Whiskey Philosophy Part 2 - or - Subjects muddled over during the course of an evenings conversation over tumblers filled with ice and whiskey. We have no real measure of time. All we know is that we are aware of our surroundings during the current active period, we know that a thing happened, but we have nothing tangible to indicate it was, other than that we are aware that it happened. Even if we have a video evidence of it having happened, the video does not detect the passage of time, but only records the events as they occurred within the ranges of our perception. It is impossible to apply any tangible measurement of time, because it has no physically perceptive influence that can be weighed against known factors. We, science, observes physically perceptible changes in known objects that appear to happen at regular intervals. We assume that the occurrence of time is fluid and without gap, yet every method we incorporate to measure time with involves rhythms, pulses, and cycles. There is nothing physical in our perception that exists without gaps or intervals at some level of magnification. Why should we automatically assume that time is completely fluid at any amplification? There is nothing in our experiences that proves that time does not happen a single frame at a time, similar to how a video film displays still images so rapidly that we perceive it as fluid moments through time. If you allow your concept of the fluid passage of time to drop for a moment, and contemplate the evidences for time as a sequence of objects interacting across an extremely fine three dimensional grid work, you cant help but notice that there is more evidence pointing towards a sub-atomic grid, where objects are constantly exchanging locations a few specs of sub-atomic particles at a currently immeasurable rate. If we are ever able to create some method of measuring the interval, it could be turned to a slower motion and we could observe the particles existing in one space and then in the next sequence, existing in an adjoining space, exchanged with another particle that has moved to another space, or replaces the observed particle in its former space. ... I have things to accomplish in the next several perceived passages of time, so I will come back and elaborate on this further, if any of you indicate a penchant to discuss it during the lapse. ;)
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 13:59:12 +0000
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