Synergy wrote:I was thinking about how time relates to our mind just a moment ago, then it hit me. I'm posting this here because this should not be forgotten. Seriously, I think I have stumbled into the real deal. I've got this feeling that time could possibly not exist.
What I mean is, perhaps everything is in the present only, and we only percieve a past through what we currently have within our mind. All the memories are there, but we never actually experienced them, we only think we did because the memory exists. There is no future either. We only think there will be one based on what memories we have to base one off of.
Not convinced? Okay then. You are reading my post right now. Goodness gracious me! Wait a minute! How do you really know you're reading it right now and not before? How do you know you're not accessing the memory of it?
Confused? Let me explain my theory furthur. Let's say time once existed. Once. But it had a limit, and it ran out. Now time is no more. It's the end of the universe, and everything that existed at the point time stopped also stopped and became the final present, where there would no longer be a future, only a past that lingers in the midst of mere thoughts.
I know, I know, it's too overwhelming for you, right? It's okay, take it in slow if you have to. I don't blame you for being astounded by these possible secrets of the mind that I have exposed to you.
You're going to have to reconcile metaphysics with real, observable processes to get anywhere with this theory, Kracusgy.
If there is no time, why does everything not happen all at once? Why does the Earth still rotate? Why do things decay?
time is like a loaf of bread and depending at the angle you are taking slices at, you will see different things, so time is different for different observers (not on the scale of earth so much).
fabric of the cosmos describes something to that effect, but much more effectively. Very interesting and well written section in that book.
So time must be cut carefully with a good, sharp knife or else the slice will be shit generating an equilibrium of shitty eternity for you to wade back and forth in shit for the duration of this slice.
If the Big Bang occurs like 14 billions of years ago and a fruit fly has a life span of only 7/10 days and let's say we live for 100 years.
Still, comparing the two. May be time does exist but it is such a small portion of what already has exist that it is an infime minuscule part comparing to all of what we have behind.
tnf wrote:time is like a loaf of bread and depending at the angle you are taking slices at, you will see different things, so time is different for different observers (not on the scale of earth so much).
fabric of the cosmos describes something to that effect, but much more effectively. Very interesting and well written section in that book.
I got myself in a delightful pseudoscientific tizzy a few days ago on the notion of time and gravity being interrelated, especially in the sense of surrounding large bodies of matter. Got some grand theory that kind of made sense about how time only shifts you in one direction in the same manner as gravity only pulls in one direction, but on a smaller scale that's not true.
Then I realised I wasn't krakus or synergy and that I should probably go and actually read a book on the subject since that's what any rational being does, as opposed to posting my 'amazing new discovery' for the world to laugh.
tnf wrote:time is like a loaf of bread and depending at the angle you are taking slices at, you will see different things, so time is different for different observers (not on the scale of earth so much).
fabric of the cosmos describes something to that effect, but much more effectively. Very interesting and well written section in that book.
I got myself in a delightful pseudoscientific tizzy a few days ago on the notion of time and gravity being interrelated, especially in the sense of surrounding large bodies of matter. Got some grand theory that kind of made sense about how time only shifts you in one direction in the same manner as gravity only pulls in one direction, but on a smaller scale that's not true.
Then I realised I wasn't krakus or synergy and that I should probably go and actually read a book on the subject since that's what any rational being does, as opposed to posting my 'amazing new discovery' for the world to laugh.
You're talking about effects perceived at relativistic velocities. Length contraction, time dilation, etc. Pick up a book about relativity.
