Time
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
My thoughts about time.
This is not scietific truth of cause. It is a story of a mind experiment carried out while I lay sleepless in bed a couple of years ago. It may be too incomprehencible to read as it is thoughts to myself and this is the first attempt to transform it into text.
Its funny how set we are in the ways of our calender, how time as defined by mechanics, rule our thinking to a degree where we are supposed to feel a whole year older with the passing of twentyfour hours.(On the day of your birthday)
What is time anyway, the question that everybody has asked silent space at least once in their lifetime, well the answer will only come from within and is bound to be philosophical in nature.
Is time something tikking away by it self with the regularity of our best clocks? -Or better yet, the regularity of small collapsed stars spinning rapidly emitting radio beacons throughout space. We actualy found our most precise clocks to be slightly irregular in comparison.
Once when astronomers were observing and timing the regularity of one of these "Pulsars" as they are known, they found that it skipped one of its radio blinks.
These radio blinks are caused by narrow high intensity beams of radionoise being transmitted from, not the poles of the star, but from the equator. There are two beams emitted by a pulsar, they are emitted 180 degrees apart (in both planes: east/west, north/south).
Just like a light house.
Anyway, it would have been highly unlikely for the former star to suddenly withhold the emition of a blink as the beam swept across the earth and the radio telescope (It of cause only looks like a blink from our view point and is infact a continuous beam being swept around as the pulsar rotates on its axis, I forget how quickly they "can" rotate but I think it is something in the order of "revolutions per minute").
So the fault had to be in the timing equipment.
And thus was born a commercial series of wristclocks called "pulsar", very human response to otherwise intriguing scientific discovery, nothing is left unexploited for exhilaration and wonder is it?
Here is a thought I had one night, one of those nights when you can't sleep and your thoughts seem real clear.
The basis of my train of thought was that time as invented by humans was not a rule of the univers. Our time is pragmatic we created it for a purpose, but wouldn't it have been impossible to create time unless it had similarities to undefined universal time?
I agreed with myself that time was not kept by some god and given to us by him (what arrogance to think that we are important enough to recieve anything but the life we already have been endeared with)
Yet time, I firmly belived existed and it doesn't speed up or slow down, if it does, what ever is governed by time will speed up or slow down too and so would never notice. You'd have to be outside time to see.
So it is here and it is steady, so far so good.
But where is it, how does it look? -If something IS, it has to be represented somewhere. Time as we define it is entirely descriptive, it has no power to change, our human time is an ad hoc fenomenon and not the kind of time I sought. I was looking for "The big clock" not in the physical sense I thought, but it turned out to be physical anyway, in my head that is.
You see I came to the conclution that time was a measure of distance, it was a limit on existence, a limit that ensured that things could be in only one place at one time. So time is both a speed limit but more importantly also something that ensures a particle stays within its created size.
Suddenly time is very important: It is the rule that divides everything into entities as opposed to a singular undistinct mass where everything is everywhere at once.
Where ever something wants to go it has to go there within its own frame, its own size, an entity (like a particle) cannot strech out to cover more that its alotted share of space, it can be in only one place at a "time" and to go somewhere it has to cover each succesion of bits of space equivalent to its own size, it cannot jump, it has to have been "there" to come "here" and at all times "it" and only "it" fills up the void of itself.
So time does not "go" forward or in any direction for that matter, but it governs movement, scale and existence. Time is the law of being and rules to abide by when you "are".
It is the definition of your size relative to the size of everything around you and the relative distance to everything even though there seems to be nothing inbetween you and where you are headed.
They say time is the fourth dimention, I believe it is the rules governing the movement in the other three, no more no less.
Do you have a better definition of time as a concept?
If so I'd like to hear it, I hate to theorise and not be proven wrong, that is almost the most certatain indication of being wrong.
Dr. Wolf
This is not scietific truth of cause. It is a story of a mind experiment carried out while I lay sleepless in bed a couple of years ago. It may be too incomprehencible to read as it is thoughts to myself and this is the first attempt to transform it into text.
Its funny how set we are in the ways of our calender, how time as defined by mechanics, rule our thinking to a degree where we are supposed to feel a whole year older with the passing of twentyfour hours.(On the day of your birthday)
What is time anyway, the question that everybody has asked silent space at least once in their lifetime, well the answer will only come from within and is bound to be philosophical in nature.
Is time something tikking away by it self with the regularity of our best clocks? -Or better yet, the regularity of small collapsed stars spinning rapidly emitting radio beacons throughout space. We actualy found our most precise clocks to be slightly irregular in comparison.
Once when astronomers were observing and timing the regularity of one of these "Pulsars" as they are known, they found that it skipped one of its radio blinks.
These radio blinks are caused by narrow high intensity beams of radionoise being transmitted from, not the poles of the star, but from the equator. There are two beams emitted by a pulsar, they are emitted 180 degrees apart (in both planes: east/west, north/south).
Just like a light house.
Anyway, it would have been highly unlikely for the former star to suddenly withhold the emition of a blink as the beam swept across the earth and the radio telescope (It of cause only looks like a blink from our view point and is infact a continuous beam being swept around as the pulsar rotates on its axis, I forget how quickly they "can" rotate but I think it is something in the order of "revolutions per minute").
So the fault had to be in the timing equipment.
And thus was born a commercial series of wristclocks called "pulsar", very human response to otherwise intriguing scientific discovery, nothing is left unexploited for exhilaration and wonder is it?
Here is a thought I had one night, one of those nights when you can't sleep and your thoughts seem real clear.
The basis of my train of thought was that time as invented by humans was not a rule of the univers. Our time is pragmatic we created it for a purpose, but wouldn't it have been impossible to create time unless it had similarities to undefined universal time?
I agreed with myself that time was not kept by some god and given to us by him (what arrogance to think that we are important enough to recieve anything but the life we already have been endeared with)
Yet time, I firmly belived existed and it doesn't speed up or slow down, if it does, what ever is governed by time will speed up or slow down too and so would never notice. You'd have to be outside time to see.
So it is here and it is steady, so far so good.
But where is it, how does it look? -If something IS, it has to be represented somewhere. Time as we define it is entirely descriptive, it has no power to change, our human time is an ad hoc fenomenon and not the kind of time I sought. I was looking for "The big clock" not in the physical sense I thought, but it turned out to be physical anyway, in my head that is.
You see I came to the conclution that time was a measure of distance, it was a limit on existence, a limit that ensured that things could be in only one place at one time. So time is both a speed limit but more importantly also something that ensures a particle stays within its created size.
Suddenly time is very important: It is the rule that divides everything into entities as opposed to a singular undistinct mass where everything is everywhere at once.
Where ever something wants to go it has to go there within its own frame, its own size, an entity (like a particle) cannot strech out to cover more that its alotted share of space, it can be in only one place at a "time" and to go somewhere it has to cover each succesion of bits of space equivalent to its own size, it cannot jump, it has to have been "there" to come "here" and at all times "it" and only "it" fills up the void of itself.
So time does not "go" forward or in any direction for that matter, but it governs movement, scale and existence. Time is the law of being and rules to abide by when you "are".
It is the definition of your size relative to the size of everything around you and the relative distance to everything even though there seems to be nothing inbetween you and where you are headed.
They say time is the fourth dimention, I believe it is the rules governing the movement in the other three, no more no less.
Do you have a better definition of time as a concept?
If so I'd like to hear it, I hate to theorise and not be proven wrong, that is almost the most certatain indication of being wrong.
Dr. Wolf
