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People accept time and space as givens, as dimensions of reality. With regard to time, only in modern history has mankind turned its attention to explaining it scientifically. This has been primarily the physicist's task (Barbour, 1999; Davies, 1995; Greene, 1999, Greene, 2004; Hawking, 1988, Hawking, 2001; Rigden, 2005).
Physicists unite space and time in the spacetime construct (Hawking, 1988, Hawking, 2001), which applies to the macrocosm of the universe and the subatomic microcosm. Physicists also endeavor to achieve the ambitious “theory of everything,” or its equivalent (Greene, 1999, Greene, 2004; Hawking, 2002; Kane, 2000), according to which vibrating strands of energy would provide a pervasive if perplexing fundamental background. Clocks and other modern precision timekeepers measure the daily and yearly changes dictated by the rotations of the Earth and its revolutions around the sun.
However, a physicist's view of reality does not address the possible exceptions within it. Equidistant between the subatomic microcosm and the macrocosm, at least on Earth, its “biosphere” and the human psyche share in the spacetime with distinctive, albeit temporary, characteristics. On Earth, the biosphere thrives by resisting some of the laws of physics. The common perception of all-encompassing laws of “nature” on Earth is flawed. A different set of biological laws coexists with the forces and laws of the cosmos, of the solar system, and of the inanimate terrestrial