In keeping with the thread about evolution I ask each of you this question. What is time to you? Otto Von Bismarck said that "Time is a river on which humanity tries to navigate..." or words to that effect. Only in the past few thousand years have we tried to shoehorn time into predictable seasons, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. One of the earliest known examples of trying to plan for and predict time can be attributed to the people who began building the mesolithic analog computer StoneHenge located in the UK.
Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once, which would be very very confusing!
I do not know what time is? The problem is that general relativity is only half of the revolution of twentieth-century physics, for there is also the quantum theory. And quantum theory, which was originally developed to explain the properties of atoms and molecules, took over completely Newton's notion of an absolute ideal time. So, in theoretical physics, we have at present not one theory of nature but two theories: relativity and quantum mechanics, and they are based on two different notions of time.
Chuckle, my dad used to say atoms were made of Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, Fig Newtons, and Morons. :whistle:
You know what Bones! Your dad was probably right. Was also thinking that you now live in a part of the country where 'time' can have altogather different meanings. Try and spend any time on the Res and you will know what I'm talking about.
A belief in time raises paradoxes. Would time flow if there were nothing in the universe? If everything stopped, if nothing happened, would time continue? On the other hand, perhaps there is no single absolute time. In that case, time is only what clocks measure and, as there are many clocks and they all, in the end, disagree, there are many times. Without an absolute time, we can only say that time is defined relative to whichever clock we choose to use. And if you don't believe me, try talking 'time' with any Native American.
OldDan, have you ever been to the "Medicine Wheel" on the summit of Medicine Mt? There is another analog method of measuring time the Native American way. http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/MedWheel.HTM
Time is much like what was posted here...a running river...and fate is tributaries and forks...we cannot fight the current but we have some say in the path we take. As for actual time as in our clocks...it is subjective...a day on earth is one rotatation of the planet, a year is a rotation around the sun...these things are different depending on where you are in the universe.
Time is what too many of us waste posting nonsense on CoinTalk. And I am not just speaking for myself.
So in a parallel universe would time be same as in this dimension or would it be 180ยบ out? Maybe a complete life would pattern itself after a bell curve. Start at infancy, go into middle, then old age and gradually start growing young again on the other side of the hump. Our candle would snuff out as a tiny 180 year old myopic infant, only to start it all over again with the chance to correct our errors made in the prior growth phase, LOL... The possibilities are endless. One universe for every soul on the planet or have ever been on the planet.
Great web site Bones, and the answer to your question is 'yes' I have been there. The area on and around the wheel was our hunting camp from about 1945 until the forest servicee started taking interest in the site and stopped any one from using it for a base camp. We then moved our camp to about where they eventually built the cabin that they use as a visitor center now. It's a great area to see and I would encourage anyone who hasn't been there to make the trip. (then go back home and leave the state as it is now, we like it this way).
What is time? That is a question being researched right now by physics theorists. Two main questions: 1.) Can time move backwards. 2.) Does it move smoothly or in discreet steps. In reference to the first question, nothing in physics prevents it but nature probably forbids it. The second question, it looks like time may move in very tiny descreet steps instead of smoothly that is intuitive to us. Of course we have nothing but time to ponder its meaning.
There can be no "nothingness' without a 'somethingness' to compare it to. Once there is a 'Somethingness' -(matter), Time must flow as molecular movement and radioactive decay occur. This is only my own theory.
Interesting theory Captainkirk but outside the standard model. Actually matter is made up of nothingness.
