Time Explained

Discussion in 'General Science & Technology' started by Farsight, Nov 8, 2006.

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  1. PieAreSquared Woo is resistant to reason Registered Senior Member

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    I like it Farsight... though I might not agree with all of it.. it's good to think outside the box
     
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  3. fantasus Registered Senior Member

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    Perhaps some here find participating in this discussion or thinking about it really does not happen. Untill You prove me wrong I insist something happens in this forum -perhaps some of You agree it happens at different moments -in time of course.
     
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  5. thinking Banned Banned

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    let me put it this way ;

    if you stand still does my inclusion of time move you physically ?

    not psychologically like I have meeting at such time , but physically
     
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  7. fantasus Registered Senior Member

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    answer:

    ?-???? ?
     
  8. swivel Sci-Fi Author Valued Senior Member

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    I disagree. This is a thought-experiment. The ball isn't going from blue to green because someone is painting it, it is just a magical ball that can alter the properties of its surface to absorb and reflect light of varying frequencies. The ball is perfectly spherical and lacks any small, constituent properties.

    The fact that this featureless ball of no moving parts could be used to tell "time" with no movement whatsoever blows your definition out of the water. Movement is the most common type of change, which has you fooled into thinking it is a complete set of all change, and therefore a synonym for time. But it obviously isn't. And time is akin to change, plain and simple.

    I'm not sure why you are wed to your definition. It is weaker and provides no new insights. It seems like you are pigeon-holing yourself due to mere preference.
     
  9. fadingCaptain are you a robot? Valued Senior Member

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    "a magical ball that can alter the properties of its surface to absorb and reflect light of varying frequencies" = motion
     
  10. swivel Sci-Fi Author Valued Senior Member

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    My defining all change as motion you are proving my point and exposing your argument as one of very circular reasoning. All change=motion therefore all motion=change.
     
  11. thinking Banned Banned

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    true




    and what is the imputis that adjusts or alters the properties of its surface ?

    so that this surface can absorb and reflect light of varying frequencies ?

    in the first place ?


    except the fact that this ball can alter its surface

    with no movement


    actually no



    above
     
  12. thinking Banned Banned

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    you can't alter something without something to cause the alteration , in the background
     
  13. dixonmassey Valued Senior Member

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    To paraphrase an ancient pre Heisenberg paradox, if a stone flies in the air, it passes through series of trajectory points. At any given moment a stone is located somewhere, if it's "located" somewhere, it doesn't move, therefore its speed should be zero. Quite an absolute you've invented.

    Seriously, humans are limited creatures, our perception of universe is approximated through 3D space, time, distance, force, energy. Those are fundamental intuitive concepts defying precise definition, it's just there. Show me a brainy wannabe Einstein claiming that he understand about time etc. more than an illiterate Bolivian peasant, I'll show you an arrogantly stupid asshole balancing on the edge of sanity.

    It's quite possible that our perceptions are mass programmed by super intelligent race, it's quite possible that we are raised in the timeless 4D universe for their sensory pleasures, but guess what? There is no way to know because we are limited creatures thinking otherwise. I would strongly suggest you spending time to embrace this novel concept of human limits, instead of inventing "theories" of time.
     
  14. thinking Banned Banned

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    of course if you are the future Einstein you could disagree with the past thinking, could you not ? and be right
     
  15. dixonmassey Valued Senior Member

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    Humans and human Einsteins (even disagreeing Einsteins) are limited by 3D space, time, force, energy which they cannot even define to anyone's satisfaction. Pop cult, media, etc. claim otherwise solely for the social control sake. I'm quite confident (and satisfied) that those limits are here to die with us.
     
  16. thinking Banned Banned

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    it seems though that even now time its self is being debated though

    sometimes it just takes time , time to think about a concept , to change ones mind about a previous concept

    so I have found anyway

    take time its self for example

    the pervalence for most was that time had some influence on things , rather than seeing time as for what it is , the measurement of the movement by things

    see my point ?
     
  17. John Connellan Valued Senior Member

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    Why does it not move because it is located somewhere? Movement is simply a change of location. We are not saying the stone is located there forever :shrug:
     
  18. dixonmassey Valued Senior Member

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    For the same reason your PC monitor doesn't move with respect to table when you've typed that.

    At some point in forever your PC monitor will move from the table. Therefore, your monitor is moving right now, right

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    The ancient paradox can be explained only using Heisenberg uncertainty principle stating that the values of position and velocity, for example, cannot both exist with arbitrary precision.
     
  19. thinking Banned Banned

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    put simply ,time is the measurement of the movement(s) by object(s)

    time has NO influence on anything at all

    time is a consequence of movement

    obviously

    the Reasoning is sound
     
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  20. dixonmassey Valued Senior Member

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    What is the distance and space then? What does time measure when a cup of tea is cooling down on the fixed wrt Earth surface table?


    Except that you are getting older with time

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    No movement = no time, huh? That's remarkable.
     
  21. thinking Banned Banned

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    distance and space

    both are what they are

    soo...?
     
  22. thinking Banned Banned

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    so , this is an expression and has nothing to do with the understanding of WHY we are getting older

    and it has nothing to do with the influence of time , in and of its self
     
  23. thinking Banned Banned

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    yes


    not really when you think about it
     
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