What is Your percerption of time, space and dimensions?

shroomie

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Seeing as no one seems to know for definite, I want to get a general view of what people think. I think that time is a constant river flowing in one direction, however there is no past and no future, only one pulsating present (this one) that is continously moving and being changed by the events of the universe.
However this is all irrelavant as I dont know any of you actually exist and you could all be part of some greater plot (see The Matrix trilogy for better explanation although not quite the same).
 

Svenparty

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Time,Space and Dimensions are too hard for us to grasp and always will be just like how we cannot comprehend pure nothing.
 

Good morning blues

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I certainly don't understand it and to be frank I don't really have any interest in developing a proper knowledge of it, so why think about it at all? Why not go out there and tackle some problems that are within my capability to solve?
 

Booze Zombie

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Time and space are constructs, we will probably never be able to fully appreciate even the simplified meanings we gave to said constructs, let alone the actuality of the universe it's self.
 

Hunde Des Krieg

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Booze Zombie said:
Time and space are constructs, we will probably never be able to fully appreciate even the simplified meanings we gave to said constructs, let alone the actuality of the universe it's self.
I think in a million years when our brains are the size of watermelons we may stand a chance.
 

Booze Zombie

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Hunde Des Krieg said:
I think in a million years when our brains are the size of watermelons we may stand a chance.
0.00001 to 50,000,000,000,000 times 50,000,000,000, perhaps. Better than a zero, I suppose.
 

Skeleon

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Hm, if you consider time the 4th dimension, why shouldn't there be some entities that can maneuver freely in it like we can in our 3 dimensions?
I guess we're just very limited. *shrug*
So, for all intents and purposes, yes, for us time is one string, one direction only.
Who knows, maybe it won't stay that way forever. I can't tell.
 

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Bookmarked.

Now, this subject I'll admit, I can't fully understand it myself. It feels a lot like the love issue human beings have. I have yet to meet anyone who can fully understand it.

But I digress, here's my thoughts:

Now, among prominent philosophers, there's two distinct views on time. One being that time is part of the structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in a chain of events. Time travel (which IMO is impossible,) becomes a reality (or possibility) in this view. The other view says that time is not an event nor a thing, and so is not measurable and it can't be traveled. The Greeks believed that the universe has an infinite cycle, with no beginning. But some people, of course believe that the universe is in fact finite, and has a creation date (Big Bang theory I think it was.) So the only thing that is in fact infinite is God, to them.

Now, my thoughts on this is that time and other things are an illusion. This of course would lead into a debate to what exactly is "real." My favorite quote from the Matrix: "What is 'real'? How do you define 'real'? If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." Lovely film.

Anyway, I can't really explain it in a way that I and others can understand. I guess humanity won't know until our intelligence grows, and we evolve into something else.

Meditate on this, I will.

Sorry, had a few poptarts and I'm currently high. ;D
 

lozzab

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erm time is another dimension, its affected by relativity (special and general methinks), time passes differently depending on the strength of gravity (ie, the amount of matter nearby) and becomes bunched up in the same way as space does, forming the 2D space-time (which is odd to think of when its kinda 4 dimensions...). But I'm not an expert on this stuff, just someone with a vague interest so take that with a pinch of salt...
 

Skeleon

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lozzab is right about that, I remember Black Holes being used as an example for this, simply because of their incredible mass. The closer you get to the center of the Black Hole, the slower time becomes.
 

DigitalJedl

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Skeleon said:
lozzab is right about that, I remember Black Holes being used as an example for this, simply because of their incredible mass. The closer you get to the center of the Black Hole, the slower time becomes.
Wait, time actually slows down as an object or sadly a person approaches a black hole? If the theory is correct and if there is a massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Would that mean the closer we are to the center of the Milky Way, the slower time is?
 

Skeleon

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Well, yes and no; subjectively, time would still be passing as normal (as far as I know), just for an outward observer things would be happening slower, i.e. seeing an astronaut being drawn into the Black Hole would become slower and slower, until nearly or practically frozen. But for the poor astronaut himself (or herself ^^), things would be over very quickly.
 

Inverse Skies

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I seem to remember some sort of physics thing saying there was no other time than now... but that might have been a book. I'm not thinking straight after that assignment I just wrote up, ack.
 

DigitalJedl

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Skeleon said:
Well, yes and no; subjectively, time would still be passing as normal (as far as I know), just for an outward observer things would be happening slower, i.e. seeing an astronaut being drawn into the Black Hole would become slower and slower, until nearly or practically frozen. But for the poor astronaut himself (or herself ^^), things would be over very quickly.
Oh! Like the feeling a person(s) get let's say... it's Monday! And someone says today has gone by really slow, as in time itself to them has just hit a yellow light. But time is just going by it's normal current! I get it!:D

Although, that crushed my dream of being sucked into a black hole and going "nooooooooooo!!" As time would go slower with my dramatic last-line.
 

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DigitalJedl said:
Although, that crushed my dream of being sucked into a black hole and going "nooooooooooo!!" As time would go slower with my dramatic last-line.
"In space, no one can hear you scream..."
Because there's no medium for the sound to travel in.
Sorry to crush that fantasy a SECOND time. ;-)
 

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I take the sceptic high ground. You cannot know anything, including whether something exists or not, because there is always the possiblilty (however remote) that you are wrong. 50 years ago, people KNEW that computers would be a fantasy. 500 years ago, people KNEW the earth was flat. And 5000 years ago, people KNEW that their leader controlled the flood waters of the nearest river.