Reality is energy recording information. The amount of energy remains the same, so old information is erased as new information is recorded. The thread of time is therefore being woven out of strands pulled from what was previously woven. Time is not a line, but cycles within cycles.
Now is not a point, but what exists. What exists is the energy. The reason we see it as a point is because this energy is traveling at the speed of light and we must quanitize it into packets of logic, called thoughts. As our logical basis increases, it takes less energy to produce each thought. This is one reason time speeds up as we grow older. Now is this quanitization of thought.
Time is a measure of motion, specifically that of an entity relative to its context. As the context is not absolute, it constitutes an opposite direction of time.
The context of any entity is all other entities affected by and affecting the particular object. Whether attraction or repulsion, any two such objects are moving in opposite directions. Therefore the direction of the context, as a whole, is opposite the entity.
As individuals, we think of time as proceeding from beginning to end, but our context is going in the opposite direction. For the individual, birth is in the past and death is in the future, but for the process of life, the future is in the next generation and what is past dies.
Consider a factory. The product moves from intiatation to completion, while the future of the factory isn't in the completed product, but what is to be built.
Past and future are a product of subjective perspective. Objectively there is only what exists.
The past is the closed set of what is ordered(completed). Subject to entropy it loses energy. The present is the open set, that which is ordered, but still absorbing energy. The future is the chaos of random energy.
This is essentially complexity theory applied to the function of time, as a whole. The essential phase transition between order and chaos is that of the present as the transition from the chaos of the future into the order of the past and the order of the past giving definition to the potential of the future.
This all may seem obvious from the perspective of modern theory, but a linear, one dimensional view of time prevails in the popular culture and frankly in much of science, as well, from the linear, beginning to end assumptions inherent in Big Bang theory on down.
(Einstein thought gravity would collapse space to a point, but the gravitational process is constantly radiating energy. If gravity is the collapse of spacetime, than radiation would seem to be a factor in its expansion. If they are balanced and space is ultimately euclidian, as evidence seems to suggest, than might a convective process be at work here? The black hole at the center of our galaxy takes in little matter, could it be the eye of the storm, rather than a physical object? While the smooth nature of the background radiation could be the result of vital processes, such as the transition point that this radiation condenses out hydrogen, rather then the result of a distant event. If space expands, but the universe does not, then this expansion would be exerted back onto gravitational systems and provide the energy currently attributed to missing mass.)
When we understand reality primarily as a process which is constantly creating and consuming units, rather then simply in terms of the units themselves, life will begin to make much more sense, from our own mortality and our part in the community on through our political and economic assumptions.
Now is not a point, but what exists. What exists is the energy. The reason we see it as a point is because this energy is traveling at the speed of light and we must quanitize it into packets of logic, called thoughts. As our logical basis increases, it takes less energy to produce each thought. This is one reason time speeds up as we grow older. Now is this quanitization of thought.
Time is a measure of motion, specifically that of an entity relative to its context. As the context is not absolute, it constitutes an opposite direction of time.
The context of any entity is all other entities affected by and affecting the particular object. Whether attraction or repulsion, any two such objects are moving in opposite directions. Therefore the direction of the context, as a whole, is opposite the entity.
As individuals, we think of time as proceeding from beginning to end, but our context is going in the opposite direction. For the individual, birth is in the past and death is in the future, but for the process of life, the future is in the next generation and what is past dies.
Consider a factory. The product moves from intiatation to completion, while the future of the factory isn't in the completed product, but what is to be built.
Past and future are a product of subjective perspective. Objectively there is only what exists.
The past is the closed set of what is ordered(completed). Subject to entropy it loses energy. The present is the open set, that which is ordered, but still absorbing energy. The future is the chaos of random energy.
This is essentially complexity theory applied to the function of time, as a whole. The essential phase transition between order and chaos is that of the present as the transition from the chaos of the future into the order of the past and the order of the past giving definition to the potential of the future.
This all may seem obvious from the perspective of modern theory, but a linear, one dimensional view of time prevails in the popular culture and frankly in much of science, as well, from the linear, beginning to end assumptions inherent in Big Bang theory on down.
(Einstein thought gravity would collapse space to a point, but the gravitational process is constantly radiating energy. If gravity is the collapse of spacetime, than radiation would seem to be a factor in its expansion. If they are balanced and space is ultimately euclidian, as evidence seems to suggest, than might a convective process be at work here? The black hole at the center of our galaxy takes in little matter, could it be the eye of the storm, rather than a physical object? While the smooth nature of the background radiation could be the result of vital processes, such as the transition point that this radiation condenses out hydrogen, rather then the result of a distant event. If space expands, but the universe does not, then this expansion would be exerted back onto gravitational systems and provide the energy currently attributed to missing mass.)
When we understand reality primarily as a process which is constantly creating and consuming units, rather then simply in terms of the units themselves, life will begin to make much more sense, from our own mortality and our part in the community on through our political and economic assumptions.
