The Present

The present is a very abstract concept. It's defined as the moment in time we're in right now, not the past nor the future. But does it really exist?

No. We're never actually in the present, we're constantly leaving the past and entering the future. The present is such a fleeting moment that as soon as we say we're in it, it's become the past. What does this mean for us as a species. We constatntly hear phrases like ''be in the present'', ''don't live in the past'', ''be here now, stop dreaming about the future'' But then, what is that now?

We percieve the present in a linear way. Time is constantly moving forwards and though we can't feel time, it dominates our lives and its effects can be observed. We've created different measurements to understand time like years, decades, seconds, minutes, nanoseconds... But time is relative. The weird thing about it is that if we were living on another planet with a greater gravitational pull be it because it has a massive star or maybe because a black hole is nearby, because of gravitational time dilation, time on that planet would work in a drastically different way to that of Earth's but if we were living on the first planet we mentioned, time there would be affecting us like always, 2 years would still be to years but those 2 years on the first planet could correspond to 20 years on Earth. Time is relative to each person, in a sense, time is relative to space.

This theory was postulated in Einstein's paper of special relaitvity published in 1915 in which he also predicted black holes and gravitational waves.

Time is an undefinable concept that is all around us, it's intangible, it's relative to each person and it can`t exist without space. Time can be bserved by it's affects on matter, with time bodies turn to dust, mountains turn to sand, even black holes will eventually die out due to Hawking Radiation and, above all, time. Therefore, we can conclude that space and time are inextricabelly linked, one cannot exist without the other because without space there is nithing for time to affect and without time nothing decays or dies but if there is 'something' it will eventually die, only 'nothing' is immortal.

Now this makes me wonder, what if I were floating in ''nothing''. Would time still affect me or would this hypothetical void I'm floating in not actually exist. For me to be floating anywhere, even if it's a big black void and there is no visible light, I can't even see myself i'd still have to be somewhere because it is impossible for something to exist in nothing.

This means that everything exists and nothing is nothing and conseqently everything is something. We can't measure or see nothingness thus this concept doesn't exist, it is in its self, nothing.