Time is more easily thought of as a straight line, but in reality it's a curve. A strange curve, but a curve.Peace.

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Mr. Anderson 02/08/17 (Wed) 20:48:19 No.29361

Time is more easily thought of as a straight line, but in reality it's a curve. A strange curve, but a curve.

Peace.

Mr. Anderson 02/08/17 (Wed) 22:47:26 No.29362

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>>29361

I'm not sure what this has to do with /x/, but your idea is not exactly new. In fact, for the major part of human history, time has been considered cyclical. I think it was the abrahamic religions that introduced the idea of time as a straight line, going from a "beginning" to an "end".

Mr. Anderson 02/10/17 (Fri) 22:02:56 No.29407

>>29361

"Time is an illusion, but it is a very persistent illusion."

For 10 points, who said that?

Mr. Anderson 02/10/17 (Fri) 22:40:41 No.29410

>>29407

Einstein, but he said "reality", not "time".

I'm not sure I agree with your quote anyway. I've often thought that only the present is real, and the past and future only exist in our minds. On the other hand, some people claim to be able to see (or dream) the future, and they couldn't do that if the future didn't exist. But if the present and future exist at the same time, does time ever really "pass"? I'm not smart enough for this stuff…

Mr. Anderson 02/13/17 (Mon) 00:04:24 No.29478

>>29410

Time is also relative to the observer's place in time. it is two minutes to 7 where I am, but someone on Mars looking at my clock would see it as 4 minutes to 7 because the light from my clock stating 6:58 has not reached him yet. (2 minutes approx. think it's more actually.) The past still exists, we have simply traveled through that moment of time and left it behind us. All of the many paths of the future exist, but we can only tread on one of them.

The present is the real illusion, because it only exists for the smallest, tiniest fraction of a nano-second before becoming the past.

Mr. Anderson 02/13/17 (Mon) 00:20:53 No.29480

>>29478

Time is also NOT a constant. Satellites in orbit around us, not very far from Earth's gravity, and not really traveling that fast compared to the speed of light, have to be specially synchronized due to the time difference caused by their distance from Earth's center of gravity. One of the best proofs of Einstein's relativity. The farther you travel from gravity, the slower time moves. You would not notice this, but anyone watching you would see you moving in slow motion. You would see them moving at fast forward. Imagine how slow time would move once outside of the Heliosphere!

Get away from gravity and live forever!

This was also proven during the total eclipse that proved gravity bends space/time when stars behind the sun 'moved' as though refracted in a lens by the sun's gravity. If the speed of light is messed with, time and space have to warp to balance the books.

So basically, there is no present, just the very near future and very recent past. Not even a second is spared on the present, so it has no time in which to exist.

Have fun with that thought tonight!

Mr. Anderson 02/13/17 (Mon) 00:38:12 No.29481

>>29478

I disagree. We can see distant stars that have died long ago, but that just means we can see the past, not that the past still exists.