https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_line

∞ Think about this.

Relativity implies (I think it actually entails) that each organism is a separate bubble of local light-time … because no two organisms share the same world-line… even if one contains the other.

Whether or not this is true, each of us experiences time ‘distinctly’. That means that 1 year, circa 2015, is 7 billion+ human life years. 2 of these is “more time than the (flat-time) history of the universe”.

Two present solar years — are actually (at least) 14 billion years of unique human experience, activity and effort.

Think about that. Carefully. Long and hard. And consider if we might be obliviously capable of sending waves of effect backwards in time — into our own origins. Right now. Each one of us. And our species.

But that is another topic.

Back to time on Earth. 1 solar year is not a unit that is universal because the ‘shared’ measure of time we use doesn’t actually exist. It’s a facile abstraction. We didn’t count the plants, the animals, the cells, the viruses… or all the relations between them. All of whom live at different rates of biotemporality, some of them highly accelerated compared with our common reference frame. Your body is locally comprised of at least 400 trillion such organisms.

400 trillion. How much time is that in ‘one year’ at the temporal scale of a single cell? Or a virus?

Just exactly how ‘old’ is a single organism?

A single person, like me or you, is, in this view vastly older, biorelationally than ‘time-flattened’ age we ascribe to the universe (which we estimate to be 14.5 billion years old)… a single creature may actually be far older, in biorelational time… than this…

And every other organism on Earth is ‘like this’.

»We are to time what stars are to light.

When you look at living organisms?

You are seeing the face of timespace.