Time is an illusion?
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Re: Time is an illusion?How can I talk to someone who is moving at a different speed? I presume you mean through a mobile phone. So if he is running and I am moving and we are talking over the phone, is that conversation not taking place in the now?(Original post by viriol)
If you're talking to another person who's moving at a different speed, what you call NOW he may call A FEW SECONDS AGO/FROM NOW. Hurray for relativity!!! -
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Re: Time is an illusion?Time is not absolute so as he is moving relative to you, you will see him passing through time slower than you. If he is only running the diffrence is negligable though(Original post by yozzo)
How can I talk to someone who is moving at a different speed? I presume you mean through a mobile phone. So if he is running and I am moving and we are talking over the phone, is that conversation not taking place in the now?
and events which you see to happen at the same time may not happen at the same time for himLast edited by sarcos; 07-11-2011 at 00:18. -
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Re: Time is an illusion?Time is defined by its measurement: time is what a clock reads. It is a scalar quantity and, like length, mass, and charge, is usually described as a fundamental quantity. Time can be combined mathematically with other physical quantities to derive other concepts such as motion, kinetic energy and time-dependent fields. Timekeeping is a complex of technological and scientific issues, and part of the foundation of recordkeeping. Time is real!
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Re: Time is an illusion?(Original post by Obadetona)
Time doesn't exist, it's something we made up to help order things.
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Re: Time is an illusion?If the speed of light is exceeded are we discounting the existance of time where the sequence of events obersved is not neccesarrily the order they happened in?(Original post by Birdman1234567)
Time does exist, if it didn't we wouldn't be able to have a sequence of events that happened after each other, I once thought it was an abstract concept that we made up but it really isn't. -
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Re: Time is an illusion?Have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything outside the Now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible for anything to happen or be outside the Now? The answer is obvious, is it not?(Original post by Birdman1234567)
Time does exist, if it didn't we wouldn't be able to have a sequence of events that happened after each other, I once thought it was an abstract concept that we made up but it really isn't.
Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now.
Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now
What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace - and you do son now. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now. -
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Re: Time is an illusion?Have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything outside the Now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible for anything to happen or be outside the Now? The answer is obvious, is it not?(Original post by U.S Lecce)
Time is defined by its measurement: time is what a clock reads. It is a scalar quantity and, like length, mass, and charge, is usually described as a fundamental quantity. Time can be combined mathematically with other physical quantities to derive other concepts such as motion, kinetic energy and time-dependent fields. Timekeeping is a complex of technological and scientific issues, and part of the foundation of recordkeeping. Time is real!
Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now.
Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now
What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace - and you do son now. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now. -
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Re: Time is an illusion?ahaha, that's exactly what I thought!(Original post by Arekkusu)
... Lunchtime doubly so.
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Re: Time is an illusion?I came on here to post this(Original post by Arekkusu)
... Lunchtime doubly so.
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Re: Time is an illusion?That quote sums it up perfectly. We need clock time to function in this world, but pyschological time is the cause of all of our problems. Read power of now by eckhart tolle which is what I have quoted from.(Original post by MyselfEtAl)
This is interesting, even Einstein himself couldn't crack it.
He came up with "Time is what we measure on a clock". -
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Re: Time is an illusion?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
Ever heard of the theory of special relativity?Last edited by Gakama; 07-11-2011 at 02:17. -
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Re: Time is an illusion?Actually, he just said it to shut the guy up. If you check his theory you'll see it regards time as being as real as space for they cannot be separated.(Original post by yozzo)
That quote sums it up perfectly. We need clock time to function in this world, but pyschological time is the cause of all of our problems. Read power of now by eckhart tolle which is what I have quoted from.
