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Q1 started well and ended not so well
Q2 started not so well and ended( hopefully and would be Better if there's very).

Well, Q2 will certainly end.

It's totally on you if you read it "Yoda style" Cheesy

Q2 most likely will end but if the world blows up and we all die on April 9 is that an end to the Q2?

Good question. Philosophy week, is it?

1.) As there is no time, but zillions of zillions of nested events at quantum "levels" (no shit) Q2 can't exist in reality- It's virtual, so it can't end.
2.) As there will be no humans left to experience or observe "time", Q2 will end as well.
3.) As the virtual "human" calendar goes on unnoticed, Q2 will end when it's expected to end (+/- some quantum based deviations, probably). Unnoticed, though.

ok, but whats the over/under (for us simple folks)

I tried to respond two times to this, but i failed. It would have confused you even more, i feared.
Physics are trying to connect space and time together, but that model doesn't stand against newer quantum theories and observations, especially with the observance of "particles" that are faster than light, and especially quantum entanglement (which could be a systemic artefact unless proven otherwise).
However, everything works fine if you omit Time as a one-dimensional, one-directional dimension. So there is the reasonable doubt that time is only a theoretical "tool" to define speed and wavelength. It's undoubtable though, that the universe exists as a web of extremely granular events driven by energy.

EDIT: Lost it again in the process Roll Eyes

So, these events happen to (seem to) take "time" but there is only "now" until each event completed (and triggered or interfered with other ones). Light (radiation), when observed is taking a time to travel, but in the origin and "destination" (observer) it's always the same time, but quantum entanglement works simultaneously, regardless of distance. Newer tests were showing that there is a (incredibly) small delay, though, not tied to lightspeed.
You may assume that the universe is in a constant state of now, only light and it's speed (effort to "move") are creating the illusion of time as a directional dimension.
This is why (real) time travel is impossible.

I hope this is understandable now, somehow, because it's missing a lot of details. I just didn't want to get lost in the explanation, hence my nickname Wink

my meager understanding is that the only constant in the universe is the speed of causality (aka speed of light). time and space are malleable so that light always travels at lightspeed no matter the reference point

...and my head hurts from just that.

the quantum stuff is just like next level crazy but man i gotta admit some of the coolest theories come from it