Time - Once Again

     In trying to conceptualize "time", I've been through several visualizations of what time might be and have tried to describe it in a couple of pages, "Walking Through Time", "Time Revisited", and "Time Scanner", along with some minor references elsewhere.

     The vision in my head says that all of time exists at the same moment and we are just players moving around the field.  From the right perspective, you can see everything and everywhen as it is happening.  While on the time "playing field" you can only see what is happening to you at that moment.

     You can't say that you can see the past.  You can only see the memories of what you saw.  Everything from before and everything coming up next is pretty much a blank to us.  Yet to say that the future doesn't exist is to say that the building I'm going to visit this afternoon doesn't come into being until I get there.  But the building is there now (I believe) and will also be there this afternoon.

     The actions we take during our stroll through "time" may be in the future but some of it is already in place.  This is where I get the brain frazzles.  Assume that the universe exist without our version of time being applied.  It is just there.  If you get above it, you can see all of it.

     Those of us participating in life measure our course with "time" yet it really has no meaning other than to measure events.  Does the past we remember cease to exist because we have already walked that way?  Where does the past go if it ceases to exist?  If it does cease to exist, how long does it stay before it goes away?  If it doesn't cease to exist, how come I can't talk to my grandfather?

     Does the future not exist because we haven't gotten there yet?  When is the future created?  One millisecond before we get there or a thousand years?  If it doesn't exist, are we pushing forward in some type of expanding energy field, creating the future as we go?  If, as I believe, it already exists, why is it so elusive to see?

     It is becoming apparent that in looking at the concept of time we must move beyond the physical world and be able to think about more than one concept at a time, so to speak.  There is a logic to it that will appear if we keep plugging along with our visions.

     There could be another concept staring at us and that is that there is no past and there is no future.  We are trudging along an event driven infinite time line and only exist in that moment.  There would be no past except for memories as it is gone as soon as it happens.  There would be no future except for what occurs at the next instant.

     I don't like the above example so let's expand it a bit.  Past, present, and future all exist.  We are in the present, sweeping up the field towards the future.  With everything being in existence at the same time, again, we can see the past and the future by changing our perspective from the playing field to a point above the field.  We are back to the original premise that all time exist at the same time.

     There would have to be multiple futures for us or we would be stuck with predestination.  The worst thought about predestination is that we would be stuck with whatever we are born with and really don't or can't make choices.  It would also imply that all the mean and horrible things that people have done and do and will do to each other is set in stone.  Bad thoughts about that concept.

     Wherever we may start on the time line, we can move back and forth on the event line and change the direction of our future.  That would allow for multi-dimensional time universes and more futures than we can count.

     People who can see the future, and I know you can do this as I have had minor brushes with the gift, often are wrong and attribute the missed prediction to misinterpretation.  Perhaps the wrong answer was caused by looking at the wrong future dimension.

     My suspicion is that there is a thin veil between the time dimensions and we will someday be able to move the veils aside and see what and where we want to see.  It most likely has to do with human perceptions.  We can perceive the universe in fractions of seconds and not beyond.  It is like being locked in a room surrounded by walls.  There is something outside the walls but we can't quite get to it.  When we find the window, we may be able to open it and see the rest of the world.   

What to you think?  Write:  Pete Jefferson

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