My concept of time is the thing that allows for change. Having 3 dimensions without time doesn't allow for any movement. I think of time more as an idea or an explanation rather than a quantifiable thing that it seems some scientists consider it. Many physicists have set out to use time and put it into equations. I disagree with the idea that it needs to be used in equations. Rather than time slowing down when you go super fast in comparison to things around you i think that time still passes constantly for everything because everything is still moving inside all four dimensions. I think that time should rather be just a way of measuring things moving or changing. I plan to integrate this idea into my project by having many pieces put together to create a single stream of time. This shows that time is unchanging no matter what does on inside my project.
I believe time is a companion that accompaines us on our journeys. It is a reminder for us to cherish each moment because it will never come again. This concept of time can be related to the fact that we live one life on this earth, and that we need to make the most of it. Time is always with us, and we need to take advanatge of every opporunity that we have. Life your life how you want to be, because in the end you dont want to look back and regret not doing something.
In general I believe that time is basically a measurement of life, like lifespans I suppose. There are two main components to the concept of time. First there is the concrete measurement that we use for the passing of time (eg a day, month, year, second etc...). Then there is the idea that time is relative, it's different for each person's perspective (as Bridgette and I discussed in depth in class). Each person ages at a different rate, and some people will naturally live longer than others due to their physicial compositions. And to add on to that, physical and mental strain on the body (eg sprinting, stress, sex, adrenaline induced activities etc...) makes the body age faster. So if someone is having fun working hard in a basketball game and the time seems to fly by for them so much faster than the person who is bored and watching on the sidelines, the time for the play really is going by faster. They are aging faster so their lifespan has shortened or their time. I don't know if that makes sense but hopehully my presentation will.... Molly Riegel
I feel that time is all relative. It depends on each person’s perspective. For one person time could be moving slower than molasses when you’re sitting in your least favorite class. But to somebody else who say, likes that class, time could have just flown by. I'm going to show my concept by having a couple pictures of students or kids, on like a TV. Then I'm going to have written in some sort of form of a fast forward or slow button or even paused.
The concept of my project will focus on the importance of time in our emotional and physical lives. The past has already been, the future is not here yet and therefore all that matters is the present. But is this ALWAYS the case? Many times we must talk about the past in order to prepare for the future, or to fix the present. Other times we forget the past in order to move forward in to the future. I like to believe that I lead my life knowing that the future is not guaranteed, not for anyone. Our free will allows us to bend the powers and elements of this universe only so far, but time will always move, whether or not we decide to come along. Time has no concern with us, in reality. Time will be consistent, and always has been. It cannot be touched or tainted or stopped or sped up. Time is of the essence, and the essence is time. We function around it completely and there never seems to be enough, and yet it will actually never end.
My understanding of time is that it is relative- and only matters to people. But it certainly exists in our world. I can prove this idea using music. Music is the product of manipulation of time and space. You can create music by changing times of silence and times of "sound" which travels not unlike light. In order to travel and exist time is a necessity for the duration of the vibrations that MOVE through the air. Low sound like a bass has longer wave lengths and takes more time to travel to the ear. Higher noise from somthing like a violin has much shorter faster wave lengths.
My concept of time has to with one of the last sentences in the essay that says something like "no matter where you are you are always with your friends family and children." so i made one of those things you hang and it is connecting a clock the earth and pictures of family, different places, and friends. it represents how no matter where you are in the world or what time it is you are always connected to your friends and family and they are all memories in your mind. i put glitter on it too and it is hanging in the corner of the room.
My representation of time was that each person is in a sense, their own "clock." That clock is placed at a specific time, and each person's life takes place within that time. So all of the milestones and life experiences that one goes through can be represented in a specific clock or time. This relates to the article that we read in class in that each person is living each of their own "nows" and that life is indeed a series of events or screenshots, but those make up a specific person's time.
I did my project on photoshop and had a bunch of different sizes of worlds inside each other. This shows how everyone has there own now and my now is different from someone else's now. It shows how everyone lives in their own world of time because everyones' time is different. Therefore there is no definition or explanation of time and thus it doesn't really exsist since no is on the same time. Like if I were to say something it would take a split second for someone else to hear it and register it, therefore their now is a little delayed from my now.
To me time does not actually exist. I think that we are in a box of god's that he has and it painted black with all minuature planets inside. God is the one that time revolves around but since there is no time this makes it simple. I think that the whole idea of time and clocks and minutes and hours is a man made idea that has been evolved over "time" from the past to the present. I also think that everything is happening at one time and your future is destined since it is occuring now. So we do follow Barbar's princpil that we all just live in a numerous amount of nows and time does not physically exist. However if time does not exist then it would be difficult for the modern world to run since we revolve around time.
I designed my project based off of ideas discussed in the Barbour essay that each event in the universe exists separately and eternally, therefore it is difficult to determine which are events of the past, present and future. The events exist in still life moments which he determines to be called a "Now." The common mistake is that each "Now" exists only in the present when in fact they exist forever. The view is similar to a movie film, in which each frame captures a specific "Now." There is no movement in any frame. This idea is similar to how a person remembers events from life. They are imprinted in the mind as photographs. These photographs never disappear, they stay in the mind for a long period of time suggesting that each in an eternal "Now."
