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Time begins and ends with us; the Perceiver in the tight grip of the perceived and it is our captivity within the confinement of our immediate world's time that binds our imaginative thoughts when we attempt to pierce the mystery of our existence itself.

But time is not a bandit that has taken us hostage but the giver of our full view of life through our thoughts, both orderly and constrained with logic and reason; and, when somewhat free of objective constraints, with flights of fancy that give us imaginative powers to envision the possibilities in and around us.

To begin with, this World is the platform from which our primitive understanding of time and life springs and if we wish to allow our thoughts freedom to explore this immensity of 'World' we must free ourselves from the shackles of our time-frame: there's much more to life than meets our eyes in this constricted environment.

Our planets rotation around our Sun has produced the basic time-table of our lives, the four seasons that produce the basic rhythm of living from antiquity: from the bleak winter months through the spring planting and the eventual harvest that provided people their mainstay when once again preparing to huddle through the cold months of a returning winter.

Using our Western World's twelve-month calendar these four seasons are again divided into our twelve month year; down and down we divide and divide time again until we arrive at our lowest daily usable unit: the second. But beyond our daily sight and even deeper within these seconds is where our basic Earthly' time keeper dwells: the atom, the Atomic Clock's watch-spring'.

Roughly speaking, atomic clocks measure time using the precise microwave signal emitted by the atom's electrons as they change energy levels and an interesting fact here is that these most precise of our clocks placed in different gravitational fields, run at different paces*: time is not consistent.

In Scientific parlance, a clock in a gravitational field runs more slowly according to the gravitational time dilation relationship from general relativity* . . But enough of that, right?

And maybe enough of this article for those readers who do not wish to risk tweaking their elementary thought processes regarding time: this article is now over for you.

'THE END'

For readers of a more adventurous inclination, who wish to stretch their imaginations away from traditional frameworks, please continue.

So there's our earthly measure of time, an elastic physical progression

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