Time?
The world is mostly made up of those who just get up and do whatever it takes to make it through that day, never thinking about much of anything. Those may be the lucky ones. It's not that I'm judgemental of those who aren't curious about much of anything, though it's hard for me to understand them.
If you could somehow break the numbers down to those who actually run this world we live in I think we'd all be surprised at the incredibly small group. Likewise, those who truly think about 'things' are definitely in a minority. I don't know if I belong to any minority of thinkers or not, but I've always had an unsatiable desire to know something if not everything about things in my world. Probably the most maddening thing for me after God, and whether such a thing exists or not, is time.
Time governs everything about us each second of our stay on this earth until the very end. We just go from day to day and year to year, satisfied to simply accept time and what it does to us without question or thought about it. I on the other hand, have always been aware of the holes in the absolutes we attach to the concept of time.
All of us know about how time 'stops' when something traumatic happens to us. When I was a child I had an accident so violent and devastating that I can recall how time seemingly did change its momentum to a slow crawl as the accident continued to have its way with me. What if it did really change it's normal path. Is that possible? Maybe. Are you somehow nuts or just 'way out there' if you entertain such thoughts as a true possibilty? Maybe.
The Einstein's and Hawking's and others were and are of the mindset that time is variable, and I believe it is also.
There are many clues as to the variable qualities of time all around us. If time were absolute for mankind and all things, then the rose, the cockroach, the California Redwoods and the turtles would all have the same natural span of time as we, but that isn't so. Or is it?
Can time be manuevered?
The simple housefly says it can. The housefly's normal lifespan is 17 days, at the end of which, the fly is worn out and old, just as an eighty year old human is at that age. Has the fly actually lived eighty years in 17 days? I tend to think so, it's just that in our human arrogance, we believe we are first and supreme and therefore can't imagine anything that suggests our thinking should be compromised to the concept that all things are possible with or without God.
More about this simple fly.
When the ambient temperature around the fly cools to a certain place the fly goes into a state of diapause and time stops for it... completely! It is common for the fly to remain in a diapausal state for six months, or 180 days, give or take a few. At the point the ambient temperature rises to a place acceptable for revival, the fly 'wakes' up and continues on it's merry way for the remainder of its 17 day life span. It's fascinating that the fly in diapause for six months slept through more than ten lifetimes, or the equivalent of more than 800 years, then picked up where it left off and continued on till time dictated it would die from old age.
Does this mean time truly is variable and manageble?
From my treebranch it does.............
If you could somehow break the numbers down to those who actually run this world we live in I think we'd all be surprised at the incredibly small group. Likewise, those who truly think about 'things' are definitely in a minority. I don't know if I belong to any minority of thinkers or not, but I've always had an unsatiable desire to know something if not everything about things in my world. Probably the most maddening thing for me after God, and whether such a thing exists or not, is time.
Time governs everything about us each second of our stay on this earth until the very end. We just go from day to day and year to year, satisfied to simply accept time and what it does to us without question or thought about it. I on the other hand, have always been aware of the holes in the absolutes we attach to the concept of time.
All of us know about how time 'stops' when something traumatic happens to us. When I was a child I had an accident so violent and devastating that I can recall how time seemingly did change its momentum to a slow crawl as the accident continued to have its way with me. What if it did really change it's normal path. Is that possible? Maybe. Are you somehow nuts or just 'way out there' if you entertain such thoughts as a true possibilty? Maybe.
The Einstein's and Hawking's and others were and are of the mindset that time is variable, and I believe it is also.
There are many clues as to the variable qualities of time all around us. If time were absolute for mankind and all things, then the rose, the cockroach, the California Redwoods and the turtles would all have the same natural span of time as we, but that isn't so. Or is it?
Can time be manuevered?
The simple housefly says it can. The housefly's normal lifespan is 17 days, at the end of which, the fly is worn out and old, just as an eighty year old human is at that age. Has the fly actually lived eighty years in 17 days? I tend to think so, it's just that in our human arrogance, we believe we are first and supreme and therefore can't imagine anything that suggests our thinking should be compromised to the concept that all things are possible with or without God.
More about this simple fly.
When the ambient temperature around the fly cools to a certain place the fly goes into a state of diapause and time stops for it... completely! It is common for the fly to remain in a diapausal state for six months, or 180 days, give or take a few. At the point the ambient temperature rises to a place acceptable for revival, the fly 'wakes' up and continues on it's merry way for the remainder of its 17 day life span. It's fascinating that the fly in diapause for six months slept through more than ten lifetimes, or the equivalent of more than 800 years, then picked up where it left off and continued on till time dictated it would die from old age.
Does this mean time truly is variable and manageble?
From my treebranch it does.............
posted by Bo at 8:10 AM
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