Time is infinite

I've been ponder a few deep thoughts lately.  The basis of most of them is this, "Time is Infinite."  This is both big and small.  There is no smallest measurement of time.  So, perhaps alarmingly, each second contains an infinite amount of divisions.  The measurement of time by us is completely arbitrary.  Our physiology defines what we consider a long and short time.  But what if we could change our perception of it?  And just what is time anyway?



Lets say that I can think 10 thoughts in a second... So to me a second has a definition, I can roughly guess what it is and my lifespan would appear to be something like 80 years.  But what if I could tweak my processor and think 100 thoughts a second?  Would my 80 years suddenly feel like 800?  Time is infinite.  We don't need to extend our "time" we only need learn how to subdivide it.  There is an eternity in every second if we could use it.



What is time?  How exactly do you measure it.  When it come right down to it, we have no means to observe time except by observing a completely unrelated change.  We have to see a stop-watch tic.  What if everything stopped moving.  This would include molecules and chemical changes... your brain would stop of course, but now... is time passing?  With no way to measure and no movement to track it, what has happened?  Did time stop too?  Our standard formula for time is T = distance/rate.  Distance... thats movement.  Oops!  Something has to be moving to measure time.



Just needed to capture these thoughts.



So a little more...  Time is infinite.  So any portion of it measured against the rest of it is infinitely small.  A single day in the span of millions of years is insignificant--unless you're a May Fly of course (they only live one day).  But in the span of billons of years, even a few million years is simularly insignificant.  This makes any portion of time insignificant compared to the rest of infinity.  Soooo, that second you think is completely insignificant to your life is no more or less significant than a million years when compared to the rest of time.  But it certainly appears that you can do more in a million years.  This is an illusion.  Every moment in time has infinite smaller divisions and all moments are about the same when compared to the rest of time.



Step back... way back... okay farther.  Look at the whole of the universe in its entirety.  All time and everything.  Now poke your finger in it somewhere.  You've poked into a space and a time.  Now take your finger out and do it again... another space and another time.  But the universe is pretty big so there is a lot of space and a lot of time.  You could experience the universe this way for, more or less, forever.

The Northwest is great

Spent a week in the Northwest attending a great telecommunications conference and visiting my brother.  The conference was all work, but just driving to it was fun since it was about 2 hours north of Vancouver.  It's always fun to fly to Canada.



After the conference I worked remotely from my brother's house.  But while I was there I was able to walk to the mountain spot where he and his wife were married. (close to the spot above).  My camera phone, of course, does not do it justice.



It was great to visit.  I haven't been to the area in 15 years or more.  My brother comes down regularly so I was glad to be able to get up there.



Work calls...