Ancient cultures have a concept of a wheel of time, that regards time as cyclical and quantic consisting of repeating ages that happen to every being of the Universe between birth and extinction.
Time appears to have a direction the past lies behind, fixed and immutable, while the future lies ahead and is not necessarily fixed. A cyclic model is any of several cosmological models in which the universe follows infinite, self-sustaining cycles. For example, the oscillating universe theory briefly considered by Albert Einstein in 1930 theorized a universe following an eternal series of oscillations, each beginning with a big bang and ending with a big crunch; in the interim, the universe would expand for a period of time before the gravitational attraction of matter causes it to collapse back in and undergo a bounce.
As per ancient mythologies there are two basic laws governing the passage of time in this world. Firstly, time moves in cycles. Secondly, everything new becomes old. These two laws help us to understand the complete story or the history of time and change, and they throw light on why the world is in its present state.
First law of time
If we observe closely we’ll be able to find that time which we use to attempt to measure change. This measurement of time begins with the changing position of the planets around the sun and a day becomes the basic unit of measurement. One year is measured by the cyclical movement of the planet around its own axis while revolving around the sun. Here lies the key to understanding that the movement of time in our physical world is always cyclical. The cycle of the day, from dawn to daylight to dusk to night, is a movement that repeats with absolute constancy.
A larger cycle is that of the seasons from spring to summer, summer to to autumn and autumn to winter works in the same way. When we stand back from the ‘big picture’ of human history, we see an even larger cycle, the eternal world cycle of time, a cycle that moves from the day of humanity to the night of humanity and then back to the day of humanity to repeat again. But to focus fully, see and believe that picture, we first need to understand the second law of time and also connect it with the first law.
The concluding part of this blog post is continued in next post link as Slipping in Time.
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