For the summer, we, as usual, went to the village, to my grandmother. They lived in a small house built of clay and wood, almost completely devoid of everything that is called civilization. Evenings whiled away by the light of a kerosene lamp, listening to fairy tales. How rich the world seemed then, full of secrets and beauty! It was as if I lived in some other time, I was part of another story, open to eternity. Now time is running out.
Scientists even began to measure the reduction in time. Although it is not easy to measure that which is the measure of all things. For there is no such state or movement in which time would not be present as a nagging feeling of passage. And they came to the conclusion, no one knows by what calculations, that today 24 hours pass as quickly as only 16 used to pass. That is, we have already lost a third of the time of our lives, or half of the time during which we are in an active state. But not only scientists point to this - the fathers who labor in the deserts of the Holy Mountain, the hermits of our days, say the same thing: time today flows much faster than before, and it’s hard to blame them for the psychological subjectivity caused by social changes ...
The speed of all processes has increased, but, nevertheless, the time has decreased - the opposite of what one should expect is happening! So, contrary to all scientific logic, the ideologists of the theory of progress turned out to be big liars. Did they not inspire us in the last century that scientific and technological progress will lead to the fact that machines will replace human labor and therefore there will be more time? Yes, a washing machine today makes a woman's job easier, but now she suffers much more from stress due to lack of time than when she rinsed clothes in the river ...
In the old days, people moved slowly, decorously acted in everything that they happened to do during the day, during all the days of their lives. They began the day with morning prayer and ended with evening prayer; at the table they read "Our Father" and did not start anything without signing themselves with the sign of the holy cross. That is, a person at any time and in any place found a free minute to say a word to God and, as an answer, receive in his soul the assurance that he was not alone. Although his life was hard, with ups and downs (which everyone's life should be in general in order to be able to learn something from it), it gave him a feeling of fullness. It was an existence experienced in its entirety.
Now everything is done on the run, so that almost all the time we feel deprived of the joy of the moment, imperfect in what we do and experience. And when you perform your prayer (who has the zeal for this), your mind is not there. He rushes forward, he stares at the concerns of the present day or everyday life in general. And when you take on something, it doesn’t even occur to you that you need to cross yourself, because you are already thinking about something else - and in the end, it doesn’t fit into the environment. As if God should follow the world, imitate it, and not vice versa...
And so the person is left alone. Not only because God is no longer with him, but he does not perceive other people, friends, brothers, spouse or wife closely. This is because everyone has their own rhythm in running - in other words, in a hurry, you are always looking ahead, at what will happen next, in the hope that the time will come when you will calm down. But life passes quickly and illness sets in, death comes, faster than you expect, comes before this much-desired respite, preventing you from calming down and returning to yourself, back home.
But this loneliness can be understood in this way: the rush, the crazy rhythm and the inescapable noise of the world in which we live do not allow us to hear the timid steps of another on the paths of our soul. Running somehow pushes us beyond our own soul. After all, the soul, just like a child and love, needs you to give it time. It has its own rhythm - the rhythm of deep and calm communication with God and other souls. A woman understands this better, because she feels it more acutely.
And since the rhythm of the alternation of days and years of the society in which we live alienates us for a long time from the life of our own soul, we get used to this state and feel more and more as if it does not exist at all. That is why evolutionist theories take root in our country. In other words, we forget where we came from, we forget the native language of ingenuous love, the language of that landscape of the soul, which contained so many beauties and secrets. And often we die among strangers, unknown to anyone, as happens with a huge number of Christians, lost among those deprived of the right faith, like the Jewish people, who slaved to the Egyptians for a piece of meat. So God allowed it - maybe a person, looking at the material as a symbol, will understand what is happening at the level of the spirit.
The architects of the everyday landscape of modern society, the biotechnologists of humanity subordinate to the machine, imagined that a person, like a detail, can be processed so much that it reaches the state of a robot. A programmable computer that will promptly respond to system commands. And they set about this project, almost bringing the Western individual to the set requirements. But still, they did not manage to completely change the nature of man. Alienated from their own souls in the world of machines and information, people suffer without understanding why. Most of them do not even know that they have a soul. How then can they recognize her and understand her suffering? They are like a sick person who has some pain, who feels great weakness, dizziness and complete weakness, but cannot tell the doctor where his ailment comes from.
The suffering that most people experience and that causes many to throw themselves into the whirlpool of all kinds of sins is closely related to that painful expiration of time, which no longer has enough patience for us. Not enough because time no longer measures life with God - the source of time and life. This is a painful time that gives us a measure of alienation, exhaustion from running in vain. And the more we run, the more alone we feel. This is where the vicious circle begins. For the more alone we feel, the harder it is for us to endure the painful passage of time, which no longer finds its meaning and joy. So we take off running in ever greater haste; we hide, as if in the sand, in work, in all sorts of duties and chores, and in a few minutes of rest, when we are left alone with ourselves, it becomes even harder for us, and we start all over again. That is why the television was invented - to satisfy this inescapable loneliness experienced by today's people who have despised God to the point of complete oblivion and ignorance of Him. TV, newspapers, the Internet, sensations, erotica and violence, sharp feelings, overflowing emotions - all this is to make us forget that our life has become excessively short and painful. We live as if we are not living our own life.
Please stop for a moment in this race of emptiness. We need to find our lost time, return it again. How? Going to the Holy Liturgy as often as possible. The time of our soul's life will be drunk, like everything created in this world, from the grace of God, in this case, from the time of the Kingdom. Try it and you will see how your life will change.
Please, buy your time by patiently standing in confession. After all, sin is the main culprit in shortening the time of our lives. God does not give us more time so that we do not deepen the sins we are in.
