On the Passage of Time

     In order for Time to pass something must resist the flowing of Time...something must stand still or flow relatively slower than Time...this is our sense of Self...that which endures...enduring means that a duration is involved...duration that may stand still or move slower than Time...a close reading of Bergson and the notion of Self, as in Advaita, will let us see...why, in order for Time to pass...something must stand still or move slower than Time...

 

I ask this question of all my students in the seminar class on the Architecture of India...what if you are standing in the entrance to the Taj Mahal at sunrise...when there is no reference for chronological time (sounds of cars, buses, aircraft overhead)...what time is it at the Taj?...is your experience rooted in the 16th century or the 21st century...a little bit more pondering... and we realize why we mark Time with materials and technology...or as Einstein would have it, events in a Space-Time continuum...does Time slice Space or does Space slice Time?...material culture is an external reference to the passage of Time...far different from the sense of Time as known by one who endures...