by Kenneth Harper Finton

Time is a measurement. A measurement takes place only in the cognizant world.

Time is in the mind.

We who measure time create a timeline.

A line is simply a point that moves. Add time, and a moving point becomes a line. The same point is repeated over and over in the line’s appearance, the difference being the time and space. The same point is everywhere at one moment. To me, this is the secret of singularity.

Space-time exists in an eternal now, a pseudo moment that holds all that ever was and that which will ever be. Because time itself is relative to movement and speed, a photon begins and ends at the same moment, much as the Higgs boson does. We measured the duration of a moment differently because we measure it from our own viewpoints.

As humans, we have a past and a future because we live and operate in a time and space that travels at a particular speed, and we view ourselves as being in a specific region of space-time.

We can discern the artifacts and traces left by events that occurred in what we see as ‘then’, even though they take place in the eternal now. We are in different sections of space-time, experiencing some of the infinite number of experiences that can come into being in a world of endless possibilities.

We do not define space-time occurrences. What we define as individuals is infinitesimal. The part does not represent the whole. The whole defines the part.

While perception is observing and creating, what we see as being in the past – traces of particles and waves from the observed portion of time and space – can be seen in other sections of space and time that also exist in the eternity of now. Our perceptions create the world we live in, just as the perception of that world makes us.

Consciousness has no mass. It only needs awareness of another, and in that awareness, an entire universe is built. We exist in potentiality and come into existence in a space-time where we find ourselves materialized. Individually, we are but one small facet in the infinite number of potentialities that consciousness makes possible.

Because the now is an eternal moment, there is literally no such thing as a beginning and an ending. The eternal components of reality constantly change form. This change makes it appear that there are beginnings and endings, but what is changing is the conversion between matter and energy and between energy and matter. These are eternal processes. Even the information involved in these processes is preserved both physically and consciously, as in memory and relics, though both are sketchy representations of the past events.  

Our universe can be viewed as a perceptive awareness that behaves in a quantum fashion. Its task is to experience and create new experiences. It is everywhere at once. It exists for us at this exact moment. That one moment is eternal. It never ends. Nothing came before it, and nothing comes after it. It is eternal. This very moment that we experience now is written in time and space in that eternal moment. 

This process does not begin, but it has always been in the moment we call now. It was now, then, and it will be now in the future. That which changes is our viewpoints.