Time

Something we are all familiar with is time. It’s a concept used in everyone’s everyday life  that is seemingly simple. However, the simplicity of time is deceptive; the concept becomes more bizarre and complex the more it’s studied. One does not need to dive deep into theories to have their mind blown. For instance, our English class went into a frenzy the day we had just barely scratched the surface on the topic. Our discussion on how time isn’t linear and Mr. Arenstam’s theories on spheres and reincarnation inspired me to research the subject some more and write about it.

There are certainly vast and detailed theories out there. Some physicists have observed distant galaxies that seem to be moving at a faster rate than ones nearby, and they’ve developed a theory that time moves faster in the past. As a result, the question, “If time is slowing down in the present, then will it eventually stop in the future?” has been raised. The idea of time stopping is extremely hard to wrap your head around, and you could spend days wondering about the effects if time really stops. Of course, theories on time greatly vary. No physicist knows anything for sure, and a lot of their theories seem to contradict one another other. 

Delving into time theories isn’t the only way time can mess with our heads. As we go throughout school we’re taught major events in history, but we often learn them as independent events without a timeline connecting them. Most students wouldn’t know that Nintendo was founded approximately the same time Jack the Ripper was on the loose, or that Egyptians were building pyramids while woolly mammoths were still roaming the earth. Simple, but boggling, facts like these show in a completely different way that time is still something we’re striving to comprehend.