Wild Sun, Electra, 36th Day of Hagwinter, 524 M.E.

 

On observing the rippling of the space-time continuum: the other day, I remarked on my perception of the changing pace of time. Today, I recorded changes in the spatial distance between fixed points.

Four days ago, Nov. 20, on my every-other-day walk, I took my usual route along the northwest Beltline trail, around the Bobby Jones Golf Course, and along the Memorial Park loop. On paper, it's a six-mile walk, maybe 6¼. 

According to the health app on my iPhone 16, though, I walked 7.3 miles that day. But hey, maybe the trail signs and mileage markers underestimate the actual distance, and the route is 1.1 to 1.3 miles longer than the reported 6 miles.

But two days ago, Nov. 22, I took the exact same walk again and clocked only 5.5 miles om the health app. Maybe the mileage markers are actually overreporting the distance? But still, why was Friday's walk 1.8 miles shorter than the Wednesday's, when I took the exact same path?

Today, Nov. 24, I took that walk a third time and this time got 7.5 miles on the health app.    

The conclusion is obvious - the universe is apparently contracting and expanding, breathing as it were, so that the distance between my start and finish points changes by 15 to 25% between walks. One could argue that the health app on the iPhone 16 is an imprecise piece of garbage, shit software packed onto an overcrowded and overpriced gadget, but that would question the integrity of Apple, and we can't have than now, can we? 

No, we can't, so I'll stand by my conclusion that space and time are both impermanent and transient illusions subject to change.