Us: A Paradox of Time

To understand this better, we must first know what a paradox is.
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one’s expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.

An example is the Epimenides Paradox; this is often at times considered the very definition of a paradox. This is the classical self-contradictory scenario where the term paradox is most commonly used.

Another example is saying “Less is More.” Less can never be more but in certain cases, less is actually more. So, this puts us in a paradox. A paradox is a kind of similar to a conundrum yet different from a certain perspective.

Many people will define it in various ways but ultimately it comes down to dealing with instances in time such as the present, future, and past. You can’t exist at all these points in time simultaneously, but you actually exist in them or at least a version of yourself. so basically, time is a paradox because “it’s part of human life, and we can’t stop it”. If the past is gone, we can’t reverse Time; if the future hasn’t arrived, we can’t get to the end, and the present becomes the past, even if we redefine. Time’s existence constantly changes, and nothing is ever the same from moment to moment.

The paradox of time in Physics. Thermodynamics, the contradiction between the concept of time in quantum physics, according to the theory of relativity, where processes are time-symmetric and reversible, and the concept of time in thermodynamics, according to the second law of thermodynamics, where processes have a direction and are irreversible.

According to Einstein’s General Relativity, which is our best current description of space and time, the only place where time and also space ends is in a so-called singularity. This involves gravitational forces becoming so intense that space and time lose all meaning.

Lots of theories exist around time and I will use the coming weeks to go over a few of them. Till then, #stayhungry