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Infinite Luv
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Time exists. But humans did not create it. It does not change because we change it. It does not change at all. What changes is our way of measure time. It is a way of measuring the past and the future past. Just because people experience time in different ways, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, but that our subjective perception of time is relative to each experience.
“How long have I been in this state?” A boring 30 min lecture…seems like 3 hours. A 3 hr. romantic rendezvous …feels like 30 mins. Yes seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months were ideas that we construct but they were not constructed to create time, only to measure it. You’re exciting about winning a 20 million dollar lottery today, but you don’t have the same excitement a year later. Why?....time the delay between your big day and today. Even without our “constructed idea of time”
Now people use the example of black holes to state that time doesn’t exist because if you are travel so fast that time stops, you can travel to the past, ect. ect. Im sure it would be really fun to believe that. It really would. But again, time doesn’t change. Our subjective experience changes. So long as you are in the save relative frame of reference, you will experience time the same way. So long as you are going faster than something, you as the person going fast, sees everything outside you as moving slower. In a black hole, you are traveling remarkably fast.
The faster you travel through space, the slower everything around you seem to be traveling. If you travel through/to space, people on earth experience 10 years, while you only feel a fraction of that. A black hole operates in the same way but at an incredibly accelerated rate. It does not change the existence of time. It changes your relative experience in comparison to the things around you.
What I find amazing is the incredible is how important time is to the way we experience life. Consider this….a man is in a tragic state: he wakes up one night and finds that someone has broken into his home and is raping and kicking his wife in another room. In an attempt to protect her, he attacks the guy as his wife dies before him. The murderer shoots him in the head. When he wakes up he realizes that has a 6 minute memory capacity. Every 6 minutes he has lost the time he has just experienced. Months, even years later, he experiences her death as though it just happened (it is his last real memory). How can he begin to heal??
Someone once said, “Time heals all wounds.” Though I beg to differ, I think they were on to something. Though time does not heal a wound, it allows for the process to begin, continue, and maybe even to end. So to those who just lost a loved one, or who’s still wondering if the pain of a break up will ever stop hurting. Eventually, in time, you’ll be fine. Like the song says,… “Time is on your side.”….most of the time.
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