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The Time We Thought We Knew
by Jeremy at 12:37 pm EST, Jan 1, 2004 |
Time dominates experience. We live by watch and calendar. We eagerly trade megahertz for gigahertz. We spend billions of dollars to conceal time's bodily influences. We uproariously celebrate particular moments in time even as we quietly despair of its passage. But what is time? Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe, has written an op-ed for the New Years Day edition of the New York Times. |
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RE: The Time We Thought We Knew
by norfzorf at 4:04 pm EST, Jan 1, 2004 |
Jeremy wrote: stuff I havn't registered for that site, but I've come to think of time as merely action in space; motion. In this sense there is not a "past". Think about this... we only remember the past with neurons in our brain... these neurons exist in the present however... they simply PRESENTLY hold information of a memory.
If nobody had the phenomenon of memory, which I think of as something equivalent to a bunch of 1's and 0's, then the concept of past might be alien and nonsensical. What about the future... that does not exist either I think. The "future" is really an educated prediction of how the ever-present "will" morph... this prediction is done with neurons which exist in the present also. I might be wrong but I havn't read anything that made me think otherwise, except for weird light speed travel which supposedly slows down clocks and shit which I either don't understand or think is flawed. |
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