The wheel of time

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Many of you may have already started wondering what I’m talking about.. Well, to begin with, that’s just the starting line of a novel i’m studying for my literature class at school (“Cat’s Eye” by Margaret Atwood).

Since time immemorial, people have tried to describe what time is, each giving his/her own interpretation and each so different from others. Personally, I think that this quote definitely fits into the description of this so mysterious time. Indeed, from that quote we understand that time represents an entity that’s ever-changing, that can be bent, that can be played with… I know, i’m startingto sound philosophical right now, but, I can’t do otherwise, for time is in fact a notion that can be explained(for me at least) onlyphilosophically, and abstractly…I’m sure most of you think I’m just talking nonsense. Well of course, you’ll think that. Everybody’s just says that time…well… is something that goes on and on. We actually heard a lot about this one… We can never go back in time.

This may sound absurd to you, but I seriously do not agree with this. Why you would say? Simple enough, you can travel back in time… Yes
you’ve read right, travelling back in time is possible! Don’t you go thinking that I have created a time travelling machine ’cause I haven’t. I mean, just think about it. Can’t you go back in the past through your own memories. Indeed, our memories is the most effective time-travelling machine ever created : it enables you to relive moments of your life that have already gone by. Through memories, you can taste again the sweetness of a first kiss, feel once more the cutting pain of betrayal, revel for a second time in the euphoria of a past success, and the list goes on and on… Isn’t all that travelling back in time? Still not convinced? So tell me, why do you sometimes smile into thin air thinking about some funny thing you did in kindergarten? Why do you have tears in your eyes when you look at the photo of a friend who’s gone away since some years? That’s called going back in time, turning back the clock…

Time is just not a clock ticking away, making us move forward towards a fixed destination; it is a whole universe that holds the power to make us live our past memories…

~ by sayuka on June 19, 2007.

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6 Responses to “The wheel of time”

  1. so true :)

    bbZuSh said this on June 19, 2007 at 9:06 pm

  2. lol for once an interesting article…. though theoritically time travel may be possible if Einstein’s right about his theory that time and space is neither linear nor parallel to our actual dimension but its a line which may be bent… anyway for now its science fiction…. hopefully it’ll soon be science without fiction :P

    viru5 said this on June 20, 2007 at 11:48 am

  3. Einstein… No comments :P what say sayuka? :D

    bbZuSh said this on June 20, 2007 at 7:06 pm

  4. friend :( gone :( time :( revert urserlf and let us spend the time we had at school…at pereybere..oh dear.. time..revert urself

    boomparwez said this on June 20, 2007 at 7:26 pm

  5. It just did :) In your mind :)

    bbZuSh said this on June 20, 2007 at 7:28 pm

  6. How beautifully you have described “Time”, in order that we all can so relate :)

    Time is indeed a focus of everyone at some stage in their lives and reflections within memory allow a brief glimpse.

    As you so eloquently wrote “Time is just not a clock ticking away, making us move forward towards a fixed destination; it is a whole universe that holds the power to make us live our past memories…”

    An intriguing post – worthy of praise and to read again and again :)

    philosophyoflife said this on October 21, 2007 at 2:54 pm

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