The Timelessness of Time

I first heard of Einstein's Theory of Relativity in high school but understood none of it. In time, I believed it to be true, that the clock slows for the one who is traveling at the speed of light relative to another who is stationary on earth, and corollaries that point to concurrent planes of existence at every moment in the past and in the future. Now I realize all that is fiction and a waste of genius and that time simply exists as a whole without relative parts or planes, in neutrality without a beginning or an end and as a constant without change. And it certainly exists without being clocked. This realization has led to my conclusion that time is timeless.

Time has a past, a present and a future but exists only in the present moment. The past and future is each a view from the present. A moment in the present is the state of being, or time's present, and the instant and simultaneous aggregation of all that is past and all that is to come, for something that is now must necessarily be a distillation of everything that had been and everything that is expected combined with the current state of being. In other words, any present moment is the sum of time's past, present and future. Since time exists only in the present moment and is also an uninterrupted sequence of consecutive present moments formed by the past, present and future into an inseparable whole, time is therefore timeless.

Time, being a constant, is the same for an adult as it is for a newborn. A newborn exits the womb and exists in the present moment and therefore it has the current state of being. It also has the requisite past and future to form an aggregate that is its present. For the newborn, its past is only its DNA. Its future, limited by the lack of established thoughts and expectations, is its instinct to breathe the next breath and the drive to be fed and held, to observe and absorb. So the infant's state of being, a biological entity with all its permutations and limitations that is its present, together with its short past and future are the infant's present moment. For the adult, its developed character, its thoughts and expectations, both rational and irrational form the past and future, combined with its state of being, similarly defined as that of an infant, form the present, although its present moment is unenviably more complex than the infant's.

Recap: Regardless of the theory that uses time as a reference point, what is made to measure time, how humans spend, monetize or think of time and how things rely on or react to time, time is constantly there. It simply exists and it exists in the present moment, a present moment being defined as an integrated whole of what is past, present and future. When the past, present and future are one and the same in the present moment, time becomes and is timeless.