Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Quantum Physics-Past Present Future

I watched a television show last evening and maybe you've seen it. Called "Through the Wormhole" with Morgan Freeman as the Narrator. I love this show. Do you get what they're talking about most of the time? Typically it is physicist trying to conclude when the universe was started and where does it go and how does that help our existence.

On this particular program they were talking about Quantum Physics and time. Time as in does time really exist or is it something that is just built into each of our minds. Was time there before the universe was created or did it come about after the universe was created.

I know most people think people like this are probably loony tunes. But they really aren't They're just thinkers who go beyond the normal day thoughts. They live in a world of "what ifs". If you put down all your bias and really listen there's so much to be learned out there and this blogger enjoys listening to theory and would be, or could it have been.

The program spoke about time but in the advent of what is time? Is there really such thing as our past, the present and the future or could it be all three actually take place at the same time. They gave examples such as using a digital camera and how fast it will rack up 30 frames a second. Did you see what I just said, 30 frames a second. Now we would all think starting with the first frame is present as we move to the second one, #1 is now the past and #2 is now the present and everything ahead of it is the future, right? I had to put some thought into this to really makes some sort of sense.

Actually 30 frames a second is pretty fast. It all takes place in nanoseconds to achieve those 30 frames. Now lay them out side by side. Look at frame number one and then look at frame number 30. One would think from past to present to future. But in reality they all happened within the same time frame 1 second!

I thought about it more. Remember as a kid how you would take a tablet and draw on the bottoms of the tablet a picture the next page a picture in just a slight different movement and the third page something a bit different until you used up the entire tablet with a picture on it. Now you were ready to flip through the ends to make your own show. As a comparison to the photos shot within 1 second. Look as you are flipping through the tablet the action taking place. The past the present and the future is between your fingers as you cause the tablet to flip. Take that same tablet and make it go backwards now you're going from the future back to the past. All within a second right. But if you lay them out frame by frame they are typically in the now. No past and no future, simply the now.

The whole point to this exercise was to determine or theorize is there really a past, present or future or does all three actually happen simultaneously and we know it as the three parts of time because that's what we have been taught and that is how our brains rationalizes time. But you have to step away from what we are taught and what our brains sees as rationalization and think bigger than that. Think of your life as already been planned out and it's all taking place right in front of you just on a slower scale. It's really quite fascinating in my eyes. Is time of essence or is it simply something we have grown accustomed to in order to rationalize what we do each step of the way, something we use that we have created to justify our being. All pondering thoughts!

1 comment:

  1. I have been thinking in terms of 30 frames per second for about 30 years. Before that, I thought in terms of 24 frames per second. The reason? I spent many years as a film producer and motion picture film goes through the camera at 24 fps (frames per second), recording 24 separate images every second. In the 1970's video tape become popular in professional circles. Video runs at 30 fps.

    We edit frame by frame. And so a film producer gets used to making decisions based on 1/30th of a second. It's very precise stuff. No room for being sloppy.

    It's actually a very helpful way to train yourself to hone in on what is essential and what is just excess baggage. I highly recommend it. Once you get accustomed to it, 30 fps isn't really all that fast. It's all in your perspective.

    Think big!!

    Kay (aka The Biz Bitch)
    writing from London, England

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