[Mental Mutterings] Musings on the nature of Time
Time.
The great constant, or so we perceive. Time is a prevelant defining factor of our lives. We are born, we live for a variable period of it, and we die. Between birth and death we do some other stuff, most of life attempts to extend time and cheat death in the attempt of immortality through the transmission of genetic material on to the next generation.
Time.
It is a filter that separates our souls from each other. Time and space, linked, we cannot exist in two places at two times at once. Death is a removal of this filter, we enter timelessness. Do we become one with each other and that of all there is? We are already a part of that, we are made of the stuff of stars and the universe.
Time.
Pre-destination or free-will? We experience life with a 0.5ms lag. What we sense occurs 0.5ms before our brain processes it. Our brain compensates this time lag. But still our being lives in a future from what our consciousness tells us.
Time.
We are analog entities, yet we feel the need to split time into discrete quanta. Jagged peaks that are the ticks of the clock. Solid barriers that delineate one second from the next. But this is an illusion, it only exists if we look at a clock. Without clocks life passes in a simuflow of existence. We are not mindful of age, as without clocks age is meaningless.
Time.
The great equalizer, creator, destroyer. Over time all is turned to dust and all is created.
Time.
Is relative. As we move, it changes. As you near the speed of light, time slows within your frame of reference. At the speed of light, time stops. Light exists both in time, as it can move through space over time, and beyond time, as at the speed of light time stops, faster than it and causality is reveresed.
Time.
It is an illusion, lunch time doubly so.
1 comment:
Love it! Beautiful!
Time is relative, as is space. It is all dependant on the person and their state, mind, concerns. A 20 min drive can be the longest in the world depending on what is at the other end.
But because other people are part of who we are, other are close to us and intertwine with our very being, time and space are not totally your own, not personal to that extreme degree. We need to be mindful of what others perception and experience of times and spaces are. But this should be limited to those whom we interact with and care about, those people that are intertwined with our own being. What we have done is create this abstract TIME and SPACE that are not our own but are alien to our own experience of the world and of others. This universalization of time and space (by clocks, calendars, units of measurement, all of which go unchallenged) alienates time and space from the individual (and community). Time and space become abstract Gods who rule over us and get in the way of us being who we are, experiencing the world and (meaningfully) being with those who are dear to us. As with so many things of the modern and enlightenment era (during which they became so precise and universal) they have gone beyond being useful and helpful and are now oppressive and stifling.
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