Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Time Stands Still…

Unusual things happen when you simply stare at the night sky…

the moon and the stars.

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Clear your mind, and take it all in… the vastness of the sky… all those stars. Exactly the same sky that mankind has gazed at for thousands of years. We all witness the same thing… have the same experience. So what do you feel? What thoughts run through your mind? No doubt the same things that have occupied the minds of man since time began. Time stands still, yet spans thousands of years. Our lives change fast… the Earth changes extremely slow… and the heavens are seemingly endless and never changing.  Are you standing at the same space as someone else did one hundred or even a thousands of years ago… and yet you are exactly seeing the same unchanging universe… the heavens and stars… just as they saw them. Kind of a kindred spirit separated by the sands of time… perhaps a bit of a chilling experience. So does time stand still… by the standards of the universe… it may certainly appear that way… endless and timeless. What would it be like if Einstein was right… time bends in space… and in theory, travel to a time in the past could be possible. Looking to the night sky certainly makes the possibilities seem … well… possible. In any event… looking into the night sky certainly evokes possibilities… no matter how seemingly unlikely. Just something to think about… the next time you stare at the night sky.