What is Time? Is time merely our concept for the span in which events unfold, or is Time a part of the Universe, an integral force that, like a pacemaker, acts to set the temper for all things?
Measurments of gravity show the ponderies of shape and mass upon it. At the equator an object actually falls slower than at the poles.
Time seems influenced by the physical as well: extremely accurate atomic clocks, placed simultaneously at sea level and at high altitudes, have shown that those at a higher altitude actually record time passing faster, where gravity and magnetism are weaker. We are such a land bound species, we have little concept of potential beyond our own daily endeavor.
But nature is subject to violent shifts: a summer breeze to a Santanna, a spring day to a sudden thunderstorm in which the changes are from one extreme to the opposite in the spectrum.
Is Time subject to the same storms? Being invisible, as is gravity and magnetism, how could we tell? What is its prelude? How is its advent? What are its after-affects? Would it affect nature? Would nature affect it?
Even sun spots affect our weather on earth, as do other solar forces. If force fields can affect weather, and shape and mass effect gravity, can they affect Time. . . .somehow, somewhere, no matter for how brief a moment?
Gravity can even affect the travel of light. Einstein predicted, and it has been empiracally observed, that gravity slows and therefore bends light. A star’s light, even opposite the sun, can be bent by the massive helioshpere— the sun’s gravitational field— so that its position actually changes from our perspective here on earth.
We know how fast light travels here on earth—186,000 miles per second— struggling with our gravitational field, then that of the sun’s which cradles us. But how does it travel in intergalactic space . . .free of the sun’s heliosphere?
In how many ways and by how many paths does light come to us from other galaxies, fighting and bending, slowing and speeding with the force fields it encounters?
A scientist named Ritz once did calculations based on the theory that light follows a Riemannian non euclidean geometry and that light from the farthest star would take only 17 years to get to earth. Barry Setterfield of Australia did tests in which light seemed to be slowing down.
Is Time being effected as well? Light is the expression of energy. Can Time change as the Universe slows or changes? Is Time being made suspectptible to anamolies as well as the other invisible forces of our universe it was not subject to before?
Magnetism is the longest studied geophysical data available. In the last 150 years this has showed an alarming decrease in the magnetic field, as much as 6 per cent. This field is responsible for shielding the earth from numerous dangerous solar forces. Is something warping Time?
Some years ago, a man in York, England, was working in a basement of a building which ran over an old Roman road. Suddenly, a troop of Romans marched through the wall, in full armour, completely oblivious to anything around them. Where the road was not completely excacvated he saw them from only the knees up. Where it was completely excavated he saw their full forms. They passed through the other wall and then were gone. Is this lunacy, or did the earth merely replay a scene captured in it 2000 years ago?
Some have thought that the tales of ghosts may stem from the earth having replayed an event, a passed life, a past moment, captured and recorded by it as we do with film today. How can that be? Are these just liars, cranks, or the superstitious? Or is the kernel of truth behind these tales telling us about the power of nature around us?
But how can it be? The earth has no camera, no film, no lens with which to record an event; no film upon which to store it, no camera to develop it, no projector to replay it.
The human body testifies to the power of harmony. We are the same chemicals and materials as all the Universe around us, made of the same building blocks, our tissues of the same acids, vitamins, minerals, fats, molecules and powerful electrical signals.
The human brain is more complex than anything man can comprehend. In our memories we can recall past events, in color, black & white and even technicolor. We can recalls sounds, smells, still pictures and in motion, of faces long stilled, hear voices long quieted. Our dreams are vivid spectacles, sometimes frightening but also pictures of places and past events and make-believe scenes. How can the brain do it? It has no lens, no film, no camera, no projector, but it replays pictures, moving and still, with little difficulty? . . .How can the earth do it?
Existence is so complex even the simplest form of life beggar our imagination. “To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparrelled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closeing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and belwidlering complexity . . . Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality, the smallest elements of which—a functional protein or gene—is complex beyond our own creative capacities, a reality which is the very antithesis of chance, which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?” —Dr. Michael Denton, Phd Microbiology.
Beyond the cell is the complexity of things not seen—gravity, magnetism . . .Time. “Softly, softly, they creep about us” to paraphrase Lewis Carroll. They leave a teasing trail of themselves, one quietly points to the other then flees before we can ponder.
Black holes exist in space, where gravity is so strong the light cannot escape, where not even time can be registered for the clock would stop, where everything vanishes. Just of what is the Universe capable and all its elements?
Even now in the 21st century we are as babes. It is not so bad that we do not know all things, but it is unforgivable that we do not even suspect that these things can possibly be.
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