What is Time?
By: Dj Des Jardins
Tags: Universe, Timeline, Time, Akashic Records, Big Bang

What is Time?

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Note I am referring to “Time” and not “time”. For our discussions, this is the difference.

“time” — refers to a point in “Time” or a duration of “Time” that we as humans have defined as a set of mutually agreed upon conventions (Mostly, there are cultures where a “day” is the smallest unit of time and where others are obsessed with the passage of milliseconds), so we will not show up late for our date. This has caused both dramatic fights in the Restaurant, and, in extreme cases, nuclear bombs being dropped on civilian population centers (true story, look it up)

“Time” — Time is the force behind “Change”. Without Time nothing changes, moves, progresses. It is not really a force so much as it is a lattice, or framework that defines and enables “Existence”. Without Time, nothing exists.

Let us delve. Can a rock exist if you cannot perceive its existence? Let us keep this simple and look at how humans perceive the world. We use our senses. Humans can “see” the rock, “feel” the rock, “smell” the rock, taste the rock (to each their own) and even “hear” the rock if it is interacting with other rocks or a window. Can any of this happen without the passage of Time? It takes Time for the light reflecting off the rock to reach your eyes. It takes Time for signals to travel from your little toe you just stubbed on the rock to reach your brain (ouch). You get the idea. Perception is based on a change that can be sensed. Change cannot occur without the passage of Time.

Our experience and observation of Time is so infinitesimally small compared to the vastness of Time even if you are an advocate for the Big Bang Theory that has a finite starting point for “Time” (boom, now everyone start your clocks). This small subset of sample data makes it extremely difficult to reasonably discern the true nature of Time. But what we can say is that without Time we have “nothing”.

“Time” does not have a beginning and end, but “time” does. I am running with the Big Bang (the big bota-boom) Theory. We perceived time starting at the moment (nanoseconds after actually, I mentioned “those” people earlier) things literally exploded into existence. They exist because we can perceive their existence through the passage of time. So, the Big Bang is the beginning of a “timeline”. If a timeline has a start, by simple corollary, it must have an end. When does it end? Obviously, it ends-nanoseconds (likely closer to femtoseconds, more commonly referred to as a quadrillionth of a second) before the next timeline starts.

Infinity

It is generally accepted that the Universe is big, really BIG, so big that some consider it infinite. But can anything truly be infinite? Take numbers, they go on infinitely, you can always add 1, right? But numbers are no more than a Human construct to organize the physical world. I have a bag of potatoes. A bag is a unit of measure. Now I have multiple bags of potatoes how do I communicate that to another human? Or how do I define the quantity of potatoes in the bag in a mutually understandable way? The bag contains 12 meals worth of potatoes, another unit of measure.

Humans have generally agreed that the most common unit of measure is the base 10 numeric system (10 digits, base 10… You do the math). We then use mathematics to manipulate those numbers to bring meaning to the physical world. So, if we have a number so large it represents the number of components of matter in the universe (in short, everything) could we just add 1 to it, or 2? What would that number represent? It would be meaningless since we created numbers to help us define the physical world and the physical world has a finite number of elements, at any point in time (Back to time again) how could a number exist if it cannot be perceived? (set aside negative numbers and ‘i’ for now since those are constructs to allow us to balance equations…) Perception defines existence therefore if it cannot be perceived if it does not exist. Logic dictates numbers cannot be infinitely large or small. Mathematicians realized this early on, so they created the numeric equivalent, the infinity symbol.

So, now that we have shown that nothing can truly be infinite let us discuss how something can be perceived to be infinite in nature. Let us look at a circle track, it does not have a physical beginning or end and if the circle is large enough it would appear as though you are traveling in a straight line going on indefinitely. But is it? You can only exist within a timeline and a timeline has a start and end. This means you cannot go on indefinitely since you would stop progressing and cease to exist when the timeline you are in ends.

Timelines

This is not your classical timeline story about going back in time, altering the past and creating another variant of the present future. That is just silly. We are talking about finite timelines with a beginning and an end. The beginning is the Big Bang, the end is the Big Bang, or next Big Bang for ease of discussion.

So, we have concluded that the universe is not infinite is size, but we can be tricked into seeing infinite size using a circle. Let us really kick this up a notch and consider a sphere. Just like a circle you can travel around a sphere with the perception that it never ends. Now let us consider that the universe is a sphere, and everything exists on the surface of that sphere

Everything traveling around this immense sphere would be acted on by the other universal forces, gravity, momentum, etc. ultimately causing things to run into each other. There are many instances of that happening currently, two galaxies colliding and merging. Take for example the object known as NGC 6052. It is a double object, two galaxies merging that was first catalogued by William Herschel in 1784. We have also concluded that when everything in the universe occupies the same space at the same point in time, we get the big bota-boom, the start of a new timeline.

Through implication we see that a timeline must end before the next one begins. In essence, time must stop, and it does. “time” stops when everything is in the same place at the same moment, a singularity. This is when time stops, everything ceases to exist, there is no longer matter only energy and that energy does not like to sit still so it explodes outward, restarting the clock and coalescing back into matter. This is the moment one timeline ends and another begins.

“Time” didn’t stop, cease to exist, then start again, “time” did, or more specifically one timeline ended, and another began. “Time” manages these timelines. The timelines exist within the framework of Time. To simplify what is happening, timelines are persisted within the framework of Time, protected by Time. This persistence happens in real-time ( 😊 ) and when a timeline ends Time closes that specific data-set and opens a new one for the new current timeline. “Time” is therefore a superset of data consisting of datasets for every timeline that ever existed. The data-set of a timeline contains, at a minimum, every sensation, thought, utterance, smell, sound, and emotion experienced by every living thing that ever existed anywhere in the universe during that timeline.

This is also the definition of the Akashic Record.