what is the smallest divisible moment of time?
i can see any number of reasons for quantum uncertainty. there may not actually be a smallest divisible unit of time (the theoretical present) from which to observe a state of a system or the state of an atom.
in quantum physics we have 10-43 sec (planck time) as a base to describe the smallest divisible unit of time for the purposes of calculations regarding initial states of the big bang and for other calculations but this number is just so we can grab our quantum hands on this "dimension" called time. the enigmatic infinity which we see in space - folds inwards with relation to time - time is indivisible - it is infinitely small - the present. it is gone as soon as it arrives.
and usually if a thing is infinitely small it doesn't exist. and so i keep ending in a circle which leads to time not existing. or at least it's nature is nothing like we have come to perceive it. it is only our limited perception of it which has made it's way into our science but it is as elusive as gravity. and i believe that it is this nature which binds them together. space and time being the same thing - literally. the unfolding of space and time in the outward expansion. (which bay the way is speeding up.) (more on this later)
but the present certainly doesn't last second, (that is just a unit time that relates to the specifics of an insignificant moon rotating around an insignificant planet rotating around an insignificant star in an unnoticed galaxy.)
if nature actually had something like a smallest unit of time - that would be how long your present moment lasts!
but there is no divisible unit of time - it is a flow. our perception of the present is merely like the fleeting after glow on the phosphor inside a cathode ray tube - retaining it's information for a few milliseconds after the electron beam strikes it to create the image till the next scan comes around. like the after image on the human retina as 24 frames of film celluloid project it's images onto the cinema screen and our eye retains this information until the next frame continues the action - the reality.
it is this much slower perception and much more lingering retention of the information exuded into the present state, (seemingly from the oblivion of the theoretically uncertain and non existent state called the future) that is characteristic of the human being. we cannot process information at this plank time - this human characteristic of delay in the perception of time and it's processing and retention in the immediate "buffer" of our conscious state comprises our idea of the present.
- everything else is dead or yet unborn.
-v-
in quantum physics we have 10-43 sec (planck time) as a base to describe the smallest divisible unit of time for the purposes of calculations regarding initial states of the big bang and for other calculations but this number is just so we can grab our quantum hands on this "dimension" called time. the enigmatic infinity which we see in space - folds inwards with relation to time - time is indivisible - it is infinitely small - the present. it is gone as soon as it arrives.
and usually if a thing is infinitely small it doesn't exist. and so i keep ending in a circle which leads to time not existing. or at least it's nature is nothing like we have come to perceive it. it is only our limited perception of it which has made it's way into our science but it is as elusive as gravity. and i believe that it is this nature which binds them together. space and time being the same thing - literally. the unfolding of space and time in the outward expansion. (which bay the way is speeding up.) (more on this later)
but the present certainly doesn't last second, (that is just a unit time that relates to the specifics of an insignificant moon rotating around an insignificant planet rotating around an insignificant star in an unnoticed galaxy.)
if nature actually had something like a smallest unit of time - that would be how long your present moment lasts!
but there is no divisible unit of time - it is a flow. our perception of the present is merely like the fleeting after glow on the phosphor inside a cathode ray tube - retaining it's information for a few milliseconds after the electron beam strikes it to create the image till the next scan comes around. like the after image on the human retina as 24 frames of film celluloid project it's images onto the cinema screen and our eye retains this information until the next frame continues the action - the reality.
it is this much slower perception and much more lingering retention of the information exuded into the present state, (seemingly from the oblivion of the theoretically uncertain and non existent state called the future) that is characteristic of the human being. we cannot process information at this plank time - this human characteristic of delay in the perception of time and it's processing and retention in the immediate "buffer" of our conscious state comprises our idea of the present.
- everything else is dead or yet unborn.
-v-