so I'm not really late, right?

The quantum universe is static. Only timeless Nows exist. The quantum rules give them different probabilities. We experience the most probable Nows as individual instants of time. The appearance of motion and a flow of time are both illusions created by very special structure of the instants that we experience. (Julian Barbour)

There was a special edition of Scientific American on "time" a few years back and one of the ideas that really stuck with me is the theory that time cannot exist, or rather that chronos, the forward movement of time cannot exist.  We don't travel forward through time we only think we do.  This came to my mind this morning, waiting for my toast or something, while I watched Ellen ride a rollercoaster on tv.  She screamed, she yelled [I'd have done far worse] - had all these emotions, sensations, yet at the end she was right where she began.  Kind of like the Alice and the Queen of Hearts.  Then I happened to read these words from Wm Stringfellow this morning:

[T]ime, as humans perceive and suffer it, is itself an aspect of fallen reality, a signal of the activity of death, a most familiar and oppressive feature of the reign of death in the world.  In the participation of the Word of God in history - in time - the Word of God is not somehow diminished or can it be confined, but still retains freedom from the parameters of time, transfigures time, abolishes time, embodies eternity in time, redeems time.  To refer to the Word of God in time (which is the only language humans now have) is always, therefore, quant and stylistic, a manner of speaking, a metaphor, a parable.  In this way, human beings can be spared the temptations to possess or control, restrict or define the Word of God. . .

(from Conscience & Obedience, which seems to be out of print = lost in time itself)

The quantum universe is static. Only timeless Nows exist. The quantum rules give them different probabilities. We experience the most probable Nows as individual instants of time. The appearance of motion and a flow of time are both illusions created by very special structure of the instants that we experience. (Julian Barbour)

There was a special edition of Scientific American on "time" a few years back and one of the ideas that really stuck with me is the theory that time cannot exist, or rather that chronos, the forward movement of time cannot exist.  We don't travel forward through time we only think we do.  This came to my mind this morning, waiting for my toast or something, while I watched Ellen ride a rollercoaster on tv.  She screamed, she yelled [I'd have done far worse] - had all these emotions, sensations, yet at the end she was right where she began.  Kind of like the Alice and the Queen of Hearts.  Then I happened to read these words from Wm Stringfellow this morning:

[T]ime, as humans perceive and suffer it, is itself an aspect of fallen reality, a signal of the activity of death, a most familiar and oppressive feature of the reign of death in the world.  In the participation of the Word of God in history - in time - the Word of God is not somehow diminished or can it be confined, but still retains freedom from the parameters of time, transfigures time, abolishes time, embodies eternity in time, redeems time.  To refer to the Word of God in time (which is the only language humans now have) is always, therefore, quant and stylistic, a manner of speaking, a metaphor, a parable.  In this way, human beings can be spared the temptations to possess or control, restrict or define the Word of God. . .

(from Conscience & Obedience, which seems to be out of print = lost in time itself)