(April 11, 2011 at 10:06 am)corndog36 Wrote:(April 9, 2011 at 5:54 pm)Emporion Wrote: My dad doesn't understand the concept of not being able to control time. He thinks that if you get more done in the same time frame you are actually saving time even after I showed him the contradiction in his reasoning. He is a kind-of rational atheist. I wanted to see if people here knew that it's mathematically impossible to control time.
Actually if you have 8 hours in your work day, and you complete your work in 4 hours, you are saving time. Mathematically speaking; 8 - 4 = 4
Cute. That is the example of an illsion of being able to manipulate time.