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time is something that man has deemed as a given. always progressing "forward". but what truly is this? this conception? it boils down into a temporal order within the mind. sense experiences yield a very definate chemical imprint in the mind followed by another. the 'speed' in which this process occurs and detail is different from person to person, but predominatly similar for all. nevertheless, our entire conception of "time" thus is deeply rooted in *this* very conception. the judgement between events, or sense experiences.
thus, within the bounds of our mind we can ellaborate this concept, and already have. our imaginations have speculated the possibility of "time travel", depicting time as something almost *spatial*. capable of "directional" motion. our mathematics has been formulated to 'prove' this is possible, but within the bounds of the mathematical world only.
but is this hunch correct? is time truly a natural spatial extension of the universe?
at this point, and based on our known facts and laws, 2 possibilities reside. Both yeild the possibility of time travel, yet each one has it's own flavor. The first is treating reality's "flow" of time as the simple re-arrangement of position of 'particles' or 'components of reality' relative to each other, as the result of their interactions. The second is treating time as a completely other dimension, maintaining a spatial characteristic. As if "time" is indifferent from typically concieved 3-D objects, direction, and existence. Even though one could depict them both as one and the same within a mathematical sense, only one is truly the correct choice. And what are the results of each?
the first one seems to me a limiting factor on the idea of time travel completely. It states that the flow of time is strictly dependent on the components of reality(particles) and the positions amongst each other. Therefore, the future is occurring and hasn't happened. The components that will be in the future are still here, as in now, however. This also
means the past is 'stored' in reality. this is because the motions amongst the particles themselves were brought their by a result. and once we reach the point in our knowledge to interpret what these were, in a clockwork like fashion, we can 'reverse engineer' reality. or a section of it. this would require an understanding of why time progresses. which should yeild the knowledge of perpetual motion, perhaps(just a hunch from nowhere).
The second notion treats time as a continuous spatial dimension, indifferent from the other 'planes' of 3-D. this, however, yields strange possibilities. would it not be the case that because it is a flow of spatial reality that we are traveling through that it is pre-written? from the basis of pure experience with 3-D objects, we know them to be defined within our reality. therefore, as time progresses, in the form that it does, it must be preset. "now" is much like a propagation through a preset spatial "video tape". however, this doesn't mean that the other 3 dimensions are entirely without effects on the other. in fact, the spatial time dimension concept could not function as such without them, within a mathematical sense. but there is something else tugging at me, of which truly has no logical basis.
i peronsally believe it is combination #1 i proposed. i don't know a whole lot about physics, but i think i might know what makes sense. i don't think god has it all laid out perfectly. i think he DOES have a purpose, but it is much like saying god is accurate, but not precise. which is contradictory. hitting his target, but doing it loosely. many stars, many planets, many snow-flakes, and many lifeforms, each different but similar enough to acheive the same 'purpose?'
whelp, that is what i think. tell me what you think! i think time travel is a kewl thing to ponder about.
thus, within the bounds of our mind we can ellaborate this concept, and already have. our imaginations have speculated the possibility of "time travel", depicting time as something almost *spatial*. capable of "directional" motion. our mathematics has been formulated to 'prove' this is possible, but within the bounds of the mathematical world only.
but is this hunch correct? is time truly a natural spatial extension of the universe?
at this point, and based on our known facts and laws, 2 possibilities reside. Both yeild the possibility of time travel, yet each one has it's own flavor. The first is treating reality's "flow" of time as the simple re-arrangement of position of 'particles' or 'components of reality' relative to each other, as the result of their interactions. The second is treating time as a completely other dimension, maintaining a spatial characteristic. As if "time" is indifferent from typically concieved 3-D objects, direction, and existence. Even though one could depict them both as one and the same within a mathematical sense, only one is truly the correct choice. And what are the results of each?
the first one seems to me a limiting factor on the idea of time travel completely. It states that the flow of time is strictly dependent on the components of reality(particles) and the positions amongst each other. Therefore, the future is occurring and hasn't happened. The components that will be in the future are still here, as in now, however. This also
means the past is 'stored' in reality. this is because the motions amongst the particles themselves were brought their by a result. and once we reach the point in our knowledge to interpret what these were, in a clockwork like fashion, we can 'reverse engineer' reality. or a section of it. this would require an understanding of why time progresses. which should yeild the knowledge of perpetual motion, perhaps(just a hunch from nowhere).
The second notion treats time as a continuous spatial dimension, indifferent from the other 'planes' of 3-D. this, however, yields strange possibilities. would it not be the case that because it is a flow of spatial reality that we are traveling through that it is pre-written? from the basis of pure experience with 3-D objects, we know them to be defined within our reality. therefore, as time progresses, in the form that it does, it must be preset. "now" is much like a propagation through a preset spatial "video tape". however, this doesn't mean that the other 3 dimensions are entirely without effects on the other. in fact, the spatial time dimension concept could not function as such without them, within a mathematical sense. but there is something else tugging at me, of which truly has no logical basis.
i peronsally believe it is combination #1 i proposed. i don't know a whole lot about physics, but i think i might know what makes sense. i don't think god has it all laid out perfectly. i think he DOES have a purpose, but it is much like saying god is accurate, but not precise. which is contradictory. hitting his target, but doing it loosely. many stars, many planets, many snow-flakes, and many lifeforms, each different but similar enough to acheive the same 'purpose?'
whelp, that is what i think. tell me what you think! i think time travel is a kewl thing to ponder about.
