Opus 2025-005: Standing Still, and Marching On

As a new year starts to enroll, we tend to think about time.  We celebrate an arbitrary choice of days as New Year’s.  We look back and reminisce over the actual measure of one revolution around the sun.  We might even hold our breath and try to stop things from going so fast.

Is time standing still for you or does it just keep marching on?

Most people tend to think in three dimensions:  Height, width, and depth.  If they think of them they can also add time so we live in four dimensions.  These are pretty much all human beings need or are aware of.  Remember there was once a musical group that called itself the Fifth Dimension?  That was supposed to be cutting edge.  Scientists now talk in terms of dozens of dimensions.  To most of us that’s just nonsense.  It has nothing to do with the world we live in.  In their abstract way of manipulating and trying to understand the universe they find uses for them but I hope you never had to have anybody explain any of them.

Yet I accept that they exist.  I am willing to accept that up to a point.  Science tend to think in terms of what we would consider science fiction.  As long as their equations work out, they’re happy.  In many cases, it doesn’t matter if their equations say anything to you about the universe or make a difference in any aspect of existence.  They get a prize, a grant, a promotion, an interview on Joe Rogan.

We look at time as something in motion.  Some people say we live in a time machine that only goes in one direction.  We can’t stop it.  We can’t go back.  If God is outside time, then he would view it as a sculpture not a motion picture.

The nature of time is change.  Is there any change if you exist outside of time?  Some things we will never know in this life.  That should reassure you, as well as peek your create curiosity.

Get ready for more change.

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