Musings of A Dumb Ass
Humans have never been quick to embrace new ways of thinking.
Nicholas Copernicus believed the stars did not rotate around the earth as the church and most people believed. He died in relative peace in the late 1500's suffering only by being looked on as crazy by most. But a Pollock named Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for supporting Copernicus' theory that the earth was what was moving around the heavens. Of course it didn't help him by saying he thought Jesus was probably a magician and certainly not God or anything that resembled God.
Then along came Darwin with his theory of evolution and he's still ridiculed by many even though his theories have proven to be correct and a roadmap of what will be.
There's so many examples of narrowmindedness one could fill thousands of pages describing them. In the end we would still be narrowminded and unable to truly consider 'out there' thinking, even though at some point what was 'once out' there may be recognised as fact and change the way we live and think about things.
Having said all that, now I can get to what I really want to say, and it's about 'time'. Anyone who visits this page more than a couple of times know I am fascinated at time and its properties and its effect on our lives and the world we live in.
After a near collision at night with a deer standing on the centerline on the highway, it struck me odd why an animal with perfectly good eyesight would watch something approaching and only move at the last second. Why not move 10 seconds before it gets there?
It is likewise for most animals in the wild. Why is it that way? Could it be that time is different for them? That their time and distance judgement is altered by a different time value? Would this also explain the varying life expectancies for different creatures? The lowly housefly has a normal life expectancy of seventeen days, which at the end is as worn out as an eighty year old human. Would a different time value and speed also explain the suddenness of the fly's movement? Is that why we can't run as fast as a fox? Or a deer? But we can easily keep up with the big turtle that lives 150 years, and probably any other land based creature that lives 80 years. Does this open a possibility that many of the unexplained dimensions that we cannot identify but through math we know exists, are actually dimensions of time in paralell that all somehow interact with each other?
Anyone who might happen on this page and wonder about my sanity..... don't bother. I'm nuts..... there's other 'stuff' that bothers me too..........
Nicholas Copernicus believed the stars did not rotate around the earth as the church and most people believed. He died in relative peace in the late 1500's suffering only by being looked on as crazy by most. But a Pollock named Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for supporting Copernicus' theory that the earth was what was moving around the heavens. Of course it didn't help him by saying he thought Jesus was probably a magician and certainly not God or anything that resembled God.
Then along came Darwin with his theory of evolution and he's still ridiculed by many even though his theories have proven to be correct and a roadmap of what will be.
There's so many examples of narrowmindedness one could fill thousands of pages describing them. In the end we would still be narrowminded and unable to truly consider 'out there' thinking, even though at some point what was 'once out' there may be recognised as fact and change the way we live and think about things.
Having said all that, now I can get to what I really want to say, and it's about 'time'. Anyone who visits this page more than a couple of times know I am fascinated at time and its properties and its effect on our lives and the world we live in.
After a near collision at night with a deer standing on the centerline on the highway, it struck me odd why an animal with perfectly good eyesight would watch something approaching and only move at the last second. Why not move 10 seconds before it gets there?
It is likewise for most animals in the wild. Why is it that way? Could it be that time is different for them? That their time and distance judgement is altered by a different time value? Would this also explain the varying life expectancies for different creatures? The lowly housefly has a normal life expectancy of seventeen days, which at the end is as worn out as an eighty year old human. Would a different time value and speed also explain the suddenness of the fly's movement? Is that why we can't run as fast as a fox? Or a deer? But we can easily keep up with the big turtle that lives 150 years, and probably any other land based creature that lives 80 years. Does this open a possibility that many of the unexplained dimensions that we cannot identify but through math we know exists, are actually dimensions of time in paralell that all somehow interact with each other?
Anyone who might happen on this page and wonder about my sanity..... don't bother. I'm nuts..... there's other 'stuff' that bothers me too..........
posted by Bo at 4:28 PM
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