Do we exist?

Everything is conscious around us. Both, Visible and invisible. Those static Planets & Stars, rigid mountains…

Does this sound weird? You may argue that they should be exhibiting more visible patterns to be thought as conscious. Like, they should be seen growing, moving, reproducing, sensing like the other living organism. Well they may be exhibiting all this, and other physical characteristics of a living being, yet we can’t see it happening.

Many wiser people burst into giggles when Einstein gave the theory of relativity, around space and time. It essentially meant that the clock is in our mind. One hour spent with your beloved may seem like one Minute, but one minute spent resting on a hot chair may seem like an hour. As we grow old, one day seems to be shorter than what it use to be when we were kids. So, the distance between the time cordinates is not fixed. It’s different for you and me, though not substantially.

To understand relativity of Time, let’s imagine an insect whose life span could be few milliseconds. So, it’s conceived, born, mature, reproduce, age and die, all within few milliseconds. While the insect may claim to have seen it all happening, we humans may not experience it at all due to the bug’s ‘faster’ clock in comparison to our clock. For us, it could simply be a case of non-existence of the bug, because it just happened in a flash. Few generations of the insect would have passed with in the blink of our eye. And, much for the same reason, the bug may not have experienced us too. Because we may have appeared like a rigid mountain, or a planet, or some object which didn’t move while they were progressing thru generations after generations.

Ok, now let’s flip through the chart. Our universe is believed to be in existence since 15 billion years or so. And the humans appeared very recently (and the wiser breed is yet to arrive), some 10-15 thousand years ago, which is like few millisecond on the eternal clock. And while we may have seen our generations after generations passing thru this planet, we may not have experienced those superior organisms whose clock is much much ‘slower’ than ours. Who knows their one 1 second spans our 1 billon years, which means they are just 13 seconds old. So, do we exist as per them?

It’s just a thought. What we can’t see or experience may still exist. What appears static may be moving at its own pace.

Though it seems to me that lesser mortals have a faster clock and they are always in a hurry, while the superior mortals have all the time in the universe.