It's Just a Matter of Time

It's just a matter of time.
Are we there yet?
We'll be there in no time.
There's no time like the present.
It's time to wake up.
Time is relative.

Like the change in time (delta-t) for a reaction there is also a delta-t for detecting something. Picking up something that is burning hot is a good example of the existence of this delta-t. If we understood thing around us in an instantaneous way that would reduce the risk of getting burned.

Another example is the mongoose and the snake. To out react something the mix of physical and cognitive reactions need to be quicker. For animals it may simple be that the defensive move for one animal is just mechanically easier and therefore quicker to do. And likewise the attack move. A cat's quick attack is hastened if it is allowed to setup for a pounce first.

How quickly do your senses sense, your neurons fire, and your muscles react? However fast that is, it isn't instantaneous do to our senses depending on their own chemical neurological mechanical and cognitive reactions to take place first. Since what we see and sense isn't instantaneous all that we see and feel is in the past. We do not live in the present. For example the light from the closest star outside our galaxy takes around 4 years to get here. That means it's possible that that flickering light you are gazing at in the night sky, may not be a star at all but only it's last wink of light sent out into the cosmos over 4 years ago.

So what is our present, an individuals present state? Relative to things around us it is in the past, but if we consider it relative to ourselves and our understanding and sensation of things then it is the present. That works most of the time for the mundane. Accidentally burning oneself is a wake up call regarding the relative state we preside in. There's no time like the present.

The Big Bangs Theory:

Why just one big bang? the Universe compresses in on itself till it's just a point in empty space and then explodes and expands. Something tells me that if it happened once, it can and does happen again... and again. It's like getting through winter and thinking it wont ever get cold again... it does. So civilizations rise and fall, paint peals and buildings collapse, and in the end we all gets sucked back in on ourselves just to explode again and again, over and over ad infinitum.

So what if our realization of time were so freakin slow, so beyond slow that in what we perceive as just a blink of an eye there's been a big bang plus a blink and all seeming to be congruent and kosher? Now what if it weren't just on big bang in a blink of an eye but a big bang for every instance of realization, like frames on a movie film with big bangs being that black part between each frame and we just happen to end up on the next frame every time? And what if history doesn't repeat itself or big bangs either, or at least not every time? But for the big bang sequence we're following it does in between all the other big bangs and other universes that are created and destroyed a gazillion times and that we don't even realize cause we're always just on the gazillionth frame of the film. We're like a can of living sardines that get all packed up into each other and then explode repetitively forever cycling between all the other exploding canned items on the shelf, like we're just one chamber of a gazillocycle engine.

Now that would sure explains a lot of things.