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Musings on “Time”.
Maybe Time is on a Loop.
The idea of Time — that it is precious, ever-fleeting and difficult if possible to recover — looms over our personal and collective existence.
For many, it is frustrating to think that they just might be running out of time or are being chased by it. We fret over passing time, many a time, and commit blunders in a hurry to meet up Time.
We mount clocks on our walls, adorn our wrists with expensive watches, and mark our dates on calendars all to help us “tell the time” (at least this is the conventional reason).
Yet other than the scientific indeterminacies of the physicists, we really cannot say what Time is.
What is this property of the universe, Time? How does Time work? What does it mean for Time to ‘pass’? Is it in the sense of an object being in motion? Then at what speed?
If Money is measured against weight in gold, which, by the way, is valuable only because we all agree that it has been and will be in the future, what about Time? You’d probably say “Time is money.” But, what if it’s not? What is Time measured against? How much Time passes per…whatever?
