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More thoughts on the space-time ...

The time/space continuum is hugely interesting to me,a s is everything regarding outer space, timetravel, relativity, and all.

I think it's odd that something which appears to be as universal as time is a completely manmade construct. We've created our little reality here, but, in effect, it's nothing like the 'real' reality (if there even is such a thing) that is dominant in the Universe.

Cheers
 
"The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effects, and not only upon yourself, but upon others."

p. 262 Seth Speaks
 
I am very interested in the space-time concept, I am even planning my own book about it. It`s just a question of finding the .... Stephen Hawkin was almost right.
 
I'm interested in the physics of the space-time continuum, but SIL, I think your delving into some metaphysical or psychological use of the term.
 
"...for every moment of time that you seem to in this universe, you do
not exist in it. The atoms and molecules have a pulsing nature that you do not usually perceive, so what seems to you to be a continuous atom or molecule is, instead, a series of pulsations that you cannot keep track of.

Physical matter is not permanent. You only perceive it as continuous ...

Your consciousnes fluctuates in the same way."

p.470 Seth Speaks
 
Maybe all of time is just one moment that we as humans cannot understand, so we separate it into separate moments and instances.
We all came from particles in the earth and materialized in our mother's womb as she consumed food from the earth. this same process created her. so how were the first particles created? we are made from the clay of the earth... doom doom doom doom doom :p
what is truth if it is verified by certain confirming instances from human experience, which is biased and inconstant? :confused:
But a question i really want the answer to (I'm being serious now) is this: What's the difference between existence and non-existence?
 
lovermuffin said:
But a question i really want the answer to (I'm being serious now) is this: What's the difference between existence and non-existence?
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I just now read your post, lovermuffin. What an excellent question. I'm going to make what may seem to be a rash statement here, but I think it may just turn out to be true (in the long run) :

There is no such thing as "non-existance".

Ahem.

I recently purchased A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking, and would love to discuss his work with anyone who is interested ...

I'll continue to hark back to this subject from time to time, as I believe that it's The Only dance There Is.

:D
 
I have read 'A Brief History of Time', by Stephen Hawking and also his follow up book to this. Both very interesting books, but a recent TV programme about Stephen Hawking has now shown his Blackhole theory to be wrong. Although I am not sure that I agree with either.
 
moonshot said:
I have read 'A Brief History of Time', by Stephen Hawking and also his follow up book to this. Both very interesting books, but a recent TV programme about Stephen Hawking has now shown his Blackhole theory to be wrong. Although I am not sure that I agree with either.
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Do you mean you have read A Briefer History of Time also? You must be a regular Hawking expert by now!

Do you remember which program you were watchng? My understanding is that a black hole is where matter has become so dense that other matter is pulled into its sphere (such as when a star has gone kerplooey or something like that.) Or is that a worm hole?

Did you see the movie What the Bleep? I saw it recently, and wasn't as thrilled by it as others in my family were. It was interesting, but... well, I guess maybe they tricked it up a little bit too much for me. Quantum Physics are fascinating enough.
 
StillILearn said:
Do you mean you have read A Briefer History of Time also? You must be a regular Hawking expert by now!

Do you remember which program you were watchng? My understanding is that a black hole is where matter has become so dense that other matter is pulled into its sphere (such as when a star has gone kerplooey or something like that.) Or is that a worm hole?

Did you see the movie What the Bleep? I saw it recently, and wasn't as thrilled by it as others in my family were. It was interesting, but... well, I guess maybe they tricked it up a little bit too much for me. Quantum Physics are fascinating enough.
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Read A Brief History of Time and watched What the Bleep Do We Know?

I would love to say they were insightful, and full of great theories, and opened my mind.

Truth is, I didn't follow a lot of it.

The whole "String" thing makes the fluid surrounding my brain hurt.

What the Bleep... was disappointing for me. My brother is really into the physics thing, and he recommended it to me, and I was pretty hyped to see it, but I found it exceedingly overdone.

I guess I like answers, and all I keep getting are questions.

?? :confused:
 
I`m no expert but I am very interested in space/time and space and time. I do have theories of my own and I like to read anything on the subject.
I have not seen What the Bleep Do We Know but I will look out for it. The programme I watched about Stephen Hawkins was from the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3913145.stm
 
My best understanding of the concept is that time is not linear, but that it exists in what my friend (who has since gone on to become conscious of the All-That-Is) used to call "the Time Blob".


So, there is no past, present or future as we have been taught to understand it -- there is only the Spacious Now, and we are occupying All of That in what we are accustomed to call "the present".

The tricky part is that we are also 'blinking on and off' (so to speak) in all of our other presents.

We are merely focusing (here and now) on the "probability" that we consciously wish to experience in this experience.

It gets a little bit more complicated as it gets more scientific, but that's basically it...

:)
 
Thanks for the link, moonshot. Now I am really, really looking forward to Hawking's new book (which I have on my TBR pile.)

I hope I can understand it!

:D
 
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