| Dear Ari,
How fast does a "second" move? One second per second?
This is the problem, which is why I believe that Parmenides and Zeno were exactly right, as implied by Einstein's STR. I made this point on my own note.
All measures of time we can conceive of need be based on the movement of matter, such as the Earth's rotation and its revolution around its sun. Thus, we can just as correctly state that one second is 1/86400 the time it takes for the Earth to make a complete rotation as we can maintain that it takes the Earth 86400 seconds to accomplish the same. Either way of putting it, we label this occurrence a "day."
But if you would analyze this, it doesn't answer your question about the "speed of time." It just provides a circular reference that begs the question.
Inherent within the question is a degree of subjectivity. A week to Christmas for a child seems an eternity; to his or her parents trying to get everything done in preparation, it seems a fleeting moment. An adult Mayfly might live a single one of our days; yet perhaps it seems a reasonable life expectancy to them.
I believe there can be no answer to what is the speed of time other than "zero," as I believe the matter we base all measurements upon is in fact static. The illusion of movement, and thus time and its speed, comes from the universal consciousness which is the underlying (and only) reality.
Have you ever run in a dream? If so, who or what decides how fast and far you run and how fast and far that seems? In reality, how fast and how far have you run?
What is the arena where everything takes place? What has always been present whenever you have observed, felt, thought or experienced anything and in its absence you could never truly attest anything has happened except by inference after it reemerges?  |