CHAPTER  4

TIME

TIME  

It is very unfortunate that Einstein came up with the idea of 'time'. That it was actually accepted and is now part of the current understanding of cosmology has set us back 200 years. 120 years at the time of this writing with 80 to go before we can get rid of all his ideas, thoughts, writings, and so called 'theories'... If we start now.

Einstein imagined time to fill an unanswerable question at the time.  He created time as an analogy to what is truly happening, what which is reality's proven scientific fact.

So I hope to convince you that time does not exist.., because it does not exist.

It is not a causative factor for anything that happens in the cosmos.  Iow we disregard any so called fabric, graph, calculation, or measurement that has ever been made that uses time as a factor. 

And voila, everything fits together like a hand in a glove.  No paradoxes, no loose ends, no unexplained phenomenon.  It all becomes clear once one dumps the concept of time and replaces it with what is truly going on.  Time does not slow, but atoms do.

The existence of time has been discussed and debated for thousands of years.  But Einstein came along over one hundred years ago and decided it was real, and tangible.., and he put it in the cosmos... 

But it was a big mistake. Time is an analogy, plain and simple.  Being perceived as close enough so reality that everyone bought it and is staying with it, and making everything they learn fit that concept.  But the truth is that time is completely faith based.  You can't see it, touch it, or smell it.., nothing.  It is not there.  It simply appears to be there. 

It does because we do have a 'sense' of time, in two ways.  The first is that we on earth have a society that needs to work together.   The earth turns on its axis and so, using our imagination and sun dials at first and other means since, we wanted to keep track of where that earth was in its rotation at any particular instant to be able to do things together.   So we built clocks to tell us. 

Einstein may have been enamored with clocks because he worked at the Bern Switzerland patent office when they were bringing clocks in on perhaps a weekly basis.., each one claiming to be operating more accurately, to record or indicate where the earth was at that point.  So time may have seen much more real to Einstein for that reason.  But they are of course only a means for telling us when to get to work, when to sit down to dinner, and all the other reasons we need to sync ourselves with others.

The other way is in our minds.., our memory.  It is a biological hard drive that records each of the instantaneous 'nows' that our senses are privy to. Each of these 'nows' is an instantaneous shapshot of where all the atoms are in the cosmos at that moment as they are constantly moveing through the cosmos.  Past nows are gone, never to be repeated. Future nows have not happened yet. There is no contiguous 'time' flowing in the cosmos. We can however go back years and years to recall what has happened in our personal past.  Just the same as watching a video consisting of individual 'now' frames. But watching a movie is certainly not time travel... It’s all there in our memory, most of it at least.   Sometimes data is lost or corrupted.  But it's not time in any case.  It is simply a personal record of what we've done and what we've learned in our daily lives.  It is a survival mechanism... We need to find our way home at night. To know who we are and our place in the world. Along with lots of miscellaneous stuff, like knowing grizzle bears are not looking to play. I'm sure all other living organisms have a similar sense too.  We all have memories.  We learn.  It is a survival mechanism in our heads.  We saw what happened to Fred when he tried to fly like a bird off that cliff.  Now we know not to do that, eh?   :)

We know we got up this morning, we know we did a lot of things in sequence, we learned as we went.  Maybe more some times than others.   But it is just and only that.., a memory.  Like a computer with a hard drive that records data that can be recalled, played back, researched, whatever.  But it isn't time making it happen. You have your memories, what has happened to you in the past.., a sense of who you are now, and where you are physically in the world you know.  What is around you in particular and from your place in space, so you can find the light switch in the dark and your way to and from the store, and everywhere else you've been.  You've lived your life and learned everything you know.  It's all in your mind.  You are conscious.  You have your consciousness and I have my mine.  They are not interchangeable.  There is no connection...

We wouldn't be here if we didn't have a memory, but it is not time.  It may seem and feel like time is passing, but it's an illusion.

So this book rejects any and all reference to the non-provable, faith based, and imagined concept of time.  We exclude all circumstantial evidence, all so called supportive math, and all other reasons people believe that time is a tangible entity, force, or anything else to do with reality.