The Meaning of Time

Can We Slow Time Down?

Well if Superman can do it . . . I do believe that we can slow down time, and even more than just one person's observation of time, which we already know it totally malleable. Since we know that adding time to our atomic clocks is necessary because the earth is slowing down due to friction, than we can assume that friction on some level would be one way to slow time down. We also know that people can manipulate matter around and inside them. By focusing their minds, practitioners or Tai Qi and Qi Gong, and many many other disciplines are able to generate heat from their bodies, around their bodies, etc. Generating heat is a manipulation of matter, creating friction. If it's possible for one person to do it on a small scale, you can assume that many people can do it on a large scale. If enough people were able to create enough friction, you bet they could slow time down, right?

What Are the Cultural Implications of Time?

I think that time in regards to cultural implications can be observed, not only between different cultures, but in the different sub-levels of a single culture as well. It seems that the western culture assumes that the more you are pressed for time, the more that FILLS your time, the more important you are. You'll see people in high ranking positions in the business world flying from appointment to appointment, and all the new cool-guy expensive toys are all geared at being able to fit more into your time. Pocket day planners that allow you to put in hundreds of appointments per day, with 80 different alarms to tell you that your late, late, late all the time while you're rushing from place to place. Those people are considered important, busy, and productive. For wearing themselves to the bone and giving themselves colon cancer and ignoring their family and friends, they are given honorable mention and are the role-models for all magazines and television ads for pocket planners and nano tech time savers. In other parts of the world, people like that are considered crazy for never taking time to sit . . . r e s t . . . and be quiet with their thoughts. Spend time with their family, take four hours to eat one meal. Those things are considered good things in other parts of the world. Here, it's lazy and unproductivebecauseyouhavetosqueezeinasmuchaspossibleintoeackmoment!

What About Parallel Universes?

What about them? Like, if I were able to punch a hole into another dimension, that's right on top of this one, would I see myself playing with a major symphony orchestra, because I did indeed go to Julliard to study music performance? Would I be in a street gang with tattoos on my neck if we hadn't moved from Salinas? Are those things happening right now, in another dimension? Yeah, they are. If it occurs in my mind as a possibility, does that make it real at least on some level, in some place? Every time I make a decision to do this or that, does a fork appear in the road, and then there is that other road that I didn't take. It has to go to somewhere . . . did even just a little part of me take that route instead? How can we ever know or prove something like that? Or maybe if the Chinese did discover the Americas I may still be studying TCM, and so would everyone else, right? Only maybe then 95% of the Native Americans wouldn't have died from infections and we would have integrated study of TCM and TAM. Who knows? Maybe in yet another parallel universe we made advances much sooner and those people are able to see through dimensional portals to watch us flounder on such simple questions. What fools these mortals be!