Is 1 second ago (the past) the present? Nope.
Is .5 seconds ago (the past) the present? Nope.
Is .00000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds ago (the past) the present? Nope.
Is 1 second from now (the future) the present? Nope.
Is .5 seconds from now (the future) the present? Nope
Is .00000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds from now (the future) the present? Nope.
So just what is the "present", a point in time with no duration that we call "now?"
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The many components of the universe continually go through this process you mentioned, of having duration,( some with a very long stretch), long dwell in "time", the first dimension, but also being only present in the
no duration moment of the present.
we, as sentient mortal beings with a laggard nervous system, can attest to that, being perhaps the universe's way of knowing itself. so.,
The present alternative theory, ( in building), allows both movement into the future, and the instant
no duration contact with the dimension time it moves through.with a cusp of a cycloid motion, to use the vehicle wheel analogy, "the moment and place where the rubber hits the road."
Here from
New Scientist Magazine
PHYSICS 2 June 2022
By
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
is an intriguing situation where Light, which already has a good hold on time, with its rotating wave form, and a zero aging process, now can appear if prompted , in a circular path which is again a rotating entity. which prompts the question:
Is this unlikely situation of a smoke ring like wave made up of rotating waves made in part possible by Light, photon waves in this case having a
double hold on time, through its cycloid cusp, as a beam, and additionally by being part of a rotating assembly? with its one contact point, area?
Ps: do we have here entities with a rotating velocity of "c"? are these the fastest? among the spinners, from quarks to galaxies?