acceleration

I feel that our current way of perceiving time is much more exact and rubric than it ought to be. I'm not trying to sound like a koo-koo-nuts astrologer but when I look at some of the "sacred knowledge" of history, I can't help but wonder if they saw time and space as a completely different animal. Some examples: the Dogon tribe in Africa has been worshipping the Sirius star for centuries and knew that it was a three star system hundreds of years before it was proven scientifically. The Mayans constructed one of the most accurate calendars that spanned thousands of years. In our modern techno-savvy world, it seems insane to think that such primitive societies had such advance knowledge about the way our little blue planet spins in outer space!

I remember in High School reading an article about how scientists were able to physically prove relativity! What they did was synchronize two clocks (accurate to the nano-second), and kept one clock on the ground while the other clock was placed on a lear-jet and sent around the world. After making the high-speed trip, the clock on the learjet was slightly behind the stationary clock! The phenomenon is called time dilation, whereby an observer finds that another's clock, which is physically identical to their own, is ticking at a slower rate as measured by their own clock. The fascinating part of time dilation is that the difference only occurs from the observer's frame of reference, meaning that both people will still experience the same length of time but when viewed from the other perspective, the difference in time may seem more or less!

(Please let me know if I'm ranting...)

Which brings me to my relative theory for relativity: we are in a current state of acceleration. Along with the exponential acceleration of technology and population, there is also an acceleration of time. In our planet's merry-go-round trip around the galaxy, we bob up and down through a sort of magnetic equator, and each bobble takes about 20,000 years or so. This has also been scientifically proven (I'll google the source later) and accounts for the earth's tilt with respect to our orbit around the sun. I think currently we are once again movig closer to that magnetic equator, which is spinning the earth faster and speeding up our clocks! The clincher of it all is that without a frame of reference from someone outside the globe, we can't even perceive the change!

So the next ime you feel like there just isn't enough time in the day, you might be right.