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My theory about time
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| Kamikaze Badger |
I posted this very same thing over at the EOCF, and yes, I thought and typed this up, but inspiration was provided by EOCF members.
Ok, this theory was thought up of with the unknowing help of other members. I take the minority of credit. Anyway, a member posted that every time you look at the stars at night, you're looking into the past. This got me thinking, and it occurred to me that everything we see is from the past, in a way. Since light takes a tiny fraction of a second(a fraction of a nanosecond maybe) to reach us usually, and it's light reflecting off of things and entering our eye to be focused onto the retina, and then processed by the brain. Because of this, everthing we see is from the past, it's just that light travels at such un-comprehendable speeds and the brain processes the information so quickly, that we don't notice at all. And for sound, we all know that it travels MUCH slower then light, and also has to vibrate the eardrum and must be processed by the brain. And the same goes for senses, as the signals have to travel through the nerves and into the brain to be processed, therefor, EVERYTHING WE SENSE/SEE/HEAR IS FROM THE PAST! But, the amounts of time that are required for the information to reach us and our brain is un-noticable, unless we're talking about sound from far off, as sound travels slow through gasses because of the fact that the matter in gas is spaced farther apart then in any other substance, though it travels much faster through dense substances such as iron. But that's not the point.
End conclusion: Everything that we sense, see, hear, etc, occured in the past, but the time taken for the information to reach us is such a small amount that it's un-noticable. As said by another EOCF member: "Time only depends on where you are in the universe." So, whenever you get into large distances, time loses all meaning. And, as things become more advanced and technology manages to work harder, in the next few milleniums, if the human race survives and continues to evolve in knowledge at the current rate, time will become useless.
Now, you deserve a cookie for reading all this, and, for those that don't care to read all of what I just typed, this is the theory(again): Everything sensed, seen, heard, etc, is from the past. |
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| DjDeComp |
| I didnt read but can I have the cookie |
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| gwrmarines |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kamikaze Badger
a member posted that every time you look at the stars at night, you're looking into the past. |
I said that on these boards in that deepest space pic nobody ever reads my post i hate you all!:whip: |
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| Kamikaze Badger |
| Awww, don't hate us, hate the RIAA! *hugs gwr* |
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| Yoepus |
your assuming to much.
one big one is that the human race will survive into the futuree:p |
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| Omegasox |
| Time is all relative. The past for you may not be the past for someone else depending on certain circumstances. The future creates the past, because without the future there would be no past. Without the past, there would be no future. It's simply dualistic thinking. Generally speaking, time is a creation of man and language. |
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| jinxed84 |
| hmmm. good job. now i want that damn cookie. which will be in in the future/present/past whatever it will taste good! |
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| Inertia |
speed is another important factor in the comprehension of time and how it "works". if i'm not mistaken, at the speed of light, time "loses its meaning". basically, if a person were to ever reach this speed (which is scientifically impossible as far as my knowledge goes) they would age 60 times slower than those outside of the speed of light. to simplify, allow me to use an example.
we have identical new born twins. the day after they are born, they are seperated. one stays on earth, the other goes into space on a spaceship capable of going at the speed of light. the one in space takes a roundtrip that for him, and everyone else on the ship, has been one year long. he comes back to earth at the age of one year, yet in theory, his brother would, by this time, be 60.
from a somewhat positive perspective, this could be what you could deem similar to "travelling into the future".
now, this has always posed an interesting question to me. if reaching the speed of light would "make us go forward in time", then what exactly would make us go backward? logic dictates it would be the opposite of going at the speed of light, but what exactly would that be? |
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| Matt Jay |
| my cat's breath smells like cat food :) |
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| gwrmarines |
| quote: | Originally posted by Matt Jay
my cat's breath smells like cat food :) |
I remember this one time my cats breath stank so bad it was horrible!!:wtf: |
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| bloated_cow |
"Time is an extension of motion."
~Voltaire
:toothless |
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