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Video: What is Time and Where Can it be Found? (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jun 2014 OP
A question asked by many an SAT taker... n/t jtuck004 Jun 2014 #1
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Carlin touched on this topic.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #3
With respect, Professor Krauss may be being very unscientific here re Time MattMars Jun 2014 #4
Fascinating... N_E_1 for Tennis Jun 2014 #5
Hi n e 1, check out timelessness.co.uk if you're interested (mm) MattMars Jun 2014 #6

MattMars

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4. With respect, Professor Krauss may be being very unscientific here re Time
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:32 AM
Jun 2014

With respect, I think Professor Krauss make a number of (very common), unchecked assumptions and conclusions from the outset here. From which all talk of time is doomed to end in the usual discussion of ‘paradoxes’ and conjecture.

At the start he says

“time is an amazing ‘thing’, it is a perplexing ‘quantity’”

“ ‘the’ future is definitely different to ‘the’ past “

The problem here is that in this sentence – ie he ( and many others ) main foundation for assuming a thing called time exists, he sites two things, or places

The future, and
The past

These can only be legitimately used in the conversation if some scientific proof of their existence, other than as ‘ideas’, ‘conjecture’, or worse still beliefs or feelings, can be given.

Fundamentally – IMO – the key error here may be that the professor has not considered (let alone considered and dismissed) a critical key question, which is this...

IF the universe is just full of matter ‘just’ constantly moving changing and interacting...
Not heading into a ‘future’, and Not leaving a ‘past’ behind it
Would this be enough to mislead us into thinking a ‘past’ and ‘future’ may exist?

Having written a book on the subject (please excuse the plug in my first post)
A Brief History of Timelessness http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I09XHMQ

I think the answer to this question may in fact be YES – ie where professor Krauss says

“ ‘the’ future is definitely different to ‘the’ past “
What he is really – actually – scientifically provably, in fact saying is

“ideas I can create in my head (‘now’) are different to fixed patterns that exist in my head (‘now’).

Just calling ‘ideas’ you can create in you rmind ‘proof of a future’ – or calling fixed patterns of matter in-formation in your mind ‘proof that extra to these there really is a ‘temporal past’ – is extremely unscientific.

Ie – while we may get the ‘idea’ there is a past and a future, this is fine, but cannot be built on unless an experiment following the scientific method is present to PROVE the idea has foundation . ( many people firmly believe the IDEA horoscopes make sense , but logically, with out proof any idea is unfounded, no matter how many other people like it , or how educated they are).

Finally, with respect, I don’t think Einstein did show that a quantity called time exists and can be dilated. I ‘on the electrodynamics of moving bodies’ it shows how the motion of an oscillator ( a ‘watch’) can be compared to the motion of a train. And how the motion of oscillators is dilated with acceleration and velocity ( as professor Krauss explains re GPS etc)

– but Unless someone can post a link here that says otherwise, imo, nowhere does Relativity actually prove there IS a ‘past’, or future or thing called time that flows between them and can be dilated – dilating the ‘rate a thing is changing now’ – is in no way the same as showing that something is sinking into a past or surging into a future.

Excuse the plugs again, but here’s a couple of videos I made exploring the possibility of timelessness, for anyone seriously interested.

Time Travel,Timeless Answers to Prof Brian Cox's Science of Dr WHO



and in more detail

Does Time exist? How 'Time travel Paradoxes' can't happen without "the past".


again scus the plugs (and any typos)

yours Matthew Marsden
London

MattMars

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6. Hi n e 1, check out timelessness.co.uk if you're interested (mm)
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 10:57 AM
Jun 2014

Thanks very much ne1 I like the look of DU,

I'm very focused on exploring the possibility of 'timelessness', which of course I know might be right or wrong (when people insist they are right I think the mind becomes closed

In a brief history of timelessness I analysed every angle and problem related to 'time' that I could find, and the approach seems to address and resolve every issue, including special and general relativity etc.

Of course I may be too close to my own work to see any critical errors, but that's why I put it out there , peer review and all that.

Please feel free to check out www.timelessness.co.uk for any info, and videos of the various talks it's got a lot of pages, but it's searchable)

And please drop me a line on DU if you have any questions.
Atb Matt Marsden

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