On time

By Parson Thru

Fri, 12 Jun 2020
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Time is a spring, relaxing

 

Journey of a hand around a dial

 

Time is rotation, and passage through an arrow’s arc

 

Distance from fixation to where we find ourselves

 

Time’s the accretion of bone and flesh, also its decay

 

The wave that overtakes us, to lift us from our feet

 

Time is transformation, release and reformation

 

The ink that flows and falters, then finally fades

 

Drowning, we detach our selves

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Submitted by Ed Crane on

 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Soggy ones here, Ed. A country perfectly suited to reformed religion.

May's fornication is being repaid. Bit chilly for hell, though. Maybe the devil's matches have got wet.

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Submitted by Tom Brown on

A great philosopher once said "all is flux" or, everything flows, from which I contend that if something doesn't change it doesn't exist.

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

I've just started reading a pop science book by Peter Atkins about some of the central laws of science (a.k.a. the universe as we know it). From reading other stuff over the years, I've come to the idea (probably common knowledge for millennia) that time is change or change of state of everything, all happening simultaneously from air forces bombing cities to atoms decaying and our own gestation, growth and decay as "life events" go on around us. I've heard snippets about the laws of thermodynamics and how they relate to all this or unlock it. I read a few buyer reviews of the A Very Short Introduction series book on thermodynamics and ran for cover. Atkins is just setting his stall out. It's meant to be aimed at non-mathematicians. Let's see.

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Submitted by Tom Brown on

A very interesting exercise would be general relativity and to think of physics in this way, I believe there are still some original ideas. Maybe I should try it myself.

Very interesting indeed! Go well Parson! Tom Brown

 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Cheers, Tom. You, too.

I got part way through A Very Short Introduction to Relativity . I suppose could could say I know more than I did, which is something. Iris Murdoch is more of a challenge.

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