kevin.b wrote:Time drives Me crazy, what the flipping heck is it?
I keep thinking of a really giant clock, and how far the hands will have to travel right out at their limits, whereas they will only turn the same near the centre point, but travel ever so much less distance.
kevin
The hands of a clock are going to rotate at whatever speed they need to, to be in sync with the MOVEMENT of the planets. Near the center axis of the hands it rotates less angular distance to be in sync with the planets. Out at the tips it needs to move a greater distance. Being in sync with the rotation of the earth and the stars is the only thing that matters to a clock, so however much angular distance that it takes to complete one full revolution in 60 seconds depends upon the length of the hands. When a clock accumulates enough error over time to cause it to be out of sync with the MOVEMENT of the universe, we stick in a leap year to get it back in sync.
The word dimension has been hijacked to mean “other realities”. Just think of a dimension by its actual definition, with which any carpenter would be familiar:
1. A measure of spatial extent, especially width, height, or length.
2. The least number of independent coordinates required to specify uniquely the points in a space.
3. A physical property, such as mass, length, time, or a combination thereof, regarded as a fundamental measure or as one of a set of fundamental measures of a physical quantity: Velocity has the dimensions of length divided by time.
4. Informal. the measurements of a woman's bust, waist, and hips, in that order: The chorus girl's dimensions were 38-24-36.
The dimension of length is measured in inches, meters, cubits, or whatever. The dimension of time is measured in seconds minutes, etc.
I like to keep the properties of the first three dimensions (length width and height) in my mind when thinking of time, always keeping them analogous. Length, width, and height in mathematics are usually referred to as X, Y, Z. If you have an object at a defined point in space (an exact XYZ coordinate) and you leave out the dimension of time, when you go to look for that object at that location it won’t be there, because the universe is in motion. You have to define the point in space at what time it is at XYZ because in another second it is at a different XYZ location. Hence my theory that if all motion ceased to exist (including electron motion), there would be no time.
This next paragraph is just me philosophically musing to myself.
Thinking out loud again. If God is omnipresent then God is everywhere at the same time and does not move. If God does not move then God has no dimension of time, therefore God is eternal; I am that I am. In modern language God would just say,” I just is”.
We are stuck solidly in time because our hearts pump, our lungs breathe, our nerves pulse, our atoms vibrate. Stonehenge has aged another day because its atoms and electrons are no longer in the same position as they were yesterday, let that process run thousands of years and you can visually see the effects of time/movement on the stones. If you go back in time you are just looking to a previous physical positioning. A position that all of the matter occupied at a given indicated date in the past. A time capsule buried with important documents is sealed to try to minimize movement within the capsule, so as to slip though time unaltered. It is fake time travel, because it's electrons are moving, but it is analogous to real time travel.
So if we want to measure movement we need the dimension of time. The movement of the sun and moon and stars forms the time base for our calendars and clocks, and the movement of quartz crystals form the time base for our electronics circuits, etc. Time measures movement.
So when thinking of the more outside etherial aspects of the time domain I always try to take the approach; how would this be analogous the dimensions of distance or length. That way dimensions are still dimensions and not other realities. If I want to think on other realities I do that without dragging along the XYZT metrics from this reality, because I somehow doubt that they apply there. Omnipresence sort of negates XYZ and T, which are metrics that may only be applicable to this reality.
GV