From the beginning…

What was in the beginning? Let’s say nothing was in the beginning. And nothing is something that we cannot quantify or could comprehend. For us, nothing is something that doesn’t make any sense and makes no effect. Nothing; is what was there in the beginning. As soon as things began, then there was no nothing. It all came to be something and some other things. To understand the complexity of things, it is important to understand the basics. It is not what the laws of physics say, it is not what the laws of chemistry say, it is not what is written in the books but it is what is written in the universe that we all sometimes don’t understand fully. That is why we have to look at things as they are; not how we want to look at them.

Let’s ask a few questions. What is the length of a meter? It is one meter. What is the weight of a Newton? It is a Newton. What is the duration of a second? It is one second. How long does it take for one second to pass? Now, that depends. Yes; this is where all the troubles start and this is where all the light is seen. If you don’t understand time, then everything else that you thing that you know are a just a waste of a lifetime.

If you consider time as a sheet of paper with gridlines on it, just for an example to try to understand it, then it is not time that travels; it is us who travel on time. Now if you consider that the time is a 3D grid, then we can travel back, forth, sideways, up and down in time. This is where it gets confusing. If we can travel back and forth, then why haven’t we travelled then? Well, it is not about going back to your past; it is about travelling in time. Travelling back in time doesn’t necessarily have to be going back in your life.

  

Let’s see this in another example. If you consider time as a 3D grid that is a 100km x 100km x 100km in dimensions, then imagine a few people starting from random points in this grid. They could meet each other or they couldn’t. And if they meet, they don’t necessarily have to have travelled the same duration of time in their journey. Let’s consider the length of the path in this grid as the duration that they had travelled.

 

 Most of us want to thing time as unidirectional. If you take the red lines as the paths through which people or objects travelled in time, then the length of time they had experienced is not equal. If you take the green lines as the direction of time as we measure it, then the used time can never be returned; thus no one can travel back in time. We have made it as a law that a second is something that went away. Yes, any time that we measure is unidirectional. So we would like to think that time had a beginning and an end. Time could have points where travelling in the same direction becomes impossible because there is no more time dimension in the same direction but you can always turn around. There is no dead end to time. You can see the end of time if you an object that travels only in one direction; there will be a point at which you will have touched the border of the time in that direction. And I am not talking about the spatial directions. This is direction in time itself.

 

  

For the ease of understanding let’s view the time grid as a 3D entity and say that there are these 3 basic axes that you can determine your direction with. All our measurements of time are in the Z axis. We don’t really calculate or know how to calculate the spending of time in the other two directions. If there had been a minute spent in parallel to the X axis or the Y axis, then we are unaware of it because we only count and know time in the Z axis.

Let’s represent the duration of time with the length of the path in this grid. If four different people started travelling in time and they all started at the first frame and went along the Z axis, then they will all experience the same length of time in seconds; the measurement we have to measure time.

In case if one of them started to tilt a little bit and went non parallel to the others, then this person would have experienced the same length of time but for the others, this person travelled shorter. The time is experienced in different rates by different people, different objects and different activities. Time as we quantify it is only one direction of a multi dimensional grid; a grid that has at least 3 directions.

When 4 people, objects or events begin in the same plane of time; let’s say the first frame of x,y axis, and travelled in different directions, after the same length of time, they would have travelled different amount of seconds in our calculations. This is because we only measure time in one direction; the Z axis.

  

 If three travelled in parallel to each other leaning 30 degrees away from the x,y plane and the fourth one travelled 40 degrees away from the x,y plane, then the fourth one would have travelled longer in our calculations because the fourth one would be at a lengthier distance than others on the Z axis.

Two people may experience time at different rates. One can feel slow and the other can feel speed in time. Feelings and emotions are not scientifically quantifiable; it is through these measures you can have a little understanding of time. Time seems to go faster when you are happy; it seems to go slower when you are not happy. It might explain that when people are happy they travel in a different direction than normal. And when people are sad time does not seem to move fast. This might explain that people slow down in the happy direction of time when they are sad.

If all the people on earth had the same quantity of time to live; they still don’t have to live the same number of years. The years are what we measure; it is a linear measurement of time. Someone having lived 20 years might have experienced the same quantity of time that someone that lived for 80 years might have experienced. The difference is only in the direction they travelled.

When an object travels faster in unidirectional time, it gains mass. There is no single dimension in this universe that is not connected with another. Time is connected with mass and space. The fact that time is connected with mass means that time is connected with energy as well. We measure speed as a function of time. Velocity could only be measured if there were space and time. All of these dimensions are interconnected with each other. Time, space, energy and mass are inseparable. We are unable to find answers because we see these separately. They can be measured separately but again, we would be looking at a single axis and a unidirectional measurement where the actual entity is like a 3D grid.

Can time be made or destroyed? It should be! Would time be released or absorbed in an event? It must be!