Wake Up!

Time inside the matrix is nothing but numbers ordered in a sequential manner and groups of numbers, are considered as intervals of time.

It is just a way to order events in a specific sequence. It is also how past, present, future are depicted here. 1 is older than 2 and 2 is older than 3 etc. Event A happened before Event B, Event B happened before Event C.

How do you give the illusion of time and order the events in the correct sequence, of how the events occurred? That is where ‘Time’ comes in. You tag each event with a number, which increases, as more events occur.

In a Power point presentation(PPT) slide presentation, the slides have to be ordered in a manner that it makes sense. You cannot talk about an advanced topic without explaining the basics. In the same manner, images/events in the life script need to be shown in a specific order.

If we shoot episodes for a TV series, how do we display them in a sequence? We tag each episode with a number in order so that when the episodes are shown to the player, they are shown in the correct order. Else, the episodes are stored in the database in a random order.

In a movie, each frame/shot has to be shown in a specific order, for the scene to make sense.

What is it that does the ordering in a simulation? It is the clock or time expressed as numbers. Sequence of numbers inside a sequence of numbers inside another sequence of numbers i.e seconds inside minutes inside hours etc.

Each event needs to be identified, so they are tagged with a unique Id. This Unique Id is the “Timestamp” , a sequence of numbers – ddmmyyyy hh:mi:ss – this gives a unique number. for eg.23121999 11:01:33 . Internally, each number are stored separately. For e.g Oracle Database stores the following information for date: century, year, month, date, hour, minute, and second.

Time here, is like a computer’s clock. A clock cycle, also known as a machine cycle or a clock tick, is the basic unit of time in a computer’s central processing unit (CPU),

System time is measured by a system clock, which is typically implemented as a simple count of the number of ticks that have transpired since some arbitrary starting date, called the epoch.

Clock speed in a computer refers to how fast the processor (CPU) can execute instructions, measured in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz). A higher clock speed, such as in Gigahertz (GHz), means more operations can be performed per second, leading to faster processing.

For a brief explanation about computer clock, check this article.

Techie’s Corner

When you store data in a database table, you have a unique Row Identity(Row Id), to identify each record in a table.
It is a mechanism to identify the rows/records and be able to query the records . For e.g. in a table that stores the data of employees in a company, there is a unique employee id associated for each employee.

The concept is very similar to the System Change Number(SCN) in Oracle Database.

A system change number (SCN) is a logical, internal, database time stamp. You can use the SCN to ensure consistency when reading other data. SCNs order events that occur within the database, which is necessary to satisfy the ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) properties of a transaction.

Conclusion

Suffice it to say, it is a method to order the tasks/events in a sequence, so that the events are synchronized and consistent with the Life Script!
That is what time essentially is!

Time is a quantum computer’s mechanism of ordering events, so that it can render the game in the correct sequence. We don’t want past, present, future events/tasks all jumbled up and not make sense to the player! So, Time was invented!

And, that is how, the events in your life script are shown during the “Life Review“. The past events are events prior to the present time number (for eg. anything less than 2025 time number) and future events are after the present time number.

The program has to just query the database for the events, ordered by the event numbers and perhaps render the events in the sequence it is pulled from the database and show to the player as a “movie”.
That is why the past, present, future events can be displayed on a big screen, simultaneously!
They are all stored in the Akashic database, to be queried whenever it is required.

In the Inception movie and the Permutation City book, the time is slow or fast depending on which simulation you are in. The deeper you go in the stack of simulations, time is slower with respect to the simulations above it i.e time in level 3 sim is slower than time in sims above it. By slower, I mean, 20 mins in level 3 sim, may be 5 min in level 2 sim. The Inception movie explains this very well.

“Time is Relative” phrase takes on a whole new meaning, doesn’t it? 😉

–Savitha