The Present Moment
Have you heard of the expression that the present moment is the only real-time we have? The author Eckhart Tolle wrote a book called, The Power of Now. I think he says that now is the only moment we have? I agree that now is the only time that exists. Time is tricky to explain, and many people don't understand the words used to explain time.
Time and Motion
Time is used to measure motion, and motion is used to measure time. It's a circular system. We measured the motion of our planet and then converted the motion into units of time.
Time doesn't exist except when a clock displays it, and often it's called now time (what time is it now?).
But, I want to change my thinking and say now is the only motion we have.
You can keep track of your motion and events using the display that a clock shows. But time comes from the motion of our planet, and one day has 86,400 seconds.
Time doesn't have any power to do anything. The power or force is in the motion of things that happen at the present moment.
Motion Happens
I want you to consider that our planet is spinning on its axis, and at the equator, the speed is 1,674 km/h.
We are orbiting the sun at 107,226 km/hr, which is 2.6 million km/day, and we move around the Milky Way Galaxy at 13,200 km/hr.
Time is a measurement of this motion, but the power is in the motion.
Electrons spin around atoms at the speed of light and emit photons that travel at the speed of light. Everything in the universe is constantly moving.
How many times (pun intended) do I have to say that motion moves, time doesn't move. Time is the measurement of motion.
You have been brainwashed by looking at the clock's seconds moving and believing that time moves.
Timekeeping moves forward on a calendar, and it seems like the days and weeks are moving, and in that sense, they are moving, but not because of time.
The days move because of the motion of Earth. You can see that the four seasons move because of motion and not by time.
Earth has a tilt in its axis of rotation, and during its orbit, around the sun, we get the seasons. The calendar counts the days and tells us when a season begins.
Time is a human invention which we use to keep track of this motion.
The Motion of Time
Time has two separate parts. One is the time on a clock, and the other is the speed or duration of motion.
You can watch a pendulum clock swinging left and right, and you think that time is moving. You can watch the second hand on a clock moving, and you believe that time is moving.
When you see motion and movement, you translate that to mean time is ticking away, and it is, but here’s the thing, time doesn’t move. It’s the motion that moves.
The pendulum moves, and the second-hand moves, and you equate that to mean that time is moving.
Time is a number on a clock, and the numbers on a clock move at a constant rate. Time is the measurement of a motion, and it’s based on the duration of a day on Earth.
A physical clock can stop or slow down by the force of gravity, but the movement of the universe keeps moving. However, if the motion stops, the physical universe ends.
The Speed of Motion
How fast does the speed of motion move? The speed of light and electromagnetism move at the speed of c, which is the fastest speed of motion in the universe. E=mc2
Therefore, the speed limit of motion is the same as the speed of light.
The arrow of time is more like the arrow of motion, and time is the measurement of the motion.
Light comes from an electron that emits the light in the past tense, and it moves into the present moment and continues.
We can't see into the future, but can we see into the past? No, we can't see time because time is a measurement of motion, and the past and future are time-based ideas.
This is difficult to explain.
The light from the sun left about eight minutes ago, and you see the light at your present moment. Are you seeing into the past, namely, what the sun looked like eight minutes ago?
If you wait eight more minutes are you seeing into the future, namely what the sun will look like in 8 more minutes? I know my bad analogy.
Try to forget about using the time to measure your present moment. You can't see into the past or the future because you are in your present motion.
You can only see what is happening in your present motion. Time doesn't exist. Motion exists.
The light from the sun travels at the (motion) speed of c, which is a measurement of its motion using time.
But time is also to measure distance (how far light has traveled), so using the speed of light tells you how far the sun is from your present moment.
Measurements of Motion
Measurements are not real things that cause physical things to happen. Motion is real and causes things to happen. Can you see both the distance to an object and the past moments by using time?
Or are you moving in your present moment and experiencing the motion around you? Time doesn't exist except in the motion that you measure.
The time that it took light or a motion to reach you doesn't matter to you. What matters is the light and energy that you can experience now in your present moment.
Here is a non-relativistic example in real motion, commonly described using time. Imagine that you are fighting in a war, and a sniper from an unseen location shoots at you.
When the bullet hits you in the eye, you don't care when the bullet started its motion or how far it traveled. The only thing that matters is what happens in the present moment.
If you could see into the past you would move to avoid the bullet, but we only see what is in the present moment.
Time is a tricky thing to explain and understand. The important thing is to remind yourself that you are traveling with motion and not with time-traveling.
Time measures how fast things move, but motion has the power that moves things.
This article, The Present Motion, is included in my next book that investigates time.
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