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I'm not sure if this belongs here or not, but I thought it was really interesting so I wanted to share it, feel free to move it if need be. Link: http://www.cracked.com/article_19659_7-theories-time-that-would-make-doc-browns-head-explode.html
Here is number 1:
#1. One Day, Time Itself Must Die
Time waits for no man, as the old proverb says. It can get all weird under certain circumstances, sure, but that steady beat will keep on going long after we're dead.
But not too long.
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At least not until Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt have a chance to fix it all.
See, the way scientists determine various formulas for how the universe works is via probabilities. The problem is that, if you assume that space-time is infinite, everything -- from the mail arriving on time to our sun going supernova and wiping us all out -- suddenly has an equal probability on a universal scale.
Since the universe doesn't work like that and it was fucking with all their formulas, scientists have decided that there must be another answer, and the best they could come up with is that time isn't infinite.
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We have six and a half minutes. Get busy.
So how long have we got? In four out of five possible calculated scenarios, time is most likely to end in about 3.3 to 3.7 billion years. Whew. But in the fifth scenario, time could end before you finish this sentence.
So it turns out we live in a reality that's like an old pocket watch, and one day it's just going to wind down. In fact, when it happens, we won't even see it coming. The scientists describe it like watching someone falling into the event horizon of a black hole, like we covered earlier. Things slow down and eventually just ... stop.
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Oh, irony, you are a cruel minx.
The whole of reality will just turn into one big Zach Morris time stop, minus a sassy teenaged guy speaking directly to an implied television audience. We won't even be aware of what's happened. Everything will work one second and won't the next. We'll all just be frozen in place, completely still. Forever and ever. If nothing else, this should be good incentive for you to literally shit or get off the pot, because you run the risk of being immortalized like that forever.
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HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)It'll freeze like that!
(In one scenario, anyway )
provis99
(13,062 posts)if you haven't read it yet, try this one:
7 Horrible Ways the Universe Can Destroy Us Without Warning
http://www.cracked.com/article_19117_7-horrible-ways-universe-can-destroy-us-without-warning.html
Make me feel quite small...
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)There are some very interesting articles in there, and I haven't even finished half of them. The jist is that physicists can't explain why time "happens" at all - why our perception seems to move from one moment to the next. Einstein called it a most persistent illusion.
There's good reason to think that it would be possible to build an experiment that could send signals backwards in time, so they are received before they are sent. The technology is almost at the point where it would work, the big factor is generating enough pairs of entangled photons per second to feed a double-slit experiment. This would make it possible to do some very interesting experiments to probe the nature of time.
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)so he can be with his girlfriend forever, just before she is about to break up with him.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I mean, all we really need is motion and space.
Lunacee2012
(172 posts)Are they pretty good with their facts?
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)As they have many different ones. However, most of these articles have links to what they are talking about and you can see there are blue words in this article(I haven't clicked on any of them so far).
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Whenever I visit Cracked, I end up clicking on links and end up spending the whole day at that site.
originalpckelly
(24,382 posts)they are the masters of the brief paragraph littered with common language that explains very real and complicated research.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)I really should have been more responsible, Cracked choose its name well.