more thoughts on Time -5/2/04
by Michael Girardot
Here is a little bit on time.
Time:
Does it really exist? It there time? It is hard to say, because unlike physical objects, we cannot see, smell, touch, or hear time. We cannot physically percieve any one thing in nature that we can label time.
We can say the earth rotates around the Sun once a day, that is time. But I say that is not time, that is motion.
We can say that the moon revolves around the earth about once every month. We can say that the Earth revolves around the sun once a year. We can say that and atom decays to half of its mass every 70 years.
These are all ways we measure time. But each of these methods of measurement does not measure time, it measures motion. We then take this motion, put numbers (years, days, hours, seconds) to it, and call it time.
This thing we call time is the structure of our society. Without the concept of time, and the standardized and syncronized movement of the numbers we use for days, hours, and seconds, our whole society would collapse.
However, time does not exist, with the definition that we define most everything else as existing. We percieve time in motion. We percieve time in the movement of our thoughts and actions. When we are doing or thinking about many things, we percieve time as going faster. Time seems to pass by at a greater rate, and we seem to get more done. When we move less, think less, do less, we percieve time going slower.
Now lets go out on a limb here. Think, if time goes slower, then we experience more of it, we get more time. The faster time goes, the less time we percieve, and the we experience less time. Therefore, it can be deduced that a person who does little, thinks little, and moves little, experiences more time than one who does much, thinks much, and moves much.
Hence, the person who does little (who has more time) in fact lives longer than the person who does much (who has less time) lives a shorter life. What then is the value of a long life? Is the long life of one who does little, more valuable than the short life of one who does much?
I leave you to answer this question.