Time

What is time? Well lets analyze it shall we.

A few questions we tend to ask concerning time:

-What time is it?
-How long is it going to take?
-How much time has passed?-When will something happen?

So time is something we use in order to make something abstract concrete. At least for us humans, but it’s not really time itself making time concrete.
Humans have a knack for quantifying things, be it size, mass, force or in our case, time.
Seconds, hours, months, years are all terms to describe a specific amount of time passage.
So we pretty much quantify time in order to make it concrete.

But in reality, time is an illusion. No time has passed between now and the moment you started reading this blog-entry. I mean of course you could say that approximiately 1 minute has passed since you started reading, but that’s not really true right?

(I mean technically it is, because the quantification of time is an agreed upon system, but this only works if you look at time linearly which our system does.)

 

Okay, to make what I am saying a bit more understandable I am going to propose a thought experiment:

Think back to when you started reading this article, it wasn’t a long time ago right, but you thinking back is just a memory of that moment.
Now think back to something in your childhood, that was probably longer ago right?

Well not really, both of these moments happened in the past, but for you remembering them is the same for both. It’s irrelevant wheter something happened 3 or 4 years ago, it just happened and now you are here at the end of the thought experiment and no time has passed since the start of it.

 

Another analogy:

Living is like sitting in a train and watching the landscape move by. (Imagine the train never stops and can only go in one direction)
A linear timeline says that every part you cannot see any longer ceases to exist.
While really everything you cannot see any longer persists, yet it is outside your grasp.

The passengers are us humans, confined to our 3 dimensions we can never go back to where we came from and we can only see one picture at a time.

4 dimensional beings can make the train go forwards and backwards.

The higher you go up the dimensional ladder the more control you have over the train or at least that is my understanding.

So instead of thanking you for taking the time to read this blog, I am gonna thank you for not taking the time to read this blog, because suddenly it’s over and no time has passed at all.

 

Cheers and keep thinking!

 

PS: don’t worry about time passing, there is nothing you can do about it (yet)