How brief is an “instant”? What constitutes “now”? How did mother nature choose the timeframe in which we perceive reality? Given the limitations of our biology, we literally live in the past.
Now is an illusion from your frame of reference (velocity relative to another frame of reference. Which also gets a different “now”, which can be changed just by changing your velocity.
4 space. A second is 186k miles (300k km). Time is a dimension of space measured in meters.
i.e.
s=186k miles
c=1
e=m
Light does not actually have a speed, it does not move. Rather causality moves “now” across spacetime.
Now is just a 3D manifold you can draw through 4D spacetime. You can run the slice any direction you like and call it now as long as you do not exceed the speed of causality. Your Now will not be reality on Proxima for four years. The suns reality will not be your reality until 12 min from your now.
A nanosecond is about 5 feet. That is really all the reality we get.
Read the parable of the surveyors in Spacetime Physics by Weaver et.al. It is an introductory freshman physics textbook. 1st chapter.
The short of it is that time is just another dimension of space and seconds can be measured in distance. The S u p r i s e back in 1910 was that the speed of light has nothing to do with light at all. It is the “speed” of causality. Light has nothing to do with it, just an innocent bystander, carried by the tide.
The answer is YES! Consciousness, Logic and Reason Exist at Plank scale for fully developed human beings and for God and Angels! The basis for what people generally call "miracles"
C.D. Jung seemed to disagree with Freud, not everything we are is actually between our ears, that consciousness extends beyond the material world.
We can’t prove this in the traditional newtonian physics. However newtonian physics is now known to be a limited subset of reality. We now do quantum physics without which this iPhone would not exist.
Actually life would be impossible without quantum mechanics as well, life is like magic. But that is another topic. Are we all just golems, created from clay, animated by extra spacial entities?
You had be at an instant. Knew I should have taken courses in physics, but it's my right side of the brain that functions beyond an instant. Just the same, thank you for this. No doubt some will understand it.
If you thought this was weird; Consider the edge of reality at the event horizon where universe expansion rate reaches c. Beyond that is nothing, whatever you do in your frame of reference can never influence your reality, “now”. However, if you change your velocity and move toward that horizon, what was nothing suddenly becomes real and what used to be your reality in the direction you are moving from disappears like it never happened, the past, the space, everything.
This is called the Unruh effect.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
The information in the universe leaks when we change direction/reference frame. The earth does this daily and yearly. The edges of reality (universe expansion event horizon) blur into the present. We completely are unaware of this, but what are effects after billions of years?
I must be a glutton for punishment because as much as this is over my head, I like reading it and trying to grok it anyhow. Also, I read a fascinating quantum physics paper once and this draws some of the same parallels, be it a little more mathy than I’m used to. Let the synapse fireworks go off.
This feels a lot like our inability to see dynamics at geological or cosmological time scales. For example, Yellowstone super volcano is “due any day now”, and Andromeda galaxy is bound to crash into the Milky Way “any day now”, when using geological and cosmological time scales respectively. Yet none of us nor any of the descendants we can conceive of will exist when those events take place.
You mean when I am not stopping the denialists from lying with statistics
Well that devolved rapidly. Guess I win, again.
Butterfly effect 🧐. He misspelled it 😆 Nobody can stop butterflies.
Kozyrev wrote extensively on the nature of time.
Time is an illusion.
Now is an illusion from your frame of reference (velocity relative to another frame of reference. Which also gets a different “now”, which can be changed just by changing your velocity.
"Lunchtime doubly so" - Douglas Adams
This article does wonders for my racing thoughts.
4 space. A second is 186k miles (300k km). Time is a dimension of space measured in meters.
i.e.
s=186k miles
c=1
e=m
Light does not actually have a speed, it does not move. Rather causality moves “now” across spacetime.
Now is just a 3D manifold you can draw through 4D spacetime. You can run the slice any direction you like and call it now as long as you do not exceed the speed of causality. Your Now will not be reality on Proxima for four years. The suns reality will not be your reality until 12 min from your now.
A nanosecond is about 5 feet. That is really all the reality we get.
Interesting but tbh i have no idea what you mean
Read the parable of the surveyors in Spacetime Physics by Weaver et.al. It is an introductory freshman physics textbook. 1st chapter.
The short of it is that time is just another dimension of space and seconds can be measured in distance. The S u p r i s e back in 1910 was that the speed of light has nothing to do with light at all. It is the “speed” of causality. Light has nothing to do with it, just an innocent bystander, carried by the tide.
The answer is YES! Consciousness, Logic and Reason Exist at Plank scale for fully developed human beings and for God and Angels! The basis for what people generally call "miracles"
C.D. Jung seemed to disagree with Freud, not everything we are is actually between our ears, that consciousness extends beyond the material world.
We can’t prove this in the traditional newtonian physics. However newtonian physics is now known to be a limited subset of reality. We now do quantum physics without which this iPhone would not exist.
Actually life would be impossible without quantum mechanics as well, life is like magic. But that is another topic. Are we all just golems, created from clay, animated by extra spacial entities?
What exactly are we?
Are we just Avatars for something else?
Waldos ...
You had be at an instant. Knew I should have taken courses in physics, but it's my right side of the brain that functions beyond an instant. Just the same, thank you for this. No doubt some will understand it.
