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What is time?

Andre Philippe Laisney
2 min readOct 6, 2024

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Can we define time?

Time is the bottomless hole in space into which matter falls.

Space is not just a hole… It is a bottomless hole, and so it is the hole which matter “falls through”.

The “tunnel of time” is matter’s relationship to space.

Time is not a normal type of hole.

Matter is what it is. This means that matter is only what it is and contains no more of what it is than the total of what it is.

Distance is not like this.

Distance contains more distance. Distance is comprised of distance. Big holes are made up of ever-smaller holes.

Voids have voids within themselves.

Space contains more space.

This is shown to be true by the infinite divisibility of distance.

Matter is not infinitely divisible, but distance is.

Every half of a distance contains two more halves of itself. Every third of a distance contains three more thirds of itself.

This infinite amount of space within space is the “botomless hole in space through which matter falls”.

Matter cannot come to rest anywhere within a hole made of holes.

This momentum, due to the juxtaposition of matter and space, is what we call time.

We call this kinetic relationship of matter passing through the infinite divisibility of space the passing of “time”.

All “points in space” are, poeticly speaking, “center that will not hold”.

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