WHAT TIME IS IT, REALLY ?

A Story by Eagle Cruagh

WHAT TIME IS IT,  REALLY ?

 

Back in the 1920`s Einstein fixed the

existence of time.  Well, almost.

 

He , Albert, worked out a formulae that

we have come to live by, E=mclittle2.

Maybe that is supposed to be big M,big

C squared---but, you get the idea.

 

In this formulae of Albert`s, gravity is the

biggee and it explains the small stuff.

 

Now it has been postulated that there are

or may be other kinds and forms of time.

Suppose there is more than our universe,

well, there may be forms of time for those

other universes, so we have to think small

in quarks, neutrons, strings and a bunch

of little stuff.

 

The question is,  how do we package those

little fella`s so that we can work with them ?

You know, measure them, weigh them, count

them and keep them in one place long enough

for all those operations to take place ?

 

So, along came guys like Edward Witten who

worked out this "Superstring theory".  See, my

computer is so old it don`t know how to spell

superstring yet.

 

Anyway, old Ed and a bunch of other physicists

deduced that you can string these little fella`s

together in a string, then you can fold the string

and you will have this bunch in a manageable

package.   The problem is time.  Time does not

like to be put in a package, so another group

decides to put the two ends of the string together

and Wallah,  time is now encapsulated so you

can work with it .

 

But----- we are just a figment of the creationist`s

nightmare and we have a lot of places where time

is not measurable yet.

 

So,  we have the string theory, but we have to keep

the ends of the string open, so just as soon as

we plumb these other universes and figure out

what kind of clocks they have we will then be able

to finish our little package of little fellas.

 

------ Eagle Cruagh