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The Philosophy of Time
Times Square NYC January 1938
The Philosophy of Time
Have you ever wondered what is meant by a moment in time? To capture a moment in time we have to combine slices upon slices of infinitesimal imaginary finites. To get to a moment we will remember there has to have once been a now! What after all is “NOW” or “real time,” and how long does it last? I’m talking about right now. Well by the time you get to the end of this sentence, it is already in the past. I mean it’s easy to imagine past, or future, but “now” (this moment) lasts how long? Does it last a second? To me it’s like that needle on a record or the laser on a DVD. The record is your life and the needle is where your consciousness of now is at any given time. The rest of the record has either played or it hasn’t but the needle is constantly moving. So this time in existence is always fleeting and only lasts from nanosecond to nanosecond anything other than that is either future or past. Yet, believe it or not there is an answer to how long now is.
Coined by E. R. Kelly it’s called the “specious present.” It is the name for the time we experience as “now.” It is a mixture of the very near past or a fading past, the real ever moving present and the very near future. Combined together known as the present it is the streak of a meteor, the sound of a piano key or the wave of your arm. All of these are perceived as one present event. So, what is the length of time it lasts is it a second, a minute? I found only philosophy on this and the best explanation I could find was that it is a paradox. It is the gap between two temporal points, the past and future. Since neither exists as now, then specious time is only perception because it is a mixture of past and future. The past is gone and the future hasn’t happened, both only exist as thought. So both are non-existent as present one has passed and one hasn’t happened yet. So really no present time exists at all. Universal nihilism is the best answer I found whereby nothing has truth. You can’t freeze a moment and even in a photo it will always be a photo of the past.
Enough of that it’s purely abstract philosophical! That’s just me thinking out loud again. I do read a lot, so I often have to make choices on what I believe and what I don’t. A lot of my choices are made on faith. They have to be because the “experts” in any given field are the ones we have to rely on for educated theory or facts. When I read about quantum waves just like religion, most of what I found out is that it is almost all theory. We know these moments exist because we feel them passing. We can’t freeze them and we can’t pin them down, but they are real right? Hold that thought! But you can’t am I right?
This article was written using excerpts from the non-fiction book “Sin Thesis” available at Amazon written by the author Robert Torres. https://www.about.me/Towers3
A motion of philosophy.
I have wondered about time myself.
I have deduced it to a 24hr period being repeated ad infintum. In another words your life is repeated in a time slot over and over, you change but he time allotment doesn’t.
Think of it as TV on a screen only it is that 24hr time period over and over. Come to think about it isn’t it like reel of film that shows the scene over and over as the reel runs and you finally get a movie.
So that proves we are all actors as Shakespeare said and the world (or the 24hr allotment) is our stage and God and the angels are watching and …… judging our performance. Some will be stars and others condemned.
Interestingly enough, the interaction of space time or often time alone is one of my favorite subjects. I have another article with a different theory I came up with that I’ll post in about a month or so called “Time: a Thought Experiment.” It is something I came up with myself but cannot scientifically be disproved. These aren’t exact excerpts from my book, but things I base on concepts. Time is so strange like time travel which I’ll write about as well. The Earth travels at 1.3 million miles an hour through space due to the big bang. So to travel back in time one hour, you’d also have to travel back 1.3 million miles in order to be where the Earth was. See what I mean? I can write article after article about time. But I actually came up with the solution for how to travel back that distance. BTW, I got what you were trying to say about the TV I think.
There are different opinions on this
Planck time is 10to-35mmc but light has been slowing down
Atos is 10to-18seconds
Which is more irreducible complex