Hi Lal,
“By the way, I came up with this interpretation because I have been thinking about the connection between quantum entanglement and the laws of kamma for a while.”
This led me to think of our kamma becoming instrumental to another person’s vipaka. For example, a person is driving recklessly on the road and a child happens to dash out onto the road to pick up his soccer ball. Tragedy struck. Child died. The aftermath of this ‘accident’ would then give rise to another series of kamma and vipaka. This sort of thing, nature already has a plan. Some people say this is fate. But that sounds deterministic. I prefer to understand it by seeing the fruit of the kamma has ripen for the child. The reckless driver, the child playing near the road unattended, being at the wrong place and wrong time, are conditions to aid in the ripening of the child’s vipaka. With all these conditions in place, nature has planned out this path to undertake. Bar none. The driver did not know beforehand a child was on the road. He was just having fun from his mad rush of adrenalin and did not expect the fun could turn into a tragedy.
Incidentally, since the earlier discussion talks about light, it arouses my curiosity on how the speed of light defines the current observable universe. Light, albeit fast, is not fast enough to let us see what lies beyond this observable universe. Einstein theorised that time travel is possible if one could travel at speed faster than light. I can’t help but feel that something is not quite right in this theory, or rather not completely understood by Einstein. His work on the theory of relativity is great. But no matter how great, it is still worldly knowledge. There is transcendental knowledge that is not known to Einstein and anyone else other than the Buddha. Could Einstein’s work explain how the Buddha, His great disciples, and the Brahmas, astral-travelled from one place to another in less than the time taken for a strong man to flex his arm? This knowledge just does not lie in our domain of conventional wisdom. Light is simply too slow for Brahma to reach earth. On the other hand, there is this grandfather paradox that debunks the possibility of time travelling back to the past to change events that had already taken place. Also, not forgetting the super events data logger, Namagotta, that is indestructible and unchangeable. So, from the above observations, I infer that time travel is impossible.