Time

[Chaigidel]

share your uneducated impressions of what time is and how it moves-- you can offer the science but it will be more ethos if you try to tackle it without any knowledge other than your personal feeling and observation.

[Thanatos]

Time moves in one way, and that's it.

[Kanaric]

I know one thing. If time travel were even possible changing anything would probably be impossible as well. If you do anything in the past in your present it would of already of been history.

[Chaigidel]

well I have this impression of time relating to gravity--- as gravity pulls inward on something i just get the feeling that time is kinda thrown backwards from the constriction like a fluid with waves in it --- and it surrounds a particular space with gravity in it and within that "fluid" of the outward radiating time you experience your relative time---

just a feeling --- i feel like its being pushed out by gravity being pulled in-- i know that wildly wrong but like I said this is for metaphysical concepts of time.

[The Fish]

"Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds"
-Bhagavad Gita, 11:32

There you have it. Time is destruction.

[Chaigidel]

ah nice i never heard the full quote---- but does it flow ? is it like a field of energy? is it simply a concept?

entropy is the destroyer of worlds i think :O

[Zhuge_Liang]

Time is the result of three dimensions. As long as everything moves (us, light, subatomic particles) there will be time. Time is relative to speed. I believe it is possible to go forwards in time, but not back.

[Kanaric]

"Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds"
-Bhagavad Gita, 11:32

The statement is true is so many ways that wouldn't be even thought of when that quote was made.

[enoch]

space

[Thanatos]

If you reach the point of light, which is that of pure energy and no mass, time stops for you. You can't go backwards.

[Kanaric]

What is on the other side of a black whole? Or what is contained within?

A black hole doesn't just affect space and light it also affects..... time.

[Thanatos]

Who knows? You can be the first to try out, Kanaric! Tell us afterwards what it was like!

[Yuiis]

To point out some time-facts.

I dont exactly know what the law was, but I remember in physics class discussing the issue that time ran slower when going at high speeds, i.e. when we travel on an airplain or the astronauts that are orbiting around the earth. Time goes slower on them, I cant remember the exact reason/formula why. Anyone correct me if im wrong in some way.

T'was something that catched my attention those days .

[boofhead]

Well aboriginal Australians never saw time as linear. To them it was circular. Like the tides, the seasons, birth and death, things were always moving around in circles. If an old man died, another baby was born soon afterwards.....the time of a man's manhood was in fact the same time as any previous man's manhood. It was the same time, only a different place.

I believe the Mayan calendar with its forecasting of major events/catastrophies in cycles also reflects a circular view of time: the linear aspect of date calculation for them is contained totally within a circular world view.

[Khosson]

You can go back in time if you pass the speed of light.Or at least that's what Eistein thought.

I think the pagans too had a circular vision of time.At least they had it on history,that i know for sure.From here one might conclude that it is true for time too.It appears that the first who viewed time as liniar were the sons of Sem(jew,arabs,semitic people in general).And i can't help it but also view time as liniary....god damn my semitic education(judeo-christian actualy)

[Darth Wong]

You can go back in time if you pass the speed of light.Or at least that's what Eistein thought.

Unfortunately, your mass would become a complex number, and you probably wouldn't survive this transition.

[Justinian]

Well, I don't think anyone knows exactly what would happen if we somehow broke the light barrier, but didn't Einstein predict we would turn into energy and energy alone if traveling at the speed of light or above?

[DarkKnight]

Well, I don't think anyone knows exactly what would happen if we somehow broke the light barrier, but didn't Einstein predict we would turn into energy and energy alone if traveling at the speed of light or above?

Well an object with mass cannot surpass the speed of light, due to relativity. However, theoretically mass may be able to appear to surpass the speed of light. It relies heavily on wormholes which matter could transverse through, which most of the scientific community rejects. Apparently, an object could travel in higher dimensions to take a "shortcut" through our tangible space-time dimensions. An analogy would be if your universe was the surface of an apple, a wormhole would be like traveling through the apple to get to the otherside. To the observers on the apple universe, that third spacial dimension does not exist. So to them they see the object disappear on one side and reappear on the other. If this object were to travel near the speed of light though the center, and one were to time how long it took for the object to disappear and reappear, it would appear as though the object must have travelled faster than the speed of light (in their perception of the universe and dimensions). However, no such thing occurred in reality.

Of course relevent to time reversing, that scenario is irrelevent, as it would not experience the relativistic affects of travelling faster than the speed of light (because it doesn't). But nonetheless, it is very interesting.

[morteduzionism]

share your uneducated impressions of what time is and how it moves-- you can offer the science but it will be more ethos if you try to tackle it without any knowledge other than your personal feeling and observation.

there's no such thing as "time".

seconds, minutes, hours...there all just 'things' humans have come up with to excercise control over their existence.

another good question is, what is gravity?

[Yuiis]

Well, they are all interpretations, but that in a sense follow some certain rules, mathematical or ligical say it as you want.

Gravity is a force of attraction between two masses. It is not known why masses atract eachother, but we certainly know they do (try jumping off a cliff if you aren't sure xD), and that this force depends on the actual mass of both objects.