If you thought this was weird; Consider the edge of reality at the event horizon where universe expansion rate reaches c. Beyond that is nothing, whatever you do in your frame of reference can never influence your reality, “now”. However, if you change your velocity and move toward that horizon, what was nothing suddenly becomes real and what used to be your reality in the direction you are moving from disappears like it never happened, the past, the space, everything.
This is called the Unruh effect.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Copyright (c) Jillian England, 1995, 2008, 2017.
# GNU License. CopyLeft if that is still in vogue :)
#
# Installed in '/usr/share/units' but you don't have to.
#
# Usage: units -f '' -f massenergy.units
# alias lightunits='(units -vf "" -f /usr/share/units/massenergy.units)'
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# This file is not a trick. A second really is 300 thousand kilometers
# and because of this the speed of light really is 1 by definition.
# Time and space are not seperate things; Time is the forth dimension
# of space measured in meters just like the rest of space is measured in meters.
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# See useage examples in readme.
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# time IS measured in meters, no such unique thing as 'seconds'
# time and distance ARE the same thing.
# THIS MEANS that mass and Energy are also the same thing. No difference.
# AND we do not have to do ANYTHING to the equations of energy, just realize
# that a second is ~300 thousand kilometers. Not a trick. Reality.
s 2.99792458e+08 m # Time is distance. Each second is 299.8 thousand kilometers
c 1 # Light is unitless because of the above fact.
## The rest of this file are conversion factors for fun & energy<->mass equivelence comparisons.
# Information to compare energy usage and generation to energy released
# from nuclear devices. For giving a rough idea.
tontnt ton_e
ton_e ton_tnt_energy
ton_tnt_energy 1e+9 calorie # calorie ktontnt =~ 4.184TJ
# kton_e is 1e+12 calorie or 4.186 TJ kilotons as a metric mass measurement
# (kilotonnes) of TNT gives a value of 1000 c/g, well within the reported range,
# while treating it as "kilo short tons of TNT" gives 1102 c/g, at the extreme
# upper end of the reported range. Thus a kiloton can be called a "kilo metric ton
# of TNT" and a "kilo short ton of TNT" with about equal validity.
#
# A TNT explosion is primarily thermal chemical energy. A nuclear explosion is primarily
# neutrons, gamma, and other particles released in a chain reaction ripping atoms apart.
# TNT is ~nothing~ like a nuclear explosion.
#
# Using TNT as an energy 'equivalence' was probably a project/military decision to help
# explain and quantify the destructivness of the new bombs.
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# IMO we should stop using the 'imaginary' pile of TNT as a reference and start using joules or grams
# as a measure of energy released. This is less subjective and everyone knows that a mass is energy from 'e=mc^2'
# Nagasaki released/transformed about 1 gram. Mass should be perfectly understandable unit for energy as they are equivalent.
nova 10^44 J # A small super nova, ranges vary wildly depending on what you are talking about
everestmass 357 trillion lb
solarluminosity 382.8 yotta W # Total solar power also 382.8 10^24 J/S
chicxulub 418400 exa J # 6 miles across, 100 trillion tons of TNT, cretaceous-paleogene extinction
dinokill chicxulub
sunpower solarluminosity
# http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/chemistry/NuclearChemistry/NuclearWeapons/FirstChainReaction/TypesofNuclear/UnitsMeasurement.htm
# cartage.org.lb is gone as of 2014 it is available on the way back machine
# http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/bombing.htm
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent
# The energy values of bomb tests are just best guesses by the scientists.
# Modern digitization of original shot footage is providing more
# accurate yeild estimates of these tests.
# The measures below may change as the films are analized with modern digital equipment.
trinity 19.0 kton_e # 04-16-45, near white sands New Mexico (Pu implosion)
hiroshima 12.5 kton_e # 08-06-45, 3600 kg, 9ft 9in, littleboy, U-235, 118,661 killed, 12-18 kt
nagasaki 22.0 kton_e # 08-09-45, 4050 kg, 11ft 4in, fatman, Pu-239, 73,884 killed, 18.9-23.1 kt
castlebravo 63 PJ # 03-04-54, 10432 kg, 14ft 12in, shrimp, Pu-239 Li-6 U-238 tritum, 15 Mt
gadget trinity # 0.8845 g (energy in grams)
littleboy hiroshima # 0.5819 g
fatman nagasaki # 1.0241 g
shrimp castlebravo # 700.9695 g Nicknamed SHRIMP; "Staged Hydrogen Radiation IMPlosion"
Most definitely Information overload and my only reaction is to run outside.
The information in the universe leaks when we change direction/reference frame. The earth does this daily and yearly. The edges of reality (universe expansion event horizon) blur into the present. We completely are unaware of this, but what are effects after billions of years?
Got to go with my gut on this one...the answer is yes. But it will and will not matter.
I must be a glutton for punishment because as much as this is over my head, I like reading it and trying to grok it anyhow. Also, I read a fascinating quantum physics paper once and this draws some of the same parallels, be it a little more mathy than I’m used to. Let the synapse fireworks go off.
This feels a lot like our inability to see dynamics at geological or cosmological time scales. For example, Yellowstone super volcano is “due any day now”, and Andromeda galaxy is bound to crash into the Milky Way “any day now”, when using geological and cosmological time scales respectively. Yet none of us nor any of the descendants we can conceive of will exist when those events take place.
Nature always gets the last laugh.
Thought provoking.