TIME IS UNITY

Time is a very weird idea and concept, it can be (mostly) our enemy (i.e. after a certain time – or number of years we ALL die) or it can be our best friend – or ally (i.e. something we may desire or want arrives to us very quickly).

A large variety of devices have been invented to measure time. The study of these devices is called horology. An Egyptian device that dates to c.1500 BC, similar in shape to a bent T-square, measured the passage of time from the shadow cast by its crossbar on a nonlinear rule.

However time is truly a complex concept that’s fascinated scientists or normal people since the beginning of life on earth, in 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. This was the theory of special relativity. According to this, time dilation is a difference in the elapsed time measured by two observers (see how quantum physics defines the observing action done by different observers), either due to a velocity difference relative to each other, or by being differently situated relative to a gravitational field. According to A. Einstein time is an illusion, "because no observer has knowledge of a distant event, or the simultaneity of different events, until they are unambiguously in that observer's past. ... It confuses me, because time seems to be real. Things happen. Depending on our position and speed, time can appear to move faster or slower to us relative to others in a different part of space-time. And for astronauts on the International Space Station, that means they get to age just a tiny bit slower than people on Earth. That's because of time-dilation effects. The world's most accurate clock has neatly shown how right Albert Einstein was 100 years ago, when he proposed that time is a relative concept and the higher you live above sea level the faster you should age. Einstein's theory of relativity states that time and space are not as constant as everyday life would suggest.

So depending on our position and speed, time can appear to move faster or slower to us relative to others in a different part of space-time. And for astronauts on the International Space Station, that means they get to age just a tiny bit slower than people on Earth. That's because of time-dilation effects. In fact when traveling at speeds near the speed of light special relativity says that time is dilated. Thus relative to another inertial frame (where perhaps a stationary twin sits) time for the moving twin is slowing down. Hence the stationary twin is aging faster. Albert Einstein, in his theory of special relativity, determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels. The "rebels" who fight the Big Bang theory are mostly attempting to grapple with the concept of time. They are philosophers as much as cosmologists, unsatisfied with the Big Bang, unimpressed with string theory and unconvinced of the multiverse. ... "People are sure time is there, but they can't get hold of it.

Quantum physics may have just proven that there is an afterlife. Scientist Robert Lanza claims that the theory of biocentrism teaches that death as we know it is an illusion created by our consciousness. Professor Robert Lanza claims that life creates the universe, and not the other way around.

In very simple words, finally time is not a dimension; the theory of special relativity merely treats any one clock-time as a dimension of an abstract construct called Minkowski space. According to Minkowski space is NOT the affine space you live in with an added fourth dimension. But let me spend few words on what’s called the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity involving identical twins, one of whom makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket and returns home to find that the twin who remained on Earth has aged more.

Time dilation is very simple phenomenon. Time dilation occurs because the speed of light is same for all observers in same media. So the rate of time experienced by the observer changes with respect to object moving near to speed of light because two events in spacetime having different time origin with respect to each other.

I remember an interview – don’t know to whom – when the question was: Would you like to be immortal? The answer was both very intelligent and fascinated me, in fact the interviewee said that if he knew to be immortal, what would be the point to get out of bed every morning, have plans to do something or spend any time with others? He stated that it’s the knowledge that our time here on earth is what made humanity to make all of its progress. Populate this planet, create communities that behave just like living organisms, when I add to this idea that we are all interconnected, we all are part of each other and began with the Big bang, I really cannot say that I’m not interested in the latest quantum studies and discoveries that our humanity has been doing, that truly show our progress in controlling our lives and the planet we have been living on.

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1. https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/time/
2. https://www.quora.com/Is-time-the-only-true-unit-of-measurement
3. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/splitting-time-from-space/
4. https://www.space.com/29859-the-illusion-of-time.html
5. http://www.einstein-online.info/elementary/specialRT/relativity_space_time
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation