The Order Of Time

The Order Of Time expands your mind by shattering your commonly held beliefs about time, identifying how the way society views it is merely a construct of the mind and its actual characteristics are a lot more interesting than we all think.

Usually, we fall prey to the common idea that if we see something happening a certain way, that’s the truth. But your eyes deceive you more than you think. Consider your beliefs about whether the earth is flat or round if you went by sight alone!

Time is another of these things that we think we understand because we can see it. We assume that it moves forward uniformly, in the same way everywhere. But this too is as false a belief as those that still insist that the earth is flat.

The truth is, time moves at a different pace depending on where you are on earth. I live in the mountains, which means my clocks move faster than those of people who live at sea level. The difference is microscopic but real.

And time isn’t the only thing that becomes slower depending on where you are, everything else does too. Living at a higher elevation, I’m going to age slightly more than my friends who reside at sea level. Even my plants grow faster!

In other words, everywhere you go in the world, time is different. This is the fundamental truth of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

What’s even crazier is that time isn’t possible without heat. Both of these mechanics can only move forward, time from past to future, and heat from objects that are hotter to colder ones.

We can only distinguish these processes by change, which requires motion, which is essentially just heat. So if you take away heat, nothing moves, and you can’t have time!

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein found out that time advances differently even in the same location. He discovered that how fast an object or person is moving affects their sense of time. Think of it this way. When you’re moving faster, time slows down. But if you travel slower, then time will speed up. A person standing still experiences time more quickly than someone in motion. This means that your idea of what’s happening “now” doesn’t actually make any sense. Say you’ve got a brother that lives on a planet four light-years away. You think of him and wonder what he’s up to, so you pull out your telescope and look toward his planet. For one, you won’t see what’s actually going on at the moment. You’d see the version from four years ago. That’s because a light year is how long light…