Week 1 - Just in the nick of time

I sit here on the eve before class, reflecting back nearly a week on the conversation that was had around the meaning of time.  Not a moment too soon, as time is running out before class will meet again and I will no longer have the time to write this blog.

What I have gathered is this.  Time exists in combination with space.  It seems to me that the meaning of time becomes variable based upon context.   It depends on the viewer in relation to space time, such as in the conversation where a clock that is approaching the event horizon will be seen by a viewer to slow down however to the clock itself time will continue in an unchanged fashion.  An individuals relationship with time is going to be informed by the culture that the person is living in.

A interesting relationship that I have with the meaning of time's value personally comes with catching a BART train.  There is a 15-25 min wait between train each train on a single destination line during most day parts.  What The moment that I find most interesting is the 1 minute that it can take miss getting on a train transmutes into 15 minutes or more minutes till the next train arrives.  The value of that one minute that is exponentially greater than the minutes that come before or after it in relationship to catching a BART train.