December 29, 2017
This paper is concerned with the illusion of “Time” in our everyday life, where the motions of objects are not traveling at relativistic speeds.
We exist in our local Space-Now point reference. Illusions of Time are created by our single point reference on earth. The ticks of a watch are only made by gears that are coordinated with a fraction of the earth’s rotation we call a “second.” It is not keeping track of “Time.” It is the relation of two motions. The “speed” of these motions are not inherent in Time as a thing in and of itself, but rather, in the ratio of the distance the object travels to an arbitrary fraction of the earth’s cyclical rotation as a constant (i.e., the ratio of one to 24, or an “hour”). (Electromagnetic waves such as light from the sun or radio broadcasts, travel at one speed in a vacuum: c = 2.998 X 108m/s.)
When there is an event, like a collision of two objects in front of us, we store it in memory. When that event has moved out of our local Space-Now, and there is another event in an ordered sequence, we delude ourselves into believing that the conscious perception of the first sequentially ordered event happened in the “past,” as a result of the fact that the event is no longer generating sensory impulses (i.e., you no longer see it in front of you). However that event and its energies still continue in their effects in Space-Now that is usually non-local. Since our conscious mind can review the perceptions of memory and the lack of the same immediate sensory perceptions simultaneously occurring (i.e., you don’t see it anymore), the mental construct is created that there is a past and a present. This is not factual but flawed. As far as the “future,” the motions and coincidences in “world lines” (i.e., the paths of two objects colliding) which create “events” have not occurred in our local Space-Now reference. The future can only be imagined, predicted or hoped for, but if the future did exist, it would be in our Space-Now.
A major obstacle to the general acceptance of the fact that Time is a mathematical convenience or tool to compare relative motions in everyday life, and not a thing in and of itself, is that languages, such as English, are pervaded with words that express Time as a thing in and of itself, such as “happened,” “was,” “yesterday,” tomorrow,” and many other expressions of past and future tenses. Calendars, clocks and appointments are other obstacles to the comprehension of Space-Now.
Copyright © 2017 by David William Jedell
Email: d.w.jedell@gmail.com
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