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be unsuccessful in locating it. But that is immaterial as one time in future will enable us to locate the existence if in the present one has that the of knowledge.
What then is the past or Mure (or for that matter what present is)?
These are components of infinite time - one is the front and the other reverse (as seen from one end - may be reversed if seen from the other end as present is the future of past) and in between the two faces the present - finite present is there. Past and future in one sense to not exist at all. Only the present does.
What then the time is ? Time is an Eml.
I feel no word exists as Eml in science vocabulary and I have used it in that way to denoie and describe what in one word I would not have been able to do.
Eml is a matter or characteristics or subject or existence or shape or anything like that consisting of one or more of these.
The Emi is not necessarily a visible entity. It may be invisible . not subject to any of the senses.
But the Eml is necessarily amenable to knowledge.
Take a person's knowledge for instance - it exists but one cannot see it not even in his brain - even then it is there. All the parts of brain are exactly the same just one second after a person's death but it does not work - why? Only because the knowledge is not brain nor any of its parts - neurons etc. It is something different which makes the difference of one second most vital. The knowledge has left the body, so it won't work any more. It existed but one could not see it - Yes one has always known it. Knowledge knows. But knowledge is not Eml.
Similarly Eml exists - one may not see it but one can know it. The knowledge of Eml is always possible. But knowledge does not necessarily includes seeing. If one can see then in theoretical situation one can interfere with it. Since we cannot see time we cannot interfere with it or since we cannot interfere with time we cannot see it. We can know a happening if our speed is more than the speed of time which is not equivalant to speed of light but more. Time is not relevant to light, but light can be adjudged in terms of speed only with regard to time.
This takes care of the prevention of one's own birth. I can know my
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