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[Alexandr Korol]

Conversation with the Mystic-Old-Man

Alexandr: Hello. I have a question. There are four small cycles: morning, day, evening, and night. Morning is when the Sun emerges from darkness and enters the phase of day, then it moves toward darkness again, and the transition is evening. So, morning is the transition to day, and evening is the transition to night. There are also four larger cycles over the course of a year – four seasons. That means spring is when we move from winter to summer, we enter summer, and then from summer, we transition through autumn into winter. Is there also a cosmic cycle like this?
Mystic-Old-Man: Well, first of all, there are trillions of these nights and days of different scales.
Alexandr: And if we don’t go that far?
Mystic-Old-Man: But if they all sum up together, then...
Alexandr: But is the analogy the same? Like the analogy with daily cycles and with the year? The same pattern?
Mystic-Old-Man: No, there are probably places where the flow of one hour might be the flow of just a few seconds. But planets move at such speeds there that, I think, even the tides are unrecognizable, and the way minds work is unclear, and where they fly off to, and what is flying where – these are things that only follow patterns where they unfold. So, well... you can say it’s similar, but in terms of speeds and...
Alexandr: Well, of course, the speeds are different. Even for us, the speed of cycle changes over a day and the speed of four seasons over a year are already different speeds.
Mystic-Old-Man: Yes, but on other planets, it’s completely different again.
Alexandr: Alright. If we talk specifically about our planet, are there also four cycles in the same analogy over...?
Mystic-Old-Man: Well, across the nine planets, we have some where a day lasts, say, a hundred hours, and others where a day lasts a year, and others where... So, even within our Solar System, these are things that simply are as they are.
Alexandr: Alright. And what about a time period like an era? Does it also consist of four such cycles?