ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ...

ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ... ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ...

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62 ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN such interpretations and therefore, he would never form any perception of time. One determines himself to be thirty years old, only because he has accumulated in his mind information pertaining to those thirty years. If his memory did not exist, then he could not think of any such preceding period and would be experiencing only the single "moment" in which he was living. And this point is very important. The Scientific Explanation of Timelessness We can clarify this subject by quoting various scientists' and scholars' explanations. Regarding the idea of time flowing backwards, François Jacob, a famous intellectual and Nobel laureate professor of genetics, states the following in his book Le Jeu des Possibles (The Play of Possibilities): Films played backwards let us imagine a world in which time flows backwards. A world in which cream separates itself from the coffee and jumps out of the cup to reach the creamer; in which the walls emit light rays that are collected in a light source instead of radiating out from it; a world in which a stone leaps up to a man's hand from the water where it was thrown by the astonishing cooperation of innumerable drops of water surging together. Yet, in such a timereversed world with such opposite features, our brain processes, and the way our memory compiles information, would similarly function backwards. The same is true for the past and future, though the world will appear to us exactly as it does currently. 11 But since our brain is accustomed to a certain sequence of events, the world does not operate as related above. We assume that time always flows forward. However, this is a decision reached in the brain and is, therefore, completely relative. If the information in our memories were set out like a reel of film being played backward, then for us the passage of time would be like it is in films. In that event, we would start perceiving the past as the future, and the future as the past, and living in a state that is the exact opposite of what life is now.

PAST Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) PRESENT FUTURE All events that seem to have taken place in the past, or which will take place in the future, or are taking place in the present, have actually already taken place and ended in the Sight of Allah, Who is not bound by time or place. In the same manner, eternity has also been experienced and ended in the Sight of Allah. Just like the concurrent existence of the shots in a reel of film. And in reality, we never can know how time flows—or even whether it flows or not! This is because time is not an absolute fact, but only a form of perception. That time is a perception is also verified by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity. In his book The Universe and Dr. Einstein, Lincoln Barnett writes: Along with absolute space, Einstein discarded the concept of absolute time—of a steady, unvarying inexorable universal time flow, streaming from the infinite past to the infinite future. Much of the obscurity that has surrounded the Theory of Relativity stems from man's reluctance to recognize that sense of time, like sense of color, is a form of perception. Just as space is simply a possible order of material objects, so time is simply a possible order of events. The subjectivity of time is best explained in Einstein's own words. "The experiences of an individual," he says, "appear to us arranged in a 63

PAST<br />

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)<br />

PRESENT<br />

FUTURE<br />

All events that seem to have taken place in the past, or which will take place<br />

in the future, or are taking place in the present, have actually already taken<br />

place and ended in the Sight of Allah, Who is not bound by time or<br />

place. In the same manner, eternity has also been experienced<br />

and ended in the Sight of Allah. Just like the<br />

concurrent existence of the shots in a reel of<br />

film.<br />

And in reality, we never can know how time flows—or even<br />

whether it flows or not! This is because time is not an absolute fact,<br />

but only a form of perception.<br />

That time is a perception is also verified by Albert Einstein in his<br />

Theory of General Relativity. In his book The Universe and Dr. Einstein,<br />

Lincoln Barnett writes:<br />

Along with absolute space, Einstein discarded the concept of absolute<br />

time—of a steady, unvarying inexorable universal time flow,<br />

streaming from the infinite past to the infinite future. Much of the<br />

obscurity that has surrounded the Theory of Relativity stems from<br />

man's reluctance to recognize that sense of time, like sense of color,<br />

is a form of perception. Just as space is simply a possible order<br />

of material objects, so time is simply a possible order of events. The<br />

subjectivity of time is best explained in Einstein's own words. "The<br />

experiences of an individual," he says, "appear to us arranged in a<br />

63

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