In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful...the Best Knower.

As-Salaam Alaikum (God's Peace be Unto You)

I was watching one of my favorite movies yesterday - "Contact" - and I started wondering about perceptions of Time. If any of you have seen the movie, you know there was a part in there where Jodi Foster's character had an "experience" which lasted, by her estimation, about 18 hours. However, the observers of the experiment said the even lasted only a "fraction of a second".

Step away from that for a moment...
If we take any "unit" and begin cutting it in half, conceptually, we can never get to the point where the end result is "zero". So any "unit", mathematically, can be divided into an infinity of subdivisions.

Back to the movie..
From the information above, if we take a "fraction of a second" as a unit unto itself, then that "fraction" of a second can be divided into an infinity of smaller divisions of time.

F = fraction of a second

F x 1/2 = F/2

F/2 x 1/2 = F/4

F/4 x 1/2 = F/8

So that F/a x 1/n = F/an, (a > 0, n > 0)

By this equation/formula, we can see that the "unit" gets ever smaller, but never approaches "zero". Therefore, any abstract unit can be reduced an infinite number of times, which means it contains infinity.

So then, is it possible for a mind which is tuned to a sufficiently high frequency to experience a "fraction of a second" as a whole day...or a week...or...??

What do you think?

RM