Gain time by stopping as often as possible during the day to say: Lord have mercy!
Gain time by throwing away the TV, not being afraid of "what the neighbors, friends and family will say"! TV is the biggest chronophage (eater of time: from ancient Greek χρόνος - time and φᾰγω - I devour. - Ed.) throughout the history of the world. On average, he eats 3.7 hours of time per day from a person. Old people and children have more, teenagers have less. Do you think it's impossible to throw it away? But isn't it easier to give up TV than to suffer because of the loss of such a precious time of our lives, moments that go away and do not return, a time in which you are still healthy, while still alive? Have you ever seen a happy person watching TV? Or have we forgotten and do not want to know at all what happiness means? Then we deserved our fate...
We need to find time again, becoming as before sensitive to the misfortune and pain of friends, relatives, neighbors and people from the street - and most of all sensitive to the voice of our own heart, so mournful, so widowed, as if we had died in the land of strangers, buried among worries. and the damned pleasures of living without God.
I beg you, do not let these words pass your ears - after all, we do not know how much longer God will endure us.
Priest Alexander Shumsky said that strange things have been happening in recent years - even small children say that time flies very quickly. Meanwhile, adults have been organizing online consultations on the topic of what has happened over time for a long time.
Speaking about modern children, the famous Moscow priest Alexander Shumsky told the Russian Line news agency: “Children's sense of time is changing. As children, it seemed to us that time flows very slowly, while in an adult, by definition, time flows quickly. I ask small children, but they say that time flies very quickly. My grandson went to first grade, and he says that time flies very quickly.
The priest is perplexed: why is this happening? He makes guesses: “Is the substance of time objectively changing, because it is the most incomprehensible substance, or is such an impression formed from information overload? But in any case, time subjectively passes faster than before.
According to Priest Alexander, all this is very dangerous, as it leaves an imprint on the psyche. He says that when a person's internal clock works in a measured way, then the psyche develops smoothly and there are no jerks. And when a person is overloaded with information, and time flies quickly, then he, and especially a child, may have mental breakdowns.
The Russian Internet is already full of discussions about the problem of time change. For example, on one forum, a person opened an extensive discussion with the following message: “People, who knows: why does time fly so fast? And every time it gets faster and faster! Or am I the only one who feels like this? Soon again the new year, but, it seems, recently was the last!
And even schoolchildren complain that time passes very quickly. For example, on one school forum, a girl writes: “Time flies very quickly, and I began to realize this a long time ago. I especially felt it when I came to the 12th grade in September and realized that three months flew by for me like two weeks. Now it’s also flying fast – June is already ending.”
Some forum visitors, referring to some unnamed scientists, say that something really happened over time. And others ask questions about this problem to priests on Orthodox websites. But they answer that nothing fundamentally new is happening. None of the scientists with official statements that time has accelerated its course, has not yet come out. On the contrary, they all say only that this category is subjective and little studied, and that time passes faster with age.
There are Christian prophecies, according to which, before the end of the world, time will change dramatically. The “Posthumous broadcasts of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming Athos” says that in the very last era of the existence of mankind, when the tyrant - Antichrist reigns, something incomprehensible will happen with time.
“The day will turn like an hour, a week like a day, a month like a week and a year like a month,” said St. Neil. “For human cunning made the elements become tense, began to rush and strain even more, so that the number prophesied by God for the eighth number of centuries would end as soon as possible” (here we mean the eighth millennium from the creation of the world).
Theory of Temporal Acceleration
The problem of the modern world is an acute shortage of time. At the same time, those who are over 50 will say that this shortage has not been felt so acutely before. There was enough time for work, and for rest, and for doing something around the house. Now, literally, you barely have time to do the most necessary things. Why is that?
Many modern scientists have paid attention to the issue of the transience of time, or rather, the fact that it began to run much faster than before. The passage of time is greatly accelerated. In general, this problem could be considered fictional, so to speak, attributed to the subjective perception of a person, if not for the theory of relativity of Albert Einstein, who in 1905, at the age of 25, revolutionized science and ordinary human thinking with his discovery.
He wrote: “Everyone who is seriously engaged in science is convinced that the laws of the Universe bear the imprint of a higher Mind, so superior to man that we, with our modest abilities, should reverently bow before Him.”
The beginning of the 20th century was the beginning of a particularly progressive development and formation of science. Einstein also made a significant contribution to this. Once, when journalists asked him how he makes discoveries, Albert Einstein replied: “I just turn to God, Who created all these laws, and ask Him how they work.” This answer was taken as a joke by journalists, and indeed, it could be understood as such, were it not for the fact that the discoveries made by Einstein exceeded the limits of ordinary human thinking.
He wrote: "The more science comprehends the physical world, the more we come to conclusions that can only be resolved by faith." The Bible says, "There is one Lord among all, rich to all who call on Him." (Rom. 10:12) “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives freely to all and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” (James 1:5)
The special theory of relativity - SRT, refuted the concept of the constancy of many fundamental quantities, such as time, mass, length, etc. For example, in Newton's mechanics, time was considered absolute, it was believed that, as Newton wrote, “it flows in the same way, regardless of anything external ". "The duration or age of the existence of things remains the same, whether the movements are fast or slow or they do not exist at all." The constant synchronicity of time was considered in Newton's mechanics as obvious and independent of different frames of reference.
But in the theory of relativity, the opposite conclusions were drawn. As a result of the experiments, it turned out that Newton's statements are valid only for special cases when two or more events occur in the same frame of reference. From the postulates of SRT - the special theory of relativity, it follows that time flows differently in different frames of reference. If exact clocks with exactly the same time readings are placed on different planets in space, then later it will be found that each clock shows a different time. Different planets move in space at different speeds relative to each other, and each planet is an independent frame of reference.
