ketteringram Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 57 minutes ago, RamNut said: So its not when we are, its where we are. only trouble is......we can't rewind or fast forward. That sounds about right. I was being advised recently, to live in the now. Very alien to how I normally am. Today I'm being told there isn't even a now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkleyram Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Anyone know what the score was against Bolton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 10 hours ago, ilkleyram said: Anyone know what the score was against Bolton? *is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 If you were allowed to see into the future just long enough to get one piece of information, what's the one thing you'd want to know above all else? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Euromillions results, game changer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 2 minutes ago, Wolfie said: If you were allowed to see into the future just long enough to get one piece of information, what's the one thing you'd want to know above all else? ? Susie Dent's movements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, Parsnip said: Susie Dent's movements. Geographical or bowell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 15 hours ago, Lambchop said: I've always intuitively felt that the strictly linear sense of time imposed by the clock is not how it really is. My clock goes round and round, thus proving time is not linear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 13 minutes ago, jono said: My clock goes round and round, thus proving time is not linear Bloody flat-clockers ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 32 minutes ago, Wolfie said: Geographical or bowell? Geographical obviously. I'm not a pervert. I mean I'll probably collect the other data anyway but i probably won't use it for anything probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 6 minutes ago, Parsnip said: I'm not a pervert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 11 hours ago, RamNut said: Yes. If we had a super telescope pointing at Earth that could see in fine detail and is positioned 130 light years away, then we could look down it and watch history unfold before our eyes. But the speed of light is a universal constant, unless you are suggesting otherwise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 4 minutes ago, StivePesley said: But the speed of light is a universal constant, unless you are suggesting otherwise? You would see the events on Earth unfold as they did 130 years ago but at "real time" speed. To fast forward, you'd have to travel towards the earth while still watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 12 minutes ago, Wolfie said: You would see the events on Earth unfold as they did 130 years ago but at "real time" speed. To fast forward, you'd have to travel towards the earth while still watching. and by the time you got here it would be the present moment Sometimes the way the universe works seems precisely designed to be an unsolvable puzzle doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 47 minutes ago, StivePesley said: and by the time you got here it would be the present moment Sometimes the way the universe works seems precisely designed to be an unsolvable puzzle doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 18 hours ago, TigerTedd said: There is a time and space in the universe where you’ve already read this. So there’s no need to actually go out of your way to read it, just wait until your in that time / space. You've just summed up Michael Gove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramit Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 17 hours ago, Parsnip said: Physicists everywhere one day will be throwing their snapped pencils on to their desks as they reluctantly come to the conclusion... it has to be creation. The questions won't end there though. How did the creator come to be will be the next. It stands to reason that if time and space are interlocked and space is determined to be infinite, then there could not have been a beginning for either time or space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRainy Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 24 minutes ago, ramit said: It stands to reason Things don't stand to reason though, our thinking about these things is often limited by the dialectical nature of our language. Observing the inherent paradox is often as close as we get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramit Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 4 minutes ago, Lambchop said: Things don't stand to reason though, our thinking about these things is often limited by the dialectical nature of our language. Observing the inherent paradox is often as close as we get. Well what sort of chance does that give me then? Alright I am the Messiah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highgate Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Lambchop said: Things don't stand to reason though, our thinking about these things is often limited by the dialectical nature of our language. Observing the inherent paradox is often as close as we get. I think there is an objective truth out there regardless of the nature of our language. Whether we will ever be able to understand it is another question entirely. As fascinating as the block theory is to read, it's nothing new as such. Einstein expressed the same about a century ago when he wrote "the dividing line between past, present, and future is just a stubbornly persistent illusion". Or even if time does pass as we commonly imagine it, we all age at a slightly different rate, depending on our speed through space and the strength of the gravitational field at our location. So the phrase 'There is no time like the present' is literally true. I haven't a clue what time really is. The mind boggles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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