Sunday, September 18, 2011

Musings: On Time

Take 3:39 minutes out of your life and watch this.

"The concept of time creates what we call the self. What is the 'I' without time?"

If prominent scientists say that time is merely an illusion, than what are we?

"The world is more than it appears to be." — Socrates

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Time in. Time out. Time and again. Everything in its time. It is time. No time. All the time. Time was. Time is the ocean I go paddling in. Time for stop.

Anonymous said...

We are made up of atoms that are 99 percent space.

A rock looks solid but its 99 percent space.

What makes people "hard"? What keeps us from falling apart?

What dwells in the space of the mind?

Dr. Shibai

Anonymous said...

I thinks it's 99.999% and Energy.....is it Mushrooms day ?

Anonymous said...

What makes people "hard"? What keeps us from falling apart?

We're pretty much just space and energy, over time. What we think of as "hard" is just energy slowed way down by one of the other fields.

The whole discussion to the God particle is entwined. Maybe we're in the black hole and its so dense we can't escape.

Anonymous said...

"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." --J.B.S. Haldane

Anonymous said...

Or to really oversimplify.... The energy and space (what we are made of) is like our spirit or soul. Broken down we're almost just vibrations or even, some say, music.
But anyway, we are also "solid" and living in a physical realm. This slowing down of free energy (matter) by forces like gravity make this energy compact to where it seems "hard". It is the density of those other forces that allow us to live in a physical realm. However, this "benefit" necessarily limits us in other ways and those same densities slow our energy down to where where we can only perceive along a "time line". It is possible that "time" only limits those who are in an extremely dense black hole. Too dense for life to escape, as one noted physicist said. Die, and go beyond time again.

Anonymous said...

' EACH DAY AND FOREVER, BY THE TICKING OF THE MANTLE CLOCK AND BY THE DARK WHEELING OF THE COSMOS, WE HAVE GIVEN TIME A HOME"

Sena Jeter Naslund