Time is difficult to define because of our relationship with time. Prepare to learn a concept no one has explored. Does time exist outside of clocks? And does time live in us? Time isn’t a single thing; it contains two parts: first, we observe things moving, such as birds flying and trees moving. The second part is our sense of awareness.
As babies, we rest, and feel our heartbeat, the air moving in our nose, and our chest rising and falling. When we become self-aware, we combine our awareness of motion with the perception of objects moving and conclude that everything moves. As adults, we need to remember our sense of time. We see clocks ticking, and feel our hearts beating, but let’s go down the rabbit hole further…
Can time be measured?
Do clocks measure time? No, why’s that? We use clocks to measure motion, and then we convert the clock’s numbers into time. Numbers and time are concepts, but the visible motion we witness is absolute. A clock is a tool that shows the time, but it doesn’t measure time. That’s a fundamental fact, not a misnomer.
Time has many aspects that affect our lives, but in reality, time as we know it is a concept. However, we can’t function without clocks to show us the time of day. We have invented clocks, and now we are held accountable to a concept that controls our lives.
It’s challenging to describe time because we label things with temporal ideas, such as memories, moments, and ages. Do we understand time? People believe that, given enough time, anything can happen, and without time, nothing can.
Do you think the Sun moves across the sky? Some believe that if we can move at nearly the speed of light, we get younger, while time makes others grow older.
Scientists even think that time exists alongside the other forces of nature. However, “time” and a clock’s time are two separate things. Universal laws affect matter but not concepts such as time and space.
Our most significant misconception is the belief that time can change physical things. Cause and effect use force and action, while clocks and time measure the outcome.
Timekeeping is necessary for humans in a modern society. But we should realize that time doesn’t have physical qualities. It lives only in our hearts, as we see numbers on timekeeping tools.
People claim that time is relative because that’s how they experience it. Imagine being alone and agonizing in pain, versus enjoying your favourite activity. That’s a valid distinction.
Our feelings contain a temporal notion, but we don’t experience time. We experience life, our heartbeat, pain, fear, stress, boredom, anticipation, gravity, music, joy, and love.
Time is a number on clocks, while temporal concepts are historical events on a calendar or a future appointment. However, when we realize that time and clocks are inventions that don’t exist elsewhere, it’s time to turn on the lights.
Our Hearts are Like Clocks
We base our perception of time on Earth’s daily cycle of light and darkness. When we rest, our hearts beat about 60 times per minute; it’s not a coincidence that clocks tick at the same rate as our pulse.
We made clocks to tick 60 times per minute. Think about that… we measure the speed and duration of everything in the universe based on the rate of our hearts.
Was the universe created for us, or did we adapt to the cycles of Earth’s rhythm? Either way, we are trying to understand our experiences and ourselves by our heart’s pulse. Doesn’t that shock your mind?
We feel and see motion, and we think of it as time passing, but it’s the motion moving in and around us that’s passing. It seems that we live in a matrix, believing that time moves with us.
Will we realize that nature doesn’t use time? The Sun keeps shining, the Earth spins, and we keep asking what’s the time? Are we there yet? How much longer?
Have we lost our natural cycle of seeing and feeling time pass? It’s alarming to know that time lives within us, yet we need timekeeping tools. Clocks and hearts tick their motion into seconds, which are units of measurement… Are we living in a simulation, a Matrix?
We Created a Digital World
Without realizing it, we made clocks from our ability to sense our heartbeats. In our obsession with math, we created reality into a simulation…
If we are in a matrix, who wrote the software and built the computer it runs on? What’s our relationship with the entity that pushed the start button? Who would know? Only ‘time’ will know…
Since we are part of the simulation, we have no way to see outside our dimension. Use your authentic imagination (AI), and remember to feel your relationship with time; it can take you where you want to go or completely in a new direction. What on earth have we created?… Namaste, from Science in Your World.