Scientists zero in on why time flows in one direction

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

[Cogadh na Sith]

This is like saying your post only "occured" if I read it.

That is entirely true from your point of observation.

Now, why would you manufacture my odd responses to view if you weren't seeking such a thing?

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".

Being human, and sane, we have a rough agreement of causality, so all I can say is that my approximation as to the cause and effects of the 'previous posts' are pretty much the same as yours.

Mega stupid to the max.

Both the human heart and the 'gut' know no time at all. Are they 'stupid'?

[Jorge]

people who really think like this are just tax on humanity.

Don't worry.
They don't exist unless we "observe" them.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Thanks... LOL! Who ever thought that entropy was finite!?

What a terrible assumption.

[the invisib1e hand]

They don't exist unless we "observe" them.

LOL. that settles that, doesn't it!

[Jorge]

"This is like saying your post only "occured" if I read it."

That is entirely true from your point of observation.

No it isn't either. Even I'm not stupid enough to believe things ONLY come into existance WHEN I happen to observe them.

You don't even believe your own arguments. You couldn't possibly.

[edsheppa]

I'll bet anything that time has no direction at the sub atomic level.

Then you'd be wrong. Violations of time symmetry have been observed at the subatomic level as reported here.

Time (T) Violation has also recently been observed in the weak interactions of kaons by the CPLEAR experiment at CERN and the KTEV experiment at Fermilab. T Violation means that the rate for a particle interaction is different for the time-reversed process.

[Cogadh na Sith]

My 'good and evil' post referenced the Fall of Man.

I guess I can only explain that with no knowledge of before and after, we 'give no thought to raiment or what we may eat on the morrow'--kinda like Jesus said. In such an idea--We are 'on God's time'.

With no before and after, there is no life or death and the present is infinite--life everlasting... Garden of Eden type thing.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Okay, I'm no physicist, but I maintain that time does not exist. It is an artificial construct of man that simply represents the number of ticks from a clock. Somebody prove me wrong.

[Jorge]

With no before and after, there is no life or death and the present is infinite--life everlasting... Garden of Eden type thing.

Do you believe the Bible? Genesis is God's Word?

[Cogadh na Sith]

But if it can be violated, it is not an absolute. The difference in interaction times could even be an artifact of the observation method.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Third Law does imply finite entropy for a finite universe.

An infinite universe theory must deal with Olbers' Paradox. (Soviet astronomers liked to invoke th anthropic principle to get around this paradox; it fit well with Marxist political theory.)

[Age of Reason]

Then they aren't looking small enough.

[right way right]

Anyone know what the opposite of time is?

[Cogadh na Sith]

Do you believe the Bible? Genesis is God's Word?

Yes. It has the 'why'. The 'how' is left as an exercise for the class...

[BIGLOOK]

Time moving on gives Cassandras and Jerimiahs something to look forward to.

[CheezyChesster]

Whatever are we to do or read about in FR when Kerry loses next week ? We won't have another Scapegoat like him for at least another Millennium ! Perhaps we could create our own virtual TIME warp and postpone the election for another four years ! That would be GREAT

[Cogadh na Sith]

The Third Law does imply finite entropy for a finite universe.

Yeah, but I always kinda thought that the 'infinite universe paradox' was akin to Zeno's Paradox in that "it just doesn't work that way..." LOL

[Cogadh na Sith]

Anyone know what the opposite of time is?

Yes: Unconsciousness or death.

[Soaring Feather]

I have been thinking about this and I think you're right.
:)

Oh did I tell you, I am caught in a time warp??

[Cogadh na Sith]

That's really funny! That's the spirit!