My idea of time is that it is something that is always constantly moving at a constant pace. In other words, the speed of time doesn’t change. I think that the speed of time only changes in each individual’s point of view. Each person can focus on different things that can sped up or slow down time in their own mind. For my project I made a clock with pictures from my past, present, and future to show that these are the three areas that a person can focus on in terms of time. If a person focuses on what has happened in their past time may seem to move slower than if they focused on the present. The feeling of time is relative for each individual. This feeling can change depending on their mind set so I included moveable hands on the clock to change the frame of mind that a person sees time in. Although time is relative for each person it also stays constant in the real world outside of the mind.
My concept of time was that time affects all of the goals that people set in their lives, and no matter what type of goal they are setting for themselves, time plays a large role. In my collage their are four different sections, and although the characters and people in them are all different and all have different goals, time greatly influences how all of these people either achieve or do not achieve them. For example one of my groups consists of small children and animals, who normally do not think for themselves and do not have very large set goals in life at that moment. From that group we can see that time affects them in few ways, taking much stress from their lives. This project has opened my eyes to the different interpretations of time that people have, and that not just one person is right, that although some of the ideas may seem strange, they could also be plausible.
Time is a complex idea that is percieved as a measurement. The human perception of time, although funtional, is not at all perfect. I will be using some of the ideas from the essay about time and portraying time as a system used to measure and sequence motion and events. I will use the sun as a symbol for the boundries that people try to put on time. I will explain that motion and events take place in a sequence that is made up of many snapshots (described in the essay as "nows") which could be measured as split-seconds. The split-seconds are put together to form minutes, hours, days...time.
My idea of time does not follow a linear pattern. At each moment in time, a person can choose between many different actions so there are infinite outcomes to our lives. I picture time as a mass of possibilities. At any given moment, we choose an action and this action is brought to the forefront. However, all other actions, from our past, present, and future continue to exist in the background.
On Thursday the idea I presented was that Time is just really an idea. It's an empty space and void that we need to fill with our senses and emotions. What we feel, what we smell, our serenity, confusion; all of these happenings are what fill our idea of time. I can apply this to life because in general I have more positive "time" than negative "time". Moments with friends, family, at school, in activities, all these things have ultimately had a great impact on my life and have shaped who I am and how I act.
I believe that all of time is relative mentally although time itself is actually linear, and I believe that the idea of snapshots is not possible because actions that require fluidity such as music would not be possible without a different interpretation of time, but since most everything, including light, travels in waves, this means that nothing would be possible if the essay were correct.
My concept of time as presented today (thursday) in class was that there is a common illusion of time. we try to quantify time through minutes and seconds, years and months. However, this is all futile because time cannot be quanitified in such a way. It does not have a starting or stopping point. Like my track analogy, the runner gives an illusion of time/distance, but truly, their is no starting or stopping point. Like time, the track field is forever continuing.
I depict time as both a snapshot and a continuous movement. Rather than time being like a circle of life, i believe that it runs similar to a spiral, meaning that it moves in a constant direction and motion, but instead of repeating itself it leaves a new path behind. A quote from Siddhartha that portrays this is "His senses, which he had deadened during his ardent Samana years, were again awakened. He had tasted riches, passion and power, but for a long time he had remained a Samana in his heart. His life was always directed by the art of thinking, waiting and fasting" (60). This represents that idea that time changes as it proceeds, but never stops.
I based my project on a quote that I found about how there is no such thing as time. It talked about how there is no now and that everyone is just looking to the future. We lack self-awareness because we have turned off our perception of here and now. I thought of this as snapshots of how we picture the future. A snapshot of this second would be blank because we can't visualize our current existence. There are also different definitions of time, whether it is a measurement of how long or a specific event.
My concept of time is that time is a straight line. The end, or beginning of time, is out of sight and probably always will be. But the other side has an end, which is now and is always now. This concept, that past events have happened but future events have not, allows for the idea of free will in that our futures have not been determined yet and that we still have choices as to what happens. But it also allows for a more fated and doomed feeling akin to an existentialists point of view in that eventually, like all comets, time will end and everything will disappear. Someday everyone you know will be dead. And that kind kind of knowledge can be liberating in that strange, existentialist way.
To understand and present my concept of time I I based my project on a few of Julian Barbour's marvelous quotes in the essay. Some of his words included, "There is no past and no future." "Indeed, time and motion are nothing more than illusions." And,"Each instant we live, is, in essence, eternal." Essentially, Barbour suggests that every person has many different moments in time, Nows, that co-exist together forever. Hence, life, death and every Now in between is immortal. This showed me that in time there are many immortal portraits of me and that I am never the same in any portrait. However, these moments in time demonstrates who I am in each Now and they exist forever.
