Time is a great invention
for without it I thought I’d best mention
everything happens at once.
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Michael Edwards (
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Sometimes it DOES all seem to happen at once!
It won't tonight with the extra hour.
A fine write and pic Michael. Now, I'm all in a muddle. When is 'now'? One second later and that 'now' has gone, and it's a new 'now'. that's a lot of 'nows' - every second of the day. Will there be enough nows to go round?
You spending the extra hour tonight visiting all the Berles at home?
Now is then when soon is early - didn't you know?
I'll spend the hour going backwards so I can meet forwards as it arrives late - and I'll have an extra ton and ginic.
If there are so many nows there must be millions of thens - where are they all - are they in storage?
I am so confused.
Yes, and what about folk who say 'Now then....' Are they talking about now or then?!
Do you know what Orchi - there's a poem in all this . Should I write then now or soon?
We'll be in such a state, we won't know when to write it! Do it 'tomorrow' - that never comes, cos it's 'today' when it gets here.
Will it help if I write it backwards?
Yes, write backwards in that extra hour tonight. You remember that extra second we had one year? Did you spend it all at once? We could have spent that second going to Australia and back.
Michael,
Was time really invented?
I enjoyed your shortie and your goose in flight is awesome!
~Laura~
Was time invented? Well you will need to read my in-depth discussion with Orchi which may help answer the conundrum .
I’ll get right to it!😉
At last, praise comes home! My great great great grandpa invented time, or was it his dad?... Anyway appreciation at last.
It took its time.
You've clocked it dusk 🙂
In some ways UNCLE MIKE we take time & the passage of time for granted. Because the Earth rotates round the SUN in 24 hours. We call that a DAY and divide it into 24 hours (and minutes & seconds etc) and we carry devices to keep track of time. There are also natural markers which Man used before Clocks were invented. Sunrise ~ Sunset and Day (bright) & Night (dark). So Man developed a routine Wake up ~ Work for eight hours ~ Leisure for eight hours ~ Sleep for eight hours and so on ad finitum. This is the pattern I have grown used to over the past 18 years ~ it seems kinda natural & human ! Are all Solar Planets the same ? No ! A day on Mercury is 60 Earthdays and a day on Venus is 210 Earthdays ~ so three days in Prison on Venus would be a whole Earth Year. MARS (which BUZZ ALDRIN has chosen as an Earth Overspill) has a 25 hour day ~ BUT No liquid water ~ Oxygen ~ Fertile Soil and its too cold etc ~ A NON-STARTER ! The four outer planets have shorter days the Earth (in hours) J (10) S (11) U (17) N (16) This would cause headaches for the Unions if ever we colonised them ! So we come back to the BIG QUESTION which Science cannot answer ! Why is the EARTH the only Habitable planet we have found in the Milky Way so far. Why is a 24 hour day so suitable for H Sapiens ~ Why is our Climate (average temperature 16C and rising !) Atmosphere just right 1 part O2 to 4 parts N2 (inert carrier gas) Abundant liquid water which cycles & purifies itself ~ free Energy from the Sun and a symbiotic Flora & Fauna etc etc ! Did it all happen by chance OR is there a CREATOR ? When we talk about time ~ We open Pandora Box ! Stephen Hawkins is reputed to have once said "Evangelical Christians" know were all the Matter in the Universe came from and why there is Design Beauty Purpose & Order on Planet Earth ~ GOD CREATED IT & CONTROLS IT ~ Science has no explanation ! Thanks for raising the question of TIME ~ Yours as always BRIAN Love the CHEE CHEE GOOSE !
On ratio of poem length to comment length this must be an all-time record. Not that I'm complaining - most interesting and informative reply - thanks so much as always Brian.
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