Moore's law for proverbs

Maybe some day.

In the interim, a little physics/astronomy: time supposedly slows to a crawl near massive objects, say neutron starts, and comes to a stop, divides by zero, ceases, at black holes.

 

My understanding is if time stops the physical universe can’t exist, no change of state, and goes poof. Then God throws down another lightning bolt and says let there be light again, and starts the clock ticking. It fits in with God is eternal, and there is eternal existence, the realm is not detectable by us as it isn’t physical. Physical in any way means there is a change of state.

 

More detail than anyone wants is here:

Gravitational time dilation - Wikipedia

"To illustrate then, without accounting for the effects of rotation, proximity to Earth's gravitational well will cause a clock on the planet's surface to accumulate around 0.0219 fewer seconds over a period of one year than would a distant observer's clock. In comparison, a clock on the surface of the Sun will accumulate around 66.4 fewer seconds in one year."

Elsewhere:

"Global Positioning System (GPS): Satellite clocks run about 45,000 nanoseconds faster per day due to weaker gravity in orbit, requiring built-in corrections for accurate navigation"

It seems that the best current atomic clocks can detect differences in this gravitational time dilation in Earth's gravity well over a vertical distance of about a foot. But a few years ago, using an effect that was not yet turned into a continuous clock, a group was about to detect this difference over a vertical distance of about a millimeter:

https://www.iflscience.com/gravitational-time-dilation-has-been-measured-to-the-smallest-scale-yet-62648

 

I sure would enjoy a day watching all the world's forests grow so much they return to their former glory of a thousand years and the earth's land turns green again. That would solve most all of our problems. Instead we're lucky to get 20-30 years of tree growth before some moron destroys them.

 

It could be argued that the present moment is the only thing that has ever existed and the past and the future has more to do with what we imagine to be real than what really is real, which is the present moment.

 

meh.
Mature trees are composed of 99% non-living material.
This makes them the least 'alive' living organism on the planet - but I get it.
Mature forests are 'pretty.'

You like trees?
Start by buying more plastic and less paper.
A lot of the trees in the non-managed forests ARE being killed off by morons all right - the morons who start wildfires on purpose because we allow vagrancy - or through sheer ineptitude by putting OUT manageable NATURAL wildfires that are a part of a healthy forest. More people need to regard trees like the manageable 20-year row crops that they SHOULD be treated like - and maybe more urbanites need to get out into our vast natural parks to enjoy real wilderness areas.
As far as the urban-wilderness buffers in the coastal areas????
A wood-frame house lasts for 100 years or more - a much better carbon sink than some DIY prefab wildfire kit.

Cramming millions of people into coastal counties that were once mismanaged by the small, mobile hunter-gatherer groups that more or less continuously inhabited the region as the last Ice Age ended has consequences, eh?