Time

Several people have told me that time is going faster for them now than it has ever before. Feeling the same way, the natural question to answer is whether time itself is going faster. First of all, how could we measure it? If we used clocks, they would be going faster but show the same measure, so that's useless. We have to know how time is measured. It is based on astronomical observations. The first approximations were based on the rotation of the Earth relative to the sun, the next were by the observations of stars as they crossed a meridian, and the third is a look at distant quasars. Even now we are only accurate to microseconds. There is no exact measurement of time.

Well, then how could we know if time is going faster? We'd have to infer it, if we could, from those objects through which we determine time. The obvious factor that comes to mind, is that all observable objects in the universe are moving away from each other at an accelerating pace. At first thought it would seem that there would be a greater interval between the motions we observe, because our relative positions would be separating (that is, time would be slowing down). There are geometrical problems, however: the relation of movements between us and all the objects we are observing must be put on some fixed standard, if we are to understand how are observations are stretched or contracted. Proportions and other geometrical acrobatics would have to be utilized with the greatest skill to bring this theory to its fruition. I here only give you half-assed, provisional though. It is much easier to draw the rough outline of the skeleton than to draw the individual bones.

How would such a grand-scale cosmic stretching affect my daily life? Well, things here on Earth have motion. This motion is not independent of the grand motions out there. It is all connected. I leave linking the facts to you.

I present my theory: Observing the physical separation of all the bodies in the universe, they could very well be moving with them a medium through which or with which they move -- time. This time might very well be "stretching" or getting thinner, which would mean that EVERYTHING is getting faster. Are our feeble senses enough to detect this change? I feel it. Do you?