My concept of time is that time is a 4th dimension. We as humans are aware of 3 dimensions, all of which are in the present. Length, width and height are now. Time twists and folds upon the other 3 dimensions. From our perspective we can only see the time that is facing us, pictures and moments of "nows" from the past. "Nows" from the future are also apart of time but these moments are oriented away from us, therefor we cannot see them.
What I think of time is being relative to each person or thing. That each person has their own now and they can be pasts and futures of other things at one time, but to each one person the 'now' is where they are only. Each person's now is different all the time and you can experience other peoples pasts or futures, but it will be your now at that time. Every person will experience the time 4:00pm everyday, but depending on where u are, it can feel very different if you are halfway around the world.
My concept of time had to do with the fact that time can be looked at as one single point in time which you just happen to be experiencing. All events are existing right now, our birth, our death, graduation, our first job, our first child, our first love, marriage, however we are only experiencing one of these points right now. This isnt to say that these other highlights have already passed us by or are not in existence yet, our birth is still in existence and our death is already in existence. My project represents includes eggs with some slips of paper that have important events such as marriage, the day you are born, your death, your first love, college, graduation and other highlights of life. All of these aspects are contained within our life, however they are all in existence in our life. They are all jumbled up in this egg, without anything connecting one point to the other. The point is that all of these points are existing and present at the same time, yet it is the slip of paper that represents the point in time that you are experiencing. Furthermore, all the eggs contain the same slips of paper, yet the eggs can never overlap. This is like people, they may have the same basic structure to life, but it does not overlap with anyone elses time because it is there individual experience that makes up what their time is.
My concept of time went along with the snapshot idea. I made a collage of many different pictures of actions and objects. Instead of putting all the pictures together I split them up into the different spectrums of light. I used red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and green. I split up the different spectrums of light to represent time being split and also together at the very same instant. This helped me to understand life better because this concept helped me realize that at the very same instant in times millions of different things are happening at once.
For my project I found quotes from Siddhartha that represent different ideas of time. One of the ideas was whether or not we could defy time. I would say it is impossible to avoid the effects of time. Another quote discussed the physical aspects of time. Siddhartha spoke of a dress that over time fades in color and becomes wrinkled. My idea of time is that it is just a measurement which we use to make life more organized. I would say that time is knowledge as well. Every day we make discoveries in various areas of life such as medicine and technology.
For my project i said that time is almost like seasons, always occuring, intertwining and changing. I believe that throughout time you have many occurances that shape who you are as a person and shape your life to come. In reality although you may have many good and bad days, you only remember the ones that made you who you are today. Like seasons you know there are four seasons and you may remmeber one specific thing about each season, but your never going to remember every specific event that happened in one season, therefore they are intertwining.
For my concept of time I combined multiple ideas to form what I believe time really is. Essentially, time is just a measurement and I do believe that it is made up of NOWS, or instances in time (like the idea in the article) except there must be something connecting these NOWS (aka time). I also think that time can be distorted (just like any other measurement) and that it is relative as far as perceptions go because time can seem to move slower/faster dependent on where you are/your experience. As far as the future goes, I believe that every single possibility (with its effects/consequences) is played out ahead of time, but it is up to you to decide which path to choose and choices to make.
For my time project I decided to write a poem about how I think time is measured in different elements other than seconds, minutes, or year but instead season, and memories. I brought these two concepts together by using the ‘now’ theory that was presented in the article we read in class. I thought that bring a lonely girl’s life into a story about how seasons have changed her and what time has done to her over the years was more interesting that talking about images. I had the girl reflect on being alone and how time has taking youth from her face but most importantly how time isn’t just images set aside in our mind but instead memoires that make up the moment that we are in now. This lightened up a part of my life because it made me feel more accomplished and proud to be the person I am today. I think if everyone was to think of time in this perspective they would think more about what they were doing before it was done and reflected back on the moments in life that are truly cherished forever.
For my project I made 3 layers for past, present, and future. They layers were clear so you could see all three at the same time, yet they were still separated. It was to show that everything exists at the same time, in a "snapshot" in your mind. This was to support Barbour in the fact that while existing at the same time they are still separate.
My concept of time is that we are dependent of time and time is just a variable. Time is always still, but we are the ones changing. We will never have the same moment twice in time. This concept helps me understand life better because it teaches me how valuable our life really is and that "living in the moment" actually does mean something.
For my project on time i explained how i believe time is something that needs to be looked at over an extended period. It seems that as "time continues to go on" more change occurs. It's similar to a flower. It starts off with something small and as "time" continues it starts to grow, bloom, and then come to an end. and then start the same pattern again. Time is resembled as a snap shot or film strip. You can capture a moment but you cant capture time. Time is something that never ends and only continues the longer it goes.
My concept of time is that, the existent of "time" is in motion. Time can be measured by the existent of motion; when you see there is a change in motion, you will recognize that time has existed.
I had used three concepts and a demonstration of waterfall to demonstrate the existent of time when there is a motion. However, when that motion continues to be like that, we will eventually loss time unless another motion has occured or that a unit is given. Furthermore, if no unit is given, then we can say that time is an illusional tool to what we have used to help us measure. Finally, relating this to Barbour, he has stated that, "Time is nothing, but a measure of the Changing Positions of Object."
