[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Time, circular or linear? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/28/2012 4:35:16 PM EDT
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Did you ever wake up to find A day that broke up your mind Destroyed your notion of circular time It's just that demon life has got you in its sway or 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. |
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Quoted: Time is two hotdogs simultaneously existing in 5th dimension http://oi41.tinypic.com/25p7i4z.jpg Thats hot. Thats a hot way to live.
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Quoted: Quoted: Time is quantum and relative. The linear or circular passage of time is a human construct. It has not bases in the laws of the Universe. Everything is a human construct, pick one. Ok... pick this: saying that everything is a human construct is a human construct. Do you mean to say that the Laws of the Universe, like gravity, are human constructs as well and their existence is dependent upon a human being aware of them? |
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Time is two hotdogs simultaneously existing in 5th dimension http://oi41.tinypic.com/25p7i4z.jpg needs ketchup |
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Quoted: Ok... pick this: saying that everything is a human construct is a human construct. Do you mean to say that the Laws of the Universe, like gravity, are human constructs as well and their existence is dependent upon a human being aware of them? Yes to both. |
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Run, rabbit run. Dig that hole, forget the sun, And when at last the work is done Don't sit down it's time to dig another one. I know one thing; if I fuck up today, it bites me in the ass tomorrow. Whether time is linear or not, the consequences are most certainly circular |
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Quoted: Time is neither circular, nor linear. It is infinite, having neither beginning nor end. Stephen Hawking would disagree with you. He theorises that time is the forward motion of the expanding universe from the point of singularity beginning at the moment of the Big Bang. He also postulates that at some point the expansion will come to a halt and will then begin to contract back to the singularity. At which point time will run backwards. I haven't got a fucking clue if he is rights, but it is interesting to think about. |
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Lol, I forgot about that, Wish I could edit poll, would add cube.
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So... if every human being was killed, what would happen to the Universe? It too would no longer exist? Are we getting Buddist here? Quoted: Quoted: Ok... pick this: saying that everything is a human construct is a human construct. Do you mean to say that the Laws of the Universe, like gravity, are human constructs as well and their existence is dependent upon a human being aware of them? Yes to both. |
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Futurama says loop, but everything gets progressively lower every go around. ITS BIGGER IN THE PAST! ]Wait......wut? Not bigger, just higher. If you go forward through time to the end and it starts up again and keep going forward until it's now again, you'll be above your head. Everything is lower in the future. It makes sense if you don't think about it. |
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Time is neither circular, nor linear. It is infinite, having neither beginning nor end. Stephen Hawking would disagree with you. He theorises that time is the forward motion of the expanding universe from the point of singularity beginning at the moment of the Big Bang. He also postulates that at some point the expansion will come to a halt and will then begin to contract back to the singularity. At which point time will run backwards. I haven't got a fucking clue if he is rights, but it is interesting to think about. My personal thought is that the Big Bang happened because a particle went faster than the speed of light, which caused it to have infinite mass, and thus infinite gravity, and instantly pulled all of existence into that particle... which then exploded. I base this thought on nothing in particular, other than it sounds cool. |
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Neither. Probability horizon. Past, present and future are illusions of perspective; a consequence of consciousness and the necessary viewpoint - similar to being able to know with certainty either the location of a particle or it's velocity but not both one may either have sufficient knowledge and perspective to function as an individual ego, or one may see the totality of possibility.
I imagine that an outside observer looking in on our reality would perceive a human life not as a linear progression of precise and knowable moments, but instead perceive an individual's life, experiences, and achievements as a collection of potentialities existing, effectively, simultaneously. |
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It is what it is. We humans perceive time in the way that our bodies inform us. That is our personal––and common––reality. Such is also our personal, but not common destiny, and inescapable. There are other ways that time can be perceived. Words cannot convey the concept; only mathematics. Perhaps I can help. It is simple as long as you can clear your mind and accept the knowledge. |