We think time is just a ticking clock, but physics tells a darker story. Are we trapped in a 4D cage? Discover the mind-bending reality of time and dimensions.
The shortest discription: Time is change calibrated. The earth makes a trip around the sun and we call that “year.” The earth rotates as it circles the sun and each rotation we call a day. We divide those into smaller units. Seasons. Months. Hours. Minutes. Seconds. If there is no change, there is no “time.” Change creates the concept of time. We take those changes and make understandable, conceptual words for that change. Light year. Earth year. Week: base 7. Month: base 12. Minute: base 60. All of these make it easier to handle change. They are all dealing with change. If “change” ceased, there would be no time. There would be no need for the concept of time. The idea of jumping back in time, or jumping ahead in time must first solve the problem of change backwards or change forwards in absolute unity with what was or will be. I know of no religion that claims otherwise. Only the Sci-Fi writers, and they do a most entertaining job of it.
Time is one of the most fascinating meeting points between physics, consciousness, and metaphysics. We measure time through change, yet the deeper question is whether time is a fundamental feature of reality or an emergent property of relationships between events. From a Cosmopsychist perspective, I would add another dimension: how does consciousness participate in the experience of temporal flow, and could the architecture of physical time differ from the way time is experienced from within? Perhaps understanding time requires us to examine not only the universe's clocks, but also the relationship between change, observation, and awareness.
The shortest discription: Time is change calibrated. The earth makes a trip around the sun and we call that “year.” The earth rotates as it circles the sun and each rotation we call a day. We divide those into smaller units. Seasons. Months. Hours. Minutes. Seconds. If there is no change, there is no “time.” Change creates the concept of time. We take those changes and make understandable, conceptual words for that change. Light year. Earth year. Week: base 7. Month: base 12. Minute: base 60. All of these make it easier to handle change. They are all dealing with change. If “change” ceased, there would be no time. There would be no need for the concept of time. The idea of jumping back in time, or jumping ahead in time must first solve the problem of change backwards or change forwards in absolute unity with what was or will be. I know of no religion that claims otherwise. Only the Sci-Fi writers, and they do a most entertaining job of it.
Time is one of the most fascinating meeting points between physics, consciousness, and metaphysics. We measure time through change, yet the deeper question is whether time is a fundamental feature of reality or an emergent property of relationships between events. From a Cosmopsychist perspective, I would add another dimension: how does consciousness participate in the experience of temporal flow, and could the architecture of physical time differ from the way time is experienced from within? Perhaps understanding time requires us to examine not only the universe's clocks, but also the relationship between change, observation, and awareness.
There can be no demarcation of time unless entities constantly change states from conscious to unconscious.