WHAT TIME IS IT, REALLY ?

WHAT TIME IS IT,  REALLY ?

 

Back in the 1920`s Einstein fixed the

existence of time.  Well, almost.

 

He , Albert, worked out a formulae that

we have come to live by, E=mclittle2.

Maybe that is supposed to be big M,big

C squared---but, you get the idea.

 

In this formulae of Albert`s, gravity is the

biggee and it explains the small stuff.

 

Now it has been postulated that there are

or may be other kinds and forms of time.

Suppose there is more than our universe,

well, there may be forms of time for those

other universes, so we have to think small

in quarks, neutrons, strings and a bunch

of little stuff.

 

The question is,  how do we package those

little fella`s so that we can work with them ?

You know, measure them, weigh them, count

them and keep them in one place long enough

for all those operations to take place ?

 

So, along came guys like Edward Witten who

worked out this "Superstring theory".  See, my

computer is so old it don`t know how to spell

superstring yet.

 

Anyway, old Ed and a bunch of other physicists

deduced that you can string these little fella`s

together in a string, then you can fold the string

and you will have this bunch in a manageable

package.   The problem is time.  Time does not

like to be put in a package, so another group

decides to put the two ends of the string together

and Wallah,  time is now encapsulated so you

can work with it .

 

But----- we are just a figment of the creationist`s

nightmare and we have a lot of places where time

is not measurable yet.

 

So,  we have the string theory, but we have to keep

the ends of the string open, so just as soon as

we plumb these other universes and figure out

what kind of clocks they have we will then be able

to finish our little package of little fellas.

 

------ Eagle Cruagh

Reviews

[kimmy]

This was interesting, I wonder about different things like this. Like when they talk about there could really be another dimension and all that, it makes me wonder and wish I knew or could see it for myself.
The time thing, is interesting:) either way I still never have enough time in the day for the things that seem to need to be done.
Very nice read and has me thinking:)

[Mary]

or we could just call time for the illusion it is and leave it out of the equation all together? Nice write! Good style

[Claudia Stark]

Interesting, you know how I'd love to be able to fold up time however I'd like and wander through the past.

[Tiffany Kelley]

Not only did I have the privilege of reading a great write, but I also had the pleasure of attending a free class at the same time. Killing two birds with one stone? Absolutely. Very interesting subject to write about. May I ask what inspired you to? I normally would not go out of my way to find something like this, but I am glad that I stumbled across this.

[Natasha]

interesting- though you have this labeled as a poem, as I was reading it, it seemed more like a story ?? I enjoyed the last two paragraphs- tied it all together nicely

[RENichols]

Other worlds with other times? C.S. Lewis would like this.

[Anne Timmins]

Informative and interesting. Well done!

[Poetic Beauty]

Wow this is packed full of all kinds of information.

[J. J. Nightingale]

And they say "there is no God" .. as they hang there in space ..

Interesting .. Jazz

[Marie]

There's the bubble theory also...

Time speeds up, time slows down...and for every alternative world, there's an alternative world to that one...

The door to all the other words is there...we just haven't found it yet.