What is time? [Waqt - a poem by Javed Akhtar]

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  Ankita Katdare

  What do you guys think about the scientific concept being expressed in the poem?
  Could time be motionless?
  I also think that in a way the poem hints at parallel universe as well.
  
  Really looking forward to read your thoughts on this. 😀
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  saikrish87

  Wow. Time a topic that could be discussed on and on with so many views and explanations.
  
  I used to wonder about time during my college days when i studied calculus, about Einstein, relativity, black holes, worm holes and many more.. The human mind is tempted and curious on things that are mysterious and always search for the unknown..a masterpiece, an art or any best things one could imagine (provided it is used for the good).
  
  We can approach to time by science, philosophy, art or any form and all leads to the one truth and one question." What is time? "
  
  Various religion theories and science tells things events happening with the single most identity called time followed by others. When we dig deep into gravity, relativity we still find so many things that gravity bends time. So what is gravity? what about multi-dimensions , what about multi-universe?
  
  When we go into the sub-atomic level, every thing is crazy and nothing seems to follow what follows at human level. When we see Rajini defies the laws of physics to fight some villains in a movie we wonder why he does such silly things and spoil the image of films in international level..But who knows at subatomic level there may be many Rajini behaving that way 😉 Even in the galactic level the universe is so different. The origins of universe? was it a big bang? did time just start after that? what was before? or shouldn't i ask as Stephen Hawkins mentioned? where are we in time?
  
  so i come back to this closed loop with my feedback as a final truth "What is time?"
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  Ankita Katdare

  I agree with you.
  
  I love this part of the poem:
  
  

  कभी कभी मैं ये सोचता हूँ कि चलती गाड़ी से पेड़ देखो तो ऐसा लगता है दूसरी संत जा रहे हैं
  Sometimes I think when I see trees from a moving train, it seems they go in the opposite way.
  मगर हकीकत में पेड़ अपनी जगह खड़े हैं
  But in reality, the trees are standing still.
  तो क्या ये मुमकिन है
  सारी सदियाँ कतार अन्दर कतार अपनी जगह खड़ीं हो
  So can it be, that all our centuries, row upon row, are standing still?
  ये वक़्त साकित हो और हम ही गुजर रहे हों
  Can it be that time is fixed, and we alone are in motion?

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  saikrish87

  Yes I heard this. Poem is very beautiful.