SOC Blog #9 - Time and Space

As I've said before I've always had a fascination with time. At this very moment of our perception of reality I am typing these words out. All of you are doing something very specific right now. Some of you are sleeping, some are driving to work. Some are thinking about a random thought. But you're not doing the same thing as many others in the world.

Perhaps this is what causes the world to work, the uniqueness of our energy and intentions all coalesced into the reality we choose to agree upon. Good enough for government work reality is a term I find useful to describe it. Regardless of the atomic structure of my fingers, or the interpretation of my brain of the vibrations of music, we all can agree I am typing a blog and listening to Chris Isaak's Wicked Game. What's happening underneath the covers is a completely different experience.

I've come to decide that time is not actual as real as we perceive it to be. Time is something we've created as human beings to explain the passing of the days, to measure intervals... and in that way it's an incredibly useful abstraction of what is really going on.

Don't get wme wrong, I have no idea what the true nature of the universe is. If I did I would certainly share it with all of you. I just don't believe time is as simple as "I started work at 6:30 and will do this for 30 minutes, etc". There's always something beneath the simplest of our observations of the natural world.

Do a favor for me. Stop for a moment and look down at any random object on your desk. Chances are that it arrived there merely because you placed it at a moment when you weren't thinking. That object, no matter what it is, is comprised of a huge number of atoms, forming molecules which are held together by electrical bonds which prevent them from disintigrating into their component elements. After all, an element is simply an atomic structure comprised of a certain number of electrons and neutrons circling the nucleus of an atom. Much in the same way the moon circles the earth, or the earth circles the sun, or the solar system circles whatever it circles...

Or maybe I'm just a little crazy. ;-)

Peace.