Monday, September 7, 2009

What is time made of?

I've been thinking about how time seems to move faster as we get older. There seems to be a connection between our sense of mortality and the passage of time.

Einstein showed us how time would vary relative to mass and velocity. What if it goes deeper than that, fluctuating on a molecular level? Our current understanding of time would seem to be naive, awaiting all kinds of new discoveries.

We are starting to understand that time as we know it (simplified to the microcosm of our existence), is an interpretation of the reality of time, which is actually part of the fabric of the Universe. In a way, time is a substance, immeasurable by our current understanding, yet woven into our existence with connections we have yet to discover.

Could it be that time is a flexible membrane which varies depending upon our perspective? What if the neurons in our brains have some influence on the nature of time?

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