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the divisions of "Conscious Time" [vi].

We can glean a general understanding of this "Conscious Time" of ours with the phrase: "Moment to Moment"; beginning with:

". the specious present, the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible."

~ William James (1842-1910); Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
"Time" is a very Real experience for us. But how did we lose sight of this "Time" of ours to the point where people debate whether it even exists?

Have we confused "Our Time" with "Space-Time"?

SPACE-TIME
With the emerging 20th century came Albert Einstein's' "Special and General Theories of Relativity" that extended our Scientific perceptions to the edges of the known Universe and in so doing extended our concepts of Time into an exotic new environment. Now flowing through previously unrealized depths of Space, Time has shed the simple and independent character of our "Proper" Earth Time as it entwines itself dynamically with Matter and the curving "non-Euclidian" [vii] geometry of "Spacetime".

Stretching and compressing through "Spacetime", a now dependent Time here weaves itself through curves of Gravity in a flattened Universe of Position-less Space where our visions of "Reality" travel at the speed of Light.

In this space-age Reality of multiple Dimensional Theories where black holes gobble Star systems and Electrons vanish in annihilation, Time is also vanishing: but where is it going?

Our familiar "Time" is disappearing into a "Mathematical Model" of Reality that signals our scientific Mind shifting beyond our sensible World; a shift from the ""Proper Time" of "Newtonian Mechanics" into the relatively "Timeless" World of "Quantum Mechanics" and the "Spacetime" of Astrophysics.

With the emerging 20th century, advancing technology gave us, literally, out of this World "Perceptual Extensions" [viii] that our previous concepts through "Newtonian or Classical Mechanics" no longer described or explained. Divorced from the World we experience, the Special and General Theories of Relativity none the less extend our conceptual understanding into this new view of Reality as it functions at the Macrocosmic level while Quantum Physics extends our view down into the Micro-Cosmic realm of the Subatomic.

These conceptual and perceptual extensions are so extraordinary that our sensory interaction with the modern technology that extends our Minds into these Worlds is itself a fascinating area of study. [ix]

Fascinating "Space-Time"

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