The mysterious nature of time

[Confused]

space, and time, transcends dimensions.

unity100, what role do you think time may play in Ra's observation that the infinite creation will itself coalesce back into the gravity well of the One Infinite Creator at some 'stage'?

i doubt it is as Ra describes. THIS creation, or this series of 'infinite' creations may coalesce back and forth, however, i very much think this entire series of creations is still only a part of infinity, so, therefore still able to change states of 'coalescing' and spreading out.

i think that there is no such coalescence taking place at all - the coalescing point is always in the same state - of coalescing. something like a separation that takes place from infinity downwards, structured with space and time. like a structure. and depending on what point of it you look at it, you see different situations. ie 'it spreads out', but, at another space - time point, it also coalesces back. these are, when looked at from outside this structure, are simultaneous and parts of this structure.

Continuing your line of thought, I believe the following extract from a mainstream scientific paper could be useful. Scientists are imagining and doing far more radical things than we give them credit for, in the research on Cosmic Time (imho). I am no scientist and cannot understand many of the terms/points below; nevertheless there are interesting spiritual red flags --

Abstract: Current theoretical physics suggests the flow of time is an illusion: the entire universe just is, with no special meaning attached to the present time. This paper points out that this view, in essence represented by usual space-time diagrams, is based on time-reversible microphysical laws, which fail to capture essential features of the time-irreversible nature of decoherence and the quantum measurement process, as well as macro-physical behaviour and the development of emergent complex systems, including life, which exist in the real universe. When these are taken into account, the unchanging block universe view of spacetime is best replaced by an evolving block universe which extends as time evolves, with the potential of the future continually becoming the certainty of the past; spacetime itself evolves, as do the entities within it. However this time evolution is not related to any preferred surfaces in spacetime; rather it is associated with the evolution of proper time along families of world lines. The default state of fundamental physics should not be taken to be a time irreversible evolution of physical states: it is an ongoing irreversible development of time itself. 1: The flow of time The most important property of time is that it unfolds. The present is different from both the past and future, which in turn are completely different from each other, the past being fixed and the future changeable. The present is the instant of transition between these two states.
Source: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/sum...1.169.8488