Cheshire

time slices are a free bonus of perceptive reality interpreted through your brain and senses. ntsc broadcasts at 29.95 frames per second. enough to fool most people most of the time. which closely beats in harmony with fluorescents sometimes. specially when your monitor is also driving at 60hz. quanitized packets of life and time for you to live and store. you got sunlight and what is probably uninterrupted streams of photonic waves coming soon in an analog deluge. except they are digitally stored as quanta and interpreted as slices. stacks of slices make time. without the stack what would be? now. maybe, nothing more. without the relative measurement time collapses into now. just like right now. it is now. again. and now again. time exists, but not now. only then. measurement of future time... that would be interesting and a precognitory dream. last time this time lord stepped into the room there wasn't time to know I was coming or for any response. other than the only sane response. which was to dance sideways through the now and right inside/outside his grasp. untouchable. the one place time doesn't exist. now. it's like discrete digital measurement, you take a slice of pi anywhere. you can have it. manipulate it, store the part of it in a register, display it. you take PI... and your digital world dissolves. the largest infinite into a cup and then the cup is... is... is... now. and then he's left in a room by himself with nothing but your smile haunting his memory. but were you there at all. really. everything is happening everywhere at once your filters may not say so, but it is. or wait, it may be time to go check and see if hte sun is still shining.