Newtonian Time Management

Time is money. But if time does not exist, will money still be there?
On the safe side of life, in the check-list laden literature of executive training and management skill development, these questions do not exist.
Time is money. Everyone knows that.
But what was this relation like before Benjamin Franklin?
Would Newton and Leibniz still have their dispute in modern turbo-captitalism?
Well, money is not the thing that it used to be - especially not a thing - well not an object. It is mere stardust of binary codes in virtual worlds. Your nice pieces of paper are just the remains of another age.
And time?
Believe me time is money.
Time is also cocoa butter, Brussels sprouts and chocolate fudge.
According to Isaac Newton there is such a thing as time out there. There is also money out there.
So when you have finally succeeded to overcome this equation, time being money, in your ol' grave, you can look back and see if it is/was/will be true.
However, it is incredible what you can win if you spend your time not in the pursuit of money. In some cases you will end up even earning money, too.
Time is money.
I don't think so.
Time is money.
If time is money, we can build a money clock. Without doing any research on that idea, I assume that it already exists.
There is only the need for a periodic oscillation or happening.
You can base your timing on your individual money clock, dependent on how much you earn every year, every month, every day, every hour, every minute, every second, every quantum tick of the universe. Interesting phenomena can be observed with this sort of time: Acceleration with wage raises, complete halts of your personal universe, yes indeed.
I love that.
Time is money.
Time is on my side.
Money is not on my side.
Therefore: Time is not money.
Time to go to some logic classes.
If you open a book on time management called Zeitmanagement, on page 7 you will read: Everybody knows: Time is money.
Although I hate the burning of books, some of them do really deserve that.
And if I am wrong, the words will finally rise like a Phoenix from the ashes and scream:
Time is ice-cream.

NIST F-1 and other clocks

The NIST F-1 is the atomic clock of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.
Although it is very accurate (it loses about a second in 20 million years) it cannot compete with the Linnean flower clock.
The flower clock captures the beauty of change, whereas the F-1 only counts the oscillations of cesium atoms, which are not meant for the perception of the human eye.
However, for me the perfect description of time is the image below (Could be the marks of the Hershebian lawyer beetle).

Perdurantism and Endurantism

Perdurantism and Endurantism or 4Dism and 3Dism respectively are two ways to describe persistence of objects in time.
My belief that the universe is created anew every instant (how short that instant may be) faces the question of how it does that with keeping rather complex forms almost the same (at least on a macro level)
Otherwise, instead of my body, there would be a chaotic blur of matter in the next moment of time?
Is it really the sheer force of electromagnetic patterns and other forces, or are there essences involved?
And furthermore, what are the pragmatic aspects of these questions?
At least we know, although we keep the same form, on an atomic level we wobble and swing all the time.
Hang on, I have to read more about that.
Then there will be more thoughts about perdurantism, endurantism and eternity.

Tarqeq

the Inuit moon spirit

Reflections on the Yodelling Stick Insect

In the Garden of Five Surprises you will also find the yodelling stick insect.
When I read this for the first time, some four or five years ago, I thought it is some sort of mosquito that yodels before it bites you.
Well, it is an insect at least.
In "reality" it is an insect that is famous for its camouflage and which is simply able to yodel a little.
I imagine that it is really a surprise, when you find out where the yodeling comes from.
From all the surprises in the Garden it is my favorite one.
However, when you are occupied a lot with time theory, the yodelling of the stick insect can be very comforting, much more than its mere human Swiss or Tyrolian counterparts.
Humor is very important, especially in a world like this.
From now on, whenever I will read a newspaper, I will consider the fascinating ways of the yodelling stick insect, as a counterpart to death, torture, famine, terror and whatever you read about every day.
So be it.

What's the time?

Time after time

This could actually mean: again and again.
It does so in the Cindy Lauper song, and in the Miles Davis versions.
However, is there a time after time?
Is time an illusion?
Is it really a dimension?
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time has got 689 pages.
I guess that not a single living human being on this planet can live long enough to understand the total content of the book.
Another time paradox?
It is clear that before time, time didn't exist.
But before that?
I think it is time to smile now.