This is a fable,or maybe a riddle...well,sort of a little of both.More of a story,or a math problem,really. Now,I know that I am not the first person to think of this,but I have had this idea in my head for a story now for twelve years or so.
Here is the basic plot:A married couple goes to a medium and the foreteller of truths,this fortune presumer,says that the younger of the two will kill the elder .Years past,then,the wife,who is born the year before her husband,poisons him because she can no longer stand the suspense of when he is going to kill her!THUS FULL FILLING THE PROPHECY!
I was going to say:FIND THE ANSWER-HERE-TOMORROW.But,what the hay.This is neither that suspenseful nor that clever of a trick.The answer is thus:The husband was born on 12:01 am on New Year's morning in New York City.His wife was born 11;59 pm New Year's Eve in Los Angeles,California.While she was,in reality,born almost three hours later then her husband,she was also actually born a day ,and a year earlier.Quite a trick,huh?
This sent me onto a TIME kick.If you look up on a clear night sky,what you see is absolutely right now...but,still,it isn't.The stars and galaxies that you are looking at are as they were,perhaps millions and millions of years ago.Millions and millions of years from now,some alien will be looking up in it's nighttime sky and will be seeing US as we are NOW,though we will be millions and millions of years dead.
So much for time being a coherent whole.Yet,this,in a way makes us timeless.
Another view that I like on time is the Earth's time zones.To follow noon,time travels backwards-which is totally normal to comprehend-until you realize that this backward movement of time goes backward into tomorrow!Here,in the Eastern time zone,we are three hours in front of the Pacific coast.Yet,Hawaii is two hours behind them...but,if you go backward even further,to say,New Zealand,it is already tomorrow!Is that amazing or what?
Scientists are claiming that the faster you travel the slower time goes...all relativity speaking.In theory,if you travel faster then the speed of light,time actually slows down{At this point going faster actually make you start going slower!!!}.
Here is the basic plot:A married couple goes to a medium and the foreteller of truths,this fortune presumer,says that the younger of the two will kill the elder .Years past,then,the wife,who is born the year before her husband,poisons him because she can no longer stand the suspense of when he is going to kill her!THUS FULL FILLING THE PROPHECY!
I was going to say:FIND THE ANSWER-HERE-TOMORROW.But,what the hay.This is neither that suspenseful nor that clever of a trick.The answer is thus:The husband was born on 12:01 am on New Year's morning in New York City.His wife was born 11;59 pm New Year's Eve in Los Angeles,California.While she was,in reality,born almost three hours later then her husband,she was also actually born a day ,and a year earlier.Quite a trick,huh?
This sent me onto a TIME kick.If you look up on a clear night sky,what you see is absolutely right now...but,still,it isn't.The stars and galaxies that you are looking at are as they were,perhaps millions and millions of years ago.Millions and millions of years from now,some alien will be looking up in it's nighttime sky and will be seeing US as we are NOW,though we will be millions and millions of years dead.
So much for time being a coherent whole.Yet,this,in a way makes us timeless.
Another view that I like on time is the Earth's time zones.To follow noon,time travels backwards-which is totally normal to comprehend-until you realize that this backward movement of time goes backward into tomorrow!Here,in the Eastern time zone,we are three hours in front of the Pacific coast.Yet,Hawaii is two hours behind them...but,if you go backward even further,to say,New Zealand,it is already tomorrow!Is that amazing or what?
Scientists are claiming that the faster you travel the slower time goes...all relativity speaking.In theory,if you travel faster then the speed of light,time actually slows down{At this point going faster actually make you start going slower!!!}.
Say you go to some far flung distant planet in the universe with your speed peaking just beyond the speed of light,theoretically,when you have returned,you'll have aged,perhaps,nil,while your husband or wife could have long been dead of old age.
How will families survive this way of travel in the future?Everyone go along?Just think of the trouble that coming back from a day trip could bring..you could be coming back to greet your great grandchildren(I think the terminally ill will be on some of these flights).
Time,it seems,is quite fickle.That is if there really even is such a thing as time(I won't even get into'God's Time').For all practical purposes,there is only'THE NOW'.You can not go into the past or the future...no one can.Time is fixed on the present.Always has been...always will be.
So,the nearest fix that I can get on time is that we measure it by light.Therefore,you can assume,time is a product of light.
And so is everything else.Science has reduced down matter to it's smallest denominator...and guess what it is made of?That's right:Light!This idea of weight and space is also an illusion of light.
What does all of this baffling bullsh*t prove...Nothing really...
...but I will leave you with this to think about:
In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth,
the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
I am not asking you to believe..I'm just saying.....
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