This concept has helped me understand life better is that, time shows the existent from our past, present and future. But, without time, there is no past, present nor future. We would not be able to calculate or know how long something has occured.
I created my concept of time in the shape of a tree because I believe that life is constantly changing, growing and dying. A tree has many seasons as well and I also related this to the changes that occur throughout one's life. Within the tree I did a collage of all different types of pictures. I chose everything from people to animals to inanimate objects to fill the inside of the tree. I chose to do this because near the end of the book Godama kisses Siddartha's forehead and sees flashes of all different things living, dying and being reborn at the same time. So that was the image i was trying to create as well. Plus, all of the images that I placed within the tree could being occuring at the same moment in time, which reveals how differently each person can view a single moment in time.
The representation of time that i will be presenting in front of the class. Is pictures from each year of my life in a secquence from 6 months to 13 to show that we go throught life year by year we dont travel to the feature and go back to the past. We live each part of our lives once. This helped me understand the concept of time better because Sidhartha makes you think about the what ifs' of time what if you could go to the feature come back and then relive the feature again. So i decided to use pictures to show my journey throught time year by year.
For my project I show how life is a blur. I portrayed this by taking long exposures of clocks and objects that move. The long exposure shows the blur because it catches all the nows of life and combines them into a certain time frame. For example, a long exposure of a clock just shows the hour hand because the minute and second hands move too fast. From this project I learned that the now is infintessimally small and the future and past are infintessimally large. I also learned that life is a blur to the bystander.
For my time project I chose to make flipbooks. I made two flipbooks for the JV boat and the Lightweight boat. I took pictures out on the water or each movement that goes into a stroke. The Catch, follow through, and the realease. i also took pictures to show the movement of the boat. These photos were taken in black an white to be less distracting from the color to really have the veiwer see the movement of the person and what the picture showed. My concept for time is that time is measured in snapshots of life. As in the pictures i took for this project. Then when all of these snapshots are put together they make up the whole memory, or in my case a full stroke. I think that the idea we think in snapshots is very true beucase when you think back on a special moment, you dont see the whole thing like a movie on your head you see blips of what happened or snapshots of the events. This is how my concept of time being snapshots all works.
For my time project I chose to make flipbooks. I made two flipbooks for the JV boat and the Lightweight boat. I took pictures out on the water or each movement that goes into a stroke. The Catch, follow through, and the realease. i also took pictures to show the movement of the boat. These photos were taken in black an white to be less distracting from the color to really have the veiwer see the movement of the person and what the picture showed. My concept for time is that time is measured in snapshots of life. As in the pictures i took for this project. Then when all of these snapshots are put together they make up the whole memory, or in my case a full stroke. I think that the idea we think in snapshots is very true beucase when you think back on a special moment, you dont see the whole thing like a movie on your head you see blips of what happened or snapshots of the events. This is how my concept of time being snapshots all works.
I don't think I have a "unique" concept of time, I see time as a straight path, there ar 2 parts and one theoretical part, the past and now and 2 things and then there is the future. Water is a fair metaphor of time in that it is something that moves indepentley of other things that move wihtin it, but changes when acted upon. This not at all a unique veiw on time and as such, why talk about it when you could wiki something like this and get it explained far better, for my time project, I present to you, wikipedia
for my concept of time i made a picture of a mountain that was made up of many other pictures. it was too represent how life is made up of a bunch of "nows" all happening at the same time. I would be experiencing the mountain picture as my now but as i see that, there are a ton of other nows going on at the same time which is represented by the thousands of smaller pictures.
Time is like a two dimetional flat surface that has no end on any side or front end or back end. There is always now for each person at their point on the paper. To the left and right of the point is everyone else's point in time. Each person has their own column but at the same time we are all on the same row. To the front is the future and to the back is the past. As time passes the paper is written on and never changes from that point on. But in front there are limitless possibilities. Each person has a past that can't be changed but they do have the free will to do whatever they choose for the future.
My concept of time can be best described as various movements of different dimensions. The best representation of time that I can think of is pairs of shoes. First and foremost, they speak to movement, steady, often interrupted, subjuect to change. Some shoes speak to the rapid passage of time, some to slow steady plodding. Some times in our history have been beautiful, like the birth of a child, some are grotesque, like times of war. When shoes are put on, a period of time begins for the person wearing them. When the shoes stop moving that is the end of that period of time. Each time the shoes are put back on they are affected by the times they were worn before, just like a persons actions affect the future. This metaphore represents the continous cycle of time that can only be broken by the end of a life.
I think that time affects my life because i've always tried to understand it and how it works. Especially in music, because the manipulation of time is essential in making music sound original and individual.
For my project I made a time spinning wheel. There were different pictures of important events in my life in each captured spot. In the essay it talks about sharing your traits with other people. In the Catholic church, when I was confirmed, I received the seven gifts from God to share with other people. Also, it spoke about the "Now's" which are never beginning or ending and all happening at once. It says that each frame is one now and frozen within that time.
