By David William Jedell UPDATED November 12, 2025
(Full Paper: Philosophy of Time, Space and Now (With A.I. Review) https://thejedellreport.blogspot.com/2025/11/philosophy-of-time-space-and-now-with.html
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - Mark Twain.
There Is No Time But Now and Never Was in Normal Human Existence
Contents
Section One: Now
The Following First Section Shall Be Designated as "Now" in this Paper, which affects normal human existence without complicated counter intuitive concerns of Special Relativity which is far removed from normal human existence and is confirmed only through quantum mechanical dilation comparison phenomena (see examples below). The facts are as follows: In normal human existence, it is always Now. Physicists, mathematicians and other scientists should accept this obvious objective fact, and disregard scientific propaganda of "spacetime" being related in any way to normal human existence. The idea of time began as an illusion of past, present and future; yesterday, today and tomorrow.
This illusion may have been encouraged by this in the Old Testament: The phrase "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh". This phrase, revealed to Moses at the burning bush, is a complex statement that conveys the eternal and ever-present nature of God. It can be understood as "I AM THAT I AM," "I will be what I will be," or "I am the Existing One "Ehyeh" can mean "I am," but it also means "I will be," because the Hebrew word from which it is derived can indicate either past, present, or future existence. The most famous phrase containing it, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה), is often translated as "I AM WHO I AM" or "I will be what I will be". "Ehyeh" can be translated as "I am" and is associated with the idea of a continuous and self-existing God who is and was and is to come.
We would approach a better understanding of everything by looking at what events are really happening and describe them as just that, rather than making up categories and labels like "Time". Normal existence does not require us to think about "Time", just "Now" and "Space" (which is hardly different from Now). See below Relativity discussion.
Moreover, we actually exist at our local Space point reference (spacial area where changes in object, energy and wave position are within our conscious sensory perception). The delusion of Time construct follows from our psychological organization of our single point reference on earth, giving rise to the conscious inference of Past, Now and Future. Have you ever woken up when it was not Now? The ticks of a watch are only made by gears that are coordinated with a fraction of the earth's rotation we call a "second." It is not keeping track of "Time." It is keeping track of the relation of two motions using its own gear mecanisms.
Earth’s Rotation Period Is Defined in "Seconds"
1 Rotation of earth = 86,164 s
v (in seconds) = directional distance traveled/[(0.00001157407407 s) X 1 Earth rotation], found by dividing 1 by 86,400 s/day
Sundial accuracy = ±1 minute/solar day
We feel the Sun, the day, the seasons
Our biological clocks run on ~24-hour cycles
“Time” feels like Earth’s spin
This is valid for daily life
Human body - Circadian rhythm = ~±1 hour/day
The "speed" of these motions is not inherent in Time as a thing in and of itself, but rather, in the ratio of the distance the object travels to an arbitrary fraction of the earth's cyclical rotation as a constant (i.e., the ratio of almost precisely one to 24, or an "hour"), as the earth relates to the virtually stationary sun. It is only consciousness that creates the delusion of Time in normal human existence; without it the Earth exists in eternity.
When there is an event, like a collision of two objects in front of us, we store it in memory. When that event has moved out of our local Space, and there is another event in an ordered sequence, we delude ourselves into believing that the conscious perception of the first sequentially ordered event happened in the "past," as a result of the fact that the event is no longer generating sensory impulses (i.e., you no longer see it in front of you), but your sense of memory has recorded the event. However that event and its energies still continue in their effects in Space (and Now) that is non-local. Since our conscious mind can review the perceptions of memory and the lack of the same immediate sensory perceptions simultaneously occurring (i.e., you don't see it anymore), the mental construct is created that there is a past and a present. This is not factual but flawed. As far as the "future," the motions and coincidences in "events" (i.e., the paths of two objects colliding) have not occurred in our local Space reference. The future can only be imagined, predicted or hoped for, but if our future did exist, it would be in our local Space. There are motions of matter and a sensory "observer" however Space is always Now for a normal human being's existence.
