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RE: Time
August 16, 2015 at 10:05 am
(August 16, 2015 at 8:12 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(August 15, 2015 at 8:36 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Can anyone explain time to me? It never made sense to me that it's actually a real thing in physics, I always thought it was just another human peculiarity that makes no sense conceptually- just another fuck-up of linguistics.

Provide whatever explanation you like. Just please don't call me a moron - I already know that, sigh.  Angel

Time is what stops everything happening at once.

Except that doesn't explain anything. It's like someone asking what is life and someone else answering it's that which stops you from being dead.
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Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 8:36 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 10:03 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 10:33 pm
RE: Time - by AFTT47 - August 15, 2015 at 11:04 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:15 pm
RE: Time - by AFTT47 - August 15, 2015 at 11:24 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:28 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 10:37 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 10:44 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 10:57 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:05 pm
RE: Time - by vorlon13 - August 15, 2015 at 11:06 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 11:12 pm
RE: Time - by vorlon13 - August 15, 2015 at 11:15 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:16 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 11:23 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:26 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:30 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 11:39 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:56 pm
RE: Time - by AFTT47 - August 16, 2015 at 12:07 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:14 am
RE: Time - by AFTT47 - August 16, 2015 at 12:33 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:39 am
RE: Time - by AFTT47 - August 16, 2015 at 12:50 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:52 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 11:48 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 11:18 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:23 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 11:27 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:29 pm
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 15, 2015 at 11:41 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 15, 2015 at 11:33 pm
RE: Time - by AFTT47 - August 15, 2015 at 11:46 pm
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:00 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 12:05 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:08 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 12:15 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:21 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 12:27 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:37 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 12:02 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:04 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 12:26 am
RE: Time - by Alex K - August 16, 2015 at 4:42 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 12:56 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 1:03 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 1:28 am
RE: Time - by Paraselene - August 16, 2015 at 1:33 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 1:39 am
RE: Time - by Paraselene - August 16, 2015 at 1:43 am
RE: Time - by Alex K - August 16, 2015 at 4:52 am
RE: Time - by Pyrrho - August 16, 2015 at 1:07 pm
RE: Time - by robvalue - August 16, 2015 at 5:05 am
RE: Time - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 16, 2015 at 6:28 am
RE: Time - by downbeatplumb - August 16, 2015 at 8:12 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 10:05 am
RE: Time - by downbeatplumb - August 16, 2015 at 10:53 am
RE: Time - by Alex K - August 16, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: Time - by Excited Penguin - August 16, 2015 at 10:13 am
RE: Time - by IATIA - August 16, 2015 at 10:47 am

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