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My concept of time is the thing that allows for change. Having 3 dimensions without time doesn't allow for any movement. I think of time more as an idea or an explanation rather than a quantifiable thing that it seems some scientists consider it. Many physicists have set out to use time and put it into equations. I disagree with the idea that it needs to be used in equations. Rather than time slowing down when you go super fast in comparison to things around you i think that time still passes constantly for everything because everything is still moving inside all four dimensions. I think that time should rather be just a way of measuring things moving or changing. I plan to integrate this idea into my project by having many pieces put together to create a single stream of time. This shows that time is unchanging no matter what does on inside my project.
I believe time is a companion that accompaines us on our journeys. It is a reminder for us to cherish each moment because it will never come again. This concept of time can be related to the fact that we live one life on this earth, and that we need to make the most of it. Time is always with us, and we need to take advanatge of every opporunity that we have. Life your life how you want to be, because in the end you dont want to look back and regret not doing something.
In general I believe that time is basically a measurement of life, like lifespans I suppose. There are two main components to the concept of time. First there is the concrete measurement that we use for the passing of time (eg a day, month, year, second etc...). Then there is the idea that time is relative, it's different for each person's perspective (as Bridgette and I discussed in depth in class). Each person ages at a different rate, and some people will naturally live longer than others due to their physicial compositions. And to add on to that, physical and mental strain on the body (eg sprinting, stress, sex, adrenaline induced activities etc...) makes the body age faster. So if someone is having fun working hard in a basketball game and the time seems to fly by for them so much faster than the person who is bored and watching on the sidelines, the time for the play really is going by faster. They are aging faster so their lifespan has shortened or their time. I don't know if that makes sense but hopehully my presentation will....
Molly Riegel
I feel that time is all relative. It depends on each person’s perspective. For one person time could be moving slower than molasses when you’re sitting in your least favorite class. But to somebody else who say, likes that class, time could have just flown by. I'm going to show my concept by having a couple pictures of students or kids, on like a TV. Then I'm going to have written in some sort of form of a fast forward or slow button or even paused.
The concept of my project will focus on the importance of time in our emotional and physical lives. The past has already been, the future is not here yet and therefore all that matters is the present. But is this ALWAYS the case? Many times we must talk about the past in order to prepare for the future, or to fix the present. Other times we forget the past in order to move forward in to the future. I like to believe that I lead my life knowing that the future is not guaranteed, not for anyone. Our free will allows us to bend the powers and elements of this universe only so far, but time will always move, whether or not we decide to come along. Time has no concern with us, in reality. Time will be consistent, and always has been. It cannot be touched or tainted or stopped or sped up. Time is of the essence, and the essence is time. We function around it completely and there never seems to be enough, and yet it will actually never end.
My understanding of time is that it is relative- and only matters to people. But it certainly exists in our world. I can prove this idea using music. Music is the product of manipulation of time and space. You can create music by changing times of silence and times of "sound" which travels not unlike light. In order to travel and exist time is a necessity for the duration of the vibrations that MOVE through the air. Low sound like a bass has longer wave lengths and takes more time to travel to the ear. Higher noise from somthing like a violin has much shorter faster wave lengths.
My concept of time has to with one of the last sentences in the essay that says something like "no matter where you are you are always with your friends family and children." so i made one of those things you hang and it is connecting a clock the earth and pictures of family, different places, and friends. it represents how no matter where you are in the world or what time it is you are always connected to your friends and family and they are all memories in your mind. i put glitter on it too and it is hanging in the corner of the room.
My representation of time was that each person is in a sense, their own "clock." That clock is placed at a specific time, and each person's life takes place within that time. So all of the milestones and life experiences that one goes through can be represented in a specific clock or time. This relates to the article that we read in class in that each person is living each of their own "nows" and that life is indeed a series of events or screenshots, but those make up a specific person's time.
I did my project on photoshop and had a bunch of different sizes of worlds inside each other. This shows how everyone has there own now and my now is different from someone else's now. It shows how everyone lives in their own world of time because everyones' time is different. Therefore there is no definition or explanation of time and thus it doesn't really exsist since no is on the same time. Like if I were to say something it would take a split second for someone else to hear it and register it, therefore their now is a little delayed from my now.
To me time does not actually exist. I think that we are in a box of god's that he has and it painted black with all minuature planets inside. God is the one that time revolves around but since there is no time this makes it simple. I think that the whole idea of time and clocks and minutes and hours is a man made idea that has been evolved over "time" from the past to the present. I also think that everything is happening at one time and your future is destined since it is occuring now. So we do follow Barbar's princpil that we all just live in a numerous amount of nows and time does not physically exist. However if time does not exist then it would be difficult for the modern world to run since we revolve around time.
I designed my project based off of ideas discussed in the Barbour essay that each event in the universe exists separately and eternally, therefore it is difficult to determine which are events of the past, present and future. The events exist in still life moments which he determines to be called a "Now." The common mistake is that each "Now" exists only in the present when in fact they exist forever. The view is similar to a movie film, in which each frame captures a specific "Now." There is no movement in any frame. This idea is similar to how a person remembers events from life. They are imprinted in the mind as photographs. These photographs never disappear, they stay in the mind for a long period of time suggesting that each in an eternal "Now."
