2008-04-19: What is Time?

[Robert]

Our next topic-driven chat session will be held this coming Saturday, April 19th, at 8pm GMT. The topic is...

What is Time?

Areas we can cover include how time is related to space, how gravity affects time, is time travel possible, is time discrete or continuous, does anything exist outside of or separate from time, can time be reversed, etc. Please remember that this is a science website. Discussions should be rational and based on evidence and reasoned argument.

References
A random google search on time.....What is Time?
Wikipedia reference......Time
The Pure Mathematics of Space-Time.... by Carroll Humphreys.

When is the chat in my local time?
The chat is 8pm GMT but I bet you don't live there. I'll have a countdown timer on the home page but you can also go to the timezone converter website to convert the 8pm GMT time to your local time. At the website select the "Use The Following Date/Time" option and enter the day and time of the chat (April 19th, 8pm) and select GMT in the "From Time Zone" section and your location in the "To Time Zone" section, then click convert. This will give you the time of the chat meeting in own local time.

Texas, U.S. - 3pm

California, U.S. - 1pm

New York, U.S. - 4pm

Britain, London - 9pm

Madrid, Spain - 10pm

Melbourne, Australia - Sunday, 6am

Paris, France - 10pm

India, Calcutta - Sunday, 1:30am

Sweden - 10pm

New Zealand - Sunday, 8am

Going Forward...
Going forward I'd like to continue with a topic-driven chat every 2 weeks. I plan on bringing in guests chatters to some of our chats. I'm thinking the website themes and quizzes will continue but not be tied to our chat schedule. I'm also investigating some improvements to our chat software and some related features that I know everyone will appreciate.

Let's use this thread for the pre-chat discussion and please remember to vote in this thread's poll so we can all know who's attending. However, last minute drop-ins are also welcome.

[One_source_one_outcome]

I will try my best to be there... hopefully i don't have to be at work. Sounds like an interesting discussion and the ideas are already whizzing through my head as i have thought a lot about this before.

[Felix Schrodinger]

Hi Robert

I would love to be there for the chat but I'm photographing an event at that time and am not yet able to be in two places at once. My own TOE contains a fairly detailed description of the mechanism of time which you can find in Member Articles:

http://www.toequest.com/forum/toe-th...nce-shiva.html

Regards
Felix

[dipayankar]

Good Topic... hope for a full attendance.

Our next topic-driven chat session will be held this coming Saturday, April 19th, at 8pm GMT. The topic is...

What is Time?

Areas we can cover include how time is related to space, how gravity affects time, is time travel possible, is time discrete or continuous, does anything exist outside of or separate from time, can time be reversed, etc. Please remember that this is a science website. Discussions should be rational and based on evidence and reasoned argument.

References
A random google search on time.....What is Time?
Wikipedia reference......Time
The Pure Mathematics of Space-Time.... by Carroll Humphreys.

When is the chat in my local time?
The chat is 8pm GMT but I bet you don't live there. I'll have a countdown timer on the home page but you can also go to the timezone converter website to convert the 8pm GMT time to your local time. At the website select the "Use The Following Date/Time" option and enter the day and time of the chat (April 19th, 8pm) and select GMT in the "From Time Zone" section and your location in the "To Time Zone" section, then click convert. This will give you the time of the chat meeting in own local time.

Texas, U.S. - 3pm

California, U.S. - 1pm

New Your, U.S. - 4pm

Britain, London - 9pm

Madrid, Spain - 10pm

Melbourne, Australia - Sunday, 6am

Paris, France - 10pm

India, Calcutta - Sunday, 1:30am

Sweden - 10pm

New Zealand - Sunday, 8am

Going Forward...
Going forward I'd like to continue with a topic-driven chat every 2 weeks. I plan on bringing in guests chatters to some of our chats. I'm thinking the website themes and quizzes will continue but not be tied to our chat schedule. I'm also investigating some improvements to our chat software and some related features that I know everyone will appreciate.

Let's use this thread for the pre-chat discussion and please remember to vote in this thread's poll so we can all know who's attending. However, last minute drop-ins are also welcome.

[baudrunner]

Hi, Robert

Somewhere in the five hundred and then some comments I've posted in the past there should be plenty of food for thought. These days finds me writing in earnest to earn money and occasionally posting to my blog on blogger (baudrunner.blogspot.com) and I can't often tear myself away, but a chat sounds great.

I think that you'll find the time in New York to be five hours earlier than GMT, not four. I'd hate for anybody to be misled and miss an hour of the chat. That would make it 3:00 PM here in Toronto as well.

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/world.time.tzc

I'll see you there!

[Felix Schrodinger]

I think that you'll find the time in New York to be five hours earlier than GMT, not four. I'd hate for anybody to be misled and miss an hour of the chat. That would make it 3:00 PM here in Toronto as well.

The UK is now on BST - interesting that we can't agree what time it is!

Felix

[Profpat]

I'll give it my very best effort to be there on time. 4:00PM New York time right?

Best to all,

Pat

[redewenur]

This is a classic. Would like to be there, but 2am...maybe not.

[mkirkpatrick]

Thanks Robert ın Turkey ıt wıll be 11pm.wıll try and be there depends ıf the internet cafe
ıs stıll open then.İ am waıtıng for a connection at my new home here.


Tıme for me ıs forever NOW




regards Turkısh Mıchael

[dleviwing]

I’ll try to be there with a bigger club; apparently that horse is not dead yet!