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Time and Chaos

Summary/Abstract: Time is always time of change and time is only with change (even if this change was a change only within the device that measures time). The mathematical-phisycal abstraction of time that is founded on the presumption of the general determinedness of change cannot reach further from a conception of continual, linear in fact time, in which that which is past and future is differentiated only by place and temporal continuity - i.e. by a relation to some presumed „now”, or as an already discovered or a yet undiscovered necessity - though not substantially significantly, because every moment of the course of necessity (or of the necessary cource) is equal to another. Total necessity is contained in each and every moment. This means that that which is future is already implicitly present in that which is past and vice versa. Thus, linear time is theoretically reversible, as motion in continual space is too. Experience, however, does not confirm this. Contrary to the above, historical time is not-linear in its essence. It is or it flows only insofar as there is something to be narrated and we can narrate on something only insofar as there is something that happens. Even a rational conception of time has reached the fact that there where nothing happens, „time has stopped”. On the other hand, an event is notsomething necessary and expected. On the contrary, it is something significantly novel and unexpected, something astonishing. It is something that has not resulted from the continuity of necessity, but has resulted exactly as an interruption in that continuity, i.e. as a possibility that was opened in the continuity of necessity. Historical time is neither as a complete order, nor as a complete disorder of change, but only as an order with disorder-intervals. It is an order that, in shaping historical events, breaks in divergent points. Thus, historical time is not reversible, because already historical memory itself always breaks in a different way in diverging points. If the role of chaos in the shaping of cosmos is understood as serious and not just as an illusion of disorder that hides an even more invisible order, the physical and historical understandings of time can satisfactorily approximate one another. Namely, if it is allowed that in the continuity of necessity there are divergent points in which a new order is originated without a cause, thus exactly chaotically, it becomes clear why neither physical time can be reversible. Because, not only that in divergent points it would be impossible to follow backwards the course of change, but in the previous continuity of necessity also new divergent points would be opened in reverse direction increasing the chaotic state of events. In other words, even if some force could invert the sequence of change, the path to the past would again turn into the path to the „future”, an even more uncertain one than that of today. In fact, as a significant component of real time, future is present exactly in divergent points, or in chaotic breakthroughs in the continuity of necessity, or historically speaking in moments of spontaneity. Thus, alongside the impact of chaos, every event must be understood just as that which is statistically legal or more-or-less probable and definitely not as that which is necessary. This means that real change (or change of reality) is not reversible and thus real time is not reversible.

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