A quote by Tennessee Williams from the book "The Glass Menagerie"
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and the movie was named "In Time". I'm sure you've heard of it already, but if you haven't, here's the concept: essentially every currency in the world is replaced with time. You work a 9-5 job, you get time instead of money. Lunch costs time, border-crossing costs time and so on. What fascinated me the most with this movie was that poor people (time-poor people) were portrayed very well and the movie felt very sincere about showing how it's like to work in the slums.
Well, there are so many different sides to time - how does it work, why does it work, how long is a year on Jupiter compared to a year on Earth (a year on Jupiter is 12 years on Earth, thanks, Google!) and so on.
Time travel has always been a fascinating subject to me. Whether it is just plain questions asking "what time would you go to" and "what would you do" or actually spending hours on Youtube researching and finding cool theories. I am sure how you've all seen the conspiracy theories around The Simpsons predicting the future - yes, it really is a thing! There are a lot of different theories on time travel as to why it works and why it doesn't. Go check them out!
How much time do we have left until the world ends? Do we have enough to make all of our dreams come true or will a meteor hit Earth in two hours? What is an hour? There are so many fun questions to think about time philosophically, but in reality, everyone is trying to predict when and why time will end, so-to-say. But when does time end? When the world dies or when we die? The world already seems dead in my opinion, but we're trying to make it better - are we then fighting death?
I once discussed with a friend about what we both do in our free time. And then we discussed whether or not "free time" is considered free or devoid of anything. If we have free time, we tend to fill it with hobbies, which makes it non-free time. But what if we're doing nothing and we actually have "free time"? I feel as if there is no way for us to do "nothing" - we're breathing, we're blinking, we're thinking and so on - does that make the concept of "free time" impossible as we are always doing something to fill our time?
Hey, want a fun way of knowing when and how much time to be late for something? Someone actually made up a formula on Quora to answer the same question.
That's a nice way to put it, isn't it!
There's an entire philosophical approach to time called eternalism, in which the philosophers consider that time is real and not fake.
A quote from Wikipedia: "Eternalism is a major theme in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. The Tralfamadorians, an alien species in the novel, have a four-dimensional sight and can therefore see all points in time simultaneously. They explain that since all moments exist simultaneously, everyone is always alive. The hero, Billy Pilgrim, lives his life out of sequence, which, among other things, means that his point of death occurs at a random point in his life rather than at the end of it."
