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Originally Posted by Graybeard  ~~~ Space, Time & Einstein ~~~
If we accept General relativity, and its implications of space and time dilation ... then we must also conclusively accept that the past, present and future exist in this universe at the same moment ...
All past present and future events are here now ... their only measurable difference being human perception of motion ...
Now we are told that the 'distortion' of Spacetime is only apparent at speeds approaching light speed or alternatively, at vast distances. But surely we can measure it at any speed or distance ? In other words, any and all movement, must distort Spacetime, however small that movement is ?
Now for my 'brainstorming' question.
All thats moving in relation to us, cars on the street, trees in the wind, the hair on our head blowing in the wind, the wind itself, our arm as we strike a home run .... must, in some sense be moving slightly into the future, or alternatively, the past. Our body and all around us must only be synchronised when we are 'still' in relation to our selves and our surroundings. ?
In other words if we could freeze frame our surroundings so that only the present were visible, then the only parts visible would be the parts that were in the same still state as the observer ? Would our arm swinging the baseball bat be visible, or only return to our view once the home run had been hit, would roads be empty of all traffic ?. (Of course this is impossible as Nobody pointed out, if time was frozen, light would be frozen and we would receive no light at all.)
Is it possible that our 'esse' is in some sense not just in the present but in a wider band bounded by our motion. Are we spread or smeared or 'Bell-curved' across a small amount (or even all) of the past-future with the immediate present being the mythical mid position from which we presume to take our 'base' measurements?
Or are there simply billions of Graybeards, perish the thought, all acting in near-unison in parrallel universes and our 'esse' is just a condensed persona of them all ... LOL
If I'm crazy, where did the craziness set in .... ??
cool bananas ... greg  |
The easiest way to prove that all is at the same speed is to attempt to break a second down to it's tiniest part. It's impossible, it would be as small as infinity is large. It's so small, it doesn't even have a name, so let's christen it finitiny, pronounced
fini tiny. That brings us to now, which doesn't even exist either cause we don't have anything before or after now. So basically I find myself agreeing with Nobody once again.
Life is pointless and we don't even exist or we never stop existing. It's too complex so either something is screwing with us just for the heck of it or we are already artificial intelligence and about as dumb as the computer in front of us. Time must be programed into us to give us some false sense of having to be somewhere at a particular time, the computer doesn't know what time it is either, we have to tell it, that's also why we sometimes ask people, "what time is it?" If it was real, we would always know the time like how we know the weather if we just step outside into it. We are constantly in time right? So then we should constantly know the time, but we don't.