Friday, August 17, 2007

The Relative Understanding of Time

"But as in general, my boy, you do not yet know of the exceptional peculiarity of this cosmic phenomenon Time, you must first be told that genuine Objective Science formulates this cosmic phenonemon thus: Time in itself does not exist; there is only the totality of the results ensuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place. It is necessary to notice that in the Great Universe all phenomena in general, without exception wherever they arise and manifest, are simply successively law-conformable 'Fractions' of some whole phenomenon which has its prime arising on the 'Most Holy Sun Absolute.' And in consequence, all cosmic phenomena, wherever they proceed, have a sense of 'objectivity.' Only Time alone has no sense of objectivity because it is not the result of fractioning of any definite cosmic phenomena. And it does not issue from anything sufficiently independent; therefore, in the whole of the Universe, it alone can be called and extolled as the 'Ideally-Unique-Subjective-Phenomenon.' From Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by GI Gurdjeff.

3 comments:

Lorne Roberts said...

yowsers. heavy stuff.

Luis G. QuiƱonez, M.D. said...

Does not time change with velocity? And is not movement, and therefore, speed relative to another object in space? So, one can say that time is "relative" and by extension, subjective.

I am not a physicist, but this seems to make sense to me, although I may not be correct in what I describe above and Steven Hawking may be rolling his eyes at me.

Lorne Roberts said...

well, in my equally non-physicist view, that seems to make sense, yep.

string theory, to me, seems to make almost everything a bit relative and subjective, at least from our ultra-limited viewpoint.