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Monday, June 30, 2008

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Illusion of Time

For as long as we humans have been able to utilize our psyche to ponder on the mysteries of nature, universe, and reality, we have a predisposition to describe objects and processes in terms of our sensory perceptions, which for all purposes are bounded by the very space time construct in which we exist. Time, being a dimension, cannot be perceived directly, but only inferred from the changes we observe around us. When the second hand on the clock moves, we conclude that a moment of certain length has passed. Must time exist? Does time mean anything, or does it affect anything at all if there are no sentient beings to observe the changes it seemingly brings about? Must one state logically flow from one to the other in a linear progression, of which the governing rules is the Thermodynamic laws? Can we not view these state changes as such, but rather as chaotic transitions with no recognizable patterns or forms? When we take on this perspective, must it necessarily contradict our everyday experience of things progressing from new to old, from ordered to chaotic, from low entropy to high entropy, from the past to the present, and henceforth to the future, and so on? No. For if our memory, our consciousness, our awareness, and their collective complexity are a result of these changes, then they are no longer subject to this illusionary construct we call time. Imagine, if you will, that you are holding a cup of coffee, and you are about to fall. Now, the reality is the microstates that portray the entire universe, which invariably also includes those of you and the macrocosm you reside in. For now we presume the existence of time, which we always have. The next logical progression of the scenario described earlier would be that you fall onto the floor and the coffee cup break into pieces. Now we turn off the imaginary switch that gives rise to time, and suppose that this second set of microstates exist side by side with the earlier set. Now if the second set of microstates had jumped to the first set of microstates, we would say time runs backward. However, this is not the case, for your memory and your consciousness is also part of these microstates, and they do not exist in another realm (this is yet another assumption we assert as correct). While we were in the second set of microstates, we must also have perceived the occurrence portrayed in the first set of microstates. The illusion of time moving forward is just then by virtue of our perception in a particular set of microstates. If we have described the universe this way, then there is no need for time, for time does not exist. One may argue, however, in the earlier explanation, that I have mentioned that one particular set of microstates jumping into another must necessarily imply the existence of two snapshots of time. I hereby claim that this is not the case. If you desire proof, do reply.

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