by Matthew Mulville

Created on: December 19, 2008

Time is a very difficult subject to explore without becoming wrapped up in all of it's modern applications. This subject is very old and though we have stregthened our attachment to it, we have not done much to understand our perception of it.

We have established much on the basis of science when confronted with time. Some scientists claim that the past is when the universe was smaller and the future is when it is relatively larger while the present is now. That may be the only large-scale physical referance scientists have when determining progression through time. However, we should not be trying to figure out how long time has been around. We need to, first, understand our own perception of time. Modern ideas, values, or principles have greatly hindered our understanding of how we percieve time itself. Time seems to be defined by the things that can be accomplished in time. What can be accomplished in time is not time's definition, nor is the ticking of a clock, the position of the galaxies, the earth's rotations, or any other physical object or occurrance. There is no reason that time should not rely on every creature's decisions if this were the case. A falling ball, a running man, a ticking clock, a rotating planet and an expanding universe all have something in common: they are all physical and are of the exact same importance. Furthermore, each of those examples have the exact same effect on time as all of the others or no effect on time. My belief is in the latter because time is not something that is around, it is something inside of us. There was not a single notion of time, not a single second passed until it was thought upon by a given mind.

Time requires consciousness and memory. I cannot explain what was happening before consciousness without riddling it with perception of time. I cannot do it because because I am conscious. Time does not exist where consciousness doesn't observe. Once again, time does not exist where consciousness doesn't observe and memory doesn't record. Time is only that of minds working together to formulate a means of navigation through memories. In the sentences to come I will be using words that could be suggestive of the existence of time other than in consciousness and memory but that is only because I am using our perception of our creation of time to explain itself. There is nothing else to use to explain time other than consciousness and perception. Our creation of time is as follows: If it is a memory, it is the

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