Man has divided the event of earth making rotational circles around the sun into sequences, and gone labeling them as the 12 months. We went further subdividing these into days, hours, minutes and seconds etc. Globally this is to what we have associated the word time with in everyday use.
But does the universe has an awareness of this time; is there a counter placed up somewhere “displaying” how much time has elapsed since the beginning or maybe showing a countdown to our extinction!?
Let’s try the following angle; how about the thought that our silly ball which is dumbly circling endlessly the sun (which we know is the results of gravitational and centripetal forces, etc) is nothing but series of pure motions only. Days and nights can be explained by the fact that earth is always spinning on its own axis, right? And our planet being slightly tilted makes the seasons as we know it. Finally going around the sun simply makes one complete turn and that’s it. Time’s absence, if ever, could well go unnoticed here…
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Did time always exist and we eventually discovered it, or was it solely an invention of the human mind? First, we cannot even perceive time through our senses, unlike heat or even the more subtle: gravity, where it goes without saying that we feel its pull.
Second, we read our times on watches and clocks which are run by batteries and springs and not time! This is not the case for example; between temperature and a thermometer or luminous intensity and a lux meter etc where there, there is quite a clear logical relationship between the elemental input, the scientific process going on inside and their output of these instruments which is where our much respected clocks and watches fail!
Some interesting observations around the concept of time…
Say the word NOW,
From the moment you think of the word “Now” and the moment it takes your neurons in your brains to process accordingly the information and send them to your mouth, this moment has elapsed. When you glance up at the moon, it is actually seen as 3 seconds as it was before, the time light takes to travel from the moon to us. And for the Sun, it takes 8 minutes to get to us… Expanding with this logic and exaggeratedly speaking, we could say everything we see in our environment is an image of the past and by this equation, we seem incapable to grasp the moment “now”.
Mario Puzo, the famous author of the Godfather wrote:
"Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time."
Puzo logically demonstrates how we have associated mystical powers to time, such as healing or in this case eroding, killing friendships, attachments or love between individuals.
The moment now, the present, gets bombarded by events, scenarios and motions, by sequences of changes in your life. They all form an integral part of a larger sum of events that are meant to come to you. So in this respect, is it really time to be held accountable here for the loss of the friendship, can it by itself and only by itself, corrode the friendship? Or is it rather changes that occurred in the person’s life? Pointless but still….
Also check out these sites that discuss on time:
