Scientists zero in on why time flows in one direction

eurekalert/University of Chicago ^ | 26-Oct-2004 | Steve Koppes

[Cogadh na Sith]

Where does the knowledge of 'now or later?' come into play? How about "I'm tired, can we do this in the morning?"

Y'know, that's a good point and I liked the way you phrased it--kinda gets to the point...

Now consider: What's actually 'tired'? Is it really 'you'? If so, I want to grow me a tail--wouldn't that be cool?

Animals get tired and react to stimulus to rest--only we have an idea that there is a 'morning' ahead.

[timestax]

ping

[MissAmericanPie]

Think I should apply for a government grant, for say..oh, 5 million to study this phenom?

[timestax]

-only we have an idea that there is a 'morning'

did you HAVE to Remind us?!

[ApesForEvolution]

I always discover the really kewel answers after class is dismissed...you're my kind of FReeper C n S!

[timestax]

ping

[Cogadh na Sith]

If people simply "manufactured the present" we would be in a state of perpetual chaos.

We do, but we don't perceive it that way because we have a 'time ordering filter' of consciousness...

The idea that "Time has no nature" is nonsense. The sun rises and sets each day. The sequence of days, weeks, seasons and years is one of the most reliable indicators of nature in existence.

That only occurs if there is an observer... It happens all at once, we put it in order it as a matter of survival.

The 'knowledge of good and evil' is also the knowledge of 'before and after'.

I suggest you seek serious counseling while you still have time.

C'mon, that's a great point. Why do you insult me for it?

[ApesForEvolution]

~O~

[Cogadh na Sith]

Hey, Thanks!

I'll 'look forward' to your posts. (hahahaha!)

[ApesForEvolution]

LOL

Don't look back...no future in the past!

See you soon and be blessed! AFE

[reg45]

"....creating a new universe and allowing it to expand and cool off ...."

Can we send all the Kerryites there.

[DaGman]

"Carroll and Chen extend this idea in dramatic fashion, suggesting that inflation could start "in reverse" in the distant past of our universe, so that time could appear to run backwards (from our perspective) to observers far in our past."

I guess that explains how aliens from the planet Ork are old when born and young when they are old. Remember Jonathan Winters' character on Mork & Mindy? Now we know.

[Jorge]

"The idea that "Time has no nature" is nonsense. The sun rises and sets each day. The sequence of days, weeks, seasons and years is one of the most reliable indicators of nature in existence."

That only occurs if there is an observer... It happens all at once, we put it in order it as a matter of survival.

This is like saying your post only "occured" if I read it.
And that your response ONLY "appeared" to occur after the post you were responding to ONLY because "we put it in order it as a matter of survival".
Mega stupid to the max.

[Camachee]

This isn't poetry, but it is poetic. Einstein is a one-way ticket as relativity rebounds on itself. Like Euclid, he only accounts for the trip going out. What happens when the Universe pauses and expansion stalls? Oh, yeah. The Fed lowers the interest rate and we elect kerry cuz in two million years, who will care?

[timestax]

ping

[Cogadh na Sith]

Y'know, it was this line of thought (if you can call it that) that caused me to realize that there actually is a God--The Father of All Probability. The Fountainhead. I came to a point that I could no longer deny it based on the evidence in front of me!

Now atheists seem to me like fat chicks in spandex who deny and deny that they have a big fat ass....

[Doctor Stochastic]

If people simply "manufactured the present" we would be in a state of perpetual chaos.

The defense rests.

[Jorge]

Cogadh na Sith;The 'knowledge of good and evil' is also the knowledge of 'before and after'.

Jorge;I suggest you seek serious counseling while you still have time.

C'mon, that's a great point. Why do you insult me for it?

I'm sorry. I don't know you personally. I am just responding what you posted.

Perhaps if you explain what you mean by the above I could post a more comprehensive response.

[the invisib1e hand]

That only occurs if there is an observer...

people who really think like this are just tax on humanity. talk about a waste of molecules.

[Anticommie]

Now if they could only figure out why voter fraud only flows in favor of the Democrats...

LOL