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Making time
“Close your eyes for one second. That’s how long forever feels.”
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
– Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Progress, not perfection.
– “The Equalizer” movie 2014
Instead of saying “I don’t have time”, try saying “It’s not a priority” and see how that feels.
Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice.
– Wallstreet
Regret for wasted time is even more wasted time.
You always have time for the things you put first.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
So where do I get the time?
Look, where do you get the time to eat three meals a day? How do you have time to do all that sleeping? How do you manage to spend all those hours with your kids or wife or a girlfriend or boyfriend?
You don’t get that time anywhere, do you? You just make it because it’s really important. It’s a non-negotiable part of your life.
– https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2013/06/how-to-read-more-a-lot-more
There is no future. There is no past. Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.
– Alan Moore, Watchmen movie
Articles
What is time?
By Paul Sutter
https://livescience.com/what-is-time
In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea
By Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard, posted June 28 2023
https://washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/28/gravitational-wave-background-nanograv
The mind-bending finding suggests that everything around us is constantly being roiled by low-frequency gravitational waves
In Einstein’s reimagined universe, space is not serenely empty, and time does not march smoothly forward. Instead, the powerful gravitational interactions of massive objects — including supermassive black holes — regularly ripple the fabric of space and time. The picture that emerges is a universe that looks like a choppy sea, churned by violent events that happened over the course of the past 13 billion-plus years
“What we measure is the Earth kind of moving in this sea. It’s bobbing around — and it’s not just bobbing up and down, its bobbing in all directions,” said Michael Lam, an astrophysicist at the SETI Institute and a member of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav)
The existence of gravitational waves is not in dispute. In 2016, scientists announced that their ambitious four-decade experiment called LIGO, for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, had detected waves from the merger of two black holes. But the newly announced waves are not one-shot wonders, and theorists are noodling the many potential explanations for why the cosmic sea ripples in such a fashion.
Supermassive black holes are the favored explanation.
Galaxies rarely collide, but the universe is vast, there are many billions of galaxies, and they have had plenty of time to drift into one another. During a galactic meetup, theorists say, the supermassive black holes at the cores of the two galaxies first will do a gravitational dance. They can orbit each other for millions of years, Lam said. This pairing is known as a supermassive black hole binary.
Can we time travel? A theoretical physicist provides some answers
Theories exploring the possibility of time travel rely on the existence of types of matter and energy that we do not understand yet
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/can-we-time-travel-a-theoretical-physicist-provides-some-answers
