I just finished reading an article about time and where it goes when it’s wasted. Dr. Jeff Daya of the Coworldal (who comes up with these names?) Development Lab at MIT has discovered that there are tiny holes in the fabric of time, much like there are tiny holes in cheesecloth. (In fact, the pictures in the article, which you can find here, look a lot like photos of cheesecloth holes under a microscope.)

Dr. Daya has theorized that when time is wasted, it’s actually sucked through these holes in a process called Time Leak. Time is accumulating at such a rapid pace in a parallel universe to our own that it’s entirely normal for people who live there to have too much time on their hands. I suppose once they’ve wasted some time that they find there’s always more time to waste.

Dr. Daya’s next project is a vacuum that sucks time back into our world. Somehow I don’t think this will work because I’ve always thought that vacuuming was a waste of time.

“Wasting Your Life and Time” is the name of the article and can be found in this month’s issue of Nature.