Time Time is seemingly a simple notion. When on speaks of time it is unnecessary to explain what one means, the other simply understands. But when asked define time it would be difficult for any individual to define it in unique terms (i.e. not a circular definition). Also, when asked what time is exactly no lucid answer could ever surface. Well, no lucid answer could surface except the one of a few prominent scientists who claim that time is not a real entity. However, their research has only resulted in meager proof, which is absolutely negligible, and their theory is not accepted. It seems that time cannot be described. Or maybe it can be described if we think of in a different light. Let us lay down the basic characteristics of time. Many agree that time is undoubtedly a continuum and that it sort of flows. However, unlike a continuum time does not progress in two directions for we cannot travel into the past, it only flows forward. Hence, time is not actually a continuum. Also, since time only flows forward it would seem feasible that it, in fact, has a beginning. It is completely logical to assume an origin of time exists, but since we cannot go back to visit this instant and there is no evidence for its existence then, in effect, it does not. Simply put, if there is no record of the past it does not exist. The future is somewhat similar to the past in this respect. You see, like the past, without evidence of its existence it does not exist, but unlike the past there can never be evidence for the future because nothing can exist before it exists. Therefore, there is no future and there is no past, unless there are records of its passing. Time consists of many aspects which allow it to function as it does. To fully define time we must investigate the temporality of these aspects. First we must examine the units with which time is measured, such as minutes or seconds. Verily, within any measure of time there is a flow of events that occur. Consequently, any span of time is defined by the events that transpire within them. Events are, in essence, functions of time, i.e. they are temporal, for they are the amalgam of many instantaneous instances. Therefore, a span of time is a function of time and is temporal. In addition to its units of measure time is composed of infinitely miniscule instants or frames, which are, in essence, the structural components of time. Now, the basic assumption must be made that if some object is part of an entity’s composition, but is not a result of that entity, then the object must exist outside, or free, of the entity. As previously ascertained, the results of time are events, and the units which compose time are infinitely small instants. Hence, the infinitely small instants that make up time are, in fact, atemporal. These instants exist above time and are the fabric from which events are cast. A random linkage of these eternal instants creates an event which takes place in time. Even a bond of two of these atemporal instants creates a temporal event. With these aspects closely inspected an accurate description and definition of time can be derived. Undeniably, a lucid and respectable description of time can be made now that our investigation of time is complete. Time consists of both temporal and atemporal entities. The temporal aspect is the measure of the span of events. The atemporal aspect is the instantaneous instants that eternally compose time’s pseudo continuum. Both aspects are time, and time is both aspects, hence time is dually temporal. This dual temporality means that time both exists within itself and outside itself. Time essentially exists outside of time and then spawns itself within time. Also, an absolute past for time does not exist and neither does a future, which means that it has no beginning and no end and is therefore infinite. This compounded with its atemporality indisputably shows that time is the eternal origin of time and is the progenitor of temporality itself. |