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>> ..... but then we >> all know that the measurement of time is just a construct that human beings >> made to deal with natural phenomenon - - right? >> > >Actually, time plays a very important role in the universe. >It keeps everything from happening all at once. >And this is essential for music and, especially, looping. > > (Foreword: YES.. I actually do mention looping somewhere in the body of this text :) (Super String theory is at least 10 years old at this point - I'll try and find the date of the theory's introduction.. My take on it is that everything in the universe is an energy harmonic. To exist, Energy must be oscillating at a frequency - these frequencies exists because the energy oscillates and creates it, and then interract with other frequencies in odd ways - repulsion, attraction and the other known universal laws of matter. In their smallest form - matter can be thought of as a wave of energy pulsating from ON to -ON ( 1 to -1 ) with no transition to 0 in the middle. It is either here -> or there <-. These tiny particles of oscillating energy (nuons, gluons etc.) either combine because of their freq's natural attraction, or repel for the same reasons to later combine with a frequency that it can co-exist.. Those that combine become the building blocks of atoms, and subsequently elements, and thus our physical universe is created. From nothing. To nothing, when all the harmonic energy runs out.) My take on time: (fwiw) Time being just a construct that allows the measurement of our natural world, the absence of "Time" would not cause all things to "happen at once". Since "Time" is just a logical abstraction based loosely on the concept of "Periods", generally astrologial, motion, or wave based. We then use the length of these "periods" to divide segments of our lives into "Time" periods.. Without a conscious mind to measure the periods, time would have no meaning in the universe. Things happen because they must, not because time tells them to. Space exists because it must, in order to hold matter. Matter exists because it must, in order to fill space. What does Time exist for? The universe doesn't calculate, or measure, in human terms. It doesn't need the concept of Time to work. Just a space to live in, and some matter to let effect each other. It has been proven over and over (time and again? ;) that space and time are not fixed entities. Curve one, and the other changes. This would not be, if Time were a "Dimension" of existence. If it were truly a dimension, then curving "time" should thus allow us to curve space - as one does to the other, so shall the other do to one. Explain to me how you would curve time? Curve space by introducing a large gravity well. Curve gravity by introducing a large mass.... Time would stay constant if you did not effect it in such ways, would it not? Unless it was simply a record keeper. A construct we use to mark the passing of the electrons through our minds, and the motion of the curving of space and gravity by their opposing forces. These forces are hard and fast laws of the universe, which will continue to hold true until we find a way to screw EVERYTHING up with our tiny one-track minds. But take a clock, and accellerate the clock to near-C speed, and the clock will seem to "Slow Down" because the flow of electrons at that speed becomes sluggish. The clock doesn't slow, just the perception of the clock in relativity to the rest of the universe. Our interpertation of the event is that "Time Slowed Down" at near-C speeds. The fact is that time never budged - being simply a construct of perceptions - but our ability to track "Time" under those conditions broke down. I forget her name, but a woman astrologist has a couple of albums out that she made by sampling the "periods" of certain glaxial phenomena. She then "Sped up" the periods to human-comprehendable periods, and added a bit of flavor to them. She called it "The Music Of the Universe" or something close to that.. Interesting to listen to - and certainly a cool looping idea. Except her samples were nature based and then just pitch/time shifted to fit our perceptions. Something completely impossible to do with any other construct of the human universe. How would you "Shift" the mass of an object without affecting the objects integrity? (Miniaturization - compression of the electron clouds to allow for more mass per sq/ft? Hmm..... Don't think so..) How would you "Shift" the gravity well, which caused the periods, which caused the suns, which caused the planets, which built galaxies? Shifted in such a way as to keep the "Essence" the same, but the gravity altered? (Reducing mass? That would alter the essence..) In conclusion: Time exists because WE need it to put our world into logical order. It is not a dimension of the universe itself, but simply a way to calculate, predict, and generalize upon the natural order of the universe. In conclusion of the conclusion: Loop your asses off! You think we have all the time in the world to argue about such nonsene?!?! Heheheheh K.M.