Ascertainment on Eternal Moments
We experience this sequence of existence in a multitude of ways. Through calculation, observation, and memory for starters. By way of our visual spectrum, sensory stimulation, and cognitive reflection. It is found in the growth/decay of life, and molecular structures. In the movement of objects both quantum and celestial. Even in the vacuum of space. It surrounds us by way of action and reaction. In the subtle differences of gravity and the distance from its magnetic attraction.
We choose to embrace this invisible thing as a way to live and survive. Basing our entire social civilization on it’s observable effects. We wear it on our bodies, follow its rhythm with our routines, yearn for it to stay, and scorn it for the presence we wish would just go away.
Is it merely a force? Like gravity? Is it a byproduct of motion created by the universe itself? Like our minds, does it only exist because we experience it?
Well, on paper it seems that what we call time, does not exist. Since we can’t actually study it without studying anything that is not time. Does that make any sense? Time is like the invisible threads in a shadow puppet play. We can’t see the strings manipulating the shadows being projected on the white screen. Yet to those that understand what they are seeing and not seeing. Those threads make the entire play possible. Without them, there would only be a blank illuminated space.
From our perception of sight, sound, touch, and so on. Time seems very real. Even when we are completely still inside of a bare room. Our chests rise and fall with each breath; over and over. It’s linear for us. As mentioned in an earlier post, we experience this reality from point A to point B. Knowing that everything we choose to remember has a beginning and an ending. Which raises another question. Does time, the way we experience it, actually validate the idea of infinity? Or is infinite space/time just a rudimentary concept? Is our technology and understanding of reality based on a flawed system of measurement that we had made up. You know, Math.
We accept the whole system, because it proves what we can see and touch. One and one make two. By the way, we as humans sure love to give names to absolutely everything, don’t we. And not just one name either. I do love the names we have given to represent time. Supereon, Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age, Millennium, Century, Decade, Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second, etc… Not to mention the fact we have a slew of shorthand names like Jiffy, Prompt, and Spell. The list of names and words that denote “time” is very long. Each having specific meaning and rules of use in our varied languages of communication.
Why does traveling in an airplane around our planet at different speeds “prove to us” that the time experienced in each flight is different? Meaning, literal time on a watch slows down the faster we travel. Granted it is only subtle and noticeable when we use equipment to measure each event. But it is there.
Here is another observation on time. Adrenaline seems to make time pass by much more slowly than at our normal state. Much like the frame rate in a film. The more frames we jam into one second, the slower things get. The less frames there are, the faster things go. I know it is just a comparison. But what if there is something related inside that analogy that holds true in our understanding of ‘why’ time works the way it does. Could a brain that is part machine, experience time on such a similar scale? And could it essentially push past that experience to witness something that our normal brains are incapable of perceiving?
I don’t know about you, but I would greatly appreciate the experience of, having to go poop; NOT take as long as it does. All the gross and funny sounds that come out of me aside. I just don’t have the time. I would rather be making fake fart noises to make kids laugh. Then to be terrified on the toilet. Wondering if that last sound was normal. Or if there is something seriously wrong with my butt.
