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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477519" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Time's Arrow Arrested</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dusky shadows hide under the leafy boughs of the lanky trees.<br>Beyond the dark sky the sun carries the bright promise of <br>a lustrous morning. But it is merely a promise. For, the experience<br>of the past is not evidence of future events.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how perturbing can be the obvious. This ever present and<br>precisely dissected substance that we break to exact hours, <br>minutes and seconds, and call it time. How mind-boggling is<br>this historian’s palette, Newton’s infinite attribute, Einstein’s finite<br>fourth dimension.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Astronomers say that a colossal firecracker called the Big Bang<br>exploded about fifteen billion years ago, marking the beginning<br>of time and the universe. Yet this sophisticated modern myth <br>does not really solve the enigma of time or the mystery of existence. <br>After all, why does the world exist, rather than not? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Newton viewed time as a mathematical duration, an absolute<br>temporal dimension in which time flows steadily without relation<br>to space, matter or human affairs. Many years later, Einstein<br>dropped the notion of absolute space and time. In the Theory <br>of Relativity he demonstrated that time slows down as velocity<br>increases. Clocks can run at different speeds. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time became the fourth dimension. However, in the tiny world<br>of the atoms, quantum physicists discover a bizarre universe of <br>eleven dimensions. In Superstring theories higher dimensions are<br>curled up within the deep structure of space-time. Moreover, <br>the number of higher cosmic dimensions is not limited, because <br>scientists might invent as many dimensions as it takes for their<br>theories to work. Unfortunately, in relation to nature mathematical <br>propositions are uncertain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Physicists nowadays conceive time as an asymmetrical arrow, <br>flying in one direction, from the past to the future, through <br>the present. They devise ingenious schemes to ride on the arrow<br>of time into the future; or to reverse its direction of flight and travel<br>back to the past. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I believe that time is an illusion. It does not really exists. The hands<br>of the clock does not really show us time but movement in space, <br>an artificial human invention of hours, minutes and seconds. And <br>what we measure with our objective instruments is not identical <br>with the subjective psychological experience of duration. External<br>time and internal time are not the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, if time really flows like a river without banks, <br>if it is indeed in a state of flux, then what is its speed? And since <br>we measure speed by the ratio of traveling distance to the periodic<br>motion of the clock, how are we supposed to measure the<br>velocity of time? By time itself? Time does not exist. And <br>nevertheless, it does. It is its own phantom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time is a relationship between before and after. Paradoxically, it is<br>the nothing that allows everything. But time is a mysterious nothing, <br>an arcane cipher, the magical fountainhead of bondage and freedom.<br>All events unfold miraculously in it while it also prevents them to<br>happen all at once. Time is not a river without banks but the ocean <br>of eternity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Events did happen of course yesterday and before. They leave their<br>marks and traces through history. However, the idea of time moving <br>from past to future is an illusion. The invisible hands of titans do not<br>shoot arrows of time out of nature’s bow. Hence, time travel is a <br>tough assignment because there is nothing to ride on. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no arrow of time. The future and the past do not exist.<br>Time stands still. Thus the years do not pass by, we pass through<br>the years. Our life always enfolds in the here and now, sailing aboard<br>an invisible boat on the mysterious ocean of the eternal present.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q>
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