I love love love this! "Some people see only duality, and where they see duality, I see a trinity unified." I believe this wholeheartedly. We are spiritual beings having a human experience and with that experience we have "life" and "living." So, let us conclude and take a look at your last question. Is time objective? Well time is: the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. And to be objective means: (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. So, for me, yes time is objective. Especially when people speak to how long things take, how much patience they have, and etc. A day could be forever for some and a year can be a blink to another. Time is very objective despite us all following the same metric system to "keep us on track" or shall I say "the same page." It is all truly open to interpretation.
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Yes, time is objective in its passing, it is we who are subjective when we experience it.
I was really aiming for another question but in my rush, I misused my words. So, let me take it back a step or two.
Q~What is time?
A~Time is not a thing, at best it is a process.
I am going to assume you are in your twenties and for clarity sake, I am in my late fifties. So, we speak from a slightly different perspective as far as our experiences go. The one thing that really blows me away is, how fast time goes by the older I get. This may be an aspect of the biological process, metabolism slowing from age making time seem to whizz by. At times I just sit down for a minute and an hour flies by. When working(I do renos), it seems to fly on by and before I know the day is done. As a kid, a preteen, it seemed to me that time dragged by so tediously slow. Then, of course, my metabolism was a lot higher than it is now and I could eat anything and not put on weight as we ran ran ran about like kids do. Time may pass by objectively, but we seem to experience it subjectively.
This gets me to thinking is this how it is for all things. How does an insect that only lives 24 hours experience those 24 hours? Does it seem for the insect, like 72 years would seem for a human? How does an atom of hydrogen experience time, is it different from say an atom of carbon? Different atoms having different frequencies of vibration, like people of different ages having different metabolisms or different creatures with different metabolism as well as different life spans.
So, while time may perceive all things in the universe objectively, I believe all things in the universe experience time subjectively.
Being open to interpretations is key; the only absolute is, is that there are no absolutes.