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There Is No Single Instant In Time
tekkieRich writes "Some interesting news from the world of physics. Supposedly, in this paper, the author answers some of the major paradoxes (achilles vs. the turtle and Zeno) concerning our understanding of time. 'Impressed with the work is Princeton physics great, and collaborator of both Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman, John Wheeler, who said he admired Lynds' "boldness," while noting that it had often been individuals Lynds' age that "had pushed the frontiers of physics forward in the past."'"
There Is No Single Instant In Time
Posted by timothy on Sunday August 03, @03:46AM
from the all-is-flux dept.
I've been counting down the seconds until i die and this guy tells me were are no seconds?! geez i dont want to freaking live forever
A similar paradox, called the Dichotomy, stipulates that you can never reach your goal, as in order to get there, you must firstly travel half of the distance. But once you've done that, you must still traverse half the remaining distance, and half again, and so on. What's more, you can't even get started, as to travel a certain distance, you must firstly travel half of that distance, and so on.
I always thought the reason you could never get started on the way to your goal was the 'trying to get a woman to go some place when you have been ready and waiting for ages' paradox
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Oh well - if there's no such thing as time I can spend as long on /. as I like. :)
Video Game cheats, hints a
Ever seen a fark dupe?
Also, fark posts stuff months before slash.
yeah. game. point. match.
Heh, yeah, right, like we want our scientists to pay attention to philosophy. You know what would happen then, right? Scientists would realise that they actually know far less about the world than they realise and they'd all move to a cabin in the woods and write strange and impenetrable poetry instead of staying in the lab and coming up with useful theories which engineers can then use to create an even better dishwasher.
Listen, bub, we need people to design our machines and technology can't improve without a better understanding of our physical world. I want my flying cars, damnit, and no stinkin' philosopher is going to expose the hard questions to vulnerable scientists and engineers to distract them from making my dishwasher!
Believe it or not, the whole paper-refereeing scene isn't that much different from the Slashdot moderation system.
Has any referee ever sent a paper back and scrawled on it: "J00 f4gg0t! If I ever meet j00 I will kick your ass!"
I accidentally hit the Post Anonymously button on this one.
Any moderations should be made against this post.
That is, if you can find the time to do so.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
This article was posted on fark sometime between 0.99999... and 1.0 weeks ago.
This should have been the: Why-Didn't-I-Think-Of-That-Dept. Doh!
With this theory, I can now safely ignore my alarm clock tomorrow. In fact I won't set it at all. I will simply mathematically contract my working week to zero, and expand my weekend to 168 hours.
I only hope my boss 'gets' the article.
Yep, couldn't agree more. Lately I submitted a review paper and the reviewer commented 'that there was nothing new in the paper and that everything could be found in the literature'!
my entire CS Masters was about a program design paradigm with highly esoteric underpinnings and very little mathematical substance - on the other hand it was well funded!
I am on the college committee that controls your funding. I regret to inform you that based on your post I have decided to vote against renewing your project.
Thank you for the information. Have a nice day.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
typical man
My money is on Achilles.
When it's discovered that the FOOBAR-300295 chip accidentally measures all speeds as 3E11, major advances will finally be made.
Space ships will be able to go faster than light by *gasp* continuing to accelerate. We'll be able to speak with family members on Mars through a loop of particles moving faster than light, by dropping a packet on one end to be picked up on the other.
You pitiful Earthlinks will also discover, by process of elimination, that the electron tastes like Grape-Aid.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
What, you can't infer the meaning of in Soviet Russia, Black Hole eats you! ?
StoneCypher is Full of BS
What do you call a couple of PhD's who are both trying to screw in a lightbulb?
Answer: A pair 'a docs.