Imagine a universe with no time. Imagine there is no travel between here to there. In such a universe we would truly be pervasive, as time is the factor that gives us distance and limits us to locality.
Without time, without distance, would we be "everywhere simultaneously"? Perhaps there would be no concept of "where" - perhaps there just "is"?
Would there be movement? Would there be vibration? Vibrations are measured in cycles per second... or whatever unit of time one feels is appropriate. Vibration is the measured expression of energy over time. Without time - would there be energy? Does time contain or constrain energy in some way, meting it out so that energy does not annihilate itself in one spent paroxysm?
And if that paroxysm occurred, would there be a beginning or an end? After all, these concepts are merely artifacts of systems involving time. Even our language finds it difficult to express things outside of time. How would you describe an endless outpouring of energy? Perhaps, "All that ever is, was and will be..."
What is the concept of one, when One is all there is? Without time, would there be a "two", or a "three"?
Time is what gives order and sequence and constraint to the Universe as we perceive it. Perhaps it is just a human institution designed to allow us to live in a Universe that is in fact a singularity. It may be that it is we who rearrange the Universe into sequential streams, only for the sake of our limited perspicuity and frail sanity.
Time makes for a safe, ordered, structured Universe - a place more pleasant for the human mind to wander. Is time in fact a function of the Universe, or is it a necessary artifact of our consciousness, employed to keep us safe in our primitive brains while we float and drift in the vast unknowablness of an enigmatic Universe?
Time.. time... time for a cup of tea, thinks me.
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posted at 10:12 am :)
An irony there, somewhere! We might not be trapped in time, but it seems that blog posts are...
Loving this blog. Seems like we're reading from the same sheet.
As you've followed me on Twitter, how about putting this blog in the Twitter-blog lounge?
http://fred67.com/twitterblogs.html
Cheers, Pete Moring.
Interesting and thought provoking, love thuis post. I've read somewhere that maybe the speed of light might have been close to infinite at the time of the big bang, and that it slows over time. If thinking og light as fotons, that make sence. And if it's true, it gives the constant factor of time no meaning. Universe's age is measured as a factor of time, and if C is not a constant, we have to see the whole evolvement in a different light. I just can't believe Universe is expanding without anything on the outside into which to expand. Makes no sense at all. And everything else is circular, why would time be a straight line? If time does not exist ans C is not constant, what's left??? The wolrd as we know it is not the Truth. I'd love to live and see what future scientists think of us... ;)
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