The time of day is a human concept. But past and future isn't.
Infinity and the big bang
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But we can say with reasonable confidence that time can be perceived by other beings/animals.
The passage of time is different based on environmental conditions (speed + mavity), so presumably there's a point at which it stops completely? Does 'past' and 'furture' exist at that point?
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Time does indeed change depending on the local conditions of space, for instance have you ever waited in a Doctors waiting room... ?
Time runs at approximately 10% of the speed it does outside, it also runs at about 1% of the speed of time in a good pub.
Thats why Doctor Who is called... er Doctor Who, someone wanted a time travel TV program and of course time travels very slowly in doctors waiting rooms..
See.. logic.
Time runs at approximately 10% of the speed it does outside, it also runs at about 1% of the speed of time in a good pub.
Thats why Doctor Who is called... er Doctor Who, someone wanted a time travel TV program and of course time travels very slowly in doctors waiting rooms..
See.. logic.
I like this thread.
You mean there is a point at which speed 'stops' as does mavity become non existent? Therefore stopping the aging effects of time (as we know it) such as decay etc?...
You mean there is a point at which speed 'stops' as does mavity become non existent? Therefore stopping the aging effects of time (as we know it) such as decay etc?...
Time stops at the event horizon of a black hole (some say)
Well, the inverse of that. As speed increases, time slows down.
Kind of. It's not like things start happening in slow motion though. You'd still move and think at a normal speed but relative to somebody stationary, less time would have passed for you compared to them over a fixed period.
edit: wikipedia can probably explain it better than I can.
no i don't think past and future exist, they are only a perception, not a physical thing.
It's all a simulation. In the universe which is controlling us, silly things like 'the big bang' aren't real. It was created for this simulation to give us a beginning. The fact the universe is expanding is just another condition of this simulation.
Whether you think that's true or absurd is irrelevent. Any assumption about what came before the big bang, or comes after, it is equally speculative and immeasurable.
I think once most lay people have pondered all these amazing scientific questions, the lack of an answer gets boring quite quickly. You'll move on soon enough.
Whether you think that's true or absurd is irrelevent. Any assumption about what came before the big bang, or comes after, it is equally speculative and immeasurable.
I think once most lay people have pondered all these amazing scientific questions, the lack of an answer gets boring quite quickly. You'll move on soon enough.
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brian cox did a very good lecture on this subject, basically if you think of your life like a torchbeam shining into the future, with everything it covers being a possibility of where you can go and what you can do if you started down the right path now.
now as you approach the event horizon of a black hole, there becomes a point where your entire future can only lead to being sucked into it (even if you could travel at the speed of light), and your beam narrows. by your perception nothing changes (well, ignoring the whole crushing levels of mavity, spagettification etc) but to an outside observer you appear to stop.
Assuming the universe is infinite and assuming it resets at some point we have no idea what happens then - it might repeat the same thing over and over, it might only repeat through certain patterns or it might be that every and any combination eventually happens or something else we can only guess at or maybe not even imagine.
I do find some things quite curious - information about the physical properties of our existence seems to be able to "travel" faster than the limit for physical objects and then there is time dilation both of which are seen in advanced game engines and simulations.
I do find some things quite curious - information about the physical properties of our existence seems to be able to "travel" faster than the limit for physical objects and then there is time dilation both of which are seen in advanced game engines and simulations.
I love how people like you use absolute wording, all of what you are saying is utter hypothesis with no way to even test it.. The simulation hypothesis has some grounds, but one of the least agreed upon via the scientific community.
Time maybe infinite.......but this does not mean everything will be played out.
Entropy is your enemy it will also be very very very boring.
So yes the universe does have an end just a never ending boring one. (simulation is one step below the creationist view point)
Entropy is your enemy
it will also be very very very boring.So yes the universe does have an end just a never ending boring one. (simulation is one step below the creationist view point)
Time maybe infinite.......but this does not mean everything will be played out.
Entropy is your enemy
Can anything really be boring - considering boredom is a uniquely human characteristic?
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the problem i have with the simulation hypothesis is it's grounds seem to centre around not being able to prove it's wrong, and of course then providing no answers as to who created the simulation or why they'd do such a thing, or how their universe came to be.
realistically it's got as much grounds as any of the mainstream religions, fine if you want to beleive on something with just faith to go on, but not something that should be regarded as fact without proper evidence.
But there is no proper fact about the Big Bang theory it's just a theory as well, no one knows if it's true or not and that brings us back to the question the OP had
Why would the makers of the simulation live in a universe? might be something totally different.
For the record I am not a believer of any one idea as I have seen no evidence only theory and belief.
You quote my post and then say I used absolute wording... did you actually read what I said at the end of the second line? And then the 3rd...?
"People like you" read what you wanna so you can jump down other people's throats.
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there is evidence for the big bang though, everything from the sky at night being black telling us the universe has a finite age to observations of galaxies allowing us to extrapolate the size, shape and rate of expansion of the universe to the observation of cosmic radiation leftover from the big bang.
whereas i've heard no such evidence for the simulation theory.
I disagree on it being on the same standing as any other religion though it is far from anything other than a possibility - we aren't far off being able to produce primitive simulations of our own with advances in computing, VR, biology, etc. - if we can do it that opens up the question as to whether we are the product of it even though it can't solve or do anything other than open the possibility. There are many aspects of quantum mechanics where we don't really have a satisfying answer - "hidden" variables, wave/particle duality, etc. all tied into Bell's theorem amongst other anomalies whereby information about the physical world at a low level seems to behave differently to the mechanics of the physical world as we understand it.