Explaining Time and my respect of Time by Kenneth Udut 2/2/16
Time can be confusing to people.* I think it's why even
theoretical physicists tend to just let it be generally or take
it out of the equations. There's several views of time that are
common, and likely others that are less common. Season/cycle
time seems to be how life seems to operate. Life is on Earth,
and the Earth/moon/sun work on cycles, and does all life on the
planet. We all seem to have clocks of some sort built in, from
the high to the lowest life forms. It makes sense: The major
continuous forces on us, those provided by the planet and her
systems, the moon and her systems, and the sun in her systems*
affect the live that grew within these systems and aspects of
the larger systems affects the smaller systems, of which we
participate. Linear time, however: straight line cause--> effect
has its own appeal and it's easier to work with when explaining
uniqueness, speaking of things that don't seem to follow time
cycles. Yet, for us to speak of linear time, we utilize the
systems of cyclical time that are a very part of us: the
"tick/tick" generated by the natural cycles is used to create
the linear arrow of time. This leads to the block view of time.
Einstein's relativity. "Everything is a movie with multiple
cameras, actors and cameramen" analogy has been working very
well for us for some time, at least in the general sense,
although once you slice the frames down, it's hard to get past
the single frame at the quantum level. There are other views of
time. These are just two. Then you have the human experience of
time. Grammar. How do we have all of these ways to describe
time? Look at the conditionals alone. So many could, what if,
might have, SHOULD have (which adds a moral aspect).... ...it
gets mind-boggling at the relativity of it all... the mixture of
fact, fiction, plausible to the impossible, yet all can be
described with precision in the world's languages to varying
degrees. The way music utilizes time is amazing. It's not just
time signatures and gaps between notes itself, but also the way
that themes in a song itself can echo themes within itself,
doing things we can't conceive of in day-to-day life time: such
as inverting a sequence of notes; variations on a theme, leading
to backwards time, sideways time, diagonal time.... the
flexibility is astounding. So, yeah. I love Time. A favorite
subject of mine. I never get tired of flipping it around in my
brain, making sense of it as best I can. * I used 'she' 'cause
it flows better. A bit old-school but it conveys the respect I
have for being a part of these amazing systems without even
having to be asked as it were.
