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

[Catherine O'neill]

so fun!

[Emily Rae]

clever fellow...deducing science into something interesting and endearing (little fellas).

[Cake Box]

I love this. This might be the first time I've actually liked science.

[Maggie]

Time can never be bundled, what a silly idea! You speak what is with words that take thought. Bundle that, scientists haha

[paparapapa]

Haha. You make Science sound like a hundred times interesting. :))))) I had a hard time concentrating on what you were trying to say because I was too busy laughing at your side comments. Oh, and I love the mclittle2! =))) MOOOOORE!

[Muse]

ZZzzzap! It's time to put our fingers in the socket...and wallah! I just had a light bulb moment, he he. I don't think we can put inspiration such as this into little packages my friend.

[Kat Collins]

Very clever! And thought provoking. Time can never be truly explained - it's our perceptions of it. A fun read.....

[EMF]

Wonderful and facinating. An unanswerable question that so many answer. Time is time. Only our perception of it defines it. A wonderful write, well written and relaxed. A joy, yet again.

[Ruth]

Fascinating!
But then time is illusional...perhaps lol So all is connected in a package of surreal proportion :)
xoxo

[Kenneth The Poet]

I like this very much. Einstein and Heisenberg and Godel and all those guys were and are geniuses.