Time

[Audiogen]

Time, a fascinating topic that's both intrinsically apart of our lives yet somehow remains mysterious. All aspects of the topic are open for discussion, whether it be the way that ancients viewed and kept time, the predictions of futurists gauging exponential technological growth, our intuitive notions of time being upended by General and Special Relativity and The Block Universe, time travel paradoxes and anything else.

Feel free to post thoughts, videos, music, art, etc. on the topic.

[Audiogen]

Sean Carroll - What is Time?

[mallyboppa]

[tumbling.dice]

It's weird how the older one gets the faster the year seems to go by. In grade school the summer seemed so long to me. Now I can hardly believe that 2021 is only a couple of months away. The days sometimes seem long, but the years seem short.

[Audiogen]

It's weird how the older one gets the faster the year seems to go by. In grade school the summer seemed so long to me. Now I can hardly believe that 2021 is only a couple of months away. The days sometimes seem long, but the years seem short.

Do you think this is due to a childhood summer taking up more of your overall lifespan at the time? Our time spent occupied as adults or something else?

[tumbling.dice]

Do you think this is due to a childhood summer taking up more of your overall lifespan at the time? Our time spent occupied as adults or something else?

I would guess that you are correct; at 8 years old the summer months would constitute about 3% of your total life thus far. At my age of 51 a summer is only 0.5%. I also wonder if adults are just more easily distracted than children. There is just so much shit to do that we always feel crunched for time.

My grandmother lived to be 97 years old and she loved telling stories. One thing both my brother and I noticed was... she would be talking about someone, the "Simmons boy" or whoever, that lived up the street from her falling off the roof of his house and breaking his neck (or whatever). She went into great detail about his injuries, recovery, his parents and all the related details. When she finished I asked how he was doing now and she was like, "Oh, he died in 1958." I was exasperated kind of; she was going on like it happened a few weeks or so ago and turns out he died 10 years before I was born. I kind of understand, only with me it's music and, to a lesser degree, movies. Bands like R.E.M. are still "new" to me, unlike Pink Floyd or the Stones. This noise they make nowadays I won't call music.

[neonspectraltoast]

I am a proponent of the block universe. But that said, time can't really be understood from the perspective of someone who exists within linear time. Even a block is not a block. But I do believe the past exists.

I think of it more like a record. The needle is playing the tune. It has a beginning and end, but just cause you reach the end of a song doesn't mean the beginning of the song has no physical substance.

Time is the needle and reality is the record. I like to imagine two separate, arbitrary realities just collided.

[Sooz]

What a strange interest to have.

Me time does not interest me one bit.

If i have appointments i know that i will be out of my place for a period of time but i'm not really bothered by this.

Had an uncle who was interested in maths.

Maths didn't interest me one bit but i did go to my uncle when i needed help with a maths problem because he was a mathamatician.

So if somebody had time management issues they should head to you.

[Undies]

Bands like R.E.M. are still "new" to me, unlike Pink Floyd or the Stones. This noise they make nowadays I won't call music.

i need to change my answer in the "favorite dinosaur" thread..

[Audiogen]

What a strange interest to have.

Me time does not interest me one bit.

Some of us are fascinated by the nature of time, some of us are fascinated by repugnant smells. We're a fascinating species.

[Matthew Mussolini]

Some of us are fascinated by the nature of time, some of us are fascinated by repugnant smells. We're a fascinating species.

We are a fascinating species

[Audiogen]

[neonspectraltoast]

The nature of time is pertinent to our most pressing philosophical quandaries. People often take it for granted. I believe Einstein believed in a block universe, and he has a good record of being right about things unseen.

But obviously this has an impact on some of our deepest questions, like human mortality and the nature of consciousness. Fuck me if I get how it works, though. Some Einstein is going to come along and turn this all on its head, though.

One thing I am aware of is that the years in-between are no barrier in terms of "psychic" communication. But I don't know what it means. I don't know what it means, and I say yeah.

[Audiogen]

[Jessica]

tumbling.dice Audiogen I don't think the summer holidays being more of your total life thing is about that. Maybe that is an aspect, but mostly I'm pretty sure it's to do with taking in new information and being on auto-pilot or not.

Like how when your life is in danger you sometimes experience life slowing down.. Because your brain is taking in more information than it usually would, in an attempt to save its life.

I talk about this a lot, but it seems to anger people on some level. Mostly when I say it's not out of your control. There are actual tangible things you can do to reverse the effect. Mel expressed an interest in what these things are and I intend to write about it in detail at some point.

But a recent example, in NZ I walked for six weeks, the same as my childhood summer break, different place every day, constantly new information, hard to go onto autopilot.. And that six weeks felt sooo long. At the end of it, it was definitely similar to the experience of being a child on first day back at school. Similar. Not entirely the same.. Which is where I think what you guys were saying might be part of it.. But I think the smaller part.

Obviously that's not something we can just do.. But even in a repetitive life of work, eat, sleep.. There are ways I've found to not experience that life speeding up thing. Yet anyway.

[Jessica]

actually it's not that people react with anger, more of a refusal