Time. Linear or circular??

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  • beachdweller
    beachdweller Posts: 1,532
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    I agree about time being fascinating. Give me a good scotch to sip, a beach to lie on, some stars to gaze at and an hour to ponder time and I am a happy man!

    same here, though I'm thinking a good Port Wine or maybe a warm brandy would be my choice...
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  • LaterDays
    LaterDays Posts: 142
    Man, I wish I had more than a minute to type before I have to leave. I have a degree in Astrophysics and would absolutely love to chime in on the implications of Quantum field theory, General Relativity, and String Theory. Maybe tomorrow.

    If time doesn't exist, space doesn't exist. It's one fabric (change the dimensions of one, you alter the other).

    According to String Theory and a couple of other attempts to unify physics into one cohesive set of principles, time is not either linear (move back-forward) or circular (really still linear, except the line makes a loop through a separate dimension). Instead, time may be able to move both forward and backwards, up and down, left and right...

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  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    8 hours is 8 hours. Earth travels 1/3 around the sun in 8 hours. A billion years is still a billion years. Time relative to what is the question.

    I am sure that what you meant to type was that the earth rotates 1/3 in 8 hours. It takes 4 months travel 1/3 around the sun.
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    I am sure that what you meant to type was that the earth rotates 1/3 in 8 hours. It takes 4 months travel 1/3 around the sun.

    surely one would think...however I was talking time in relative terms of a day moth...
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  • angelica
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    LaterDays wrote:
    If time doesn't exist, space doesn't exist. It's one fabric (change the dimensions of one, you alter the other).
    Yes...space is an illusion as well! :)
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