If space/time travelling at 0 = our perceived passage of time. If space/time travelling at 299,792,458 mph = time stopped Then wouldn't space/time travelling at 599,584,916mph = our perceived passage of time in reverse?
No, because at c, the universe from your perspective is already contracted to the length of 0, in other words, you lose one dimension. In whichever way you were traveling, you are there in 0 seconds.
You mean like a giant universe recorded that could switch to going backwards and forwards. But that doesn't explain anything, it just complicates.
What causes the switch?
This also implies another level of time, a meta time, that would be invisible to us inside the recorder. Would this meta time also be able to go back and forth?
It would be better if only single particles could go in both directions in time, and just on the big scale we only observe one direction. Isn't this also one of the explanations for the quantum entanglement?
Ok, so why does this rate of change slows down when your speed increases?
A measure of rate of change? Isn't the word "rate" already enough to define time? As in: Time is a rate of change?
It is as if every object is allowed to either move in space, or not move but then "time" happens to it. You can use one part on moving, and then the rest on getting older. Photons use all of it on moving, so no time for them. Most of the stuff doesn't move much so time happens.
Could it be that time is what happens when you don't move?
"Entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that seems to imply a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. As we go "forward" in time, the second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system tends to increase or remain the same; it will not decrease. Hence, from one perspective, entropy measurement is thought of as a kind of clock"
Bad car analogy: This is silly in a same way if you had an indicator light that would turn on only if you are going forward, and then call that light "a speedometer".
How can something that is destroyed at the exact same moment it is created even exist?
If time slows down for things moving things, time does not flow at all for photons. And from photons perspective, time flows normally, however, there is no space, they get where they were going in the same moment they were created.
And if you want to calculate probabilities where will a photon show up, you have to take every possible route they could travel, or in other words they go trough all the universe at once.
So, we have things that can't exist, can't go anywhere because there is no space for them, yet, when one single photon travels it seems to be everywhere, filling the whole universe.
What I would like to have explained is why photons have no time. Since they travel with the speed of light, from their perspective, they come anywhere instantly. It's as if two points in space get connected at that time. Also, from their perspective, the whole universe gets contracted into a giant vertical pancake. Yet we somehow measure that they travel for some time. What is going on there?
Also, what's with the entropy in a single event, lets say that two electrons "colide", lets say that a photon is created, then absorbed in the other electron. Does this increase entropy or not? Can this be answered without mention gases? At what point some stuff becomes gas? 5 particles or more? Does that mean that time direction only exists if you look at more than 2-3 particles?
The more people feel safe, more they will do the risky things. And seat belts do not save lives, only transfer the risk from the person driving to other drivers and pedestrians.
"Special interest groups" are becoming too powerful all over the world. This is similar to tariffs, in that, it distributes money to one small group by taking from everybody else in a nation. I'm talking about this "no DRM breaking" law.
How can this law pass all the levels needed for something to became a law. It just keeps one group wealthier, without any benefits to anybody else. It does not even pass a chuckle test. How long before one groups simply passes a law that directly says that we need to give money to them? We need a worldwide revolution.:)
How in the world did you get to this conclusion? This has nothing to do with nature. It only shows that in your idealized mathematical world, many results are pi, or use pi.
Nature understands integers? Thats a pretty big jump from your example.
This article is just dumb. All of those things are explained fairly well, if not completely. And except for dumb nose picking which clears the nose you idiot author, all of them are about sexual selection/sexual success.
I'm sick of people having problems with traits that are handicaps. Yes they are handicaps, that's their function, to truthfully communicate that your genes are successful despite having those handicaps.
That explains hair, teenagers, dreams, art, superstitions, kissing, probably blushing. And of course, human brain. You should just put that on the list as well, as it is the main sexual ornament in humans. And that would explain laughter/humor as a part of a process of communicating health/strength/size of the brain.
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If space/time travelling at 0 = our perceived passage of time.
If space/time travelling at 299,792,458 mph = time stopped
Then wouldn't space/time travelling at 599,584,916mph = our perceived passage of time in reverse?
No, because at c, the universe from your perspective is already contracted to the length of 0, in other words, you lose one dimension. In whichever way you were traveling, you are there in 0 seconds.
If photons (and other particles with no mass) can't experience time, isn't time then something created by mass? Same with space.
"And the passage of time can be explained by the laws of entropy."
Finally somebody who can explain it. Please explain the passage of time to me. Or send links.
Hmm, can you first tell us at what number is Time currently configured?
You mean like a giant universe recorded that could switch to going backwards and forwards. But that doesn't explain anything, it just complicates.
What causes the switch?
This also implies another level of time, a meta time, that would be invisible to us inside the recorder. Would this meta time also be able to go back and forth?
