Nicole Page-Smith, writing and photography
In time
Infinity is as long as it takes to get from one universe to another as universes are infinite. The finite understanding of time gives us a beginning and an end for a history to exist in but when contemplating the universe at large you tend to look backwards to a past to an age of the planets, Sun and the moon and, at the age of the cosmos. Although, stars, being younger, somehow speak of a future as stars are born in the Milky Way. When thinking of time, how long planets or the Sun have existed in the sky appears to be the contemplation. Perhaps the Christian view of planets and stars surrounding Earth takes you to the bible to a central view of the universe. You could imagine the cosmos of understanding is more, vast than first anticipated as we continue to orbit the Sun and the moon shines brightly in the night sky. Time could simply equal star constellations changing in the night sky from one day to another. Time feels like an illusion.
The illusion of time ticking away looks backwards at the clock, we think retrospectively and contemplate God towards our unknown, origin. Where we came from is ourselves. Human beings are the universe and a result of all that is past, present and future. For the human race, human beings are all human beings really think about. Other species of organisms are only focused on their own species, also. Time does not appear to exist on Earth, either and initially was a human invention or way to record the seasons, the cycle of the planets and the moon. Time pieces were used to describe the Sun or the moon, moving across the sky for seasonal planting of the grain. Plants probably naturally move from the left or right in their appreciation of God and his light, flowers bursting into bloom upon sunrise. There is an illusion of time.
Time does not exist on Earth with the Sun and the moon. The illusion of the Sun or the moon died a million years before human habitation on the Earth and the other known planets in our Solar System would be responsible for blocking the light of the Sun or the moon in shadow of the Sun. Our earthly comprehension of time is only in existence because of gravity. Spactime warps all concept of time in space. Gravity is our clock and our death for the gravity of Earth pulls us to our death but more to the death of time. The very earth we walk on is our death. Spacetime reduces time to a standstill because of gravity. Our bulk or weight as a physical mass on Earth not only gives us a human existence but, allows us to stand upright making us vulnerable to all the concerns with a physical presence. We are our human shape because of gravity. The universe has formed human beings and fashioned them into the shape of God as our creator over the thousands of years of the human race and millions of years of the Earth's existence. Our universe does not exist in time.
