The non-existence of Time !

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Only Once for All Time
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On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the
morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen
again.

MTW

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Mahatma Gandhi

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RE: Only Once for All

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Only Once for All Time
>
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the
morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen
again.

MTW


Um, what about in the rest of the world where the date you have written would be understood to be 4th May 2006? ;>))

Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel

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RE: RE: Only Once for

Message 16179 in response to message 16178

Quote:
Quote:

Only Once for All Time
>
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the
morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen
again.

MTW


Um, what about in the rest of the world where the date you have written would be understood to be 4th May 2006? ;>))


Now I see that's already been pointed out in the Cafe thread. Oh well... .

Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel

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RE: Scientific American has

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Scientific American has a special edition out "A Matter of Time". I highly recommend it.

While I respect and honor the poet, mystic, shaman...
I am frequently unsure just what they mean. That is why I prefer to study subjects that can be expressed in mathematical and sientific terms. At least it is clear what the author is claiming.
Time is a continuum and it is our now that flows along it.
But things change there fore time is real.


Looks like lots of good articles covering many time related themes; of course I jumped straight to the “Building Time Machines� article. Interesting that Hawking proposed a 'chronology protection conjecture' so as to reject the notion of time travel (and the illogical consequences that it would involve) altogether. To me this makes sense in conjunction with invariance...

Also, the work done by Kip Thorne and others on the physics of wormholes, involving things like negative energy and exotic matter, seems all the more appealing considering the universe is mostly dark energy and dark matter...

I think experiencing the passage of time must be at least some kind of travel in/through it... Or should I say experiencing motion..? hmm...

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