Chapter 188 - Profound Meaning Of Time

Aryan and Nagarin were on their way to the sage palace when they got suddenly transported inside the palace. The transfer was so sudden and uncalled that even Nagarin was not aware of it.

Aryan was transported to the garden of the palace, whereas Nagarin was transported before the sage emperor.

Upon seeing the graceful authority before her she bowed down and paid her respect to the emperor. 

"Mhm… Why do you have to attack someone on an escort mission. And to attack that person out of all people!! Sigh~~~ I don't know how to handle that situation."

Meanwhile, on the other end of the sage palace, Aryan was wandering here and there in the garden and making a close observation on the variety of flowers.

Amidst of those beautiful flowers Aryan spotted a reddish-blue flower among them and went near it in amazement. It was his first time seeing something like that, not in the sage world nor in his old world he had seen something like that.

"A true beauty!!" complemented Aryan and went near the flower to pluck it and sniff it from near.

Though he was acting perfectly normal, and nothing seemed wrong at that time he was already in the control of that flower. The moment he touched it thud!!

He felt down and got his soul sucked into the flower. 

Blue sky, green grass. Not a single life was present at that place.

Aryan had his eyes opened from some time already, and he could see was the sky and grass. All alone in the middle of nowhere, a text appeared before him.

"O' the one who have come here for the test. 

Do tell the answer to my question.

If thou fail, thou will have to listen the answer."

Aryan "…"

Not a single thing went inside his head when the first question as written in the text appeared before him.

"Do tell the profound meaning of harmony~" 

"Ah, the balance of nature~" Answered Aryan. He was not sure about the exact answer but he somehow came up with this answer after remembering his experience of using the powers of sage of Harmony.

"The answer given is close to the profound meaning, thus you will get a gem for it." Something like this was written in mid-air. This time no voice nor any reverberation was there to trouble Aryan in his mind.

While contemplating about his current position, the second question got materialized in the air.

"Do tell the profound meaning of time~" 

Hearing the question Aryan felt a pinch this time. He knew time meaning duration, but explaining its profound meaning was a little hard for him. 

After pondering over it for some minutes Aryan raised his head and replied that he didn't know about its meaning.

This time too no sound echoed nor reverberated and instead a large chunk of texts appeared before him.

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Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience. Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.

The operational definition of time does not address what the fundamental nature of it is. It does not address why events can happen forward and backwards in space, whereas events only happen in the forward progress of time. Investigations into the relationship between space and time led physicists to define the spacetime continuum. General Relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through advances in both theoretical and magical investigations of space-time, it has been shown that time can be distorted and dilated, particularly at the edges of black holes.

Two contrasting viewpoints on time divide prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe – a dimension independent of events, in which events occur in sequence. The sages subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as the pseudo-profound meaning of time. 

The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, by some other researchers holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.

Furthermore, it may be that there is a subjective component to time, but whether or not time itself is "felt", as a sensation, or is a judgment, is a matter of debate.

In Philosophy, time was questioned throughout the centuries; what time is and if it is real or not. Sage world philosophers asked if time was linear or cyclical and if time was endless or finite. These philosophers had different ways of explaining time; for instance, ancient time's rune philosophers had something called the Wheel of Time. 

It is believed that there was repeating ages over the lifespan of the universe. This led to beliefs like cycles of rebirth and reincarnation.

The Yang emperor philosophers believe that the universe was infinite, and was an illusion to humans. Yang emperor himself believed that time was made by the Creator at the same instant as the heavens. He also says that time is a period of motion of the heavenly bodies.

Another researcher working under the last Yang emperor believed that time correlated to movement, that time did not exist on its own but was relative to motion of objects. He also believed that time was related to the motion of celestial bodies; the reason that humans can tell time was because of orbital periods and therefore there was a duration on time.

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After reading out the text Aryan somewhat understood time is time and nothing else. In short he couldn't understand a single word and skipped directly to the end.

While he was reading the profoundness of time, one thing came to his mind and that was about the profound meaning of time travel. Somehow the texts reacted to his wish and began to materialise another paragraph based on time travel.

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Time travel is the concept of moving backwards or forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space, and different from the normal "flow" of time to an earthbound observer. In this view, all points in time (including future times) "persist" in some way. Time travel has been a plot device in fiction since centuries. Travelling backwards in time has never been verified, presents many theoretical problems, and may be an impossibility. Any technological or magical device, whether fictional or hypothetical, that is used to achieve time travel is known as a time machine.

A central problem with time travel to the past is the violation of causality; should an effect precede its cause, it would give rise to the possibility of a temporal paradox. Some interpretations of time travel resolve this by accepting the possibility of travel between branch points, parallel realities, or universes.

Another solution to the problem of causality-based temporal paradoxes is that such paradoxes cannot arise simply because they have not arisen. As illustrated in numerous works of fiction, free will either ceases to exist in the past or the outcomes of such decisions are predetermined. As such, it would not be possible to enact the grandfather paradox because it is a historical fact that one's grandfather was not killed before his child (one's parent) was conceived. This view does not simply hold that history is an unchangeable constant, but that any change made by a hypothetical future time traveller would already have happened in his or her past, resulting in the reality that the traveller moves from. More elaboration on this view can be found in the Sage of time's self-consistency principle.

Some theories, most notably special and general relativity, suggest that suitable geometries of space-time or specific types of motion in space might allow time travel into the past and future if these geometries or motions were possible. In magical papers, mages and researchers discuss the possibility of closed timelike curves, which are world lines that form closed loops in space-time, allowing objects to return to their own past. There are known to be solutions to the equations of general relativity that describe space-times which contain closed timelike curves, such as Gödel spacetime, but the physical plausibility of these solutions is uncertain.

Many in the scientific universe believe that backward time travel is highly unlikely. Any theory that would allow time travel would introduce potential problems of causality. 

The absence of time travelers from the future is a variation of the Fermi paradox. As the absence of extraterrestrial visitors does not prove they do not exist, so the absence of time travelers fails to prove time travel is physically impossible; it might be that time travel is physically possible but is never developed or is cautiously used. Sage of time once suggested the possibility that time travelers could be here but are disguising their existence or are not recognized as time travelers. Some versions of general relativity suggest that time travel might only be possible in a region of spacetime that is warped a certain way, and hence time travelers would not be able to travel back to earlier regions in spacetime, before this region existed. 

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