RE: Time
August 16, 2015 at 10:47 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2015 at 10:51 am by IATIA.)
(August 16, 2015 at 10:13 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: ... time too is only something we made up in order to make sense of how everything "flows".
Basically that is it. Time is 'convenient', not necessary. As far as the "strangeness" of the universe, yep! I make no claims on what the universe actually is, only what my "perception" of reality dictates to me. We cannot know more than what our brain "tells" us, because technically we are nothing more than a 'brain-in-a-vat'. We cannot know or prove that anything we perceive is really the way it is.
However, if time were to exist we have to deal with infinite regression. The only way out is for all 'realities' to exist, as the previous video shows (albeit, they could only show a simulated 3D representation of a 4D environment in 2D). In this scenario, there is another you with the same awareness asking the same questions. There is a past you, a present you and a future you. If I traveled to yesterday and engaged in this same discussion with you, it would still be 'you' in that 'reality' which is the same 'you' in this 'reality'. Each 'reality' is static. It is the change to the next that creates our perception of time and awareness.
Everything I have said to this point is possible under QM as we understand it today. Any particle can be anywhere at anytime.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
