Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The speed of time...

Beyond the standard questions about time there is the issue of speed. I do not mean the speed of light or the like. There is a particuale speed that humand are tuned for. We do not see bullets travel in space, we do not see plants grow, we can not see mounters rise and fall. We see hours, days...we know of, but do not truly "see" years. But once we are beyond the confins a single lifetime, once the tie of firsthand experance passes, we know longer "see" or truly understand time. It is an aspect of quallia that both defined the "human" experance and limits it. WE may witness timelapse video or animated simulations, but this is mearly translating "non-human" time to something managable. But in the same way a scetch can similarly translate the enormaty of a high-rise, it totally looses it orignal grandure and meaning.

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