The duration of events will be shorter in the frame of reference in which the point is stationary. That is, moving clocks run slower than stationary clocks and show a longer time interval between events. For example: If you launch a spaceship into space at a speed equal to 99.99% of the speed of light, then according to calculations, if this ship returns to earth in 14.1 years, then 1000.1 years will pass on earth during this time. The greater the speed of a moving object, the slower time passes on it.
Time dilation was directly measured in an experiment with chronometers placed on jet aircraft. This experiment was carried out in 1971 by two American physicists, J. S. Heifel and R. E. Keating. For the experiment, two fully coordinated cesium clocks were needed, accurate to 10 (-13), that is, with an error of 1/10,000,000,000,000. One of them stood motionless at the Naval Observatory in Washington, while the other was installed on a jet aircraft , which flew around the world, first from east to west, and then vice versa. In both cases, a distinct and well-measurable difference was found in the readings of the clocks standing still and the clocks flying on the plane. The difference completely coincided with the theoretically calculated value.
There is another confirmation of time dilation proven with the help of muons. A muon is an unstable, spontaneously decaying elementary particle. It has an extremely short lifespan of 0.0000022 seconds. Arising in the upper atmosphere, it moves to the ground and is recorded by instruments. And then it becomes noticeable that the path he has traveled, that is, the length of his flight path, must correspond to a much longer duration of the time that he can actually exist. It turns out that moving randomly in the atmosphere at a speed close to the speed of light, according to SRT, the muon lifetime runs slower. At the same time, the muon's own lifetime in its own frame of reference remains the same, but in the frame of reference of an earthly observer, the muon's lifetime has changed and become longer.
But back to the theory of temporal acceleration. Why did time on earth begin to run faster? It is known that in order to slow down the passage of time, you need to increase the speed, therefore, to speed up time, the speed must be reduced. Our planet had to reduce its speed. There needs to be a serious reason for this. And there is this reason.
American astrobiologists D. Brownlee and P. Ward came to the conclusion that the increase in temperature on planet earth is the result of solar activity, and it is due to the fact that our luminary is a young growing star. Expanding, the sun gradually absorbs our planet. This understanding is consistent with biblical prophecy, which says: “The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun: and it was given to him to burn people with fire. And a strong heat burned people, and they blasphemed the name of God. (Rev. 16:8-9) It is also said: “The heavens will pass away with a noise (“pass away” - the old Slavic word meaning - will cease to exist), the elements, having flared up, will be destroyed, the earth, and all works on it will burn. (2 Pet. 3:10)
It is worth noting that the extraction of minerals over the past century has reached fantastic figures. Many billions of tons of oil, billions of tons of gas, coal and other minerals have been mined and burned. They are forever destroyed, turned into energy that has been wasted. If we take into account the oxygen burned and other factors, then huge numbers are also accumulating here. The needs of mankind are growing, production continues and grows.
According to satellite imagery, mass melting and sliding of glaciers has already been noted, but the flooding of territories, which should be associated with this, does not occur, rather, on the contrary, the water disappears. The inland seas are drying up. Evaporating, water vapor rises into the atmosphere, where it cools and falls back to earth as precipitation. Probably, supersaturated thermal masses, which always tend to rise up, prevent normal cooling. In other words, we began to lose water, it goes into space. The total amount of matter consumed by the planet has far exceeded trillions of tons. By this amount, the mass of our planet has decreased.
According to the laws of gravity, any decrease in the mass of the planet should affect its orbit. The attraction of the growing sun will act in increasing proportion to the two ongoing processes. At the same time, the moon, the only natural satellite of the earth, will gradually begin to move away from us. The reason for this is the same laws of gravity. The fact that the moon is slowly moving away from us has already been noticed by astronomers. We are gradually losing it. Since its effect on the earth is extremely significant (tides, tides, and many others), the decrease in its influence due to its distance will lead to a number of natural disasters. Changing the orbit of the earth and its gradual approach to the sun should cause an increase in the average daily temperature and climate change. This is happening now. A phenomenon that is considered in the scientific world to be the “greenhouse effect”.
Several thousand tons of chlorofluorocarbon compounds are produced and used annually in the world. Getting into the atmosphere, they are able to remain there for 60 - 80 years, migrating over the planet. It is known that one molecule of chlorine oxide destroys a thousand molecules of ozone. "ozone holes" are formed. The ozone layer, like a blanket, protects our planet from the scorching sun, dangerous ultraviolet rays and solar radiation. The destruction of the ozone layer will also lead to an increase in the scorching solar effect.
The Bible says: “And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars, and on the earth there will be despondency of the nations and perplexity; and the sea will roar and rage. People will die of fear and expectation of disasters coming to the universe, for the powers of heaven will be shaken. (Luke 21:25-26)
"Raise your eyes to the heavens, and look down upon the earth: for the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will decay like a garment, and its inhabitants will also die out." (Isaiah 51:6)
Year after year, revolution after revolution, our planet continues to change its orbit and approaches the sun. If we compare the solar system with a model of an atom, where at a certain distance from each other, around the nucleus, electrons rotate, then we can understand how the speed of the earth's movement has decreased. Electrons that are closer to the nucleus rotate more slowly than those that are farther from the nucleus. The closer the planet is to the sun, the slower it will revolve around it, slowed down by the more powerful gravitational field of the sun. As the speed decreases, time will speed up. It will just go faster. This does not mean that the day will become 23 or 22 hours. No. The smaller trajectory of the orbit is compensated by the lower speed of rotation along this orbit. There are 24 hours left in the day, but these are not the 24 hours that were before.
