Time is one thing that is unpredictable at times. It’s the approach with which you see towards it. Sometimes we feel time passes by just like a blink of the eye. Sometimes we feel, its going on and on for ages.
If we consider time in everyday life, it passes pretty quickly for us. Just 24 hours and a new day is already ahead of you. Time on Earth is very precious for us. But if time is seen outside the Earth, it is much slower than usual. Time in space is very very slow. It takes 8 minutes for light to reach us on Earth, from the Sun, even though light has the velocity of 3 x 108 m/s. Similarly, we will not be able to go out of our own solar system with the help of current technology due to the obstacles which include a human being’s lifespan, the distance that needs to be traveled, the speed required for the travel, etc.
When we see the figures calculated by scientists about our own Earth’s age and about our universe’s age, one remarkable ans startling fact that comes out flashing is the fact that we are so much tiny in this infinity of space that we cannot even imagine what still remains to be seen behind the curtains of time. There is so much more still to be discovered, still to be understood.
Time is like a folded scroll; the more you unfold it, the more it will show you the great wonders that yet seem invisible to us.
Time in space is much different than it is on Earth. For instance, the light emitted from a fallen star or due to some activity in galaxies reaches us after a long time, i.e., much later than the incidence has taken place. It takes a long time for the light’s journey towards us. Thus even if we send radio signals in space and maybe receive a reply someday, we may not be able to tell whether those creatures still exist or not.
With the development of science, in the coming years we will come across more celestial and terrestrial wonders. We will be able to find more about the concepts like travel in deep space, birth of the first stars and galaxies, maybe some life forms on other planets, some other solar systems which may be identical to us, time travel and many more. And the golden path of time will reveal these concepts. So till then it’s just a matter of TIME.
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