Simultaneity

I wanted to represent some of the different mathematical conceptions of time. Most of us subscribe to the linear version, where time goes from point a to point b and never goes back. This is the most common view, and Occam's razor would suggest that it is indeed true, but we all know that every once in a while the simplest explaination just doesn't cut it. The two non-conventional ideas of time I explored were randomizing time and loop, or cyclic, time.

I got the idea for randomizing time from quantum theory. The idea that at the tiniest level of existence there is complete randomness leads to the idea that time itself might also be merely a series of randomly occuring events, as if each moment were selected after shuffling the deck of possible moments, and that what seems like linear time is actually an illusion created by the randomness of those events.

My conception of cylic time comes from the theory of large numbers. Any event, given enough chances to occur, will occur. I took this to mean that our universe could operate on a cyclic basis, where in the history of all matter many big bangs have occured, each producing earths with humans, etc. Following this idea, it would seem that time is merely a loop, where it seems as though we are progressing through time and space, but really we are just drawing the same three cards over and over again.