The Theory of Chronomics - Act 1

The sorcerers of Central America believe that the human body is surrounded by an invisible egg shaped field of energy, which extends to about six feet around our forms. They further contend that this field is a cocoon of countless billion fibres of fine energy, like the silk strands woven by a caterpillar in preparation for its transformative dance. What is important about this field is that it can be worn down and as it shrinks, the body at its centre weakens until finally it collapses into the long sleep.

They also believe that the world when seen through the eyes of a sorcerer is filled with small tornadoes of energy which resemble burning spheres of tumble weed. These are, in energy form, the corrosive winds of entropy that are constantly, every second of every day, blowing into our fields with great force. When we are weakened, through disease or old age, the force of these buffeting tornadoes has the power to crack our fields open at a weak point and our demise is thereby greatly hastened as the field rapidly crumbles and tears itself apart.

Whether this is true or not, we will probably never know but what is certain is that almost every culture of earth, both anthropologically and religiously, has a similar idea. The auras of modern spiritual metaphysics, the halo’s of Christian mysticism, the Kirlian or galvanised electron fields of alternative science and the awareness fields of most shamanistic cultures are all linked by a common theme – that every organism in creation is surrounded by a subtle field of energy which is inextricably linked to the functioning of the organism which provides the battery power. Further to that, the strength and size of the field seems to share a relationship with the vitality of the core. The interesting thing about the Central American myth is that this field of energy diminishes naturally but is also artificially depleted by the corrosive forces of the world.

Take a candle flame and we can see an allegory of this in process. The flame is surrounded by a field of heat we call the burning radius which takes the shape of the flame. A piece of toilet paper which crosses into the field immediately ignites but only at the precise point that it interacts with this powerful field of heat. If a slight wind blows on the flame, this field is distorted, becoming wider on the opposite side and smaller on the wind wide. Likewise, as the flame weakens, the field shrinks homogeneously. Assuming that we liken the candle to our physical lives, with a more or less fixed span, we can observe that both the intensity of the heat, the rate of burning and the shape of the burning radius would not change unless, like our own fields, it is buffeted by outside forces which are a continuous, deadly assault on its life expectancy.


Chronomics is a language used to correlate the perception we have of time, a language that sometimes diverges into strange mathematics and at other times finds itself being expressed in allegory or mythology. This is because we are trying to define what is essentially indefinable. Although most people are comfortable with the notion of clock time, deeper investigation reveals layer upon layer of unanswered questions and fascinating connections.

Like God, there is no direct path to understanding time and perhaps more to the point, almost no possibility of understanding it. It would take too long. And yet, for some reason, the mere attempt to comprehend it - to converse in the language of Chronomics - is enough to focus the brain into powerful new dimensions of mental potential. The language is based upon certain basic assumptions which are in themselves evolving, changing and expanding as they are discussed.

One assumption is that there is a basic unit of time, a tiny sphere called a chronomic particle or chronon which shares the same space as a virtual unit of energy, such as a particle of light. To extend the notion in any direction produces interesting consequences - For example: There is as much time in the universe as there is light and as the light dwindles into the next big crunch, so does time. At the point of the big bang, when all light was created simultaneously, so was time and like light, it exploded outward. The age of the universe is as big as the spread of all available light at this moment.

Another assumption of Chronomics is that as light become fixed into matter by atomic binding it elevates itself into higher orders of time. Though it is tempting to think that a tiny particle like a hydrogen atom – which is constructed of particles of light - actually exists forever, we have to consider it not as a particle of time but as a particle that is capable of perceiving time and is constructed itself of particles of time. It is through this process in fact, metaphorically speaking, that particles of time gain the ability to perceive themselves and others like them. Unless a photon interacts with another photon, to the degree that their chronomic field interact, their perception of time is absolute zero. To increase this perception of time, they learn to interact as atoms.

As atoms become bonded into molecules, the perception of time blossoms into higher orders, one of which is called distance. At the speed of light, distance and time are indistinguishable facets of the same thing. The cycles that evolve within molecules are in themselves organic perceptions of time. While atoms hardly ever destroy themselves, organic molecules do it with great regularity, in some cases uncontrollably. Higher orders of time are more susceptible to the rules which describe time. Molecules however, are infinitely more durable than organisms, which are organisations of molecules, while at the same time being infinitely more sensitive to the rules of time. In fact, they are the slaves of one of the highest orders of time, the life time.

In the language of Chronomics, this ballooning affect of relations has no end. As organisms form into groups and villages and town and nations and cultures, time is taken to an order that vastly supersedes those trapped at the level of the lifespan. Networked ideas, like language, can outlast the civilisation themselves as they are cast directly and indirectly into the body of the planet which housed their developments. Although our time is limited however, in comparison to the mythologies we create, we do have the ability to tune ourselves into higher orders of time. The astonishing thing is that the brain, as one of the most sophisticated organisations of molecules ever created, is capable somehow of manipulating the perception we have of time by mixing and matching from its infinite palette of chemical interactions. To a student of Chronomics, this is the first and most remarkable conclusion: Thought is time organised into dimension.