Space and Time into a single Continuum

[Quixote1818]

[tomm2thumbs]

1. ouch

my brain

[Veilex]

2. Fascinating stuff!

[jakeXT]

3. Brian Greene sure likes his bread, I remember him using one to explain multiple dimensions in the

Elegant Universe

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338694/

[macandsandy]

4. My favorite quote -

Ok I don't remember who said this - maybe someone here does.
Who was the physicist who said:

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once" ?
Maybe it should be updated to "our now experience is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once."

[CrispyQ]

5. I heard it like this.

Time is the universe's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Space keeps it from happening all to you.

[longship]

6. And gravity tells space how to curve. And the curvature of space tells objects how to move.

Albert Einstein.

And here's one by Richard Feynman: when asked why is there something in the universe, rather than nothing, Feynman punned (accurately), "Because nothing is unstable."

R&K

[zebonaut]

7. These effects are real; but they don't apply to James Inhofe; who doesn't believe in science.

Weird stuff. If the alien gets on his bike; does the past happen "again"???

[Quantess]

8. Does this mean the future is predestined?

Or that all likely outcomes exist at once? Or what?

[Quixote1818]

9. Very good question. There should be a questions and answers session for questions just like yours.

nt

[Quixote1818]

10. Actually, it basically says that the future has or IS occuring

So I don't know if it is predestined but they seem to think it has or IS occurring. Not something that is easy to get your mind around. Makes you wonder if deja vu a memory from our future. I wonder if there is a moment in the vast reaches of space that is occurring for the first instant as the universe expands?