5090 by FAWM: "Geometry of Time"

Geometry of Time

10 weeks ago by @philkmills

Geometry of Time

philkmills

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Liner Notes

At least once per FAWM or 50/90, I create something that takes far too much time and is not anything I would have predicted that I'd do. Let's hope this is the one for the summer.

#jazzy #relaxed #philosophical

Lyrics

Though it feels natural to live within three-dimensional geometry, our perception of time is seldom so complex.

We think of now as a point, moving, but little larger than a laser spot on the wall.
We imagine a point in the future when we will reach our goal.
We re-live the past and remember the high points with pride and satisfaction.
And sometimes the low points intrude on our comfortable now.

Beyond dimension zero, we have timelines.
We have plots and stories where time’s points are sequenced.
Time suggests motion as we talk of it, advancing, progressing or passing us by.
Our clocks and calendars define the speed of life along the one-way street where reversing direction is certainly against the law.

Taken together, the lines that are drawn by all that exists form the perfectly flat surface of reality.
Our 3D space slides over it while we glimpse other lines and sometimes bend them right or left.
There is a form of insanity that envisions rotating this plane so that our line intersects reality while others do not.

But think again about that one individual timeline and extend it perpendicular to the real plane.
There’s where we find what might have been.
There’s where we find our current possibilities.
There’s where we find our dreams for the future.
Now imagine that extension applied to all the lines making up reality.

And, at this point, we stop.

Comments

@toms 10w

Maaan, I love this. I spent much of the 1990s on logic matrices of from 4 to as many as 17 dimensions, and we basically used all of these metaphors when trying to make mental sense of the "spaces" tehy described. Splendid philosophical writing. Love it.

@rocketgrrrl 10w

Thank you for taking me to your philosophy and physics open mic piano performance. I loved it. Especially the concept of the rotations. Avoiding the way others might see reality by rotating the plane, hoping that the rotated lines of our own might intersect somewhere, all brilliant ways of framing expectations, perceptions, and reality.

@peteralway 10w

Wow. A great little jaunt into the nature of reality! The music melds with the words in a very fun diagonal way. I don't think I've heard anything like it since Ken Nordine.

@jtsteam 10w

Nice jazzy backing. Also this is making my head hurt, in a good way :).

@coolparadisoMod 10w

good title to start with! this is full of interesting stuff. some really nice bits of music some very jazzy and some deep base. Great production

@nwhosings 10w

Okay, I can see how this took a lot of time, but so, so, so worth it! This was the coolest, jazzy meditation on space and time and the awareness of the complexity of existence. I loved every second of it. Your delivery of a lot of words held such a natural cadence and flow that was not only enjoyable to listen to, but also aided in understanding the content. This is beautiful.