7 Jun 2008 @ 10:38, by Shreepal Singh
Let us proceed by analogy. We are dealing here with things; but it is wrong term to employ in this context. The correct term is reality; we are dealing with realities. Realities when placed in space are things; and when they are placed in time, they are events. Therefore, the term ‘things’ used here should be understood in the meaning of ‘realities’ of things when placed in space and events when placed in time. Let us proceed in the domain of time with the analogy of things in space; because we know many properties of things, that is, realities when placed in the domain of space.
Does time have only one property, that is, flowing in a direction – from past to future? Could there be some other properties also? It is instinctively correct to state that the time is full-fledged dimension; there must be many other properties also. Which are those properties, we do not know; we have no means to know them. However, we can proceed a bit by applying the analogy of space. Space has three sub-dimensions and we may try to apply then in the time’s domain. When things are placed in time’s dimension, they acquire the property of flowing in a direction – from past to future, which in relativistic manner is conversely a flow of time from future to past. This direction of flow from past to future or from future to past may be taken as an equivalent to one sub-dimension of space (say, length); through this property of time, it would be possible to go to past or future of things.
Then, let us apply this property of time to an equivalent of space’ 90 degree shift; with this shift the time would flow at an angle of 90 degree deviation from its straight direction of flow from past to future or vice versa. What is the meaning of this 90 degree deviated flow of time? It means that the time would cover not merely one thing in the universe but all the things that are there in the universe. This is by an analogy of space. If we, likewise by analogy, make one more deviation of 90 degree with respect to the time’s these two flows, what would be its result on things? What would be the additional property of things placed in this third sub-dimension? One thing that is certain is that in this new sub-dimension things would have the properties that are not the part of the other two sub-dimensions, namely, when things when placed in this third sub-dimension of time would not have, firstly, the flow of time from past to future or from future to past; and, secondly, things would be out of the cover of time. What does it mean? Precisely, it means that things placed in this third sub-dimension would not undergo the change associated with time and therefore they would be without a beginning and without an end. Also, things would not be covered by time, that is, they would be in the eternal state.
And, what about another property of things placed in time that may qualify the equivalent of ‘mass’ of things when placed in space? We do not know. But when the things are placed in the time’s dimension, those properties (of time) must enable them to acquire various formations (like things placed in space acquire formations of elements, molecules, compounds etc.). How do you rate the possibility of of the idea of capability of things when placed in time to acquire with the aid of time’s peculiar properties formations equivalent to spatial elements, molecules, compounds, including living DNAs. Certainly, it is not an idea born out of fancy. We need to have means to travel in the domain of time. Once we acquire these means, we would travel in the past and in the future. We would also travel in time to see all the things in the universe happening at a given moment. This world of time, like the world of space, would be a vast one; exploration of the time’s domain would be much more interesting than the exploration of space. Let us not think that travel to some distant planet in some far away galaxy, when accomplished by our science, would be the end of our search for the ultimate. Universe is more vast in its kinds than in its space.
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