Time is a river, and we are the salmons
Submitted by infojunkie on Wed, 2006-12-27 23:45.
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Time has been often compared to a river, because it flows. But in which direction? Consider this: things that were once in the future will soon be past. So from our reference point, time flows in the reverse direction! And that makes us creatures that swim upstream :-)
Or, as U2 puts it in Zoo Station (from Achtung Baby):
Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass
nice imagery
but salmon jumps up cascades too!
On Salmon and Bears
A great one liner;
Why be like everyone else when you can swim upstream like Salmons
to which another person replied
For fear of being eaten by Bears!
Loved it!
Rady
Eddies and vortices too
Is our own time flow linear or is it chaotic?
interesting question
going by atomic clocks in one frame of reference it seems linear; going by relativity, it changes nearly logarithmically; going by one's subjective sense of time, it could be chaotic.