My idea of time is that it is something that is always constantly moving at a constant pace. In other words, the speed of time doesn’t change. I think that the speed of time only changes in each individual’s point of view. Each person can focus on different things that can sped up or slow down time in their own mind. For my project I made a clock with pictures from my past, present, and future to show that these are the three areas that a person can focus on in terms of time. If a person focuses on what has happened in their past time may seem to move slower than if they focused on the present. The feeling of time is relative for each individual. This feeling can change depending on their mind set so I included moveable hands on the clock to change the frame of mind that a person sees time in. Although time is relative for each person it also stays constant in the real world outside of the mind.
My concept of time was that time affects all of the goals that people set in their lives, and no matter what type of goal they are setting for themselves, time plays a large role. In my collage their are four different sections, and although the characters and people in them are all different and all have different goals, time greatly influences how all of these people either achieve or do not achieve them. For example one of my groups consists of small children and animals, who normally do not think for themselves and do not have very large set goals in life at that moment. From that group we can see that time affects them in few ways, taking much stress from their lives. This project has opened my eyes to the different interpretations of time that people have, and that not just one person is right, that although some of the ideas may seem strange, they could also be plausible.
Time is a complex idea that is percieved as a measurement. The human perception of time, although funtional, is not at all perfect. I will be using some of the ideas from the essay about time and portraying time as a system used to measure and sequence motion and events. I will use the sun as a symbol for the boundries that people try to put on time. I will explain that motion and events take place in a sequence that is made up of many snapshots (described in the essay as "nows") which could be measured as split-seconds. The split-seconds are put together to form minutes, hours, days...time.
My idea of time does not follow a linear pattern. At each moment in time, a person can choose between many different actions so there are infinite outcomes to our lives. I picture time as a mass of possibilities. At any given moment, we choose an action and this action is brought to the forefront. However, all other actions, from our past, present, and future continue to exist in the background.
On Thursday the idea I presented was that Time is just really an idea. It's an empty space and void that we need to fill with our senses and emotions. What we feel, what we smell, our serenity, confusion; all of these happenings are what fill our idea of time. I can apply this to life because in general I have more positive "time" than negative "time". Moments with friends, family, at school, in activities, all these things have ultimately had a great impact on my life and have shaped who I am and how I act.
I believe that all of time is relative mentally although time itself is actually linear, and I believe that the idea of snapshots is not possible because actions that require fluidity such as music would not be possible without a different interpretation of time, but since most everything, including light, travels in waves, this means that nothing would be possible if the essay were correct.
My concept of time as presented today (thursday) in class was that there is a common illusion of time. we try to quantify time through minutes and seconds, years and months. However, this is all futile because time cannot be quanitified in such a way. It does not have a starting or stopping point. Like my track analogy, the runner gives an illusion of time/distance, but truly, their is no starting or stopping point. Like time, the track field is forever continuing.
I depict time as both a snapshot and a continuous movement. Rather than time being like a circle of life, i believe that it runs similar to a spiral, meaning that it moves in a constant direction and motion, but instead of repeating itself it leaves a new path behind. A quote from Siddhartha that portrays this is "His senses, which he had deadened during his ardent Samana years, were again awakened. He had tasted riches, passion and power, but for a long time he had remained a Samana in his heart. His life was always directed by the art of thinking, waiting and fasting" (60). This represents that idea that time changes as it proceeds, but never stops.
I based my project on a quote that I found about how there is no such thing as time. It talked about how there is no now and that everyone is just looking to the future. We lack self-awareness because we have turned off our perception of here and now. I thought of this as snapshots of how we picture the future. A snapshot of this second would be blank because we can't visualize our current existence. There are also different definitions of time, whether it is a measurement of how long or a specific event.
My concept of time is that time is a straight line. The end, or beginning of time, is out of sight and probably always will be. But the other side has an end, which is now and is always now. This concept, that past events have happened but future events have not, allows for the idea of free will in that our futures have not been determined yet and that we still have choices as to what happens. But it also allows for a more fated and doomed feeling akin to an existentialists point of view in that eventually, like all comets, time will end and everything will disappear. Someday everyone you know will be dead. And that kind kind of knowledge can be liberating in that strange, existentialist way.
To understand and present my concept of time I I based my project on a few of Julian Barbour's marvelous quotes in the essay. Some of his words included, "There is no past and no future." "Indeed, time and motion are nothing more than illusions." And,"Each instant we live, is, in essence, eternal." Essentially, Barbour suggests that every person has many different moments in time, Nows, that co-exist together forever. Hence, life, death and every Now in between is immortal. This showed me that in time there are many immortal portraits of me and that I am never the same in any portrait. However, these moments in time demonstrates who I am in each Now and they exist forever.
My concept of time is that time is a 4th dimension. We as humans are aware of 3 dimensions, all of which are in the present. Length, width and height are now. Time twists and folds upon the other 3 dimensions. From our perspective we can only see the time that is facing us, pictures and moments of "nows" from the past. "Nows" from the future are also apart of time but these moments are oriented away from us, therefor we cannot see them.
