"I do not believe in linear time. There is no past and future. All is one and existence in temporal sense is illusionary" - Calvin
How true can it be? Maybe, after all time isn't linear, and we just perceive it to be so. It might be on some other weird kind of scale, and we presume it to be linear because everyone presumes it, and everyone presumes it, because everyone else presumes it, and everyone else presumes it because it was the assumption upon which everyone made assumptions about things and built all those theories about it.
Einstein once said "Put your hand on a hot stove and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That is relativity". Maybe, there is something in this which defies the linearity assumption about time !
Anyway, how would the life be if we suddenly realized that time is actually on a logarithmic scale, or there is an imaginary component to time, say telling someone (10 + 3j) minutes are left for the party!!!
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Few lines of wisdom (with lots of technical jargons thrown in) at -
http://einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/q425.html
my worst fear came true....I am a big proponent of Time not being linear.. Infact time seems to me to be following a sine curve zooming past sometimes while standing still at others. but then guess the use of sometime is also wrong....
Indeed things are relative n we tend to assume a lot......
Adding to it ... time may appear sine curve ... but in reality it my be something resembling it with lots of irregularity (coupled with high variance in those irregularities thrown in !)
Consider this -
2 days before you joined your first job ... and 2 days after you joined it. Those 5 days might seem to be a lot longer (or maybe shorter!) than any 5 days at stretch in the job. Or maybe those two scales of time might be completely different ... or actually, there might be many scales of time but for sake of convenience/ simplicity/ improper knowledge, we are adhering to some scale which we apply in all the situation.
In fact, time does have an imaginary component i reckon. (haven't googled about it though !!).
Every time you live in 3 parts.
1. Your 'acual' esistance at some moment
2. The time you dream about or aspire to be at that moment
Say, you are at a canteen on 30th July 2007 A.D. at 11 AM. This is the real component. While at the same time you are dreaming about ... or just thinking about a holiday in Mauritius. This constitutes the imaginary component.
Maybe the time is -
(30th July 2007 A.D. at 11 AM) + (1 day 15 hours 4 minutes)j
Time is just Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. Which, of course, explains why when you have absolutely no time to spare, the incidence of super important things happening all at once in absolute chaos is highest.
Vaise, the idea of "The imaginary component" to time is brilliant. It explains so much.
For instance, we arrive at the rule :"Always waste your time with an ODD number of daydreams. Dreaming an EVEN number of daydreams will REDUCE your REAL time by an amount equal to the product of the two daydream magnitudes!"
(DayDream1)i * (DayDream2)i = -(DayDream1.DayDream2)
I would suggest that imaginary time is additive, but simultaneous daydreams will have multiplicative impact !
Also, philosophically speaking, multiple simultaneous daydreams indicates an absolute absence of focus, and this may lead you spend too much energy and time ... hence the negative effect.
Also, as an application of Sirji's observation we can devise a concept of conjugate daydreams, which can help people find solutions to some of their problems.
Say, T = Real component of time
t = Imaginary component of time
For simultaneous daydreams, we have net time effect as
T + it
If a person has a conjugate day dream, it would be
T - it
(These two imaginary time lines need to be equal in magnitude and, opposite in direction i.e past or future)
Net effect would be -
(T +it)*(T-it) = T^2 -t^2.
Maybe, with further analysis, we can gain some practical applications !
Shouldn't that be T^2 + t^2 ?
(And to think I was the one who flunked in maths!!)
In fact, dreaming 'conjugate' dreams simultaeneously is what would ideally GAIN you time - another mind-boggling inference that one arrives at from the Complex Time hypothesis. This essentially means that one may incorporate abstract concepts like DOUBLETHINK into one's time management philosophy. Having 'opposite' - or at least 'conjugate' opinions simultaneously will actually SAVE you time and ELIMINATE 'complexity' (by killing the imaginary component).
May I say, quite a stunningly counterintuitive conclusion.
Ooops ... Mathematically challenged I am u know !!!
This seems an interesting insight insight on gaining time especially for the ones high up in the corporate ladder who are (apparently !) hard pressed for time ... or for that matter anyone who is perennially facing this time crunch.
Even for students who study on the last day before exams, this is a solution for making best out of available time !
Doublethink is THE solution !!
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