Time is what we don’t seem to have enough of.
Time is what we see when we look in the mirror and still remember ourselves at five, at 15, at 30, 50, 60.
Time is what marches on with or without us.
Time is the way we measure our lives.
Time is fleeting, mercurial.
Time is what we see when we look at our children.
Time – and its passage – is what we see when we look at the history of our lives.
And time may be the ultimate trickster.
Recently, Ekaterina Moreva at the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM) in Turin, Italy, and a few science buddies have proved : “Time is an emergent phenomenon that is a side effect of quantum entanglement.”
Entanglement is a seductive word. And it’s a complex idea. Here’s the Wikipedia version: My version is simpler: everything and everyone in the universe is connected.
Einstein referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.” Entangled particles remain connected so that actions performed on one affect the other, even when separated by great distances. It’s why identical twins, even those separated at birth, share such eerie parallels in their lives. It’s why you feel your partner’s pain and triumphs, why you often know what your animal companion is feeling, why you sense a weather phenomenon in your area before it occurs.
Could synchronicity lie at the heart of quantum entanglement? Could it be the interface, the juncture where we drawn into entanglement? Where the voice we hear is not our own? Where we are inducted into a grand quantum experiment? Where we are warned, informed, illuminated? Could synchronicity be the missing quantum piece?
I grasp these ideas in an intuitive, abstract sense, but am woefully short on the science end of this. And yet. Synchronicity seems to exist along some human, equal opportunity border where you don’t have to be an Einstein to recognize it or a Carl Jung to explore it. The phenomenon occurs across the spectrum of human experience and may well be our compass through life, the karass Vonnegut referred to in Cat’s Cradle, an intimate part of the entanglement that bewilders physicists, and the seemingly miraculous that captivates the rest of us.
Your post reminds me of the screen shot of Jeff Bridges looking into a TIME magazine mirror on the wall in the movie “The Big Lebowski”,only to see his own image staring back at him in a “Man of the Year” cover.
https://gutenfilm.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/hall-of-greats-the-big-lebowski/
By the way,the maths problem for me to solve to post this comment is ?x8=64.
The I-Ching/chessboard ? When I’m 64 (Beatles/scarab ?).
Oh…and the Magic 8-Ball as well .-)
Ah, the 64 hexagrams of the I ching….the system that McKenna believed addressed the nature of reality…. Thanks for the links, will check out. Haven’t seen that Bridges movie yet.
Wonderful article – thank you! Spider Woman’s threads, weaving the stories of our lives together…………….time is indeed flexible, and subjective. I appreciate what Mike Perry said as well – the quality of time experienced changes depending on how our attention is engaged. Time is what defines our experience in this material plane of being………but time must be different when we’re not “in the body”, perhaps from that perspective time is holographic, and synchronicity is a reflection of that?
May I have permission to quote from your article?
Thanks, Lauren
Quote away, Lauren!
Time as holographic is part of what Michael Talbot talked about in his book The Holographic Universe.
I think time reacts to routine – it can be as short or as long as we make it. When I’m away on a holiday or travelling the days are long, almost like the days of childhood but when I’m home they appear to flash by in an instant.
I agree with what you say about everything and everyone being connected. Perhaps synchronicity is part of the ‘sticky stuff’ that binds us and everything together.
Time reacts to routine: I’d never thought of it like that, but I think you’re right!