Time 2

Recently I wrote about cycles. Now I continue with this. There was a time when Hydrogen atoms were fashionable, i.e. the conditions of the Universe were such that electrons were trapped by protons in big numbers. Never since then, and very likely ahead of us, is there a time when so many Hydrogen atoms are made.

Some times somewhere, more Hydrogen atoms are made, but these cycles of Hydrogen production are not equally distributed in the total history of the Universe, whatever that means. This cycle is not very regular.

There are more regular cycles in the history of the Universe. Something I will call the persistence cycle seems very robust. Every second most of the objects in the Universe stay. In the beginning one second was a long time, now it is not much. But in both cases at the end of this second most objects that were there before the cycle started, are there when the cycle ends. Right now this cycle is evident to us here on Earth. Look around, objects around you survive the second test. The second test is the following. Look around, concentrate on one object, test if it is still there after one second, the object passes the test if it is still there. In the beginning of the Universe few objects passed this test; the change was very fast in the second cycle.

Persistence of the Universe goes by small steps. The average size of this step may change as the Universe evolves, but right now it is our perception time. We perceive objects in one second or less. In the beginning this was a long time, now is our perception time, and I wonder if in the future it will be almost zero, i.e. too short for our consciousness to register.