Thoughts out of Time
The word "time" is tricky, whimsical in a sense, for some of us, at times, time is non-existent. Or it's measure is extremely relativistic to the point where it eludes consciousness. And yet, as in Bergson famous duree, time founds consciousness but only because it is forever incomplete. Time even seems to have a life of its own that we know almost nothing about. Much of it is sub-conscious. My heart beats and keeps a tempo, variable in some us who have arrythmia, but also my heart does not count nor think itself into being unless my brain discovers an alarming irregularity. When we run out heart gets crazier. Time slows down seemingly as we speed up. In this sense time is seeking an inertial state of balance where it can maybe "rest" and become unconscious again. Time seems to want to forget itself. Time is the bearer of many paradoxes. When we go to a job that we don't like -- or if you were the kind of kid who hated school -- you watch the clock, hoping it will over soon. The more you want to speed time up the more is seems slow. When we play music and it is exciting we lose any sense of time. Yet each action in music measures time! When we are making love we'd perhaps like it to be endless but we do eventually run out of energy. Time is relative, then, yes, to the energy available. And time seems to be related to the way energy states are triggered. Can it be that when an electron jumps from one orbit to another creating an isotope that time and space are created? Well, one of the things I think about, or contemplate, is the ionosphere, using my VLF radio. The thermodynamics of the earth's atmosphere creates the Schumann resonance and this in turn shapes our sonosphere. As the ionosphere changes shape and merges layers or shrinks we the temporal rythmn of the day night cycle radio waves bounce differently and quasars filter through the plasma of the Earth's geomagnetic field. Time is some major mover in all of this and yet we cannot grab time by the collar and get it to do what we want. A clock seems to create time rather than measure it. That is just a thought. We have units of measure of time but we can't find time sometimes. The stars in Orion's belt... Appear on a plane plane but are thousands of light years apart, variable studs on an untethered belt.
Jeff Gburek Jan 3, 2026
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