TIME...

TIME…




I have recently obtained Steven Hawking's book, "A Brief History of Time". I am a tremendous admirer of Prof. Hawking.

About 30 years ago, I started thinking about time and the problems of time travel, witness of events in past and future time, etc. while the SPUR Group was still together (1960 - 1992).

We actually did resolve the issues, but it required a vast leap of faith as well as totally reframing our reality matrix to accept all the changes required to implement the steps needed to accomplish such a feat.



This describes the initial steps of restating the problem and understanding the parameters of this condition called 'Time'....





TIME… Feb 13, 2008





Isn’t it interesting how much we are preoccupied with time? We live our lives to its beat, our languages are filled with terms indicating some reaction, relation, or expression of it, and we always seem to be trying to make new ways to harness it, measure it, or get more out of it. Like it were a thing, one we could really control or affect in any way, instead of an abstract, perpetual, ongoing, all-encompassing phenomena with all the cogent awareness of a rock, utterly unaware of and unconcerned with anything in the Universe around it. At all.



Philosophers call it “the breath of God”. That colours the Mind: if God hiccoughed, would Galaxies disappear? If He sneezed, would the Universe be destroyed as matter itself was disintegrated in paroxysms of nuclear oscillations?



Time is a force, a condition within which the universe operates. Time has an effect on all matter, for all creation changes over time, but there is no apparent reciprocal action, for nothing found in the natural Universe seems to affect time, except the conditions of radical and illogical environment offered by the Singularity. It is just a universal law, a condition with which everything other than time must cope. Like all natural laws of the Universe, it may be stretched, sped up, slowed down, warped, locally distorted, disturbed, and predicted. However, it cannot be fully stopped, and especially not reversed: to do so could lead to severe and reprehensible paradox. Not even the mighty Singularity can accomplish this, no matter the strength of it. No matter how close to zero advancement it may reach, it will never reach zero. To do so would be catastrophic.



And yet, with all we do know about it, it is very difficult to properly define or understand time. We tend to treat it as if it were a commodity over which we held some form of control, which we, of course, do not. Nor could we ever exert any control over time, unless that were of its perception, and even then, control extends only to our abilities to perceive the passage of time, and not to time itself… no, not at all. Even with computer enhancement, we can only see how time affects things in increasingly smaller units, and even that is an observation of a material’s reaction to time as a stimulus, not any relevant observation based upon any capacity to change time itself.



Time travel is a scientific preoccupation that takes much cranial horsepower that could likely be spent as a wiser investment on more useful pursuits. As an exotic form of science fiction, it is an acceptable form of entertainment. In most possible scenarios, it is just too difficult to achieve a travel event that is not catastrophic. Or, even if it were possible, you could not do anything to change the past that would not disrupt the future! And you know how, whenever faced with a choice, humans unerringly choose the right path first… (NOT!)



Hmmmmm…



OK, because it is not in our nature to leave well enough alone, let’s try to find a way to consider this time business that doesn’t lead to paradox.



PROBLEM:



Whether you are considering an event in terms of actual temporal kinetic displacement, conditional precognitive prediction, or as a refinement of historical observation, the problems to be overcome are similar.



· You must establish conditions within which the chosen point(s) may be observed.



· You must be sure that the event will indeed be accurately observed through being a proper temporal integrity and the true result of free will decisions made across the temporal period(s) of investigation.



BACKGROUND:



To determine where next to go and what next to do, let us review the observable conditions of how time operates in general:



· Time began on or before the first day of existence of the current Universe (or the Universe that is the subject of observation). T(o) =/< 0



· Time will end* on or after the last day of existence of the current Universe (or the Universe that is the subject of observation). T(n) =/> W



* - Time only “ends” with the cessation of all available sensory energy of any actual or virtual entity capable of observing it. Whether time ever actually “ends” is an unprovable theoretical concept. Matter will become inert (2nd law of thermodynamics), but that has no bearing on time, which is not a thing but a condition.



· The “current point in time” is somewhere between the two. T(cp) =>0,< p="">



· Time tends to flow at a reasonably steady rate, from beginning to end, most dependably measured by minute degeneration of radioactive isotopes by transmutive disintegration



· The future does not exist. Something we would consider to be “in the future” may exist, but we will not be sure of that until it comes now. We can only experience the future in our current awareness in retrospect, as it becomes an observable state of being in the period of now. If we cannot be there until now, from the standpoint of observation, we can only witness the event as nowwhen.



· The past does not exist. Something we would consider to be “in the past” may exist, but only if someone recorded it by memory or artifice when it transited the present as an observable state of being in the period of now. From the standpoint of observation, we can only witness any such event as nowthen.



· The only state of being in existence is the period of now. Nothing else exists in reality except as memory or recorded history, and retention or details thereof may deteriorate over time when stored by any biological, magnetic or digital media.



SOLUTION:



Let us attempt a structured solution of this problem by building a model of temporal reality using all that we have already discovered, to define what else we must learn or use to find a final resolution.



1. Consider the path of apparent reality of the current Universe (or the Universe under observation) to be a timeline of infinite length stretching from when (beginning; left side) to then (end; right side). Let us call this the Timeline of the eternal now.



2. Any point placed on that timeline will represent “now” when the Universe reaches, i.e. inhabits that point.



3. Everything related to the event or condition to be observed at the point of observation (Po) shall be known and agreed to be the result of an infinite number of free will decisions taken to get to this point, occurring without predestination or prejudice, consisting only of the natural chain of events required to get there.



4. Since the only existence that can be verified is now*, the Universe becomes as a 2-dimensional construct (similar to a picture) that contains a 3-dimensional reality that can move down the timeline of the eternal now.



*Now is actually a very short period of time that is constantly renewing itself. It is probably reasonable to think of it as between 1 second and 2 minutes long. The maximum length of time that now can exist might be considered to be the sum of time required for the event to transit the point boundaries (Total Time, T = p2-p1)



THEORY:



To observe an accurate event or occurrence at a specific time and location, one must merely move down the timeline of the eternal now to the point of the event, and record the event using any appropriate and available media as it occurs. Whatever is seen will be accurate, as it occurred, and will have both occurred and been recorded without predestination or prejudice. When finished, you will have recorded the event for posterity.



As this point, everything fits into a logical frame rather nicely, except for one small matter… You can’t physically do this, as a material being, in this Universe of dense matter, at this point in our evolution!



Of course… we could do it… if we… *



Hmmmmm…



(To be continued)



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