REFLECT WITH HEMANT

  TIME – AN ENIGMA "Time is a created thing." - Lao Tzu Time is generally perceived as a sequence of events occurring in an irreversible manner, moving from past to future. We have invented calendars and clocks to define time. But is the concept of time that simple? Let us assume that all the clocks around the world come to a standstill. Would time also cease to exist? When we say, "We had a great time," does time have anything to do with it? When we say, "Time flies," what exactly flies? Carlo Rovelli, a physicist, said: "This is time, familiar and intimate. We are taken by it. The rush of seconds, hours, and years hurls us toward life, then drags us toward nothingness... We inhabit time as fish live in water. Our being is being in time. Its solemn music nurtures us, opens the world to us, troubles us, frightens and lulls us. The universe unfolds into the future, dragged by time, and exists according to the order of time." ...