In each individual frame of reference, time flows differently, but it flows the same for an observer in this frame. If 14.1 years have passed on the spacecraft, and 1000.1 years on earth, then the astronauts lived their 14 years quite normally, just like earthlings, they lived their 1000 years quite normally. Being in different independent reference systems, they did not feel any difference in the run-up. Everyone lived their own time, the same seconds, days, weeks, etc. They lived according to the same standard of time - a measurement, which is used as a constantly uniform process, for example: the swing of a pendulum, the movement of an arrow along a dial, etc. d.
The question arises: How, then, in general, could one see and realize temporal acceleration?
First: The change happened very quickly, in a short period of time - one human life. If it stretched out for 300 - 400 years, no one would have noticed anything.
Secondly: The change took place within the same frame of reference - this is our planet.
Third: Change is still happening. Time continues to accelerate, and this acceleration is within the perception zone of our biological clock, which is forced to constantly adapt to the constantly changing mode of transience. The speed of the planet is not a constant value now, it continues to decrease. This year will go by faster than last, and next year will go by faster than this one.
Any system tries to return to its normal state, that is, to balance, but the earth continues to reduce speed, increasing temporal acceleration. If the speed of the planet ceases to decrease and becomes a constant value, the earth will occupy a certain orbit and the acceleration will stop. Time will pass in its usual, normal mode. In other words, the uniformity of the course of time depends on the constancy of the speed. From this dependence it follows that time can not only be accelerated, but also slowed down if the speed is constantly increasing.
There is a speed limit at which time ceases to exist altogether. The limit at which time is zero. If we assume that even it can be stepped over, then we find ourselves where time has gone negative, i.e., in the past. But in this case, the speed should be equal to plus or minus infinity, that is, it should be so super huge that it will be much less than zero. A speed that is so far ahead of time that it begins to catch up with it. At such speeds, no matter is able to exist.
According to calculations, when moving at the speed of light, the length of an object is so compressed that it becomes zero. No material body can move with such speed. The speed of light is the speed limit for any material body.
Any matter consists of molecules, molecules consist of atoms, atoms consist of nuclei and electrons, and as a result, all this division comes to the point that everything consists simply of positive and negative charges and even less, or rather, from nothing, from emptiness. However, all this emptiness, or vacuum, is nothing but energy. The vacuum energy contained inside a simple light bulb is enough to completely destroy the earth. It is known from physics that the particles that make up any physical body move inside this body at speeds close to the speed of light. When we take any thing in our hand, we do not even think about what kind of movement occurs in it and how much energy it contains.
The speed of light is the limit at which matter ceases to exist, turning into energy. When moving at the speed of light, any matter turns into light. The sun is a huge reactor on which explosions of the greatest power occur. Sunlight is the mass of the sun ejected into space at a speed of 300,000 km/sec. Light is a stream of tiny charged energy quanta called photons. The elementary particles that make up any matter are constantly moving inside its closed system at very high speeds close to the speed of light, but never reaching it. If some material body begins to move in space faster than the speed of the particles of which it consists, the system will “open” and the body will “crumble” down to photons. When the speed of movement of a physical body exceeds the speed of movement of its own particles, the closed system of this body breaks. This means that no matter can move faster than the speed of the particles of its constituents. Everything that starts moving at the speed of light turns into light.
Photons are the only particles that always move in space at the speed of light and do not have a rest mass. There are no resting photons. The resulting photons can exist forever until they are assimilated by matter, that is, transformed into material particles.
If two particles with opposite charges and equal masses, such as an electron and a positron, collide, they will both disappear in a bright flash of light. It is also known that light can turn into a particle: a photon can turn into an electron pair of an electron and a positron. When an atom passes from one stationary state to another, one photon is emitted or absorbed, that is, light is emitted or absorbed.
In fact, it turns out that any matter is created from light, representing its lower energy level. Gold and iron are made of this light, as well as the bread that we eat. Everything is made of light. Energy constantly forms matter, and matter, being annihilated, gives rise to energy. This cycle in the universe is constant. God created everything with His word: "He spoke and it was." In the scientific world, statements have already been made that matter is actually some kind of oscillatory waves similar to sound waves. By the way, according to the spectrum of light scattering, one can also judge the sounds that come from matter. After all, they make oscillatory movements that give rise to acoustic waves. But these same movements cause the play of reflected light. Therefore, the spectra of sound and light are fully consistent with each other.
The energy reserves are unimaginable. From Albert Einstein's theory of relativity it follows that every kind of energy has mass, and that every matter, having mass, is also energy. Expressing the ratio of mass and energy by the formula E=mc2, where the energy is equal to the mass times the speed of light squared, we get that 1 gram of matter contains 25,000,000 kilowatt-hours of energy.
Matter is like a repository of energy that is stored there until a certain time, so that it can be extracted again, creating everything new and new. But since the energy of photons always significantly exceeds the energy of the molecules of the substance from which they were formed, such cycles constantly increase the reserves of matter in the Universe. This means that if you split, for example, an ingot of gold, turning it into light, and then again create an ingot from this light, you will get not one ingot, but many more. This is very reminiscent of the principle of sowing and reaping discovered by Christ. What is sown will not bear fruit if it does not die, if it does not cease to exist. We won't get more if we don't sacrifice less. Speaking in parables, Christ revealed many secrets of the universe. He said to his disciples: "It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, and to the rest in parables." (Luke 8:10) God is the Creator. This is his essence. He didn't just create and stop once. No. He continues to create always and unceasingly. Astronomers have already established that the universe is constantly expanding.
