There is a real universe in which all its components coexist.
We live in a real universe but it isn’t a universe we know or can easily know. The stars and all other objects and events of our real universe are the same age as us not countless light years younger. They, like us, are an instant-old no more or less.
The universe we see does not exist it is an image built up from the relics of the past by our brains and its parts do not all coexist. It is a vision registered by our senses but none of it exists any more. The human reality is the components of our real universe can lie so far in our future we will never experience them by our current senses. However our universe is out there right now and much of its effects will only be felt throughout the distant future. The image of now is a distortion of the real universe of this instant. The image is not false it just doesn’t represent a single image in time but a layered-continuum of snapshots from the past.
So the universe we experience through our senses has no capacity to impact on our future lives, its impact comes and goes in the instant it is received We are the products of its hidden effects as well as its beneficiaries and victims . Meanwhile our real universe with all its events, processes and powers remains hidden to us.
While traveling on a bus today I viewed the world from this different perspective. I realized the people, and vehicles were out of place, out of time. The images should all be moved from where they were in accordance with their distance from me. It was in reality an infinitesimal displacement but it affected the values of physics in a profound way. Gravity was one value it affects. The gravitational field I felt from each object was not coming from where the image was; it came from that object when it coexisted with me. And the coexistence values are ahead of the person crossing the road or the car stopped at the lights. I could feel the sun on my face through the window but it’s from an older sun not the one with which I coexist in the universe. This light and warmth commenced its journey eight minutes ago so the sun is now two degrees ahead of its apparent position in the sky. This sun I see is not the sun of my time but one from the past. And the gravitational pull from the sun I experience is the field from my co-existent sun at its advanced location.
These thoughts challenge me for they tell me something about us that we would once have found weird; our bodies have always been able to read the future. Our brain combines the impact of any place at present time with all past debris arriving at a single place at that instant. It is from this experience the brain can do what is not universally possible, it has a concept of time and an ability to use it. It also uses a small part of the emissions of the sun cast off in the past to build a composite image of the sun and universe on which we base our knowledge. However this ability has its inbuilt difficulties as discussed above.
Every observation based in a space-time framework means calculations are wrong unless an allowance is made for the advancement into the future. This becomes far more important when dealing with things located at distances that are unnatural to the human mind such as that of the stars or quarks. This, thanks to the work of Einstein and those that followed, is now standard scientific practise. This revolution in thinking is still in its exciting infancy and it is what inspires me to examine the origin, nature and reality of time. Evolution, life and awareness will prove essential in this quest and will require inclusion before the concept of time has meaning. And the evolution of memory will need to be presented before the evolutionary process can proceed to the generation of life and the ability to acknowledge, know and sense time.
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