Intro

Dear Reader:

Let me elaborate (without belaboring) my point in print. 
Let's say one questions the status quo: Hey Quo, what's up with that, yo?  The
question, by its very nature, throws doubt upon the validity and durance of the
status quo, or things as they are.  Maybe things should be arranged otherwise,
maybe other arrangements or interpretations would be more penetrating and
correct, or would open avenues of action that would be grander or more
satisfying.  Questions, in this respect, are like headlights that can help us
sketch out the dimensions and "give" in the fog that surrounds us.

What questions, in and of themselves, cannot do in these
circumstances is prove anything about the validity of the status quo one way or
another.  Because one can formulate a question about the status quo does not,
in itself, undermine things as they are in any way.  Hey Quo, are you sure that
the ground is under my feet?  This question does nothing to remove the ground
from under your feet--it is simply a question--a question that can start a
process of discovery that itself should be questioned and not simply assented
to because it undermines current understanding.  This is what I meant about
"questioning the questions."  

A question is simply the first step  on a path that may
eventually lead to the heady heights, and vast new perspectives, of disproof of
the status quo;  but the question is not the map, the donkey, the traveler, the
sweat and the path all in one.  The ground under your feet is solid until
physics comes to eventually prove--through assertions and demonstrations (the
sweat and donkey, etc.)--that in fact the ground is mostly made up of empty
space between those tiny head-spinners, atoms.

Questions start the discovery, but the doubts are only worth
paying attention to when evidence begins to solidify their guesswork with a
bridge to a new reality, a new solidity.  This goes on forever and ever, and
even our views of bridges past begin to be swallowed up in the present fog and
our next new journey can be to re-tread the paths of discoveries
"past."

But then, what is Time, really?

Gregg Glory
[Gregg G. Brown]