TIME AND TIME AGAIN
The Sun, the Moon and our own hearts gave us our seasons, days and moments. Our ocean waves march in sequence. We live in a sequential world. Our words come at us one at a time. Many of our words are time dependent. We devise calendars and clocks. And yet, much of what we believe about time is not true. Einstein showed that time slows down as we speed up. If we travel from NY to LA we loose about 1.77 nano seconds. Here is how fast we are moving by just standing still in our living room:
The Earth is spinning at 1040 miles/hr
The Earth orbits at 66600 miles/hr
The solar system is orbiting the milky way at 558000 miles/hr
The Milky Way is moving within the local group of galaxies at 666000 miles/hr
That comes to 1,291,640 miles per hour.
Thats fast!
The point I would like to make is that there is much more to consider concerning time than just the clock on the wall. Time is relative and yet, its stability is at the root of our daily living. It is a tool we have created and thus have control over. Its true to say that our time is our own.
