Time.

tyler.durden

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It is such a trip to recognize three dimensional space is fused with time to make up our 4th dimensional spacetime continuum. The faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time. So if we're at a park and I'm running around a track, and you are sitting still, time is measurably going slower for me than it is for you. That is why photons (and other massless particles) traveling at light speed don't experience time. Just pure space. That is also why anything with mass cannot travel at light speed, for it would take more than the total energy of the universe to make that happen. Even crazier is that time began with the big bang, so the notion of time before that expansion doesn't make sense. How would there be a 'before' before time existed? Makes you want to take a hit and ponder...



I love this series.
 

tyler.durden

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This deconstruction of time, especially the concept of 'now', is fascinating...


So, everything that has happened, and will ever happen, already exists. Even the end of your life exists, you simply haven't gotten there yet. We just experience time in a linear fashion. Which is great. I wouldn't want to experience my entire life at once :shock:
 
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doughper

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Is there such a thing? I guess so if I think so.
What'd that one dude say, "i think therefore i yam"?
Wazzat Popeye, said that? No, he was, "i yam wot i yam".
Or maybe it was descarte, about his yam farm? Nah....
I wish I could get high yet.

Speaking of waiting, yanno einstein gives a good analogy
of the relativity of time: “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think
it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute
you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”

In f'ball they always ask, "how many time outs do the Bucs have?"
That's not relativity, it's stupidivity. Make sense? Hell ta the no!
I still wish I could get high yet.
 
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