Wednesday, July 27th 2005
Daily Insight
Your mindblowing thought of the day, courtesy of Wired:
Regarding “Time’s Up, Einstein” (issue 13.06): “Time’s not real,” I tell my students. Physics time is an illusion; Peter Lynds rocks! The now is the temporal singularity - collapsing past, present, and future sequences of events into “oneness.” There are therefore no instants of time, no time at all. The structure of our minds creates and destroys time. Days are long or short depending on our perceptions.
Americ Azevedo
Director, Collaborative Intelligence Lab, UC Berkeley
Whenever people tell you that you waste too much time, tell ‘em: “Time’s not real man, the now is just a temporal singularity! Now get out of the way, you’re blocking the TV.”
Posted by Patrick Rodriguez @ some temporal singularity.
Comment by Beetle — 7/27/2005 @ 2:22 pm
Eh, the most accurate way to describe it is to say that your quantum state exists at one specifed time coordinate, so the change of your quantum states is the movement of time, and you can’t really go back because of the way physics works out. That is, assuming you don’t feel life inside an event horizon is just extra fun today (Then you can travel back and forth. This is a gross oversimplification, but its the general idea).
That guy is just trying to make science sound all …. hippy. Thanks, but if the tree falls, it makes a sound, and I don’t give a damn who is there to hear it!
Comment by tigerhawkvok — 7/28/2005 @ 11:40 pm
What if a tree falls in space?
Comment by Beetle — 7/29/2005 @ 12:10 am
If you try to hear it, your head explodes.
Comment by patr — 7/29/2005 @ 12:31 am
Hmm… but if your head explodes in space, does it make a sound?
Comment by Beetle — 7/29/2005 @ 2:23 am