Sometimes we strive to describe each act, we try to measure everything, not realizing that there are incommensurable concepts. On other entries we have referred to the various units of measure, however, others are more abstract, such as in the natural sciences use very often the physical quantity called time. Interestingly we think that some things have always existed, but even before the creation of the universe there was no time because ─ as written in Genesis ─ everything was chaos or disorder, the same St. Augustine concludes, in the eleventh book of his Confessions , that before the creation of the universe God existed, of course yes, there was, but did nothing!
At this time, known as the Big Bang , time passes and moves with an estimated age of the universe is about thirteen thousand seven hundred million years. On the other hand, the units of measurement measure the time duration of different events. Unlike centuries ago, most of the clocks we use daily have stopwatches timing up to hundredths, where, for any mortal just enough to hours and minutes. We try to fill our schedules so you will not stay open spaces that we can devote ourselves, as if to quicken the pace pospusiéramos the date of our death, as if we could fool the three fates ─ ─ goddesses of destiny, to change his divine Clotho spinning at our destination, which assigns Lachesis our joys and sorrows of life that would determine each mortal and Atropos who The thread of life and brings death. Definitely not. As we have written in other entries, we ourselves can rewrite our own destiny and make every day worth for what it contains, without pressure of any kind. I often think I'd better put on our wrists just a clock, such as the March Hare Alice in Wonderland , they just mark the months and thus would run less and would have more time at our disposal.
As mentioned, the age of the universe is close to fourteen billion years. To understand what is meant by the elapsed time since its inception, an excerpt from the scientific essay "A Short History of Nearly Everything", by Bill Bryson . He compares the nearly four and a half billion years of Earth history with a normal day of twenty-four hours
At this time, known as the Big Bang , time passes and moves with an estimated age of the universe is about thirteen thousand seven hundred million years. On the other hand, the units of measurement measure the time duration of different events. Unlike centuries ago, most of the clocks we use daily have stopwatches timing up to hundredths, where, for any mortal just enough to hours and minutes. We try to fill our schedules so you will not stay open spaces that we can devote ourselves, as if to quicken the pace pospusiéramos the date of our death, as if we could fool the three fates ─ ─ goddesses of destiny, to change his divine Clotho spinning at our destination, which assigns Lachesis our joys and sorrows of life that would determine each mortal and Atropos who The thread of life and brings death. Definitely not. As we have written in other entries, we ourselves can rewrite our own destiny and make every day worth for what it contains, without pressure of any kind. I often think I'd better put on our wrists just a clock, such as the March Hare Alice in Wonderland , they just mark the months and thus would run less and would have more time at our disposal.
As mentioned, the age of the universe is close to fourteen billion years. To understand what is meant by the elapsed time since its inception, an excerpt from the scientific essay "A Short History of Nearly Everything", by Bill Bryson . He compares the nearly four and a half billion years of Earth history with a normal day of twenty-four hours
"Very early, at about four o'clock, you see the first unicellular organisms . These tiny creatures rule the planet for sixteen hours. At 8:30 pm the sea the first plants will sprout. Twenty minutes later appears the first jellyfish surrounded by the mysteries of wildlife experts have christened as the Ediacaran. A little after nine swim out the first trilobites and a host of larger cousins. At ten o'clock the night begins to take root the plants above ground. Twenty minutes after so many forests and the planet is a zone of coal waste. Just then the deities that the insects were given free rein to the imagination and eleven at night, minutes minutes less, dinosaur eggs filled with giant planet. For three quarters of an hour are the masters of all this, but at 11:41, perhaps for the happiness of the meteorites that every three minutes on this scale devastated the whole, the giants of Jurassic Park disappeared. At 11:42 am, seconds, seconds less, appeared mammals. And almost at 11:59, when there was only one minute and sixteen seconds to midnight, we were born. "
think, with a certain arrogance, that we are the lords and masters of the universe, as if we had always been here, as if it will always be here, but conversely, do our best to destroy ourselves and we bent on destroying what belongs to future generations. Time passes inexorably, and we do not know how old the Earth. Perhaps, unconsciously, we think that life is a dream-like writing Calderón de la Barca, and when we die we awake to life.