A major obstacle to the general acceptance of the fact that Special Relativity time dilation is distinct from Now and is a mathematical convenience or a theoretical physicist's tool to compare relative motions, and not a thing in and of itself for a human life. It is that collective propaganda (and collective stupidity, see, Video: Why Critical Thinking Is Disappearing – The Rise of Collective Stupidity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=5NDotKQUqvc) and languages, such as English, are pervaded with words that express Time as a thing in and of itself, such as "happened," "was," "yesterday," tomorrow," and many other expressions of past and future tenses. Calendars, clocks and appointments are other obstacles to the comprehension of Space.
Attributing a dimension to Time in normal human experience is analogous to attributing a dimension to a 12 inch ruler and calling it "Distance". In the same way clocks are not time itself. Moreover, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis postulates that the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience. It emphasizes that language either determines or influences one’s thoughts. The mental construct, e.g., of thinking that yesterday was in the past is a misunderstanding of Now.
Thought Experiment
Instead of trying to think this out with our flawed verbal language system, try to think in a spacial way of what is actually happening. Here is a simple example of spacial comprehension of this; a thought experiment. A jet located on the equator takes off due west. When it reaches 35,000 feet it is traveling 1,000 mph ground speed. The pilot has only a sun dial in front of the cockpit that he can see from inside. Nobody on the plane has a clock or watch. The sun dial shadow indicates it is 3pm upon reaching 35,000 feet. The sun can be seen high above. Subsequent to the plane traveling 6,000 miles, the sun dial is in the same 3pm position and the sun hasn't moved. Its still high in the sky. The pilot and everyone on the plane think that time has stopped during the flight. They even confirm this assessment when they land and take a few minutes to walk into the airport. All the clocks on the walls and all the people's watches indicate 3:05pm (including walking distance).
On the ground at the airport that the plane departed from, the ground crew personnel look at their watches and see that they indicate 9pm. It is also night, the stars are shining. They compare their memory of a sunny day with the present sensory input of night and no sun. They construct the delusion of time, whereas the pilot and passengers have current sensory input of a shining sun and a sun dial that has not moved during the flight. Finally, the pilot and passengers are informed that they are moving through Space from one area of Space to another, and that they passed 6 "Established Time Zones." The pilot and passengers accept this explanation after some thought. But the ground crew believes that it is 9pm and that 6 hours of "Time" have passed because the hands of their watches moved and the sun set and it is night.
The crew holds on to this delusion like people did when the earth was believed to be flat and the earth was the center of the universe, rejecting Columbus and Copernicus on his death bed, and burning Guido at the stake for heresy. The "Arrow of Time" in normal human misunderstanding can just as easily be reversed with no real difference, i.e., that "Time" moves from the future to the past or moves from past to future.
Theoretically, in order to travel into the "Past", all cause and effect vectors would have to be reversed, and it would take 150 years to go back 150 years. However, this cannot be done. Neither can travelling to the "future" because it would require an acceleration of all vectors of momentum, which cannot be done. Besides, these imaginary conjectures would be prevented by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Princople. See, Edward Teller - Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrHTqq_4mwQ
In Now you can picture a circle representing your conscious area of sensory perception. Arrows (velocity/momentum vectors) outside of the circle pointed inward to the circle represent sequentially separated events that have not affected your perception but are positioned to do so.
Arrows (velocity/momentum vectors) inside the circle (or sphere) pointed outward are events that affect your perception but are moving away from your area of sensory perception.
A sequence does not depend on "Time", i.e., the sequence 1,2,3 will always be 1,2,3 no matter how many instances that the earth has rotated or revolved. A sequence is (delusional) "Time" independent. Thus, in normal human existence, before and after does not mean anything but a sequence of vectors and events in Now.
The above diagram is placed here to compare the Now diagram with the Spacetime diagram; "Spacetime" will be discussed below in Section Three: Special Relativity. In 1908, Minkowski presented the above light cone geometric interpretation of spacetime special relativity into a single four-dimensional continuum now known as Minkowski spacetime in the absence of gravitation. Einstein initially dismissed Minkowski's interpretation as "superfluous learnedness". As we shall see below, Minkowski may have unwittingly placed the Now of Space in a separate dimension from the quantum particle dimension that has experimentally "confirmed" dilation as per Relativity's postulate. Typical quantum particles touch the Now dimension as they speed through it close to the speed of light, others that are "controlled" by cooling or magnetic trapping can be slowed to a few meters per second,
"Serious critical thinking and skepticism addressed to new and even old claims is not just permissible, it is encouraged and desirable as the essence of science." - Carl Sagan
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