Thought: The Volume of Time, or a second dimension to the fourth.

By well-wisher

Thu, 08 Jan 2015
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Question: How much can a second contain? How many things can occur within just the space of a second?

 

Answer: Millions; billions; trillions, perhaps even an infinite number of things because, each second, trillions of things are happening, simultaneously, all across the universe. Time is not just long but also capacious because of all the simultaneous occurrences that can be contained within every moment.

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Submitted by Sooz006 on

But you only have the one, the rest all belong to somebody else. That's a crazy thought Wisher, if you multiply one second by the number of people, aniamls, vegitation, insects living it...wow, how long would that second be? That is not just going to flit away in the next five minutes. It's going to be a ponderer. 

 

Submitted by Canonette on

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House 5 has always appealed to me because of its eternalist concept of time.  Likewise, T S Eliot's Burnt Norton:

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.

In which case, a second would contain all eternity.