In an interview on Dreamland, Whitley’s long running podcast, w/Michael Masters from 3/13/20, referring to a time when he could ask The Visitors questions “Like they were on the other side of a TV screen.”:
W: This is what I learned. I was always very interested in Time…and I asked about Time and this was the answer. The answer was predicated on…it was about the way we perceive Time, not necessarily what the Universe is in an absolute sense…This was the answer:
“The Future you see as water. The present is a compressor. The past is like ice.” I said immediately, “Well then, we can’t ever go back in time and change the past.” And the response was, “There are bubbles in the ice.”
In that interview, Masters described Block Time:
“...Or what’s known as Landscape Time…I recently came across an article by an MIT physicist named Max Tegmark, and he put it very succinctly: We can portray our reality as a 3 dimensional reality as a place where stuff happens over time, as often times perceive it now, or as a 4 dimensional place where nothing happens., such as in the block universe. And so we have this sense that everything is moving around us, and moving through Time, but in the context of Block Time, where every moment from the very beginning of the Big Bang to the last moments where matter exists in our universe, all of those moments are already structured, they’re already laid out. And we impose this sense of movement through those things by experiencing these events with our conscious minds. We impose this movement where, really, if we understand it as 4 Dimensional block time, it’s one giant entity that encompasses all of these moments, all of these events. And it’s nearly impossible for us to picture that. We can picture 3 dimensions and then movement, but to picture 4 dimensional block time where all these things exist is much harder for us, but that is the way the physicists understand it, the most conventional view of time among them….If we go from the future to the past…we’re not disrupting anything, we’re not changing anything. We’re just interacting with the past. In fact, those interactions already exist, they’re already there before we leave to do it. And there’s s;ef consistency between those periods of time, so any change (in air quotes), any “change” that we enact…any Effect is probably a better word, any effect of us visiting the past has already manifested itself before we even left. So there’s inherent self-consistency between these different periods of Block Time.”
Max Tegmark is the author of “Our Mathematical Universe.