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To share some thoughts of the elusive time:
Albert Einstein worked out the key principles of the Theory of Relativity over 10 years during 1905 and 1915, which fundamentally changed our perception of the world around us.
The First World War was fought between 1914 and 1918, which killed 9 million soldiers, and subsequently influenced making of the Modern World as we know of today -precursor to the UN, disintegration of Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian empires; creation of new countries Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia etc. This was merely 4 years... Ironically, only a very few people directly contributed triggering the War.
Time seems just a word of convenience we use to tag the memories of the past with retrospect or speculation of the future with anticipation. For the real utility of time is only determined by actions, and the intention of these actions -that is good or bad.
One may ponder that time is something one could "manufacture" by the purpose of one's actions, or something one could "consume" by watching its passage.
One could only follow the rules of economics, and manufacture more than what you consume, and enjoy the wealth of time.
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Proof that time and mans ...
Written by johniebg (541 comments posted) 9th August 2006 | ... desire to carve history to his own ends makes historical fact redundant.
I am pretty sure (dont quote me) that something in excess of 20 million soldiers died during the first world war, which was matched in the following years by civilian deaths at least to the same number from starvation and malnutrition.
Time is the measure through which we exist, everything is pointless save except for what we choose to do.
Thought provoking in places but came across as a hurried school assignment. I have pondered the last para and can't make sense of it, especially 'enjoy the wealth of time'
Nice by itself but you seem to saying, to enjoy time you need to be wealthy? Which for anyone than has had more money than they need to exist will tell you does not manifest enjoyment of time.
Would be interested to read more, as i said, thought provoking. | A very brief history of time
Written by ceramix (24 comments posted) 13th August 2006 | | Well Stephen Hawkings doesn't have anything to worry about! As above, thoughts like these need more elaboration. It's not the last para I have a problem with but the penultimate one - such confusing things need to be explained in greater detail, but then science never was my strong point. You seem to suggest that there is some moral dimension to time, or that morality is somehow intimately concerned with how time is perceived. Martin Amis' book Time's Arrow develops this idea, and I can't help but feel a novel is a much better place for these kinds of musings. That said, if you'd written more I might have been more impressed. | Al little too much of a Homily.
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 14th August 2006 | I must say that I found this a touch pedantic to say the least. Moreover I really could not fathom what the point was; ie why it was written; if not to encapsulate the blindingly obvious. To make matters worse the text smelt of a sermon and no reader likes being preached at; or, in this case, to. Certainly not me.
If you feel the need to pass on wisdom to your fellow human beings my advice, for what it is worth, is to find a less pretentious vehicle than this, as your second reviewer seem to suggest.
Also for what it is worth, I have never heard so high a figure as 20 million quoted for fatalities from the First World War, as your first reviwer suggests. Certainly after the Second the Russians alone claimed 20 million dead. Mind you, recent historians have cast doubt on the substance of even that and it is as well to remember that Uncle Joe himself accounted for a good proprtion of his compatriots. According to a recent biographer he always had difficulty telling the time. Perhaps there is a more interesting subject.
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