In this post, I will make a most unusual statement.
I know, have made a lot of unusual statements in the past. I’ve said the more you know, the less you are. I’ve even said that knowledge makes you blind.
Today I will take the gentle hand of Albert Einstein, the world’s most foremost modern scientist, and we’ll take a walk together.
Time is an illusion. It does not exist.
Time’s feature is that it is timeless. Therefore it doesn’t exist. One second of time is the same thing as 10 years. Or 10 days, or 40 years. There is no difference.
Of course, we live in the time and we learn from young age time is linear. Time we say, is the 4th Dimension of the 10 dimensions (or the 11 dimensions of the M-string theory, or 26 dimensions as per the bosonic string theory). Mathematically, I find it is not required to have one temporal dimension and 10 dimensional. No phenomena is unnatural. (Albert, buddy, hold on to my hand tight here. Thanks.)
“Time is mind. End the delusion of time.” -Eckhart Tolle
Tolle, and other spiritual teachers, know that time is only mind. Since there is no time, it means the Big Bang is now, not billions of years ago.
I am not a physicist, nor do I claim to be one. But when we play with concepts such as “past” and “future”, not only they don’t exist, the linear “past” cannot determine “future”.
I wanna play a little game. Let me try and help these people.
Let’s inverse those two and let us see what we get. The “future” has already happened. (When, you ask ? Now.) Then you can watch it on a **movie screen** like you were sitting in a movie theater. And the “past” ? If we really switch the two around…the past is unknowable. I don’t know what’s in there with any causable determination. The past (assuming such a thing) hasn’t been determined yet.
Hold my hand, Albert. I’m preaching. The mesons and and the leptons don’t like my vibe, because I’ve put them to order.
I can do magic when I hold Einstein’s hand.
Quote of the day: “You like going nowhere at 120 mi. an hour ?”
Galen: “Of course. That is man’s natural condition.” – Crusade
Gideon : I thought you said you never hold a grudge.
Galen : Well, I don’t. I have no surviving enemies… at all. -Crusade
Stewie:
If time is timeless then time defies or it does not respect its own properties.
All measures of time are relative, i.e. a day (or a year) on Mars is not a day on Earth.
People have tried measuring time in other ways, too. Example: I’ve had a good time, or I’ve had a bad time. (time measured in terms of feelings). This measure is arguably more attuned to the human makeshift.
We all give an accounting of our “time” at the moment of death: it is when we relive all of our life in a matter of a second, milliseconds, or less.
I am not the only one, or the first one, to say that time is an illusion. Remember the B-theory of time : “temporal becoming is not an objective feature of reality.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-theory_of_time
Here is where it gets interesting for you: I believe that the less you make time references, the better you are in your standing with reality.
So in your day-to-day talk, say less (or don’t say it): The sun is shining now. Just say: The sun is shining.
You knocked off a lot of people with this post, Max.
If you’re going nowhere at 120 miles an hour, what’s the rush ?
Pranav