Konnichiwa, it's 3:06 A.M. in Japan.

So, yeah, I still want to write in this thing.
I decided that since today, all my classes had been cancelled due to ice, I had no excuse about not having enough time to blog.
That's usually what it is because it can take me up to an hour to write one of these things.
Unlike Kate who writes like a sentence.
I mean, uh... what a quality blog she has!
Haha, kidding, Kate.

I'm really fascinated by the concept of time today.
I have been in the past, but that was mostly when I took calculus and being fascinated by time was the cool smart kid thing to do. Now it's my own enterprise.
Wikipedia, my favorite dictionary, defines time like this:

"Time is a component of a measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science but defining time in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars."

So time is actually something that cannot be defined unless you have a predisposition to what it already is.
I'm a see-arr-eich-eye-ess-tee-eye-A-enn, so I believe that time is a construct of God that allows us to live in a story that has a beginning, middle, and end, while he is a part of all of it, since he is not under time.
The generally held mathematical and philosophical view is my favorite, though.
So, we live in 3-D, right?
A single point is 1-dimensional, because it exists on one plane, the x axis. Oddly enough, a straight line is not 1-dimensional, it is 2-dimensional, because distance between 2 points in 2-dimensional.
So, straight lines and basic shapes are 2-dimensional. Anything flat, like squares, circles, art from old Mario video games, Tetris, things like that. They exist on the x and y planes.
3-dimensional objects include the z-axis, and require depth perception. A good exampe to help visualize 3-D is a rubix cube. If you can understand one of those things, you have great spatial perception.
Now, the first 3 dimensions are all that is included in the term "space."
Time, in this philosophical and mathematical view, is the 4th dimension. So, it's not like some Twilight Zone Dimension X kind of thing where you walk in the invisible door and you turn into a flamingo made of jello. Time is something you travel through, like the other 3 dimensions. It's a container.
Right now, I'm looking at my computer. In 10 minutes, it probably won't be sitting here.
So, if I came back and looked for my computer, it would not be here. Duh.
But, this is really interesting. In the other 3 dimensions, if something gets moved, you can just move it back. They only control location. However, in time, if something has moved forward, it is irreversible. Okay, that's as mathematical as I'll get.
Time is also the only one of the 4 dimensions that has a limit. Space is infinite.
One of the major problems, or so people think, is that they don't have enough time.
If time were unlimited, getting from point A to point B would not be an issue, because we woud just have to move far enough forward through time until we walked there. Then we could just come back through time until we got back, and yet it still would have happened. That's why God's existence is hard to make sense of, because he exists this way.

On a side note, I think that immortality for men on earth is useless. I mean, maybe humanity would be better off if Einstein had lived forever and invented something awesome, but on the whole it's a terrible idea as long as we have evil desires at all.

Example: If we as humans have trouble staying married our whole lives, as short as they are, how hard is it going to be if we live forever? IMPOSSIBLE!!! We also aren't going to reproduce as much because time isn't an issue, we can wait until the time is right. So, there would be like 40 people on the planet and they all hate each other because they were all married at one point. The End.

In summary, take some time today to think about whih you value more - the time you have left or your memories of the past. If you answered the time you have left, you haven't been living like you should.