Returning to temporal acceleration, it can be noted that since time depends on speed and any material body already at the speed of light turns into light, that is, it is practically destroyed, only beings consisting of light itself can step over all these limits and exist where there is no time . It is noteworthy that the Bible describes angels as beings made of light.
If our planet stopped and stopped all movement altogether, then there would be the most fleeting time on earth than anywhere else in the universe, but we would not realize this. Of course, this will not happen, but time will go faster and faster. This may be a second, deeper understanding of the meaning of the words of Jesus Christ. Foretelling the events of the future, He said: “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, and will not be. And if those days had not been shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.” (Matt. 24:21-22) And the days will become shorter, and they will pass faster. The temporal acceleration that has begun is a signal that everything has already begun. The great time of tribulation that awaits the earth is at hand.
Among all the civilizations of the Universe, created by the God of creations, only one Earth has fallen and lives in sin. The first earthly civilization was destroyed for its sins by water, by a worldwide flood. “For the Lord saw that the corruption of people on the earth was great, and that all the thoughts and thoughts of their hearts were evil at all times.” (Gen. 6:5) Our civilization will be destroyed by fire. But before that, so many disasters will fall on the earth and such a time of sorrow will come, which the earth has not yet known from its very creation. “But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened,” says Christ.
The simplest example of space-time relativity is the picture of the starry sky. Looking at Jupiter, we see what happened 40 minutes ago. If you look at the nearest star to us, Alpha Centauri, you will see what happened 4.3 years ago. The light from the star Sirius reaches us in 8.8 years, the light of Capella from the constellation Auriga takes 46 years, Canopus - almost 200. In the constellation Orion there is the star Rigel, its light reaches us only after 800 years. If you point the telescope at a small patch of fog a little higher than the average Andromeda star, then this means that we see the light of a new star system in another galaxy. More precisely, what happened there 2.2 million years ago. Right now you see not the present, but the past, in its various temporal distances. The picture of the present is created from the pictures of the past.
According to the theory of relativity, we are all in a curved four-dimensional space-time. Where time is the fourth dimension of reality. Any movement is now recognized as a displacement in time and space. The four-dimensional space of our universe is curved. Each point of this space is both the beginning and the end. Leaving any point in space and going around the Universe, you can freely return to the same point. But since space is four-dimensional and the fourth dimension is time, then, after leaving a certain time point and going around time, you can return to the same time point from which you left. If we could move along the fourth dimension, then the walls would not be an obstacle for us. We could leave and enter enclosed spaces without going through doors and windows. The Bible says: “In the evening, when the doors of the house where His disciples were gathering were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them: Peace be with you! They, embarrassed and frightened, thought they saw a spirit. (John 20:19; Luke 24:37)
In 1943, at the height of the Second World War, A. Einstein participated in the experiment of the US Navy - Navy to create an undetectable ship. Using the strongest force field, scientists wanted to create a ship invisible to enemy radars. The destroyer Eldridge was specially equipped for the experiments. As a result, the ship became truly invisible, but then everything took an unpredictable turn, the destroyer disappeared. There was a movement of the vessel in time and space. All this led to a number of very strange events, both with the ship and with the crew on it. Subsequently, this experiment was called the Philadelphia experiment. At that time, Einstein was working on the unified field theory. This was to be another breakthrough in physics.
Everything that was achieved was used primarily for military purposes. Probably, this was the reason why, shortly before his death, Einstein destroyed his latest scientific works, writing in his diary that humanity is not ready to possess such knowledge and uses everything for evil.
Back in the mid-1930s, two Russian physicists proposed a theory in which time was considered as matter or energy. It turned out that time can both be absorbed and released by matter. Both scientists were repressed, and one was shot. The second physicist N. A. Kozyrev survived, while still in the camp, he continued to work on his theory. It is noteworthy that in the 1990s, a group of physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences signed this discovery, officially recognizing it as valid and confirming this with a series of experiments. Now we can say that the possibility of the existence of special zones on earth, with a changed course of time, is quite real.
God said: "Call to Me and I will answer you, show you great and inaccessible things that you do not know." (Jer. 33:3)
God is ready to reveal to us much more than we care to know. The Lord, who has no change and no shadow of change, is the complete possessor of time and space. Time is in his hands like clay, with which he is able to do whatever He pleases. The Creator is Incomprehensible, Unchangeable, Boundless, Infinite, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Eternal… One of His names is Existing, which means existing always now. Just as any point in space is always “here” for God, so every moment of time is always “now” for Him.
Meister Eckhardt, who had a visionary encounter with God, wrote: “The exclusivity of the Lord lies in the fact that God is exalted beyond space and time. He lives in the continuous "now" and in the "eternal now", where the past, present and future are merged into one. For God, everything is at once. When we mortals talk about the past present or the future, it is because we are subject to time and think in terms of time associated with it. But for the Lord there is no time. This means that God will hear my tomorrow's prayers not tomorrow, just like my yesterday's prayers, he did not hear yesterday. No. He hears all my prayers right now, both yesterday and tomorrow.”
“And it shall come to pass, before they call, I will answer; they will speak yet, and I will hear.” (Isaiah 65:24)
On the Antichrist and the Acceleration of Time
Father, good afternoon!
I wanted to ask about one of the topical topics of the Orthodox part of the Internet - the Antichrist. Now, I noticed that time began to go much faster, which means that the end of the world is near. Misunderstood Americans think that the Lord, at the end of the world, will appear to destroy us, but this is not so. He only wants to save us from Satan, who will soon break free and get out of hell. So now I noticed one strange thing:
I used to do A LOT of homework last year, we were given so many assignments and had time to do everything before 7 pm, but now they don't do enough, I come home at half past three and do my homework, do it quickly, then turn around ... Oops! 6 o'clock already! This is exactly the time has become much faster to go! I wanted to ask about this - but by whose will time is speeding up or is it the way it is? I just read somewhere that time was invented by Satan, in revenge on God, who invented eternity.
