The Illusion of Time (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained @, U.S.A., Saturday, September 11, 2010, 11:52 (4948 days ago) @ dhw

Thanks for the warm welcome. -First off, I think you are confusing timelessness with a static universe. The two are not in any way synonymous. Things change, sometimes they change predictably, sometimes not. -An easy analogy is racketball. A skilled player can strike the ball, predict the flight path of the ball, the incidence angle of the ball striking the wall, and return trajectory of the ball, and may other incidental attribute(i.e. velocity, force, bounce, even the physical shape of the ball as it proceeds through the stages) That does not imply that anything after the ball is set in stone, nor that any instant of the balls path exists prior to, or after, that particular instant. Each instant also introduces seemingly random variables into the equation that make the outcome that much more unpredictable. -The real trick to time is that it can not be measured. The measuring of it is in fact an illusion. You are either remembering, or predicting, never measuring. One second, one milisecond, microsecond ago, is still the past, and one microsecond from now is still the future. It is a physical impossibility. But what about something that is not physical, that does not share our limitations?


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