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  1. Banzai

    Banzai One-time Mod, but on the road to recovery Contributor

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    Yeah, it's like a Godwin's law specified to time-discussions...
     
  2. Domoviye

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    True enough. But if you believe in God, is God within time or outside of it? If God is outside time, then God can most likely make time do whatever God desires. Including making up the weird quantum physics that makes time and the world go round.
     
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    You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's fading, racing around, to come up behind you again...

    I've done a lot of thinking about time...

    "Imagine an infinitely tall pyramid of wine glasses. there is nothing else, no other space or objects, just the pyramid.
    if none of the glasses fall at the start of our imagining, then it never will. a trillion years could pass and they still wouldnt move. if so, then what is time? time is only a measurement of the duration of an action. if there is no action, there is no time. if there is no time, then nothing can exist.
    if one of the bottom glasses does break, then its location will directly affect which glasses above it will fall and break. the first outcome will therefore dictate all other outcomes.
    this is a kind of a clarification of the mechanics of the universe. all the outcomes of actions and decisions are in turn, outcomes of the first action that ever occured."

    I wrote that when I was sixteen, and wasted. Despite that fact, I still like to read it sometimes.
     
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    Its a good theory of a concept regarding time. However like all things time issues the word Decay. everything decays the air still moves around those very glasses and also so does the small dust particles and over a trillion years those glasses will be covered in thick layers of dust so there for one of times arrows the arrow of motion gives birth as the dust falls on the pyramid of glasses forcing them to decay over the years that pass.

    Time is constant and always moving. And like a predator it eventually catches up with you no matter how long you just cannot out run time. Nor can anything else eventually time will stalk you out and if an object remains still for long enough something will happen to remove that stance. Cause and Effect
     
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    To Quote Stephen Hawking In His Own Words
     
  6. Raven

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    The most basic view of time is that it is simply a unit of measurement defined by humans in order to sequence events.
    We define time with denominations such as seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. However, these denominations are arbitrary human constructions, and have no bearing regarding the wider, more intricate views of time as postulated by various philosophers and scientists throughout history.
     

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