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This class has been the first class that I have ever analyzed time in. It has made me think differently than I typically would. I find it fascinating how time feels like it goes by very slowly at some times and very quickly at others. Yet, the time that we spend on earth is so small compared to the total time that earth has existed. In class we analyzed art which was created hundreds of years ago. To us, this seems like an extremely long time but in the history of earth this amount of time is extremely insignificant. Also when we are young we feel like we live a really long time but as we age we feel like our time on earth will never be enough. As time progresses our concept of it continually changes. The part from the reading assignment, What is time?, where it talks about how humans see time was very interesting. No other living creatures see time the same as humans do, although some animals display memory they cannot display any specific image from the past. There is also no evidence that animals have a sense of future, many actions that would indicate a sense of future are usually purely instinctive (Whitrow,3). It has been shown that even man before Homo sapiens had a sense of future by the way that they buried necessities along with the dead (4).

I would like to impose a question about the beginning of time. Has time always existed or does it only exist since humans think about it? If humans didn't exist would there still be time, since we are the only beings that consciously think about it? I would also like to ask, if time would exist regardless of human beings when did it start? Can something really exist forever? Doesn't there have to be a beginning to everything? Even before the earth was created there were other planets and things in space so where does time really start? Personally I have reached my maximum thinking capacity. It is extremely hard to try to think about where everything started because there is really no way we will ever find out where outer space came from and how it was made and when time started and if there was anything that existed before space. Or if anything could exist before space because if you don't have space then you have blank existence.

I would like to understand more about the travel of light through time. I understand that light travels extremely fast and it still takes a very long time for it to travel all the way to earth from stars or planets. As a photographer I am continually learning about light and how it travels. My favorite pictures are night time landscapes. I love how when doing timed exposures at night you get light that your eyes could never pick up. This is because the camera is putting all the light it picks up into one image but when we see we are constantly creating new images in our brain so we will never see all the light that is traveling through space.