Ok, now for those reading, this may sound mad, but it does actually make sense if you keep reading. I wrote while following a thought process and I didn’t explain the reasons (because I knew them) as I worked towards my conclusion. So, if you are lost, work your way forward and if you still can’t understand use google on my explanation.
This thought often plagues me as perspective of time is often viewed differently and the same within some areas. It is not a pattern, or I cannot see the pattern of it. As I explained with the smaller scope ideas in my chaos theory article, that various chaotic strings are pulled and tugged to get a person where they need to be at a specific time. This also has big arguments within philosophy as to the existential and nihilist views that are certainly a factor. So, both parties come to the time conundrum as it either is a certainty or a uncertainty dependant of the view points.
But, sorry for the digression, time plays a significant role in everything. From when a person first draws breath, or even maybe from conception, due to the ability to make an impact into something is not necessarily from birth, but a knowledge of a person’s existence. This will continue until they no longer exist in memories. Sorry, the reason I say “memory” is because their work or personalities may have effects after death, so technically it is a continuation of their time e.g. The Nazi party are still remembered and people still do horrific things from memory or learnings of that history. They are all dead, yet still have influences. Memory is a significant factor in what I am saying, because time is prolonged by collective interest.
The term “Everything will break” is often used. This saying has time relation due to the object or person (sorry but we do break the older we get, as well), so we see in products we buy a guarantee or warranty for how long they think it will last. This does not mean it will break exactly when it expires, but it does mean they have doubts. It means the consumer takes responsibility after the set date. We see this as an indicator to buy something. They went with a whole ‘lifetime guarantee’ promotion at one point due to loss of profits. They learnt quickly that they then had set themselves up for failure because as the saying goes… ‘everything breaks’.
Sorry, I got distracted, now, time is going forward, at its pace and does not change or have any error… Nope. Ok, time keeps going and it gives us times to wake up, go to sleep, work, play, do everything. Now there are around 96 time zones in the world due to some zones that are north/south of each other in the mid-Pacific differ by 24 hours in time which have the same time of day but dates that are one day apart. The two extreme time zones on Earth (both in the mid-Pacific) differ by 26 hours.
Do you know what 1 minute difference means on a clock? Now, this is simple right? 60 seconds is the difference. Now we ask world calculation for 1 minute difference in any time zone… It equates to about 1.73 years. That is how often a minute difference is correct! If you have an hour time difference, how often is that correct within relative means?
Time has meaning in everything within existence. You can look at a theory which explains everything happening all at once. So, it’s a linear rather than progressive timeline (for those not keeping up, I am going sideways rather than up and down). History keeps repeating and humanity keeps progressing and regressing in an equal fashion. So, everything that has happened also will happen and vice versa.
If we look at the definitions of time, we have the physics/physical space definition, where space and time are the same thing (fourth dimensional continuum called spacetime) or it can be explained by time being change or the period over which change occurs… Makes sense, in a fourth-dimension speculation. But Einstein’s theories of relativity says that time is not absolute and is relative to individual observation. Which my previous thought, on the everything happening at once, is a concept of causality in the idea that events have causes which precede them and is also caused by them.
I know it sounds like I am talking about time travel, but I am not. I am talking about how time functions universally (not within a single factor but all). Like in quantum physics where the object and the clock are separate, but together. So, for the object, time does not exist, only when the object is entangled with a clock, the time unfreezes the object. So everything exists in the singular state and when entangled with an external timestream then has the ability to change and create increased change based on the forward momentum, creating unfathomable changes to the singularity.
So, what I am trying to say is I am kind of agreeing with the theory. I see events as a single point or similar to an object and the time entwining with that makes it follow the timestreams or changes occurring. So basically, without the clock, time stands still. It exists all at once within this theory. Past, present and future combined but separate.
I always find it funny that if given the opportunity of time travel, most people go to the past to stop something and hardly ever the future for curiosity… By the way, I do not think it is a good possibility that time travel will ever happen, the same as teleportation as both need to break your physical being down to atoms and reassemble you, which means essentially killing you and expecting the clone to have your life experiences, which can’t happen.
Anyway, so the reason time has always fascinated humanity is due to the fear of dying or getting old etc. Since humans stopped caring about basic survival functions and became able to have cognitive thought, they have tried to pause or stop entirely their timestream. We see cosmetic surgery, magical diets and cryonic freezing as examples of this. It is fascinating the lengths gone to in order to not allow the single timestream to continue. Most of it is due to fear. It is scary imagining yourself as being forgotten or no longer alive to experience things.
Maybe thinking of yourself as a constant object with time subjectively, based on relativity theory entangling with you and changing the timestream might help. My Chaos Theory article suggests that with each option of change, something new happens, which then based on the idea that the quantitative theory suggests that there may be millions of these timestreams and they all change/create new ones as they form.
So, essentially if we look at it that way… aren’t we all kind of immortal on a perspective of relativity?
Maxine the Magnificent 