THE answer is, we simply do not know. Time, goes the joke, is Nature's way of stopping everything happening at once. Time defines our lives, it is how we measure our very being. Yet as to what it is, we are as in the dark as the ancients. That is not to say that we do not understand what time does. Physicists such as Albert Einstein have come up with some great insights as to the properties of time. We give it a symbol and plug it into various equations and it works very well. But that, again, does not tell us what time actually is. Is it a 'river', which flows from past to future? If so, a river of what? What causes it to flow, and what sets the rate at which it flows? Would it be possible to swim, as it were, upstream, and travel through time? Could we stop the river flowing altogether? Science fiction writers say all this is possible, as, surprisingly, do most physicists. But before we build a time machine, we will need to get a grip on what this most elusive and slippery thing actually is. Ultimately, all these mysteries will be solved.
(Ref: Mumbai Mirror)
1 comment:
Hi Preksha,
Came across ur blog post in one of my search results in Google's Blog Search !! Ur post on TIME is quite though-provoking. Rightly said, in this ever busy world, TIME indeed defines our lives at a micro level. Demystifying theories abt TIME would certainly do wonders :)
Keep such abstract posts coming in!!
~Chinmay
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