I was reading Dracula on my new smartphone, waiting for 2pm when I would have to go to class. And as is usually the case, after reading a few pages of anything, I felt sleepy. I tucked myself in under the sheets, closed my eyes and tried to catch some shut-eye. But, as always, the mind wanders and this time it wandered on to the nature of time.
My blog has been reduced to an outlet for my weird thoughts off late: weird thoughts I believe are worth preserving.
I suddenly had this picture of 4-D space! Something that is very hard to imagine and harder to put into words. Time was just like space; stretched out in both directions, orthogonal to everything else. It was easy to picture this because I already believed that everything is predictable. What happens to anything and everything can be predicted. This would in turn mean that the direction that everything and anything would go in, was all already known. That is when I saw time as something stretched out, something on which we are travelling in one direction.
This spawned another thought. Just like in the spatial dimensions, there must be such a thing as momentum in time. Momentum in time would make something go along the time axis in the same straight (time)line! Everything I see seem to have this momentum, because everything I see is moving ahead in time. Which means some event gave momentum to all things in the time dimension. And it appears that, since everything is moving along time at the same speed, that everything has some "m" that is equal for all things. The "m" would be the equivalent of mass in spatial dimensions: something that determines how fast a thing moves in time when it is "kicked".
But it seems we havent yet figured out how to create these "kicks"; ie, change our momentum in time. This also means that if at all we figure out how to kick ourselves in time so that our momentum is reversed, we would not be "aware" of it. Because "awareness" stems from temporally spaced firings of neurons. If we manage to kick ourselves in time, we would simply reverse all that neuron firings and go literally, "un-aware".
I wonder if I can write down some equations with t in place of x and see how it pans out. Like:
"P" = "m"x(t2 - t1)/ ("t2" - "t1") or some shit like that.
Hmm, what is "t" here? With respect to what is time changing? I donno! I have to go to class!
Addendum:
When I said "things seem to have the same momentum in time" I made the mistake of defining "things" with respect to spatial dimensions. That is, a book is a "thing" because it is separate from other things wrt to 3D space. But in the dimension of time, it must be something else that defines what a "thing" is. So in that case, it obviates the necessity of every"thing" having had the same "m", because wrt to time, everything that is disparate in space is still just one thing.
Come to think of it, I guess Einstein had an idea of what it was! It must be something related to velocity since things that have a velocity wrt to another experience differences in the flow of time. But wait, velocity here is defined in spatial dimensions, and I defined a "thing" as something moving in 3D space again! WTF... its all so frikkin entangled!
My blog has been reduced to an outlet for my weird thoughts off late: weird thoughts I believe are worth preserving.
I suddenly had this picture of 4-D space! Something that is very hard to imagine and harder to put into words. Time was just like space; stretched out in both directions, orthogonal to everything else. It was easy to picture this because I already believed that everything is predictable. What happens to anything and everything can be predicted. This would in turn mean that the direction that everything and anything would go in, was all already known. That is when I saw time as something stretched out, something on which we are travelling in one direction.
This spawned another thought. Just like in the spatial dimensions, there must be such a thing as momentum in time. Momentum in time would make something go along the time axis in the same straight (time)line! Everything I see seem to have this momentum, because everything I see is moving ahead in time. Which means some event gave momentum to all things in the time dimension. And it appears that, since everything is moving along time at the same speed, that everything has some "m" that is equal for all things. The "m" would be the equivalent of mass in spatial dimensions: something that determines how fast a thing moves in time when it is "kicked".
But it seems we havent yet figured out how to create these "kicks"; ie, change our momentum in time. This also means that if at all we figure out how to kick ourselves in time so that our momentum is reversed, we would not be "aware" of it. Because "awareness" stems from temporally spaced firings of neurons. If we manage to kick ourselves in time, we would simply reverse all that neuron firings and go literally, "un-aware".
I wonder if I can write down some equations with t in place of x and see how it pans out. Like:
"P" = "m"x(t2 - t1)/ ("t2" - "t1") or some shit like that.
Hmm, what is "t" here? With respect to what is time changing? I donno! I have to go to class!
Addendum:
When I said "things seem to have the same momentum in time" I made the mistake of defining "things" with respect to spatial dimensions. That is, a book is a "thing" because it is separate from other things wrt to 3D space. But in the dimension of time, it must be something else that defines what a "thing" is. So in that case, it obviates the necessity of every"thing" having had the same "m", because wrt to time, everything that is disparate in space is still just one thing.
Come to think of it, I guess Einstein had an idea of what it was! It must be something related to velocity since things that have a velocity wrt to another experience differences in the flow of time. But wait, velocity here is defined in spatial dimensions, and I defined a "thing" as something moving in 3D space again! WTF... its all so frikkin entangled!
