Words of wisdom

[Coin]

time isn't a straight line, it's curved; as in, space-time is a saddle-shaped thingy (technical word escapes me) according to my memory of the book that hawking wrote. As a function of space, time is also elastic, stretching out long periods of time where you are unhappy, and shortening periods of time where you are happy. Beer isn't proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy - as happy time runs at approx twice the speed of unhappy time - its actually proof that according to the subjective experience, we are unhappier for larger portions of our lives, regardless of the actual figures on the clock, and independent of the set perceptual set of the observer. In other words, just because time feels like it is going more slowly, doesnt mean that it isnt.

moreover, regardless of lorentz covariance violation, the cherenkov radiation released through nuclear fission leads us to posit tachyon formation, which are small fast particles that CANNOT go slower than the speed of light, much like a humming bird cannot stop flapping its wing. These particles have made us question the rigidity of the law 'thou shalt not break the speed of light'.

Space-time is all around us. we are an organic robot with a skeleton made of star-dust, and both tachyons and bradyons are all around us, all the time. just sitting in a chair means that you are travelling in space time - not only is the world rotating, but the planet is orbiting the sun, and the sun is orbiting the centre of the galaxy, and the galaxy is gradually drifting in *points* that direction, but we are also growing imperceptibly older, second by second. This said, it comes as no surprise to me that our subjective experience of spacetime can be that of 'bloody long day today' and the next week 'wow, thursday has gone past much quicker than it did last week'.

of course, i could be wrong and the monks of time could be stealing all the best bits

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