22.V.1430
when dealing with the passing of time in computer programming , there is no recourse like the loop. For instance, how else do we handle the repititiveness of time when doing things like printing a clock update?
programming indefinite timeframe in which to wait and catch events as they occur - involves a loop- like the processing loop.
* But what other loops are there nature? Motions.
* So is time generated by motion? In other words, in the absence of motion, is there no more time?
If Nature is customarily subtle, its signals that this may be true, could not be more blunt. Most of the motions we see are periodic. Indeed are physical and social existence are organized around those loops of time.
Entertaining the blind conjecture that time is loop-like. Recalls familiar notes.
* As we said, motion itself is loop-like due to laws.
* The relation of time to motion and energy is clear from e=mc^2 and e=hυ.
* so (maybe) motion generates time (?)
* iow, time is a function of motion. eg, time is like the displacement over its derivative t(s) = s(t)/s'(t).
* That time, as a function is periodic suggests time is a complex function.
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Further clues that cyclic motion and time are strongly related:
* Motion is defined as displacement over time.
* In the International System of Units, the second is defined as "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom."
In my personal cosmogony, we live in concentric cycles, or revolutions. At the outer scope, the entire universe hasn't completed its first revolution, which takes a long time because it's so huge (in pseudo-scientific terms: from Big Bang to Big Crunch.)
Why does time move in the same direction - at least around here? This question makes more sense when we consider that motion (of Earth < Solar System < Milky Way < Universe) seems to be moving in a regular pattern. So the cheesy sequence where Superman spun the Earth backward to revive his girlfriend by turning back time did make sense!
How to use this knowledge to our advantage is the question I wish I will have had answered.
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