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Time May Actually Be One Big Illusion, Says a New Study
https://news.yahoo.com ^ | June 23 2024 | Caroline Delbert

Posted on 06/24/2024 5:59:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9

Time has puzzled scientists for many decades. Does it meaningfully exist apart from our experience of it as everything moves toward the disintegration of entropy along its irrefutable arrow? You can’t put the “spilled milk” of the weirdness of time back in the jug. In new research published in the American Physical Society's peer-reviewed journal Physical Review A, scientists from Italy (led by Alessandro Coppo) try to translate one theory of time into real life—or, at least, closer to it. The theory is called Page and Wootters mechanism, and Coppo has studied it for years. It’s a quantum mechanics idea that dates back to 1983.

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To: Beowulf9

Time is entirely a creation of the human mind. In the real world there is only matter and space.


21 posted on 06/24/2024 6:38:28 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: 75thOVI

You beat me to it.


22 posted on 06/24/2024 6:38:36 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yep.


23 posted on 06/24/2024 6:39:11 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: FreedomPoster

But it’s on your side.


24 posted on 06/24/2024 6:41:05 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Beowulf9

25 posted on 06/24/2024 6:55:55 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Beowulf9

“Time May Actually Be One Big Illusion”

I did not get that impression from the article.


26 posted on 06/24/2024 6:57:35 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: BobL

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Pink Floyd “Time”
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I’d something more to say


27 posted on 06/24/2024 7:15:12 PM PDT by Ken Regis (I concur )
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To: BobL

Whatever time is, its effects are easy to spot and are not an illusion.


28 posted on 06/24/2024 7:15:26 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Mariner

Yup.


29 posted on 06/24/2024 7:15:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 75thOVI

Bingo...
Like you know The Thing.


30 posted on 06/24/2024 7:20:56 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Beowulf9

Imagine every particle and wave being at some particular location at some particular moment. (Quantum Mechanics says we cannot predict or “know” such things at the quantum scale, only come up with probabilities).

Imagine a situation wherein every particle and wave ceased to move, at all.

There would be no “time”.

But in the cosmos we live in, there is movement. Time is just the perception of the constant changes of position.


31 posted on 06/24/2024 7:21:10 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: LegendHasIt

Technically, yes.

The youthful you still exists in its own time........


32 posted on 06/24/2024 7:22:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: odawg

“Whatever time is, its effects are easy to spot and are not an illusion.”

It’s certainly not hard to spot when it’s full of Fake News.


33 posted on 06/24/2024 7:24:08 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Big Red Badger

Does anyone really know what time it is?......


34 posted on 06/24/2024 7:27:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Beowulf9; SunkenCiv

Timeless Ping.......


35 posted on 06/24/2024 7:31:50 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Beowulf9

Time flies like an arrow- Fruit flies like a banana


36 posted on 06/24/2024 7:33:43 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Beowulf9

In the time it took me to read through that- i am 10 minutes older now, and no closer to an explanation of time


37 posted on 06/24/2024 7:35:39 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

Does anyone really care?


38 posted on 06/24/2024 7:39:10 PM PDT by null and void (The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)
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To: Beowulf9

A bunch of weirdo naval-starers. They can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about this, but probably have an extremely difficult time living in tue real world.


39 posted on 06/24/2024 7:42:33 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Beowulf9

Time is just part of the bars on our cage.


40 posted on 06/24/2024 7:42:58 PM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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