If the Antichrist comes, then the era of slavery will come for 3.5 years? And they say that he will force everyone to accept his mark. If there is a refusal, then - exile. I swore to God that if there was an Antichrist in my lifetime, then I would refuse his sign for anything. Although this may be a bluff, I feel with all my heart that I can refuse the temptation sign. I would rather die in a waterless wilderness for the glory of God than enjoy the false pleasures of Satan. Am I on the right track?
Time will be shortened in the last times by the will of God, and the Lord created it. Yes, when the Antichrist comes, after the first half of his reign there will be slavery for those who accept his seal. Yes, you are on the right track, and to correctly understand the end times, read the Apocalypse. Save the Lord!
When a person is still in childhood, it seems to him that the summer holidays last for an eternity, and the length of time between one celebration of the New Year and another simply resembles infinity. However, as we get older, weeks, if not months, and even entire seasons begin to seem to disappear from the calendar at breakneck speed. How does it happen? Is perception changing - or is life really getting faster?
Answer to a mysterious question
Almost all people note that time really starts to move faster with age. But the point is not that adult life is filled with many responsible tasks and problems. Studies have shown that the matter is in the psychological perception of time, which is presented differently by older people. 
That is why it seems that life is becoming more and more stressful and fast. There are several different theories trying to explain why the perception of time changes with age. 
First theory
According to one opinion, time begins to move faster with age due to a gradual change in the internal biological clock. When a person ages, his metabolism gradually slows down, and with it, the heart rate decreases, and breathing slows down. The child has a completely different biological clock that moves faster. They experience more of the biological time markers—breaths, heartbeats—in the same amount of time, which makes them experience the period as longer. 
Second theory
There is another opinion. According to this theory, the speed with which we perceive a piece of time is related to how much new information we receive. When the brain receives a large number of new stimuli, it takes longer to process the information, and as a result, the days seem to get longer. In addition, this theory is quite consistent with situations before the disaster, when people describe that time seemed to move in slow motion. Frightening and unusual circumstances gave the brain so much information that time simply stopped. 
Experimental confirmation of the theory
The second theory can be supported by the fact that when faced with an unusual situation, the brain is forced to record more extensive and detailed information. As a result, in our memories, what is happening seems to be longer than it really was. This theory was confirmed experimentally. The subjects experienced a sensation of free fall, as a result of which their perception of time really changed - this is the reaction of the body to unusual conditions for it. But what does this explanation have to do with the fact that we see time differently as we get older? 
Development of the assumption
The fact is that as we age, we learn more about our environment. It becomes completely familiar, and attention is no longer concentrated on every detail of the home environment or workplace. For a child, the world is a platform full of new impressions and new experiences. As a result, he has to spend more mental energy in order to process impressions from the world around him. 
According to this theory, childhood impressions slow down time, while the routine of adult life, on the contrary, makes it more fleeting. The more we get used to the peculiarities of our daily life, the faster it passes. In addition, this theory is supported by biochemical mechanisms. There is an assumption that the level of dopamine helps us determine the length of time. After the age of twenty, the amount of dopamine in the body gradually decreases, as a result of which time begins to move faster and faster. However, this does not explain why time is actually speeding up - in a mathematical sense. The decrease in the duration of a fixed period of time with age can be explained logarithmically. The logarithmic measurement is also used for measuring earthquakes - a larger scale is required than a linear one. This is true for time as well. 
Logarithmic approach
Logarithmic measurements give rise to the idea that the perception of a span of time is related to how much time has already been lived before that span. As a result, it turns out that for a two-year-old child, a year is half of the life lived. No wonder this period of time seems so long. Therefore, in childhood, each birthday has to wait for months. However, already in ten years, a year is only ten percent of life. For a twenty year old, five percent. To feel the same time that a two-year-old lives in a year, a twenty-year-old must wait a decade. If you use this approach, it no longer seems surprising that time accelerates with age. 
Most adults think of their lives in terms of decades, which means treating the same amount of time equally. However, with a logarithmic approach, each period of time is perceived differently. According to this theory, the time from five to ten is equal to the time from ten to twenty, from twenty to forty, from forty to eighty. It sounds pretty depressing if you think about it - five years of childhood equals forty years of adulthood! In short, learn to value your time. It's moving faster and faster every day, even if you don't believe in the theories that explain it.
So for example, waiting a whole year for your next birthday at 10 years seems just incredibly long! But at 45 you don’t think so, “So the year has passed,” we say, “summer is coming soon ...” we remember after the New Year holidays.
In addition, with age, lived years seem so fleeting. And we think, “Oh…I could do more.”
But, it is worth noting that age is not the only reason for the transience of time.
- Unknown.
There is no area in our brain that controls time. Therefore, everything is subjective, depending on the level of development of memory and attention. When we come across something new, something that takes more time to learn, we feel like we're wasting a lot of time. That's why the road to a new place seems to be much longer than the road back.
When we are engaged in the usual thing, time flies quickly, and when we master something new, it slows down.
“I remember how at a new job, I had to master new duties as quickly as possible. There was so much information that I simply did not have time to consciously fulfill my duties: I did something according to a piece of paper, I constantly asked something again. The first month seemed to last forever: very slow, monotonous and exhausting. I constantly looked at the clock and waited for the end of the working day.
Today I do my job automatically and when there are a lot of clients, I don’t even notice how the day flies!”
