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Speaking of time, did you know that ( for Americans) at 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4.00 am on July the eighth, this year, the time and date was 04:05:06 07-08-09 ?
For the rest of the world this will occur at the same time on August 7, because of the way we write our date.
Just a bit of time trivia for you, but I am amazed that the charlatans and phsycics weren't making a bigger deal of it as it is an interesting number sequence.
Nah, they're too afraid of the Mayans to worry about any cheap numerology crap. Not to say that it isn't a bit of interesting trivia, but that's all it is. Not really anything any legit scientists would probably get into.
Well they all got excited about midnight, December 31 1999, even though it wasn't even the end of the millenium.
I guess the point I would really like to make is about the abstract nature of time. We apply certain measurements, based entirely on the human experience or the length of our year/month/day.
It all gets very messy and there is still no one single callendar in use today.
Our experience of time is of us moving through it in a forward direction, knowing that time has past because we can remember things that have already happened.
We can see the past when we look into the night sky and look at the stars. The light we are seeing has travelled so far that what we see is from the distant past. For all we know, most of those stars are now gone, no longer exist. How could we know? We can only see their light from perhaps thousands of years ago.
Interesting things happen to time when you start looking at massive distances. It has been described as a curve. To me, this suggests that ultimately, it would be a circle, or a wheel, as any curve will eventually complete a circle if it is allowed to continue at a constant rate.
Perhaps the Hindu and Bhuddist phillosiphers knew more than they are often credited with ?
So...yah, I know I just necroed this thread.
I don't care.
It's easier than making a whole new thread for the same subject.
But anyway, I just thought of something: If you die before you are conceived, will you be born?
Think about it.
I believe that idea was proven to be impossible. It is a Catch-22.
EDIT: Wait, are you talking about dying in the womb?
I believe it would be possible.
To quote Frank Herbert: Paradox is an arrow to better understanding (or something along those lines...)
Isn't it accepted that space and time are really this one thing called Space-Time?
Now I ask you, where is it? When is it?
Can you stand outside of it and point to it?
The universe is all time and all space at once.
I don't know about you, but I think Relativity is AWESOME. Space BENDS!
Well yes but I wasn't specifically talking about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milonius
What I mean to say is the universe Is. Period. That's all. It just Is.
Our perception of time is only a function of the brain, probably shared by animals to a certain degree. The universe couldn't care less that we perceive it in this way.