Time to throw away your watch!

Let's talk a little bit about time shall we? Not the time that we all perceive because of the clock on the wall. (Which is entirely subjective by the way, we'll get to that later.) But the time that exists while you are reading this, the time we will call the NOW. Oops, there it went. You can look back at the page and read the word NOW again. But that moment is gone. You will never get it back. But the question is, where did it go? Some people believe that time is just an illusion created by we humans to help us better understand ourselves, and our place in the universe. But others theorize that every moment exists just as it does NOW. Think of the universe as a series of snapshots, (extremely rich and detailed snapshots, that contain everything in the universe.) each snapshot exists NOW but also still exists despite the fact that we can no longer perceive it. Strangely enough this idea has a very old start. The Greek Philosopher Parmenides postulated in the 5th century BC, (Or BCE if you don't believe in the divinity of Christ) that all motion was impossible. Let's say you shoot an arrow at a target. Parmenides said that the arrow could never reach the target. Why? Because it would be mathematically impossible for it to do so. It would first have to go half the distance to the target, than half that distance, than half that distance, and so on through infinity (or eternity, we are discussing time after all.). Some physicists believe that time works that way. That each moment is an eternity. (We at The Crazy have felt that way sometimes when being forced to watch reality television.) Of course when looking at time that way some questions come up. Does the future exist before we get to it? Is all of time here and NOW, also NOW and forever? (We here at The Crazy are not responsible for any brains that may have been broken by this thought idea.) Ok, lets talk a little about that clock on the wall. If you look at it right now. (The Clock on your computer will work just as well.) It will tell you the time as decided by the International Meridian Conference in 1884, when British Mariners decided that Greenwich Britain would be the the starting point or the "0" point on the Meridian by which all Mariners would set their clocks so as to locate themselves longitudinally. Entirely subjective as we said. But does time move at the same speed everywhere. Not according to scientists and atomic clocks. Two extremely accurate atomic clocks were placed side by side, and fully synchronized to the exact nano second. Then one clock was raised twelve inches above the other. And the higher clock began to move faster. Physicists agree that this was due to gravity having an effect on time. Astronauts have said the same thing after spending time in space, they discuss how time seemed to move faster while orbiting the earth. But does this prove that times exists outside of human experience, or simply that human perception is tied deeply into the flow of time?  We don't know. And neither do physicists, or philosophers, or watchmakers. But we at The Crazy are very interested in current experiments to discover the properties of time. (Or the lack of properties if that is what experiments reveal.) It is important to point out one thing when discussing time however. It seems to be tied almost directly into entropy. (the rule that shows that matter moves from order to chaos.) Nobody has ever seen the pool balls on the table automatically jump from their pockets and reform the triangle of balls at the end of the table. And probably never will. Well there are things we have to do here at The Crazy, and we need to get them done NOW. Shoot, too late. Ciao for now.