I have recently arrived at the conviction that there is no such thing as time. I believe that there is only motion from place to place (including decomposition, decay), and that because we remember the former position of things, we say time has elapsed. Actually, I think that no time elapses, there is only one moment, the present, which is visible, and the past and future only exist in our minds, not in reality. If there is only one moment, the present, this means that the term "eternity" refers to one moment, a single moment, that which can be seen, and which has constantly moving objects in it.
After reaching this conclusion, I remembered that in Latin the word for "ever, always" (eternity), semper, contains the element *sem- meaning "one", as does the Old English word simble meaning "ever, forever, always". I wondered whether this means that the ancients were also of the belief that all of time is encompassed in a single moment, the present, encompassing all that exists (and time only measures the motion (including all "change") of all that exists). Or is there another explanation as to why these ancient words for "(for)ever, always" contain the element *sem- "one"?
Anyone care to comment? I hope you don't think that I am a lunatic.
Andrew Jarrette