Kép és idő
Image and Time

Summary/Abstract: This paper challenges the mainstream notion of time progressing at a uniform pace. We propose that time – not merely in perception, but in reality – does not pass at a constant speed. Sometimes, it truly moves faster; at other times, more slowly. The history of the philosophy of time begins with the negation of the reality of time by Parmenides and his pupil Zeno of Elea, in the 5th century BC. Many thousand years later, the problem of time became a burning issue for Einstein, and one of the main concerns of Heidegger, who first held a kind of this-worldly eschatology, while his later meditations on time as extension were not independent of Minkowski’s distortion of Einstein’s 1905 views. Wittgenstein was throughout his life tortured by the problem of time, but never fully solved it. The authors of the present paper maintain that time is real. It is not a social construct, but a sum of real human experiences that range from experiencing the movement of heavenly bodies and life cycles to the impact of the mechanical clock; more recently, the emergence of telegraphy, worldwide telephony, and worldwide television enabled by satellite technology, all of which led to a collision between local schedules and the global one; and, in the past few decades, our experience of the timelessness of digital documents, schedule clashes in the Internet world, and continuous rescheduling while on the move due to mobile telephony. The concept of time cannot be formulated in words, but can indeed be expressed by metaphors of tactile tensions and spatial movement.

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