Now that my generation has had the chance to be enticed-slash-overwhelmingly-confused by (a few of) the (more obvious, greatly simplified, often "creatively" portrayed) physics concepts touched upon in "Interstellar," I'm beginning to encounter—IN REAL LIFE—the occasional curious novice mind suddenly open to exhaling that first lung full of stagnant amniotic ignorance, soon to (hopefully) swim naked through and beyond the vitreous ether of irrelevance - perhaps eventually breaking vigorously through its intellectual placenta and into scientific enlightenment! Cry for me, mind-babies!
This is all occurring at a mere trickle, admittedly, and—as per usual—reality hardly does my verbosity a smidgen of justice, but still - it's SOMETHING. I'll take it. Maybe I'll even entertain, for awhile, the ridiculous notion that my knowledge might be useful to humankind before my great-grandchildren's parrots' children are deceased. With that said, let us talk a bit about time. By "us," of course, I mean "me" (to myself), and by "time" I of course don't mean what you're probably thinking, but indulge me if you will - and, especially, indulge me if you won't.
TIME. It's our comprehension of the dynamic interactivity between entropic systems. Definitively, it's a continuously-variable coefficient containing the instantaneous configuration of all of the energy in the universe - but experientially, it's a process by which patterns self-infer at observable frequencies and magnitudes within chaotic systems. Our iterative cognitive cycles would not be possible if not for our brains' inherent ability to interact with time; it is the pragmatic skeleton of those parts of the universe that are most immediate to our existence and upon which our cognitive musculature is formed.
Time is ENTROPY. It's a linear wave of change that drives the lowest common frequency of our brain's perceptive functions. Atomic decay is the universe's clock, and our brains interact with those clock cycles on an arbitrary scale. Regardless of how fast or how slow they are actually occurring, we simplify our comprehension into a matter of space-between-cycles - and the smallest such space our brains are able to measure is the foundation of our concept of "time."
There are a lot of interesting theories on the relationship between time and consciousness. For instance: in a part of the universe with 10x higher temporal density than here on Earth, would our conscious minds fit our pre-existing notion of time to the new scale, effectively becoming 10x less efficient but preserving our subjective experience of our lives passing at a constant rate... or would they adapt to the new time scale, becoming 10x more efficient - or, would either option perhaps have the same result to our cognitive processes? We don't know. We may never know, either, because the gravitational forces necessary to significantly increase temporal density beyond that of Earth's would probably either kill us or else expose us to environmental conditions that would definitely kill us.
Time is ENTROPY. It's a linear wave of change that drives the lowest common frequency of our brain's perceptive functions. Atomic decay is the universe's clock, and our brains interact with those clock cycles on an arbitrary scale. Regardless of how fast or how slow they are actually occurring, we simplify our comprehension into a matter of space-between-cycles - and the smallest such space our brains are able to measure is the foundation of our concept of "time."
There are a lot of interesting theories on the relationship between time and consciousness. For instance: in a part of the universe with 10x higher temporal density than here on Earth, would our conscious minds fit our pre-existing notion of time to the new scale, effectively becoming 10x less efficient but preserving our subjective experience of our lives passing at a constant rate... or would they adapt to the new time scale, becoming 10x more efficient - or, would either option perhaps have the same result to our cognitive processes? We don't know. We may never know, either, because the gravitational forces necessary to significantly increase temporal density beyond that of Earth's would probably either kill us or else expose us to environmental conditions that would definitely kill us.
THAT'S WHY IT'S SO COOL!
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