Article in the book (Headaway, pages) finished with present, so I might start with one.

Questions that cross my mind are: 1. What really time is? 2. What time really means to us? 3. What eternity means?

Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities. If you look it from the science angle, it is somehow constant and somehow variable, but both in the same time, and that is times paradox. For constant where ever you are in the world time is the same, 60 seconds equals 1 minute, 60 minutes equals 1 hour, and all those watches count time the same. So it is just an agreement. Smart people, most mathematicians, made that so we can know what time really is, so the noon could be noon in every country, city, region, etc. Just like numbers, and thats why we dont have to ask why 60 second equals minute, because those numbers are just symbols that everyone understand, and they counted it really wisely for us, so it can be easily used. And there is also the variable part, and that is mostly in physics, but variable part uses constant part, so you can shrink or expand time as you wish, but in fact it stays the same. Example- Time is variable that is really closely bound by velocity, and for this example we are going to use space- shuttle. The more velocity it gains, and when it is further from the earth- it looks like it is moving slower, and that it takes him more time to get somewhere, but in fact it stays the same. Also the velocity of light, if you see something moving at the velocity of light it looks like slow- motion. But because of that bound something might really change the perspective of Einsteins theory, because light is not the fastest anymore, but neutron. (As part of the OPERA experiment, physicists tracked how long it takes for neutrons generated at CERN to reach a detector 730km away in Italy. It turns out that neutron is faster.) Then we can expect those 60 seconds to change. Immanuel Kant, in the Critique of Pure Reason, described time as an a priori intuition that allows us (together with the other a priori intuition, space) to comprehend sense experience. With Kant, neither space nor time are conceived as substances, but rather both are elements of a systematic mental framework that necessarily structures the experiences of any rational agent, or observing subject. Kant thought of time as a fundamental part of an abstract conceptual framework, together with space and number, within which we sequence events, quantify their duration, and compare the motions of objects. In this view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows," that objects "move through," or that is a "container" for events. Spatial measurements are used to quantify the extent of and distances between objects, and temporal measurements are used to quantify the durations of and between events. (Wikipedia, the way Kant saw the time) Isaac Newton believed in absolute space and absolute time, while Leibniz believed that time and space are relational. The legend about Einstein and Tesla says that if they had only a bit more of the time they would have made Teleportation device. If it is anyhow possible time wouldnt be needed anymore. But it is only a legend. (They say that some scientist found drawings of this device.) On that topic: (Facts from the internet) - Time travel is the concept of moving backwards and/or forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space, and different from the normal "flow" of time to an earthbound observer. In this view, all points in time (including future times) "persist" in some way. Time travel has been a plot device in fiction since the 19th century. Traveling backwards in time has never been verified, presents many theoretic problems, and may be an impossibility. Any technological device, whether fictional or hypothetical, that is used to achieve time travel is

known as a time machine. A central problem with time travel to the past is the violation of causality; should an effect precede its cause, it would give rise to the possibility of a temporal paradox. Some interpretations of time travel resolve this by accepting the possibility of travel between branch points, parallel realities, or universes. - The brain's judgment of time is known to be a highly distributed system, including at least the cerebral cortex, cerebellum and basal ganglia as its components. One particular component, the suprachiasmatic nuclei, is responsible for the circadian (or daily) rhythm, while other cell clusters appear to be capable of shorter-range timekeeping. (Medical article)

Meaning of time is really impossible to define. But you can judge about time from the time- presence. All people have a different bearing of time. Kids dont even realize they are in the time, and I have to admit that I really dont know how to act in time, so I am a kid in that point. But there is something really strange in this story. Kids sometimes, afraid of their parents alter the time itself for themselves. They know they are going to be late, so they shift clockwise so they can act like they are not late. This really is a form of intelligence, but also a lie. Just like they lied to their parents they lied to the time itself, but only because of that agreement. Who has the right to tell you that it isnt 11:00 oclock just because it is 12:00. For you it might be, but there is another problem with the present, because in this present time is money, and time is respect, so if you are late you disrespect person. I am always late. But I find it funny to see those faces when I finally get there. So kids dont really need time but elders do. In these days time became everything, especially for technology. In technology time is small, it is shrank to tiny milliseconds and everything works so fast. There you go, I sad fast and slow for a hundred times now, proof of bound between time and velocity. Nowadays everything seems to be on forward button, fast food, fast cars, fast planes, fast walking, etc. No one really tries to be slow anymore. Whats the point in eating like a loose dog? There is no any joy in that. We pass trough day and not even notice that it is gone. I will use a really nice quotation, that really should get to people, so they can understand it, and I think that somehow everyone really need to consider it: "Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery, Today is a Gift, Thats why it's called the Present."( St. Marher, 1225) That is whole point of being. You are, just in that moment you exist, not in past, and not in the future. I have to say something as a dancer- use of response time in perceptualmotor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of cognitive operations, and that is Mental chronometry. (Medical article) And that is how we are able to do in fact anything. I find this interesting because you cant really explain it. If you look at it time is just good arranged chemicals in our brain. Lifetime- a word that describes one life from newborn child till death. Trying to understand this word I have found that you cant really explain it, but you can say something like- it is a period that no one can judge, and no one really has a right to speak about it. Looking time trough that, you can see that IT is really the biggest killer ever. Somehow it is never kind, and it almost never has mercy. When you need it to be slow, it becomes faster, and when you need it to be fast its slower than ever. Example- 5 minutes in bed last 5 minutes in class, and all this because of some agreement. Anyways I would like to link this lifetime with my third question- answer on it: Lifetime can be expand by the deeds you have done in it, in fact point of existing is to exist, and nothing else, so if you want to be known for eternity (exist for eternity) you have to try hard and make good results. Every single life is eternity, because you cant know how long you are going to live, and you never really admit to yourself that you are mortal. (God complex) But what I like the most is LEGENDS. That is something that never dies, whether you think about people, or stories or even your own legendary moment. What you do is what you are, and what you are is what you worth. Just like Leonidas message- Dilios: "Remember us." As simple an

order as a king can give. "Remember why we died." For he did not wish tribute, nor song, nor monuments nor poems of war and valor. His wish was simple. "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie." (this is the speech from the movie, but the last quote is real, and it is written on the rock in Sparta) I think that we all have our quote that will whisper from ageless stones, for those countless centuries, for kids of our kids, and more. They say that every story has an end, but I think that TIME has proven otherwise. Fools called Alchemists went long way to find philosopher stone, so they could make life potion. My opinion is that life potion is really deed/s that we do, like Tesla, Einstein, Leonidas, and many more- they are convicted for the eternity. There for what eternity really means- never dying as a muscle or an idea? Sadly saying, nowadays eternity really means never dying as a muscle. It seems like no one really has any more time for good ideas. In our present, eternity does not exist anymore. Eternity is just a vision of a few. Guess it has always been.