RE: JW looking for clarity
April 19, 2015 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2015 at 7:08 am by Heywood.)
(April 19, 2015 at 12:15 am)Surgenator Wrote:(April 18, 2015 at 6:47 am)Heywood Wrote: I imagine that a one dimensional being would say the same thing about multiple spatial dimensions. "Your foot moving in two different directions....that's got to hurt". Of course we know it doesn't.
If there were two time dimensions then time would be plane instead of a line. Moving thru time would be moving thru a plane. I can see it causing problems with causality but not inflicting physical pain.
Temporal dimension don't work the same way as spatial. Explain how a foot can be 10 years and 90 years? It is a violation of excluded middle law of logic.
How can a vehicle travel north and west at the same time? Of course we know the answer to that. The more you travel north, the less you travel west and vis versa. It could be that all your momentum is traveling north and none of it is going west. Couldn't our universe right now have more than one temporal dimension? Say it had two temporal dimensions. If all our momentum was in one direction how would we know the other temporal dimension exists?
Suppose the way it was is that you couldn't travel in both temporal dimensions at the same time. You travel in one temporal dimension and then you turn and travel into another. How would you know? Maybe virtual particles do not pop in and out of existence but rather just change the temporal dimension they are traveling thru. When they are at the same point of space time as us and traveling in the same temporal dimension as us, we see them. When they change temporal direction, it looks to us that they've left existence.
I could probably think about this stuff better if I smoked a bowl or soomething.
