Featured: Thinking about time
Ameya Tripathi wrote a post about how we think of time, and how we address living within the constraints of time at his blog ‘Lucidations and Luminations’.
Time seems a most unconquerable dimension and inexhaustible topic because whenever one looks at time, they must concede the inherently myopic nature with which they view it. This can be proved by the simple fact that humanity’s own occupation of time is minute. However, the struggle to unlock the secrets of time is evident, as trillions of articles have been written about time, a dimension possibly beyond human conquest and comprehension.
An atheist like myself scorns at the idea of God being incomprehensible, being acutely aware of how that statement forms a sense of an infallible God (and a neat side-step from the explanations of evil). Equally, many a scientist indubitably would despise the idea that it was physically and mentally impossible to untangle the myriad of ideas, thoughts, conceptions, notions and hypotheses that form time.
There are many theories suggested (in vain) in order to resolve this conundrum, however, I shall only pick one, which is analogous to previous fields of research, and that is the perplexing theorem that ‘time is a human construct’. This is the simple theory that time is created in the mind to organize thoughts, sometimes coupled with the frightening ideal that every one of the trillions of moments we experience in our lifetime happen simultaneously, and our brain simply sorts them.
Click here to read the full post at Lucidations & Luminations.
