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The Many Directions of Time
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| 1 February 2006
| Alexander Franklin Mayer
Posted on 02/05/2006 1:48:11 PM PST by ckilmer
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posted on
02/05/2006 1:48:13 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: ckilmer
OK, Take me back 40 years. Then take me forward 80 years
To: ckilmer
if there is no motion, does time exist?
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posted on
02/05/2006 1:54:08 PM PST
by
pipecorp
(Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims never stopped. a 2010 useless reply odyssey.)
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Time is merely a construct of perception.
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posted on
02/05/2006 1:55:40 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)
To: ckilmer
I read this article before I decided not to open it.
To: ckilmer
George Allen: "The future is now."
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posted on
02/05/2006 1:59:44 PM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: xcamel
Time is merely a construct of perception. At a basic level time exists, otherwise everything would happen at once.
We use a time system based on the rotation of the earth and also its revolution around the sun to measure time, but never the less some thing that we call time exists. It's not simply a matter of perception.
To: ckilmer
So does this open a door to faster-than-light travel?
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:04:29 PM PST
by
inquest
(If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
To: ckilmer
Maybe this brings modern science one step closer to understanding how the act of flying round the earth very fast results in travel backwards in time. But im not holding my breath - if superman wanted us to understand time travel he would have surely told us himself.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:04:41 PM PST
by
bobdsmith
To: ckilmer; neverdem; KevinDavis
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:07:47 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: ckilmer
Chuck Norris once kicked a man so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time and killed Amelia Earhart flying over the Pacific Ocean.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:10:52 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: ckilmer
Whbat can possibly have led this physicist to guess that time is geometrical at all?
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:12:45 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: ckilmer
Just collectibles ~ that's all I need to know about.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:12:57 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: inquest
does this open a door to faster-than-light travel? If only we could see we are everywhere always. Travel is an illusion.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:13:55 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: xcamel
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:16:16 PM PST
by
Lurker
(In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
To: Bear_Slayer
otherwise everything would happen at once It does.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:19:47 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: RightWhale
Well if that's the case, then there has to be some nonuniformity somewhere somehow that causes us to think we're only in one place.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:27:08 PM PST
by
inquest
(If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
To: inquest
There is nonuniformity, but space and time are not the real dimensions.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:29:07 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: Lurker
As long as your brain is still attached to your feet, they already know.
My point was for that which cannot perceive time, it does not exist. Only intelligence can perceive time, depending on the dimension in which the intelligence exists. In a 2D universe, a 3D object makes no sense. in a 3D universe, a 4D object can only theoretically defined. An electron is a good example, as we can know where it is, and when it is, but not both at the same time.
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:30:42 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)
To: RightWhale
Travel is an illusion.Huh.
I'm going to walk down the lane to pick up yesterdays mail.
Are you saying that I won't really move, but that instead the earth, and all the rest of you poor saps will be forced to turn? The mailbox will slowing come into sight as I turn the world under my feet?
Yikes. Sounds like hard work.
How do I get out of this gravity well?
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posted on
02/05/2006 2:31:08 PM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who have dementia.)
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