Monday, July 20, 2009

Time & Beyond

Saw Harry Potter and the half blood prince yesterday with Jugnu (why, a tall, dark & handsome guy like him would get nicknamed as jugnu is an interesting story for some other time!). Some of the concepts are really fascinating - i had read the book long back, and had very faint memories of what i had read.

There is a sand clock at a professor's place where the speed of time is not the same! He says the time slows down when the conversation is simulating. Wow! What an interesting way of representation of time!

The concept of time has always fascinated me. With newer interpretations of time emerging! Guruji gives a beautiful explanation of how meditation happens. Thoughts occur to us with a gap - however small. But they dont overlap. In meditation, the gap between the thoughts increases, and in samadhi, the gap increases to an extent that there are no thoughts at all!


So what is time for you? When does it move fast and when does it move slow? Can time actually move fast or slow or is it only the experience which makes the difference (ok, i know mr einstein's theories, but they are mere words and formulas for me, i dont appreciate them really)? Can time stop? Is time the same for different organisms? I remember reading in a scripture that the one second of Lord Brahma is actually several thousand years of human beings, and hence for Brahma the cycle of the universe getting born and getting destroyed is actually very short!

Another interesting aspect is, is time unidimensional or multi dimensional? I remember Guruji saying time is cyclical, but that still does not answer whether its unidimensional or multi dimensional! And is it cyclical only at a macro level or a micro level? Macro level example could be life starting on planet, getting destroyed and getting born again. Micro level could be if the events within a civilization also repeat!

Physicists often refer to the space time continuum. Wonder how exactly are they related, or they actually completely different?!

Only time will answer the above questions, i guess.

Time out for now!