it's about time!

big d's random thoughts

of course i'm referring to friday. why is it, that fridays can never come fast enough? this week was a four-day week for me, (with my sick day monday) yet it still seemed to drag on. granted i was sick, and most of the week, i felt like i'd been rode hard and put away wet. now i'm having a hard time keeping my eyes open. anyway, the point is, even during weeks when a holiday knocks a day or two off, the friday seems elusive.

if you read my post about mondays, you will understand what i now say about fridays. if there is a holiday on a friday, then thursday becomes friday, and it still seems to be very slow in coming.

some will no doubt say that the anticipation skews your perception of time. "a watched pot never boils," and all that rubbish. i think it is much deeper and more sinister than that! think about it. regardless of what you are looking forward to, or fearing, or whatever, time doesn't seem to be a constant. there is something about time that fluctuates.

what if it could be manipulated? like time-travel, but simpler. i don't know if we will ever travel through time, because i can't understand how you could get the three basic dimensions to stay in tact relative to each other, while moving along the fourth dimension. (i suspect there are additional dimensions that come in to play here, but that's another post...) still, they say it is theoretically possible.

how about just adjusting that fourth dimension a little. speeding up, or slowing down "time" just a bit. i know that presents the same basic problem "time-travel" does, but it doesn't seem quite as difficult. doesn't "theoretically possible" technologically speaking, mean "we haven't been able to do it yet, but we have had some limited success?"

where does the most advanced technology come from? whether or not there is alien influence, the fact is that it comes from the military. think about it. time-travel would be the single most effective military weapon. and the most dangerous. there have been movies and everything, about today's weapons being used in the recent past to dramatically change the outcome of past wars.
anyway, without this turning into an entirely different subject, while the military would naturally be interested in time-travel, the ability to speed-up or slow-down time would be less useful.

sure, slow down time a bit, so soldiers can react better. how often do they say gun battles seem to happen in slow motion? what if they did? what if our soldiers weren't slowed, but everything else seemed to? that would be an advantage. think about our war on terror. casualties almost always result from hidden bombs. there are almost no casualties from shoot-outs.

now, how does the military fund all this research? granted the defense budget is enormous, and they obviously don't really pay $150 for a toilet seat. still, if research is expensive, testing and development is even more so. what's the answer? you sell the technology.

it's like the pharmaceutical companies (another rant, another day). they pay for r&d with income from existing drugs. it's simple. think of the possibilities. velcro pays for stealth technology. laser rangefinding tools pay for night vision. gps navigation pays for time travel?

it's common knowledge that the commercial gadgets we buy are ten to twenty years behind the military's development. which is fine. i like it that our defenders have more advanced tools than anyone else. anyway, what if our current war was so expensive, that the military had to sell technology earlier than usual? what if they were selling unfinished technology? think about it...

corporate america. how much would they pay the government if time were manipulated in their favor? maybe that's the real reason time at work seems much slower than time off. it's a huge coup! we go to work and put in our eight hours for our eight hours of pay, but we're there for the equivalent of ten or twelve hours! we're working more than we realize, or are being paid for!

how else can big companies save money by reducing the workforce? fewer people do the same work load in the same time? impossible. we do the same workload by working the same amount of relative time, while the clocks only show the usual eight hours!

you know i'm onto something don't you? it all makes sense. it doesn't sound that far-fetched, and moreover, it feels real! i think i'm onto something. certainly, if the government could do something like this, corporate america would do something like this!

read well, and spread the word quickly. it may not be long before they pull my blog, or send the black helicopters for me...