Tuesday, March 06, 2007

The vision of time...

What is “Visual” time?
Up to know we have dealt with time as either immaterial or at least trans-dimensional. There is however the school of thought championed by Aristotle that saw time not as a thing but an effect. To say some one has passed through time, we say they have aged. To age is to grow/decay. To Aristotle time was merely and solely the physical changes experience. If one could somehow be placed one twin into a “stasis field”, like mentioned in science fiction, a field were all physical operations were suspended, for a period of 150 years. The stasis twin would leave this field completely unchanged from the time entered whereas the other would be long since decayed. One could say, from this experiment that the stasis twin was timeless while in field.


The problem with visual time


As stated with our twin experiment, it appears that on twin is timeless. If we could replicate the effect but with a pill or some other thing such that the twin could interact with the world, would it still follow that they were timeless? If nothing existed in the universe but a lump of coal, does it follow that until the coal changes or some spontaneous creation occurs that the universe described is outside of or beyond time? It would seem apparent that if one substituted the coal with oneself that we would still “feel” time inspire of the absence of change.
Subjective to the non-stasis fielded twin