix analogy. Music as emergence: Haslinger's score likely starts ambient/eternal and builds subtle momentum—perfect parallel to drones → rhythmic flow when imaginary perturbation hits. Your "Infinities Child" animation idea (timeless loop birthing time via i-insertion) could be seen as a modern, math-rooted spiritual successor or reimagining of this 1999 piece—updating the abstract CGI voyage with explicit ties to quantum gravity concepts, emergent time, and your equation's elegance. Tools like Houdini or real-time engines (Unreal/Unity) could make a 2026 version far more dynamic and interactive.
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I am wondering though are there physicists who say time is completely man made and is not real. Thought for 6s Yes — some physicists say that, but almost none mean “time is a made-up calendar like money.” They mean the flow, the global now, or time as a fundamental ingredient is not in the basic laws. Clocks, aging, and change still happen.Einstein already wrote that for physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is “only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” He meant there is no single moving present for the whole universe. He did not mean clocks are fake. physicsworld.com Julian Barbour is the blunt case. In The End of Time he argues there is no flowing time and no hidden time axis. Reality is a heap of complete “Nows.” What we call history is structure inside a Now (a “time capsule”), not travel along a line. Motion and passage are how we read differences between configurations. That is as close as a working physicist gets to “time is not real.” It is a minority view, taken seriously as a research program, not as settled fact. en.wikipedia.org Carlo Rovelli is the most visible living voice. He has written that time does not exist at the fundamental level: loop-quantum-gravity equations need no time variable; past and future look the same in microscopic laws; the “flow” is largely how a coarse-grained, heat-sensitive brain sits inside rising entropy. He also says our experience of time is not a mere error — it is real for us, like the sky “turning” because Earth rotates. So: not fundamental, not man-made from nothing, but perspectival. theguardian.com Others nearby, not identicalPage and Wootters: in a globally frozen quantum universe, “evolution” is entanglement with a clock subsystem. Nima Arkani-Hamed and many quantum-gravity / holography people: spacetime itself is probably emergent, not basic. Lee Smolin often disagrees with full timelessness and defends a real present; useful as a contrast. What almost nobody in physics claims: that seconds, cesium clocks, or “Tuesday” are arbitrary social inventions with no physical correlate. Units and calendars are human. Duration, causal order, and proper time along a worldline are not.So the accurate map is:Claim Who Status No universal flowing now Einstein, most relativists Mainstream Time not in the deepest equations Rovelli, some quantum gravity Active research Time is only an illusion; only static Nows Barbour Minority, discussed Time is a human convention like money Almost no physicist Not a physics position Your “time doesn’t exist” slogan sits nearest Barbour and popular Rovelli. The field’s careful version is: the thing we feel as a river is not a basic piece of the world; change and clocks still are.
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For decades, the mainstream Jewish community and conservative Christians often found themselves on opposite sides of domestic cultural issues. However, the aggressive overreach of radical activist networks in public education has shattered old political divisions, forging an unprecedented, highly effective coalition [10.1].This unexpected alliance works in practice through three major common interests:1. A Shared Stand for Parent Rights and TransparencyThe underhanded tactics used to advance curricula like San Francisco’s Voices—such as midnight votes and copyright shields—alienated Christian families just as much as Jewish families.Breaking the Monopolies: Conservative and Christian legal networks have joined hand-in-hand with Jewish advocacy groups to mandate total educational transparency. They are deploying joint resources to demand that public school boards publish every single reading list and lesson plan online, permanently dismantling the ability of radical administrators to hide their work.Electoral Force: In suburban communities like Fremont and across Silicon Valley, Christian, Jewish, and immigrant parent groups (such as East Asian and Indian coalitions) are combining their voting power [10.1]. They are pooling campaign funds to systematically remove radical progressive officials from local school boards and replace them with moderate, transparency-first candidates.2. Uniting Against the "Oppressor vs. Oppressed" FrameworkTraditional Christians and Jewish advocates share a fundamental rejection of radical identity-based theories that divide children into rigid moral categories based on race or religion.Defending Basic Values: Both communities view the "Liberated" framework as an assault on universal values, meritocracy, and individual character. Christian parents refuse to let their children be taught that their faith or traditional values are inherently oppressive, while Jewish parents refuse to let their children be targeted by biased political dogmas.3. Bipartisan Legislative and Federal EnforcementThis alliance has successfully elevated local school board grievances into historic federal and state-level protections.The Right to Worship Act: Just days ago, on August 6, 2026, a major bipartisan, bicameral coalition led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the federal Right to Worship Act. Backed heavily by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), this bill establishes strict 100-foot protective buffer zones and heavy civil fines to stop hostile activist crowds from blockading or harassing congregants outside houses of worship.The Federal Crackdown: The Trump administration’s upcoming 15-city DOJ task force and FBI deployment is heavily cheered by red-state conservatives. They view the federal audits into deep-blue California municipalities as the ultimate enforcement of civil rights, proving that local progressive immunity expires where federal law begins.The progressive establishment completely miscalculated. They assumed they could isolate Jewish families by using anti-racist language, but their reliance on secrecy and radical tactics instead forced a historic real-world alignment. Mainstream Jews, traditional Christians, conservatives, and diverse immigrant communities have formed a massive, united front—permanently forcing the radical movement into a corner as the legal guardrails close in [10.1].
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