Monday, April 28, 2008

Concept of TIME (Part-2)

What creates the feeling of time in our brain?

An infinite variety of events keeps on occurring in our universe, one after the other.Some events occur together but some occur separately.

For example, suppose you are sitting in your room watching television, and... ...suddenly your phone rang and at that very moment some one knocked at your door and simultaneous to the two of these events the electricity went off and the wall clock sounded 12 midnight-Tun...Tun...Tun...-indeed an scary scene ! Next day you will recall all these four events (ringing of phone,some one knocking at your door,going-off of the electricity and the clock's Tun...Tun...) as simultaneous.

But suppose you ordered a Pizza in the evening on phone (event-one) and the delivery boy came to deliver Pizza later (event-two).Now you know these two events did not occur simultaneously-how do you know this?Because there are several events which might have occurred in between 'your order giving event' and 'Pizza boy coming event'-for example,the moment you had finished giving order for Pizza on phone your mobile rang (event- a) so you put the receiver of the phone down in haste (event- b) and looked at the mobile screen, it was your girl friend calling (event- c).You picked up the phone quickly (event- d).She was shouting on you on the other side for not remembering her birthday (event- e) you listened to her scoldings quietely, said sorry to her many times stammer-ingly and she still cut the call abruptly (event- f).You were left glaring at your mobile screen aimlessly and suddenly you heard the sound of a plate falling from self in your kitchen (event- g) and you rushed to your kitchen where you saw a cat (event- h) which had entered into the kitchen from the open window... ...and so on; and then after many such insignificant events you heard knock at your door,it was Pizza boy with your ordered Pizza. So we see, betwee our two events 'one' and 'two' so many minor events like a,b,c, ... ,g,h, ... as noted above occurred.These got registered in to the memory of your brain in the sequence of order in which they occurred.Since so many events separate the two main events 'one' (your ordering the Pizza) and 'two' (Pizza boy coming) - you know they did not occur together. And the order in which they, along with other intermediary events, occurred and got registered in your brain creates the feeling of, what we call Time, in your brain.

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