What I think of time is being relative to each person or thing. That each person has their own now and they can be pasts and futures of other things at one time, but to each one person the 'now' is where they are only. Each person's now is different all the time and you can experience other peoples pasts or futures, but it will be your now at that time. Every person will experience the time 4:00pm everyday, but depending on where u are, it can feel very different if you are halfway around the world.
My concept of time had to do with the fact that time can be looked at as one single point in time which you just happen to be experiencing. All events are existing right now, our birth, our death, graduation, our first job, our first child, our first love, marriage, however we are only experiencing one of these points right now. This isnt to say that these other highlights have already passed us by or are not in existence yet, our birth is still in existence and our death is already in existence. My project represents includes eggs with some slips of paper that have important events such as marriage, the day you are born, your death, your first love, college, graduation and other highlights of life. All of these aspects are contained within our life, however they are all in existence in our life. They are all jumbled up in this egg, without anything connecting one point to the other. The point is that all of these points are existing and present at the same time, yet it is the slip of paper that represents the point in time that you are experiencing. Furthermore, all the eggs contain the same slips of paper, yet the eggs can never overlap. This is like people, they may have the same basic structure to life, but it does not overlap with anyone elses time because it is there individual experience that makes up what their time is.
My concept of time went along with the snapshot idea. I made a collage of many different pictures of actions and objects. Instead of putting all the pictures together I split them up into the different spectrums of light. I used red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and green. I split up the different spectrums of light to represent time being split and also together at the very same instant. This helped me to understand life better because this concept helped me realize that at the very same instant in times millions of different things are happening at once.
For my project I found quotes from Siddhartha that represent different ideas of time. One of the ideas was whether or not we could defy time. I would say it is impossible to avoid the effects of time. Another quote discussed the physical aspects of time. Siddhartha spoke of a dress that over time fades in color and becomes wrinkled. My idea of time is that it is just a measurement which we use to make life more organized. I would say that time is knowledge as well. Every day we make discoveries in various areas of life such as medicine and technology.
For my project i said that time is almost like seasons, always occuring, intertwining and changing. I believe that throughout time you have many occurances that shape who you are as a person and shape your life to come. In reality although you may have many good and bad days, you only remember the ones that made you who you are today. Like seasons you know there are four seasons and you may remmeber one specific thing about each season, but your never going to remember every specific event that happened in one season, therefore they are intertwining.
For my concept of time I combined multiple ideas to form what I believe time really is. Essentially, time is just a measurement and I do believe that it is made up of NOWS, or instances in time (like the idea in the article) except there must be something connecting these NOWS (aka time). I also think that time can be distorted (just like any other measurement) and that it is relative as far as perceptions go because time can seem to move slower/faster dependent on where you are/your experience. As far as the future goes, I believe that every single possibility (with its effects/consequences) is played out ahead of time, but it is up to you to decide which path to choose and choices to make.
For my time project I decided to write a poem about how I think time is measured in different elements other than seconds, minutes, or year but instead season, and memories. I brought these two concepts together by using the ‘now’ theory that was presented in the article we read in class. I thought that bring a lonely girl’s life into a story about how seasons have changed her and what time has done to her over the years was more interesting that talking about images. I had the girl reflect on being alone and how time has taking youth from her face but most importantly how time isn’t just images set aside in our mind but instead memoires that make up the moment that we are in now. This lightened up a part of my life because it made me feel more accomplished and proud to be the person I am today. I think if everyone was to think of time in this perspective they would think more about what they were doing before it was done and reflected back on the moments in life that are truly cherished forever.
For my project I made 3 layers for past, present, and future. They layers were clear so you could see all three at the same time, yet they were still separated. It was to show that everything exists at the same time, in a "snapshot" in your mind. This was to support Barbour in the fact that while existing at the same time they are still separate.
My concept of time is that we are dependent of time and time is just a variable. Time is always still, but we are the ones changing. We will never have the same moment twice in time. This concept helps me understand life better because it teaches me how valuable our life really is and that "living in the moment" actually does mean something.
For my project on time i explained how i believe time is something that needs to be looked at over an extended period. It seems that as "time continues to go on" more change occurs. It's similar to a flower. It starts off with something small and as "time" continues it starts to grow, bloom, and then come to an end. and then start the same pattern again. Time is resembled as a snap shot or film strip. You can capture a moment but you cant capture time. Time is something that never ends and only continues the longer it goes.
My concept of time is that, the existent of "time" is in motion. Time can be measured by the existent of motion; when you see there is a change in motion, you will recognize that time has existed.
I had used three concepts and a demonstration of waterfall to demonstrate the existent of time when there is a motion. However, when that motion continues to be like that, we will eventually loss time unless another motion has occured or that a unit is given. Furthermore, if no unit is given, then we can say that time is an illusional tool to what we have used to help us measure. Finally, relating this to Barbour, he has stated that, "Time is nothing, but a measure of the Changing Positions of Object."
