John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readOct 27, 2024

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Gibberish.

Epicycles were brilliant math, as a model of our view of the cosmos and we still see the sun as rising in the east and setting in the west.

The problem with time is that as mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present going past to future. Yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism. That our cultures tend to synchronize our behaviors as larger social super organisms, based on the same languages, rules, measures, it might seem there is some universal flow of time, but it's rabbit time and turtle time and the turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died.

Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color, sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

The present goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past.

Suggesting consciousness manifests as energy. So the digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise. Thus this obsession with the patterns, while anything fuzzy/in motion is ignored.

Frankly, knowing both the exact position and momentum of a moving car is contradictory.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

When the premises are flawed, all the shut up and calculate is just GIGO.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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