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TIME ENOUGH FOR TIME

On October 15-16, 2007, a conference was held at the New York Academy of Sciences, bringing together some of the world's foremost scientific thinkers. The topic under discussion was Time. Although the contributions from the world of theoretical physics have grown substantially since the revelations of Einstein et al. we are apparently still no closer to understanding the nature of time. I can only conclude that the basic premises which are accepted by the status quo and on which lie the foundations for the analysis of time - ie. big bang theory; string theory; second law of thermodynamics - are either being misinterpreted or downright flawed or even imaginary, as in the case of string theory.

If we are to accept Big Bang theory then the very creation of the Universe is a violation of the first law of thermodynamics, which states that the total amount of energy in the Universe is constant. That the Universe was created from nothing and contains an infinite amount of mass is a generally accepted contradiction of that first law. I can logically conclude that the first law and that particular presumption do not apply and that while creation did indeed occur from a hypothetical point source of nothing - which is represented by infinite density - it must be constantly creating at its periphery and therefore conforms to an amended form of the first law in that the Universe will forever continue toward the realization of that infinite amount of mass. In its constantly expanding three dimensions the overall surface area of that periphery is always increasing therefore the total mass of the Universe can never be quantified. But for any state change of a system the final analysis of the entropy - its maximum value - occurs for a moment of stopped time. Likewise, the entropy in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics stops time at that moment when the state change of a system is in equilibrium. These are essentially sound applications but amount to a deliberate attempt to see the small picture.

In the big picture I say that it is valid to apply these laws only if time were invariable and if existence were eternal and infinite in scope in both directions of the past and future time cones, which I cannot perceive it as being. Existence passes in time for an observer for a particular place in space. Ultimately everything sentient and insentient will pass in time for any particular place in the Universe. A state of constancy exists but it moves outward

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