It would be better if only single particles could go in both directions in time, and just on the big scale we only observe one direction. Isn't this also one of the explanations for the quantum entanglement?
Ok, so why does this rate of change slows down when your speed increases?
A measure of rate of change? Isn't the word "rate" already enough to define time? As in: Time is a rate of change?
It is as if every object is allowed to either move in space, or not move but then "time" happens to it. You can use one part on moving, and then the rest on getting older. Photons use all of it on moving, so no time for them. Most of the stuff doesn't move much so time happens.
Could it be that time is what happens when you don't move?
I got zero new information about time in the article.
From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
"Entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that seems to imply a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. As we go "forward" in time, the second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system tends to increase or remain the same; it will not decrease. Hence, from one perspective, entropy measurement is thought of as a kind of clock"
Bad car analogy:
This is silly in a same way if you had an indicator light that would turn on only if you are going forward, and then call that light "a speedometer".
I have no idea.
How can something that is destroyed at the exact same moment it is created even exist?
If time slows down for things moving things, time does not flow at all for photons. And from photons perspective, time flows normally, however, there is no space, they get where they were going in the same moment they were created.
And if you want to calculate probabilities where will a photon show up, you have to take every possible route they could travel, or in other words they go trough all the universe at once.
So, we have things that can't exist, can't go anywhere because there is no space for them, yet, when one single photon travels it seems to be everywhere, filling the whole universe.
What I would like to have explained is why photons have no time. Since they travel with the speed of light, from their perspective, they come anywhere instantly. It's as if two points in space get connected at that time. Also, from their perspective, the whole universe gets contracted into a giant vertical pancake. Yet we somehow measure that they travel for some time. What is going on there?
Also, what's with the entropy in a single event, lets say that two electrons "colide", lets say that a photon is created, then absorbed in the other electron. Does this increase entropy or not? Can this be answered without mention gases? At what point some stuff becomes gas? 5 particles or more? Does that mean that time direction only exists if you look at more than 2-3 particles?
This looks just like regular evil to me.
And George Carlin got this idea from this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Risk-John-Adams/dp/1857280687/ref=sr_1_199?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265063180&sr=1-199
The more people feel safe, more they will do the risky things. And seat belts do not save lives, only transfer the risk from the person driving to other drivers and pedestrians.
Wait, is that the same US that banned the internet poker? Now it wants something called "freedom"?
Says one thing does the other?
'Cars, TVs, and telephones are all expected to work, and they are full of software. Why not standalone software?
Because, for software there is no simple definition when something works and when it does not.
Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software
But if somebody has written some software to train autistic people, it would be:
"Company Tests Software to Train the Autistic"
What if a weird consultant is to do some work for some developer tools company:
"The Autistic to Train a Test Software Company"
What if some ill behaved company is about to release its Railroad tycoon clone:
"The Autistic Company to Test Software Trains"
Yet you keep using the same one.
"Special interest groups" are becoming too powerful all over the world. This is similar to tariffs, in that, it distributes money to one small group by taking from everybody else in a nation. I'm talking about this "no DRM breaking" law.
How can this law pass all the levels needed for something to became a law. It just keeps one group wealthier, without any benefits to anybody else. It does not even pass a chuckle test. How long before one groups simply passes a law that directly says that we need to give money to them? We need a worldwide revolution. :)
How in the world did you get to this conclusion? This has nothing to do with nature. It only shows that in your idealized mathematical world, many results are pi, or use pi.
Nature understands integers? Thats a pretty big jump from your example.
What are you talking about? There are no circles in real world.
"overriding aim of num8 is to give children their freedom"
this does not pass the chuckle test.
or in other words, bwahahahahaa.
not to mention
www.oddsexchange.com (a real site)
No. Those mentioned here came later.
>originator of Google's "Don't be evil" motto
Now, Google can do evil as much as it wants.
This article is just dumb. All of those things are explained fairly well, if not completely. And except for dumb nose picking which clears the nose you idiot author, all of them are about sexual selection/sexual success.
I'm sick of people having problems with traits that are handicaps. Yes they are handicaps, that's their function, to truthfully communicate that your genes are successful despite having those handicaps.
That explains hair, teenagers, dreams, art, superstitions, kissing, probably blushing. And of course, human brain. You should just put that on the list as well, as it is the main sexual ornament in humans. And that would explain laughter/humor as a part of a process of communicating health/strength/size of the brain.
Stupid.
I'm sick of people saying that Doom was a 2d game. It was a 3d game.
It had limitations, but still every object had 3 coordinates.
"Illusion of 3D" my ass. Every 3d game is "an illusion of 3d".