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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously
Oh FFS...On top of everything else on our minds right now science decides to spring this on us.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of philosophy Dr. Bradford Skow suggests that if we look down on the universe as if we were looking at a piece of paper, we would see time spanning all directions, exactly the same way that we see space at some point.
So what does this really mean? Well, this suggests that time as we know it is incorrect, in other words, it is not linear as we have always thought. In fact, everything around us is always present.
Dr. Skow further details:
The block universe theory says youre spread out in time, something like the way youre spread out in space. Were not located at a single time.
Dr. Skow agrees that while things change and we see time as if it were passing, Dr. Skow believes that we are in a scattered conditions and that different parts of time may be dotted around the infinite universe.
https://sciencephiles.com/a-new-theory-on-time-indicates-present-and-future-exist-simultaneously-2/
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Sorry, I misread the word present.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Savor that part if you will.
elleng
(131,073 posts)invent 'problems,' GOOD NIGHT.
panader0
(25,816 posts)He could view past or present using his All Seeing Eye of Agamoto,
an amulet hanging around his neck. Really old ('63 or '64) Marvel Comics.
I actually give a lot of credence to that theory. It's as if everything that ever happened
anywhere or anytime is etched in somewhere in time (time is hard to grasp).
I still have some of those old comics, they were the only ones I ever read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange
Coventina
(27,164 posts)I think he's one of Marvel's most overlooked and under-utilized characters.
panader0
(25,816 posts)and I loved his stuff.
Dr. Strange
(25,922 posts)Coventina
(27,164 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...all those weird dimensions and creatures. Kirby was the greater artist, of course. But Steve...I dunno. He was the one, for Those Who Knew...
Time goes you say, ah, no
Alas, time stays, we go ...
✌🏼
unblock
(52,302 posts)Takket
(21,611 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,694 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)His statement was this or close to it The distinction between past, present, and future is only a persistent illusion..
Existence and Reality are a real Magical Mystery Tour.
Mme. Defarge
(8,040 posts)H2O Man
(73,590 posts)(MMT wasn't George's favorite.)
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Orrex
(63,220 posts)"We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying saucers. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the whole Universe disappears." So it goes.
"If You know this," said Billy, "isn't there some way you can prevent it? Can't you keep the pilot from pressing the button?"
"He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way."
Vonnegut knew his shit.
TomSlick
(11,107 posts)"Now the thing about time is that time
Isn't really real.
It's just your point of view.
How does it feel for you.
Einstein said he could never understand it all."
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)JudyM
(29,265 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)So it goes.
misanthrope
(7,421 posts)the work of Erwin Schrödinger and Hugh Everett?
renate
(13,776 posts)Oh how I wish I were a physicist so I could really grok this stuff. Its so cool.
hunter
(38,325 posts)One of my favorites is that the past is represented in the present in the same way the future is. In other words, changes in the present affect the past.
That's NOT in the sense that the victor writes history. We humans don't have the tools to manipulate the past on the macro scale; at best we can observe some non-intuitive effects on the quantum scale.
In some theories about time the universe always looks much the same no matter where or when you go, if you could go there, but we can't. Time travel and faster than light travel are impossible. We can only ever see the universe as it exists in the place and time that we are, in this present, in this now. Our present's past is an abstraction.
The idea that time is some peculiar "fourth dimension" which only runs in one direction is misleading. We might just as well live in a three dimensional universe where each dimension is two-thirds space-like and one-third time-like.
In that universe we are creatures of energy. We, and everything we know, is an interference pattern written on the light. Photons know no time.
Turin_C3PO
(14,032 posts)that if photons had eyes, they could see every event that happened throughout time at the same time.
Goodheart
(5,335 posts)End Of The Road
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LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Yet they never support that premise with objective evidence, but rather bumper stickers.
Goodheart
(5,335 posts)So your attack is fallacious.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Because the very idea of the big bang not existing, then occurring, indicates that some kind of time already existed.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dchill
(38,517 posts)Probably because I've been stuck in last week for most of my life.
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)sagesnow
(2,824 posts)I am moving through the everlasting NOW. The past is only stored memories of my movements in NOW. The future is only my imagination; imaginings of what my future movements in the NOW might be. Time travel is not possible because when ever and where ever I am it is always NOW.
P.S. I stole this from Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Rupert Spira and an army of other teachers of the NOW.
Goodheart
(5,335 posts)sagesnow
(2,824 posts)you will never be able to leave the Now. Drugs, music and sensory distractions only mask this truth.
FM123
(10,054 posts)JudyM
(29,265 posts)Tough for me to grasp.
Along the lines of the Buddhist concept of self/life being illusory.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,191 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)So everything doesn't happen at once.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)drmeow
(5,022 posts)Can I go back to the time when I was in my 30's, super fit, and 2 sizes smaller?
lame54
(35,315 posts)flt rsk
(92 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)What? This was common knowledge on DS9
Dr. Strange
(25,922 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(2,818 posts)Remember-
don't blink!
enki23
(7,789 posts)Also not certain, and not experimentally verified. It's also unclear whether it would be practically verifiable. Still, it makes for a simple, gentle way to view the universe that doesn't lead to fear of nonexistence, and horseshit about afterlives.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)I had once.