Time travels

Ever ask yourself, "Where did the time go?" You may have noted more than once that I've used that phrase, or something to that effect in this blog. Time seems to slip away in a blur, now and then, okay, frequently. If you aren't paying attention, whole days and weeks can go by, and you missed something.

From a strictly quantum physics point of view, I think time goes outward, towards the direction of galactic expansion. If one could point to a place and say, "The universe began here," then we could as easily say that time began then, and has moved outward along with the stars and galaxies. Given the speed at which the universe is calculated to be expanding, time really does fly, fast.

Let's think for a moment about how we define time. The world we live in has three basic dimensions; length, width and depth. Once you have those, you can have motion through them. From that motion, we take the fourth dimension, time. Otherwise known as how long it take to move from one point of the spacial dimensions to another. Now, given the four dimensions that we have just defined, there are many more possible, but let's try to keep it simple.

This also explains how time can be relative, depending on who is doing the measuring. It takes a person with smaller strides much longer to get to one point than it takes a person with a longer stride to cover the same distance. What to you or me feels like a mere minute, could, to a mouse feel like an hour.

Then again, we have decided, in our human way, to standardize time, based on the units of the year, month, week and day. Beyond that, we are obsessed with breaking it down still more.

I think the trick to a more peaceful life, is to get away from defining time beyond the day level. Sure, we have to know the hour of certain events in our lives, but defining ourselves by where we spend our time is a mistake, I believe. The day will go on whether you stop to watch the sunset or not. It will go on even if you take time to write that letter to your grandmother, or decide that the carpet has to be vacuumed now.

Time travels outward, away from us. Maybe, if we paid more attention to it, we could get the most out of it.