THE POWER OF TIME

   Generally, when Time is discussed it is understood as movement, or change. The movement of the planets, the ticking of a clock as long as these things occur, there is Time. If they cease, Time also ceases. In other words, Time is no more than the occurrence of physical events.

   In this paradigm, once we accept the creation of heaven and earth, it is a simple conclusion that Time began then as well since Time is no more than the events of the cosmos. The fact that we cannot fathom an absence of Time is irrelevant. After all, neither can we fathom an absence of heaven and earth in other words, of space and matter. In this way Time is a creation with a beginning.

   There is, however, a deeper understanding of Time the essence of Time generally known as "immeasurable time."All science deals with the measurement of things. Indeed, it is a wondrous aspect of our universe that by measuring its phenomena we are able to calculate with some accuracy their outcomes.But there are several limitations to this ability of ours. Of course, there are the subjective limitations: the precision of the tools of measurement, the form of measurement chosen and even the consciousness of the subject who is measuring. Measurement is not really telling us directly about the phenomena we are measuring, but about the tools of measurement and our own relationship to them.But, most profoundly, even once we have all the measurements of any particular object, we still have not grasped that object itself. In other words, we can absorb and process information about the object, but our knowledge and the actual object remain distinct entities. Our measurements provide us with a working model to make limited predictions, but the only true model is the thing itself.Just as any object is not known in its essence by its measurement, so too with Time. Knowledge of change, movements, events -- these are all-measurements of Time. We could go even further: They are measurements of how things behave within Time. Time itself Essential Time is the parameter in which those events occur.

   The only true knowledge then, is the knowledge of the Creator, who knows the object from its inside out, since the object is entirely one with Him. 

   In this paradigm, Time is not dependent upon the existence of space and matter, but the converse: Any event presumes the existence of a continuum of Time in which that event occurs. In fact, we can even extend this to the primal event, the initial emergence of space and matter: To say that beforethere was nothing and then there was, already implies the existence of Time. Thus, Creation presumes Time, and not the other way around.

    This discussion on relative time and absolute time provides an excellent venue for discussion of a much larger issue: The necessity for interface between physics and metaphysics. Someone has demonstrated that science faces an impasse in developing a cosmology when relying on material empiricism alone. There is a need for "inside knowledge" essentially for the soul of the cosmos to speak for itself and reveal its true identity to Man. 

   On the other hand, revelation is also in need of rigorous science in order to provide tangible knowledge within the realm of common human experience. Without that tangibility, the mundane physical world and the world of the spirit remain alien to one another. In order to reach the times when "all flesh shall see" and the physical world itself will reveal its Maker, there must be a convergence of the received and empirical forms of knowledge.