Don’t know much about “ology”, but I do know a little about History.  History is in the past and there is a present and there will be a future.  But that doesn’t tell us or me much about what time is.  In a sense, time is like alimentation. There is ingestion, digestion and elimination.  It goes on inexorably.  Time has no sensation like the eating process but we know when we need it.  In another sense, when time limits are imposed on us either by us or by others, we see it fleeting by and cannot do much to reverse it.  It cannot be compared to eating in the sense that reversing time from age to birth doesn’t yet make sense.  Think about the new mortgages that start out with a small repayment of the loan and as your income is expected to increase you will be expected in later years to make bigger payments. Time is not like that either.

Essentially time is there.  It is given along with life and has a long history connected to others who share the same sense and use of it.  I am beginning to think about the other futures I could have had if I had the ability to see where my choices led me.  I did have this heroic dream of me building bridges and as the two parts of an arch were approaching each other I was there to oversee the joining of the crucial keystone piece to make it possible to use that bridge to cross over.  Crossing over is another expression of death but for believers it means leaving one life and entering another.  I don’t buy that but there is the niggling suspicion that if so many others think there is a “life after death” they might know something I don’t.

But I have been thinking about time as a form of energy – something like that suggested by Einstein who did a lot more thinking about it than I ever did. But if we could harness time we would no longer have to rely on using up non-renewable resources to provide our food, light, power and shelter.  I wonder if anyone is thinking and doing anything about time in this way.

We have think tanks to solve problems we did not foresee but must do something about before we destroy ourselves. We should establish a think tank and drop every other one to take up this question before time runs out.  It seems to me that we ought to re-prioritize the little problems we think about and think mightily about TIME.

I would be willing to serve on a local committee of responsibility to deal with the question of TIME.  I suppose all “old-timers” like me would be willing to join in this effort.  But that is like putting the cart before the horse.  When we get to the end of time we do not have the energy placed in babies who could solve the problem but have not aged enough to engage it.  Well, back to the old drawing board.