By Jack Bowman mailto:dapoets@bright.net
The shape of time is depth. It is not important if it does not fit contemporary views of time. Our perceptions and the intellectual world needs done anew. We have been stuck in this one since the renaissance. It is time we saw the world totally differently.
SHAPE OF TIME AND THE UNIVERSAL PSYCHE
To influence time you just have to change your position. If you cannot change your position you can yell at another player/person and ask them to move to the left or right or forward or backward. Something like the Great Triangle Project. So you are changing the shape of time but your position remains the same. It is a perspective/foreshortening change. This in essence is a change in the universal psyche. This may apply to the Red Queen "Plato's Cave in Color" where I moved to the right and changed the afterimage.
13 June 2007
DEPTH is the shape of time. Rules would be foreshortening or overlapping. Movement (even if it is a flat cartoon) shows depth because the flat background does not move. Movement itself is not time (movement on a horizontal plane)
14 June 2007
Our position in Space and time defines our universe. This is shown by perspective. With time being depth this explains our universe.
19 June 2007
Could use depth drawings to show the shape of time. If you move in depth you have moved in time.
If you move horizontally your position has also changed but this is still a depth move in space, a radial movement. Perhaps all spherical depth, meaning also up and down. Which comes back to time is movement but its visual shape is the laws of perspective.
Time cannot exist without movement and things can only move through space. Therefore the shape of time is space.
20 June 2007
Does time exist for a blind man? It does but he cannot see its shape.
25 June 2007
I could make an animated gif that illustrates the movement through space and time (Shape of Time)
SHAPE OF TIME DEMO. Could make a model and photograph it with large still camera Or photograph it with the video camera.
1. Because of foreshortening a vertical will get taller as you get closer to it.
2. Sun rays appear parallel because of long distance from sun?
10 July 2007
SHAPE OF TIME AND PLATO'S CAVE. Plato's cave in color proves that 3 dimensional space exists. Since we know it exist then what is it? It is the Shape of time. We can move through it and space changes but so does time.
SHAPE OF TIME; Could make animated gif, 3 or 4 frames of movement in depth (could speed it up and show that we can also speed up time by manipulating its shape. Warping space-warping time. Could for documentation have a moving horizon line. Einstein "Space and time are inseparable"
25 July 2007
The shape of time is just eating me to work on but I have to do the task at hand first. So I wake up in the middle of the night and make notes and sketches. When I first get up in the morning I sometimes get visions of how it works. I make notes and sketches. Here is one of my sketches.
5 August 2007
I have to differentiate between the illusion of 3-D space on a 2-D surface and real 3-D space as indicated in Plato's Cave in Color. I realize that I added movement to Plato's Cave in Color.
When we study Plato's cave in color we notice that it does not work in flat represented space. The afterimages can only be cast in real space. This proves that there is a real space. It also shows that when we move within that space then the afterimages, therefore, the real space changes. Be aware that the shape of time is NOT dependent upon Plato's Cave in color. Its proof is dependent upon YOUR movement in space or the movement of another object.
We come here to the Aether. Lets assume that death results in or from the collapse of time. Yet the objects you moved within the depth or objects moving because you guided them still exist. The collapse of depth or time within you does not mean the collapse or death of depth or time in the universe. It does not even cause your removal from the universe. Because your previous action/movements within the depth continues their effect.
7 August 2007
Destruction of Time Video. Have large sun red just above the horizon line and zoom or dolly in quickly.
To make an Influencing time video by instructing the other person to move forward. Notes; If the instructions you give are verbal then there actually is movement of sound waves that are caused on your part. If they are written then there is also obviously movement. However, both audio recordings and written words can be projected into the future or to a space time out of your reach. Use paper rod at base of figure to move forward. I could change the title of Depth City to Time City since it is taking on the aspects of time even though it is using depth.
14 August 2007
In the late 1980's when I finally understood how computers worked I could see (visualize) the electrons moving through the computer chip and I could see them and how they did it, moving to the correct address, then executing that command and moving on to the next. Since I have discovered time as a shape I can now visualize it or see it. When I sit in the living room watching TV the image just flashes to me. It is (at this time, but hopefully not later) very frightening. I actually see the time without the objects. Since it is so scary I quickly distract myself from it. I could, and probably will, make an animated gif of what I see. I am sure that when I get over my fear this will be very exciting to explore.
3 October 2007
After some thought I realized that I was not seeing the "shape of time" or "time". I was seeing the AEther. So I will need to make a separate page for "Chuck" on How to See the AEther.
9 December 2007
I have worked on the Retro Punk X performance http://www.retropunkx.com/index.html for more than a year and it is time to let it rest. The Shape of Time and How to See the AEther were branches off this performance so I will also let it rest for awhile. Since there are so many interesting possibilities I should get back to it some day.