by Stanley W. Shura

Created on: September 05, 2010   Last Updated: April 23, 2011

Is reality subjective?  Is it dependant on context?  On circumstance?  On the eye of the beholder?  Actually, reality is a quantitative, not qualitative, phenomenon. That is, it is nothing more than a position, one infinitely reducible point, which is the intersection of all 4 dimensions ((3 spacial, plus the 1 temporal). Time is nothing but the measure of change, the quantification of an amount of action, of moving, of doing, of *being* - of LIVING - that happens in a particular space. But, in order for life to be - change must be. And in order for change to be, a phenomenon of motion must occur. Time is change's "space". I mean, do we "unrun" a mile by running back to where we started? Exactly. You haven't UNDONE the exertion, the work. You've done twice as much. Therefore, change - or, rather, the fact, the truth, the *reality* that it happened,cannot be "erased" in some Orwellian denial of the truth before you.   *That* is time - and it, alas, cannot be undone, reversed.

It cannot be "travelled".

Well, okay - "time" - as in, one of the 3 components in the equation that explains and/or measures work (the "d.i.r.t." formula - Distance is Rate x Time) is "travelled", in that we DO - you know, we live and breathe and act and, to stay in the realm of simple physics, we 'work' in that we convert fuel to energy we use to move.  Now, "movement" as defined as getting from point A to any other point *not* A, that is 'B', can occur in myriad directions in space (along the aforementioned 3 dimensions: up/down, forward/backward, left/right, and any combination, variation, intersection and meta-intersection thereof).  But to *measure* or to quantify that work, we need that one more dimension - time - the temporal "sphere" or atmosphere or realm - that we use to give birth to the 'now' here versus the 'then' there.  Without recognizing this conceptual "thing" called time - the sequential organization of all these spacial intersections - there would only ever be now.  And now!   And NOW!  Oy - talk about A.D.D.!

Geez - what a mouthful!  All that to explain what is otherwise explained by that temporal concept.  "Time" sure saves us a lot of time, doesn't it? 

And our reality is but one spot on that ray, that continuum. We are always changing. To stop changing is, by *definition*, to stop living. So - reality is quantitative.

Thus, the difference

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