Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Time - gravity - space

Time is a man-made way to keep track of changes that happen around us. Time is an illusion. It sure seems real but time passes differently for all people. Why is it that in 2009 we do not understand time?

Space seems to have a close relationship with time. It's easy to understand. If you are on the earth looking at a distant star, you are seeing a different point in that star's life than someone on another planet light years from here looking at the same star because of the "time" it takes for the light to travel to your observation point. That's the easy part....I think we can all understand that. It gets complicated from there. Why does time pass differently on the surface of the earth than on a satellite orbiting the earth? It must be gravity, which is another thing we don't understand. It is amazing to me to know how little human kind knows. These are fundamental laws of the universe, which is another thing we don't understand. 

We (humans) have a lot to learn. With all this technology we think we know it all. We don't know a damn thing.

2 comments:

  1. I think the only people on earth that understand these things are Al Gore and Barak Obama. The rest of us know nothing, but you're getting smarter by the minute!

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  2. Mom you're on a roll, that was funny too! Al Gore invented the internet and the internet is the biggest thing since the industrial revolution and Borack Obama is going to "change" the world. In fact, the day he got elected world hunger went away, my bank account was full, grass grew where grass normally wouldn't grow and the lions played with the sheep. He's an amazing man. Hippity Hiyaaaaaaaa....

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