This concept has helped me understand life better is that, time shows the existent from our past, present and future. But, without time, there is no past, present nor future. We would not be able to calculate or know how long something has occured.
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I created my concept of time in the shape of a tree because I believe that life is constantly changing, growing and dying. A tree has many seasons as well and I also related this to the changes that occur throughout one's life. Within the tree I did a collage of all different types of pictures. I chose everything from people to animals to inanimate objects to fill the inside of the tree. I chose to do this because near the end of the book Godama kisses Siddartha's forehead and sees flashes of all different things living, dying and being reborn at the same time. So that was the image i was trying to create as well. Plus, all of the images that I placed within the tree could being occuring at the same moment in time, which reveals how differently each person can view a single moment in time.
The representation of time that i will be presenting in front of the class. Is pictures from each year of my life in a secquence from 6 months to 13 to show that we go throught life year by year we dont travel to the feature and go back to the past. We live each part of our lives once. This helped me understand the concept of time better because Sidhartha makes you think about the what ifs' of time what if you could go to the feature come back and then relive the feature again. So i decided to use pictures to show my journey throught time year by year.
For my project I show how life is a blur. I portrayed this by taking long exposures of clocks and objects that move. The long exposure shows the blur because it catches all the nows of life and combines them into a certain time frame. For example, a long exposure of a clock just shows the hour hand because the minute and second hands move too fast. From this project I learned that the now is infintessimally small and the future and past are infintessimally large. I also learned that life is a blur to the bystander.
For my time project I chose to make flipbooks. I made two flipbooks for the JV boat and the Lightweight boat. I took pictures out on the water or each movement that goes into a stroke. The Catch, follow through, and the realease. i also took pictures to show the movement of the boat. These photos were taken in black an white to be less distracting from the color to really have the veiwer see the movement of the person and what the picture showed. My concept for time is that time is measured in snapshots of life. As in the pictures i took for this project. Then when all of these snapshots are put together they make up the whole memory, or in my case a full stroke. I think that the idea we think in snapshots is very true beucase when you think back on a special moment, you dont see the whole thing like a movie on your head you see blips of what happened or snapshots of the events. This is how my concept of time being snapshots all works.
For my time project I chose to make flipbooks. I made two flipbooks for the JV boat and the Lightweight boat. I took pictures out on the water or each movement that goes into a stroke. The Catch, follow through, and the realease. i also took pictures to show the movement of the boat. These photos were taken in black an white to be less distracting from the color to really have the veiwer see the movement of the person and what the picture showed. My concept for time is that time is measured in snapshots of life. As in the pictures i took for this project. Then when all of these snapshots are put together they make up the whole memory, or in my case a full stroke. I think that the idea we think in snapshots is very true beucase when you think back on a special moment, you dont see the whole thing like a movie on your head you see blips of what happened or snapshots of the events. This is how my concept of time being snapshots all works.
I don't think I have a "unique" concept of time, I see time as a straight path, there ar 2 parts and one theoretical part, the past and now and 2 things and then there is the future. Water is a fair metaphor of time in that it is something that moves indepentley of other things that move wihtin it, but changes when acted upon. This not at all a unique veiw on time and as such, why talk about it when you could wiki something like this and get it explained far better, for my time project, I present to you, wikipedia
for my concept of time i made a picture of a mountain that was made up of many other pictures. it was too represent how life is made up of a bunch of "nows" all happening at the same time. I would be experiencing the mountain picture as my now but as i see that, there are a ton of other nows going on at the same time which is represented by the thousands of smaller pictures.
Time is like a two dimetional flat surface that has no end on any side or front end or back end. There is always now for each person at their point on the paper. To the left and right of the point is everyone else's point in time. Each person has their own column but at the same time we are all on the same row. To the front is the future and to the back is the past. As time passes the paper is written on and never changes from that point on. But in front there are limitless possibilities. Each person has a past that can't be changed but they do have the free will to do whatever they choose for the future.
My concept of time can be best described as various movements of different dimensions. The best representation of time that I can think of is pairs of shoes. First and foremost, they speak to movement, steady, often interrupted, subjuect to change. Some shoes speak to the rapid passage of time, some to slow steady plodding. Some times in our history have been beautiful, like the birth of a child, some are grotesque, like times of war. When shoes are put on, a period of time begins for the person wearing them. When the shoes stop moving that is the end of that period of time. Each time the shoes are put back on they are affected by the times they were worn before, just like a persons actions affect the future. This metaphore represents the continous cycle of time that can only be broken by the end of a life.
I think that time affects my life because i've always tried to understand it and how it works. Especially in music, because the manipulation of time is essential in making music sound original and individual.
Also. This joke goes along to the point:
What's the greatest secret of comedy?
I don't know, what is the--
TIMING!
For my project I made a time spinning wheel. There were different pictures of important events in my life in each captured spot. In the essay it talks about sharing your traits with other people. In the Catholic church, when I was confirmed, I received the seven gifts from God to share with other people. Also, it spoke about the "Now's" which are never beginning or ending and all happening at once. It says that each frame is one now and frozen within that time.
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