NO MORE TIME
By William D. Conner
Most science fiction fans at one time or another take issue issue on certain scientific ideas presented in stf (science fiction). The time machine is one of these ideas which has been knocking around for long time. H.G. Wells started it all with the time machine and the time traveler way back when. There are many different ideas on time that have been used in stf stories, and one of the most popular of these conceptions holds that time is a separate "plane" co-existing with the "present." Time is thought of as constantly "passing" by into the past for good.
Time is one of the biggest mirages that man has ever been mislead by. To understand this we must first determine what time is. This is easy. Time is but a measurement as the metric system is but a measurement. All other "characteristics" of time are an illusion. Time is a measurement for certain qualities of physical change that its measurement is relative to. These qualities are duration.
PHYSICAL CHANGE – DURATION EXPLAINED
PHYSICAL FUTURE – Physical changes yet to happen in eternity.
There is no past, present, or future to the mind. It functions in eternity. But the mystic or occult school believes that the mind can foresee some future events. My explanation for this is that the subconscious mind detects a pattern of present occurrences which strongly indicate something which is about to happen in the future. A sick person predicting their own death, for instance. Their subconscious detects the bodily defects and reports them to the mind, which in turn weighs these facts and may even be able to predict when these defects will cause death. But no contact with a "a time plane" is used for this.
No mortal man has ever lived in the past; it was always the present. The present moment is equal to eternity. P=E. The "past" is just old physical changes or occurrences that have happened in the present. Perhaps an illustrated example would help to clarify this explanation.
If one stands on a bridge and watches the water flow downstream, an illusion is soon noticed. The bridge seems to be moving, not the water. This is true of time also. The present is the bridge and physical changes are the cur-rents flowing underneath. The current of physical changes are so swift that we thin the bridge (time=present=eternity) is moving. Physical occurrences can never be reversed once they have occurred. A simple machine cannot reconstruct the world as it was in the (physical) past. Man should break this bond in which time has enslaved him for we live in the present moment which is eternal. WC
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