Bazinga!

I’ve tried to learn something about time related to modern physics. Everything was going well and I even managed to learn what is the absolute and the relational  ideas of time. According to Christopher J. Isham and Konstantina N. Savidou (Time, 2002:6-7) :

'According to the absolute view of time (and space) simply form the ‘arena’ of physics: the background structure within whose framework all of physics is necessarily phrased. On this view, material processes take place against the background of an independent ‘something’ called time (and space).'

‘On the other hand, the relational view denies time (and space) an existence independent of material objects and processes. On this view, time exists by virtue of the existence of matter and material events. Thus the concept of time is dependent in some way on the idea of matter. 'That was fine. But some pages further on the book, when letter and number started to appear -e.g.   -I knew that things would get worse, and they did…

That was too much and thus, I decided to give up leave the concept of time within physics for another time. I haven’t given up the book though. There are chapter – Talking about time, Time and Religion, Cyclic and Linear Time in Early India - that might be useful for my project, but I’m not sure.