What if the more people that exist in the world at any one time (as individuals with agency acting in the world) makes the universal clock slow down (like a computer processor getting bogged down by too many calculations) and shortens our lives (because our lives continue to move at the same speed, making them run a cycle faster than the universal clock)?
My theory has some merit in science and in the Bible:
It doesn't matter how much our lives are governed by the same seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks, regardless of where we live on the globe, time will never be absolute. The rate at which it passes depends entirely on your speed and acceleration at any given moment.
f. Genesis 5:8 The chief cause of long life in the first age, was the multiplication of mankind, that according to God’s commandment at the beginning the world might be increased with people, which might universally praise him.
In trying to depopulate the world, they seek to, effectively, extend their life spans.
Perhaps even "stop" time as a whole?
Consider this "Logan's Run"-inspired movie called "In Time" and the plot.
In a future society people have been engineered not to age once reaching 25 but can only live for one more year as time is now the currency. Those who trade it can live for more than a 100 years. Society's classes are divided into what they call time zones. The richest live in the Greenwich section. One of the residents of Greenwich wanders into the poor section where someone sees how much time he has which is 100 years and wants to steal it. Will Salas, a decent guy saves him but he tells Will that he wanted to die because he's tired of a system wherein someone has to die for others to live. While Will is sleeping he gives Will his time and walks off to die. Will goes off to share it with his mother but she dies because of inflation. Will heads off to Greenwich. He then meets a girl named Sylvia whose father is the one behind the system. A law enforcement office known as a Timekeeper who's investigating the death of the man who gave Will his time, assumes that Will stole it. So he confiscates it and arrests Will. Will then takes Sylvia hostage and runs off with her. He goes back to his time zone and asks for a ransom but when her father doesn't give it. He lets her go but when she's in danger Will saves her and they decide to work together to take down the system.
Here's a theory I've been working on.
What if the more people that exist in the world at any one time (as individuals with agency acting in the world) makes the universal clock slow down (like a computer processor getting bogged down by too many calculations) and shortens our lives (because our lives continue to move at the same speed, making them run a cycle faster than the universal clock)?
My theory has some merit in science and in the Bible:
https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-the-famous-twin-paradox-of-special-relativity-explained
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%205&version=GNV
In trying to depopulate the world, they seek to, effectively, extend their life spans.
Perhaps even "stop" time as a whole?
Consider this "Logan's Run"-inspired movie called "In Time" and the plot.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/plotsummary