CYCLES OF TIME
FROM INFINITY TO ETERNITY
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Time. One of life's most enigmatic aspects. We are acutely aware of its constant presence, its passing and irreversible nature. We foolishly attempt to influence it. We rush it when waiting for some exciting event of our life, a birth, a wedding, or simply a vacation. Then we would like to reverse it and relive some joyous moments of the past. No matter how hard we try, we can't change it. It is a steadily moving locomotive on the rails of our lives, its inertia beyond our means to influence. Or is it? Can we slow it down, stop it, or even reverse it? We will try to understand these possibilities in this book that is a travel of a sort,not in time, but around time. The chapters mimic a year of human understanding ofthe phenomenon. The fact that we will reach December does not mean we fully understand time, far from it. It only means that we are through a cycle in our quest to understand time.
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In Cycles of Time, author Louis Komzsik offers a comprehensive study of time, its relation to astronomy, and its relative nature. He reviews interesting tidbits of the historical evolution of our understanding of time and discusses some philosophical ideas about the topic. He explores the history of time, its origins in the celestial cycles observed by ancient cultures, and the expansion of our time horizon into cosmic cycles. He examines and debunks the doomsday predictions about the year 2012, and discusses the large scale measuring of time, gradually refined by humankind with medium scale instruments of calendars bringing time to the horizon of a human lifetime. While investigating the physical aspects of time, Cycles of Time examines time’s relativity and ponders the possibility of time travel. Influencing one’s past, an attractive idea to all of us and the potential cause of the grandfather paradox, may not be theoretically possible, but also merits speculation. Cycles of Time explains time’s very strong trichotomy of past, present, and future in their simplest definitions: the past we remember, the present we experience now, and the future we anticipate.
About the Author
Dr. Louis Komzsik is the author of several internationally recognized mathematical and engineering books; some of which have been translated to foreign languages. He has also written about the history of certain intriguing mathematical and physical concepts, and has long been interested in the topic of time. He currently lives in California.