But it does beg the question: So, what's the point, or further consequences on space? And to bring some utility to the observations, I will suggest, it needs to be triangulated with the movement of the body in space. The light bulb moment for me, was the realisation that time is a local phenomenon. Much like the clock experiment goes to show. The subjective sensation of time passing slowly or quickly is more real than we are taught. In the local space, properly opened and bordered, time dilation can facilitate all sorts of magic interactions. Especially if you have a trusted group of people, or even in solitary praxis, past and future of this life can be shuffled around. Eternal recurrence, and conscious reiteration can help understanding time as circular.
Psychosis... Yes, it's a possibility. (No Self Buddhism = Rescue remedy)
But so is immortality and it's lesser cousin longevity. Vitality and the light of life all become so much more accessible.
Good article, although I do wince a bit at "phase" here. The thing is, once your perception includes more than a good fraction of a single cycle, the notion of phase becomes meaningless except with regard to another wave of the same frequence. Most of the time phase matters, it's the *relative* phase that matters.
But it seems very true we have a sort of "buffer window" for perception. Slow events we perceive individually, but when the buffer gets jammed, it blurs events into some continuum. And thank goodness! Movies and TV wouldn't work without that effect.
Yeah I went back and forth on phrasing quite a bit. You can see me wobbling in the footnotes :)
In my mind, "phase" (as used in this article) is a rolled up, cyclical version of time. Really what I want is a word that interpolates between the standard definitions of "time" and "phase". It's periodic, rather than extending out indefinitely (like phase, unlike time) and it's constantly unfolding, rather than a static property of the waveform (like time, unlike phase). Imaginary time [1] might fit the bill, but I'm not 100% certain, and didn't want to dive all the way into wick rotations and relativity here.
Heh, I was going to mention footnote #3. 😄 I’m not sure special relativity takes you where you want to go (although I’m not sure I quite follow what you’re getting at yet). Wick rotations just translate between Minkowski space and Euclidean space. Imaginary time just gives us the -+++ signature for Minkowski space. All kinda ordinary.
Does “fractal” describe what you’re getting at? Fractals can have both periodicity and ever unfolding variation as you zoom in. The Mandelbrot set is a good example of regularity and chaos.
Yeah agreed--the thing that stopped me from mentioning imaginary time is that I'm not pointing to the hyperbolic nature of Minkowski space (which TBF I've never fully grokked). What I really want is a space where the time dimension is _circular_, not hyperbolic. Like a 3+1 dimensional analogue to a 1+1 dimensional tube.
Nice topografi dissection of temporal fabric/s.
But it does beg the question: So, what's the point, or further consequences on space? And to bring some utility to the observations, I will suggest, it needs to be triangulated with the movement of the body in space. The light bulb moment for me, was the realisation that time is a local phenomenon. Much like the clock experiment goes to show. The subjective sensation of time passing slowly or quickly is more real than we are taught. In the local space, properly opened and bordered, time dilation can facilitate all sorts of magic interactions. Especially if you have a trusted group of people, or even in solitary praxis, past and future of this life can be shuffled around. Eternal recurrence, and conscious reiteration can help understanding time as circular.
Psychosis... Yes, it's a possibility. (No Self Buddhism = Rescue remedy)
But so is immortality and it's lesser cousin longevity. Vitality and the light of life all become so much more accessible.
Taoism leads the way.
Good article, although I do wince a bit at "phase" here. The thing is, once your perception includes more than a good fraction of a single cycle, the notion of phase becomes meaningless except with regard to another wave of the same frequence. Most of the time phase matters, it's the *relative* phase that matters.
But it seems very true we have a sort of "buffer window" for perception. Slow events we perceive individually, but when the buffer gets jammed, it blurs events into some continuum. And thank goodness! Movies and TV wouldn't work without that effect.
Yeah I went back and forth on phrasing quite a bit. You can see me wobbling in the footnotes :)
In my mind, "phase" (as used in this article) is a rolled up, cyclical version of time. Really what I want is a word that interpolates between the standard definitions of "time" and "phase". It's periodic, rather than extending out indefinitely (like phase, unlike time) and it's constantly unfolding, rather than a static property of the waveform (like time, unlike phase). Imaginary time [1] might fit the bill, but I'm not 100% certain, and didn't want to dive all the way into wick rotations and relativity here.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_time
Heh, I was going to mention footnote #3. 😄 I’m not sure special relativity takes you where you want to go (although I’m not sure I quite follow what you’re getting at yet). Wick rotations just translate between Minkowski space and Euclidean space. Imaginary time just gives us the -+++ signature for Minkowski space. All kinda ordinary.
Does “fractal” describe what you’re getting at? Fractals can have both periodicity and ever unfolding variation as you zoom in. The Mandelbrot set is a good example of regularity and chaos.
Yeah agreed--the thing that stopped me from mentioning imaginary time is that I'm not pointing to the hyperbolic nature of Minkowski space (which TBF I've never fully grokked). What I really want is a space where the time dimension is _circular_, not hyperbolic. Like a 3+1 dimensional analogue to a 1+1 dimensional tube.