Timeless time

'Uncertainty principle has nothing to do with whether God plays dice or not'. Words sadly not my own by Einstein's, on the probability principle.

'This is impossible.' (Alice)
'Only if you believe it is.' ( The Mad Hatter)

In mid / late 20th century the quantum mechanics prompted scientists to re-visit familiar notions of science. The quantum physics world - the laws governing the invisible, the very small and very fast - defy common sense and challenge our minds to the limit. I am certainly not pretending to understand it ( but do thank Kenneth Ford for making it a little easier). I was immersed in 'conventional' physics once and that certainly impaired me.

So I learned that the rules of certainty and probability change when we go down to the invisible level; solid matters are empty space; time is relative; mass is gained or lost in a collision; and no matter how complete the input information, the outcome is uncertain and some experiments are completely unpredictable.

The world beyond the range of our senses behaves in weird and wonderful ways. Can we apply any of that within our vulnerable human world, to see the invisible that circulates in our lives and understand the webs that bind us? To find out why we gravitate towards some sources...and not the others.

Gluon is the subatomic glue particle. It takes much less than a billionth of a billionth of a second between its creation and annihilation. For a particle, a billionth of a second is an eternity.

Neutron has an average lifetime of 15 minuts and it is a Methuselah of the particle world.

It is impossible to even start comprehending the distance between the subatomic and the cosmological time frontier - which is estimated at 13,7 bilion years, or the lifetime of a universe.

If we knew how precious and fragile the invisible is, would we still take it for granted? And how different are our notions of time from that one of a particle? Because, there is a distinct human condition where the frontier disappears and a eternity can happen in a split of second... and time becomes truly timeless.