Olga, 28 years old
- Emotions.
If you like to do something, for example, at your favorite job, you are happy to build a career, then time will fly fast for you. And if you go to the office and feel that you are not doing what you love, every day you experience longing when you come to work, then naturally time will drag on forever.
"I don't watch happy hours," Griboyedov said. Partly it is. Scientists have proven that people who are passionate about pleasant chores, spending time with pleasant people do not notice how time flies. And vice versa: those who are exhausted, waiting for the end of the working day or their turn in the hall, suffer. This also applies to those who are grieving the loss of loved ones. And in their attitude, time slows down or even stops.
- Well-being.
Our well-being also affects the perception of time. When we get sick, time slows down. And when we recover, the time spent in illness seems fleeting.
- Cultural features and technological process.
We live in an era when much more events happen to us in 1 year than to people some 100 years ago.
The urban rhythm of life speeds up our sense of time. But we are all the same when we sit down to scroll through the news feed on social networks or turn on our favorite TV series. We just don't notice how time flies. And sometimes, 15 minutes feel and 1.5 hours in reality pass by.
What to do?!
If time flies slowly for you in all areas of life, then load your brain with something: remember what you liked to do before, maybe a hobby from the past will help you.
Probably, many have noticed that in recent years something wrong has been going on with the passage of time. Days and months are flying fast, overtaking our capabilities, and we have less and less time to do. It would seem that the day has just begun, and lo and behold, it is already ending!
No sooner had we "driven" into the third millennium than twelve years had already run by without us even noticing. The former explanation of this phenomenon, that, they say, the older a person becomes, the faster his life flies, is no longer relevant. Nowadays, the rapid passage of time is noticed not only by aged people, but even by teenagers and young men! So what does happen over time?
The days got shorter
In a private conversation, one priest, known for his special gift to see the invisible, told impressive information; time is running out! Compared to what it was a hundred or more years ago, the current day has become shorter. According to the real, and not the calendar duration, if we take the old time that has not changed over the centuries as a standard, the modern day lasts only 18 hours against the previous 24. It turns out that every day we lose about 6 hours, and that is why we always do not have enough time, days fly at high speed. The shortening of the day was especially noticeable at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.
One can doubt the foresight of the priest and the objectivity of his conclusions. But it turns out that there are other facts that point to a reduction in time.
On sacred Athos, the monks even spend their nights in prayer. Moreover, the Athonite elders have long developed a special prayer rule: in a certain period of time they must read so many prayers, and so every day, strictly by the hour. Previously, the monks had time to complete this "program" overnight, and before the early morning service they even had a little time to rest. And now, with the same number of prayers, the elders no longer have enough night to finish them!
No less amazing discovery was made by Jerusalem monks serving in the Holy Land. It turns out that for several years the lamps at the Holy Sepulcher have been burning longer than before. Previously, oil was added to large lamps at the same time, on the eve of Easter. It burned out completely within a year. But now, for the umpteenth time, before the main Christian holiday, there is still a lot of oil left. It turns out that time is ahead of even the physical laws of combustion!
The reduction of the day also affected labor productivity. In the old days, using the simplest tools, people managed to do much more than we can now. Archpriest Valentin Biryukov recalls that in the 1930s, his father, returning from exile to his family, with a minimum of helpers, managed to build a new good hut in just a week. And in the memoirs of Boris Shiryaev about the Solovetsky camp there is an episode of how 50 prisoners, of which almost half were "goal", built and put into operation a hefty bathhouse in just 22 hours! The builders were armed only with hand saws and axes. Now, even with modern electric tools, we will not be able to keep up with the hard workers of the past! And not only because they have become lazier and weaker, but also because there is not enough time.
end times
Some Orthodox people tend to believe that metamorphoses over time are a clear indication that we are entering the Last Times and there are only a few years or decades left until the end of the world. No one can speak about this with certainty, but there is a hint in the Gospel: "... For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues and earthquakes in places ... then there will be great tribulation, which was not from the beginning of the world until now, nor shall it be. And if those days had not been shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened" (Matthew 24:7-22).
Some holy fathers speak about the shortening of the day before the end of the world, for example, Saint Nil the Myrrh-streaming: "The day will rotate like an hour, a week, like a day, a month, like a week and a year, like a month ..."
The problem of the inconsistency of time was comprehended at the intersection of philosophy and theology by the great Russian thinker Alexei Fedorovich Losev. “Considering time in its essence, as it is given to us in living experience, we state a certain fundamental instability characteristic of the essence of time. It is ... heterogeneous, compressible, expandable, completely relative and conditional ... Since 1914, time somehow condensed and began to flow faster. Apocalyptic expectations are explained precisely by the condensation of time ... "
Slow down life
Comprehending the problem of time reduction, one involuntarily turns to the science fiction of Herbert Wells. To one degree or another, many of his predictions came true - for example, about the artificial production of diamonds and the creation of bathyscaphes for exploring the ocean depths. Recall Wells' story "The Newest Accelerator".
Professor Gibbern invented a miraculous elixir with which you can change the time for a particular person. In a drunken drug, all processes in the body are accelerated hundreds of times, and he manages to do as much in a second as he would not have done in ordinary life in a few minutes. At the same time, the world around seems frozen, and even bees move at a snail's pace.
It is clear that this is a fairy tale, but a fairy tale is a lie, but in it ...
In the case of our real time, we have in some way the opposite effect. For some mysterious reason, life processes in the world could slow down. We breathe more slowly, the heart beats less frequently, cells regenerate longer. Thanks to the slow work of the body, for every minute of time we manage to do about 25 percent less than the representatives of previous generations managed to do. Accordingly, the worldview has changed, and time in our perception has accelerated its run and flies a quarter faster.
