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TIME - a fundamental quantity present throughout the known universe -- and beyond.

So, what about this elusive concept called time?

My theory:
Before time, there was nothing. "Time is the single continuum that witnessed the birth of space, in which all else came to be."

Poets lose themselves in time, searching for words to describe it. Ivy Schex's To Everything There is a Season, allots time to every event and purpose under the Sun; as defined in Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8.

Scientists attempt to warp it, bend it, break it, slow it down and speed it up; all to no avail. Time is everywhere, and nowhere. The one universal constant that invokes itself in all that is, ever was... and ever will be. Time is the one true god. For, even if there exists an omnipresent entity that created all there is, he/she/it would have been preceded by Time, if only for a moment.

We divide time up like so many slices of pie, to give order to our lives. Along the way, we abuse it, misuse it and, often, lose it; unconcerned that we can't get it back. We buy time, sell time, rent time and waste time. Sort of like I'm doing here. Yet, time goes on... unaffected.

We have learned to measure time, yet we have never viewed it's outer reaches. The further we travel through time, the further away time travels. We sometimes speak of the end of time, but time has no end. Before anything else, there was time. After all else is gone, only time will remain.

Because all else happens, in time - time, by its nature, reveals a structure. Time has infinite length, width, breadth, depth, and weight; and embraces an as yet unnamed fifth dimension. Perhaps, also, dimensions not yet imagined.

We speak of saving time... yet time moves on, with or without us. We look foward in time and backward in time. We can't see it, feel it, or slow it down. Yet, we travel through time unimpeded.

Time belongs to no one... and everyone.

That said, it's time to end this discourse and thank you for your time.

... and so it goes.