While I know that this post will not be interesting to many of you, I know for a fact that it will be interesting to a certain someone whom I am interested in interesting. But, for anyone else who actually reads this stuff, tell me which theory you think is best....If we could recreate the way we see time, which would be the best way?
The Classical Newtonian definition is basically time as we know it: days, weeks, months and years; a time that is both chronological and orderly.
The Einsteinian view defines time as indivisible but somewhat differentiable, behaving much in the same way as energy does in the wave-pulse formations in quantum physics. Sometimes time can be separated into distinct parts and other times it operates as a continuous wave, but these two forms will never occur simultaneously.
In the Transactional definition, time is divisible into different and significant cycles of life. In example, the Indian culture does not see time as a chronological and ordered process, but as how the individual meshes with the changing seasons, the land, and whatever is happening in life at present.
In Eastern Mysticism, time can simply dissolve into nothingness if one can reach a higher and more enlightened state. Time is illusory and reversible, merely an obstacle to be overcome.
Hermeneutic Temporality states that humans basically construct time and all of its meanings by the contextual situations they engage in, and that time is nothing but what is in the present moment.
Don't say I didn't warn you :)
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