But this is just a version, which, by the way, does not explain the example of the lamps at the tomb of the Lord. It is more likely that time itself, despite its apparent constancy, can "shrink". What do scientists think about this?
The earth has grown old
Interesting explanations of the variability of time were given by the famous physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, now deceased Viktor Iozefovich Veinik.
Academician Veinik put forward a scientific hypothesis that time, as a physical phenomenon, has a material carrier - a kind of time substance, which he called the "chronal field". In the course of the scientist's experiments, an electronic wrist watch placed in the experimental setup he created could slow down or speed up. Based on his experiments with the substance of time, Veinik concluded that there is a time field of the planet - the "chronosphere", which controls the transition of the past into the future.
The scientist considered the speed of some processes (he called it the term "chronal") and came to the conclusion that in the world the intensity of these processes is decreasing - for example, the intensity of radioactive decay of atoms, nuclear and chemical reactions.
Of all living beings, the highest speed of the body is observed in newborns. All their processes are fast - kids grow fast, quickly gain weight, quickly learn to understand the world ... And the life around them, accordingly, seems very slow to them. If a child is only two days old, then for him one day is half his life! And with age, the speed decreases many times. This also affects our perception of time - the lower the intensity of the processes, the faster time flies. For an elderly person, the weeks begin to flicker as quickly as the days in his youth.
But that is not all. It turns out that not only specific people are aging. Gradually, the whole society and civilization as a whole "dilapidates"! On our planet, the speed of life processes is steadily decreasing, which is why the running of time is accelerating for everything that exists on Earth.
In ancient times, at a high speed of processes, life on the planet literally boiled - dinosaurs were from a three-story house, grass - like today's trees, and the process of radioactive decay of an atom was incredibly intense. The first people were also distinguished by gigantism, confirmation of this can be found in the Bible: “At that time there were giants on the earth ... these are strong, glorious people of old” (Genesis 6:4).
Over time, the “violence” of life weakened more and more, representatives of the plant and animal world decreased in size, the world began to age. Now the intensity of all processes has decreased thousands of times, and today we can even feel the slowdown of time, which is happening literally before our eyes.
By the way, even now on Earth there are still places with a slightly increased chronal, for example, Sakhalin Island. The burdocks there are like hefty umbrellas, and the grass is the size of a bush. French scientists tried to plant these giants on their own land, but failed. A year later, the transplanted giants became ordinary, low and unremarkable plants. And one inquisitive scientist traveled from Moscow to Vladivostok with a radioactive clock and found that the rate of decay of atoms, which is reflected in the course of the clock, is not the same in different places.
Time Compression
Representatives of the occult trend in alternative science - eniology, which studies the laws of energy-informational interaction in nature, society and the Universe, are also showing keen interest in the problem of time compression. Curiously, in this area their conclusions echo the End Times prophecies mentioned above.
According to Doctor of Medicine Yuri Lir, real time in the Universe has noticeably accelerated (and we, accordingly, do not keep up with it). This process began back in the middle of the 20th century, when the solar system entered an incredibly powerful stream coming from the center of our galaxy and carrying a huge amount of energy and information in a variety of variations. This affected the psyche of each person and people's perception of the world around them.
There are many theories about the change in the course of time, says Lear. - I consider the most convincing opinion of the Soviet scientist, Professor Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, who proved by experience that time is the energy in which the Universe resides. And this energy can change the flow density. According to Kozyrev's theory, if the rotation speed of the solar system changes, time automatically changes as well. Where there is more energy, time "reduces", compresses.
Alas, we do not feel like the inhabitants of the planet and treat our common home Earth worse than ever! Lear continues. - The consciousness of a modern person is artificially narrowed and tied to a specific point of residence. He does not feel what is happening to the planet. Hence the lack of responsibility for everything that he does at a particular time. Sad as it may be to admit, but catastrophic phenomena like tsunamis and typhoons are the result of people's attitude towards each other, a terrible price to pay for the unreasonableness of human behavior. Why did the terrible tsunami hit Indonesia and Thailand specifically? I believe that the main cesspool of humanity is located there today. Everything that rich perverts can afford - everything is there. On a gigantic scale and cheaply. That is, it is modern Sodom and Gomorrah. Hence the result. And now it's the turn of the United States to pay for the decline in spirituality, pride, arrogance and the desire to rule the world ...
But despite water disasters, the main danger for today's humanity lies not in water, but in fire.
- There is an increasing amount of energy coming to the Earth, - Yuri Lir is sure. - Nowadays, the Sun has increased all types of radiation so much that many of them have ceased to succumb to the usual instrumental study! The spectrum of solar radiation confidently moves from yellow to white, that is, the luminary is heating up. This is the same fire that the Savior and the apostles speak of in the New Testament. If we combine this with the prophecies in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, with the calendar of the ancient Egyptians and the secret, sacred calendar for the Mayakiche Indian book "Popol Vuh" (this is the Maya Indians' bible), it will become clear: very soon we will have a transition to a new state, to a different time. . For us today, this means one thing: following the calls of the ancient prophets, you need to behave like a human, not like a beast. Those who do not fit into the system of moral values have no place in the future! Mankind that does not want to obey the laws of the One Whose offspring it is is doomed...
And yet, in no case should you fall into despair and give up, foreseeing the near end of the world! Firstly, the end of everything that exists on Earth is in the hands of God, and "about that day and hour" no one knows except the Creator Himself. And secondly, there is no need to think about the fate of the entire planet - let's think better about ourselves, about our life and our destiny on Earth. After all, only you and no one else will have to be responsible for how you lived your life, long or short.
