Toying with Time

Whenever we peer any direction into discrete infinity, everything gets all bunched up near a horizon.

For example, when we peer back upstream of time, events happening across a linear timescale appear to cram up against a 'border'. The closer and deeper we see into the border or event horizon, the less events appear to be spaced apart in time.

So maybe that's why, when we measure time between all events happening closest to the limit of our periphery, we get lots of stuff that appear, to us, to be happening very close together. Even all at once!

What's really interesting is how some super-giant hypothetical space kid can easily bend & stretch time using matter. Time could be stretching incrementally right now for everything in our galactic neighborhood. But we wouldn't know it without statistical proof. Even then, we still wouldn't know it!

Time could stretch incrementally over 1000 years & we wouldn't have a single clue in space to prove it. If everyone in a room experiences ten hours the same way, who's really to claim that ten hours have ever been anything other than Ten Hours.

You could have maybe 12 different rooms where events are all happening in the same space, but at different times relative to some "absolute time". In one room of spacetime, everything inside happens in 1/2 the time it happens in other spacetimes. So there could be a space in some time where everything that could happen in a 1000 years (our time) happens in 10 years (an other time). And where everything that happens in 10 years happens in 1 million years in some other timespace. Not to speak of chaos that exists between events, wherein anything can happen that has the potential to change ALL the things.

To simplify it even further: every event that could happen happens eventually in every room, but at different times. Best way to imagine it, I think, is to imagine events like marks on a rubber band. Stretch the band, stretch the events. Collapse the band, collapse the events. So every event happens for every occupant as it "should" happen (should relative to random events), but at different points in time, relative to how much time has been stretched or collapsed in each metaphorical room or space. So in some possible reality, everything that could happen has already happened in a very narrow band of time.

In other news, physics is probably the hardest kind of escapism. "Missing: Millennial Slackademic. Last seen: Wandering aimlessly between platinum & unobtainium nanoparticles in an artificial nanosphere. If Found: Call an Agent Immediately. DO NOT FOLLOW MISSING PERSON INTO HADRON COLLISION PATHS"