The t coordinate

[Ninurta]

 If that sounds 'out there', consider that the past is "real" -- it has occurred.  The future is unreal in the sense that it has yet to occur.  Now consider two observers, A and B.  There are close to each other in terms of X, Y, Z, and t coordinates, but not identical.  Because the past has occurred, could it be that observer A who is in the future in relation to observer B -can- see observer B . . . yet observer A remains invisible to observer B because he is in a timeframe that has yet to occur for observer B ?

In order for a "past" to exist at all, to be "real", the future must ALSO exist, simultaneously. Consider: "past" is only "past" with respect to a future as seen from that past. Therefore, if a "past" exists, a "future" must exist simultaneously to refer the "past" segment to. If "future" has not happened, then "past" cannot have ever happened, either. There is nothing to refer it to.

Either A: there IS no past and no future, only an endless progression of "now"

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B: both "past" and "future", as well as "now", all must exist simultaneously.

I personally find option B to be the only viable solution to the dilemma. Everything that ever was, or ever will be, IS, right now, in this instant. Time, the t coordinate, is a matter of phase, and we only see time progress as we step through the phasing. Some times, phase may "slip" or get out of adjustment - it may become "out of phase" with respect to one instant and another, and in those moments, one may see into the past or the future... a "time slip".

And if that were true . . . for what duration would one be able to peer "back into" the past ?  Seconds ?  Microseconds ?

I wonder if micro slips on the time arrow like this happen . . . and allow the affected observer to see things and events not visible to others.

Studies have been done that indicate the average person can "see" 6 to 12 seconds into the future under the correct circumstances. That is one explanation for "deja vu", and the phenomenal reflexes some folks have - they see what is coming in the immediate future, and begin to react before it occurs. I have experienced that myself.

Other folks, perhaps attuned slightly differently from the average, may be able to "see" much farther into both future and past. If a "12 second future" exists for them to see, then a "12,000 year future" must also exist for them to see - it's just a matter of tuning, how that individual is tuned at the moment, what "phase" of time they are attuned to.

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