Quote (Nazzgul1982 @ 27 Sep 2012 21:39)

I am having a hard time understanding the concept of Imaginary time and how space and time is relevant to it. Pretend you are talking to someone who is not a physicist if you answer lol. From what I understand is that Imaginary time is time not bound by the laws of space time and time can operate separate from space and in theory can cultivate multiple different outcomes from the same points of origin. It is like another dimension of time? I don't know.... It just seems like physicist these days will come up with anything and everything to try to describe what they do not understand.

a finite mathematical line of time with infinite boundaries.......... Sounds like hawking might have done a little LSD at some point.


Now for the graph!!!!! Yay for graphs!


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Yes I know, My graph sucks but you get the idea.

Quote (Eti_fr @ Oct 3 2012 11:39pm)

Well I am not very good in science, but I can tell you time does not exist... The present moment exists, it is evolving, but it is still always the present moment no matter what "time" it is.
For exemple tomorrow does not exist untill it is today.
Any moment you live is the present moment... NOW is really happening, it is the only thing you can know for sure.
So if you really want a time to exist, call it now/the present.

Here is a good illustration

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/257801Sanstitre.png

Quote (Ocen @ Oct 4 2012 02:11am)

yes, time doesnt exist, thats why time dilation is a bunch of crap

Quote (Eti_fr @ Oct 3 2012 02:39pm)

Well I am not very good in science, but I can tell you time does not exist... The present moment exists, it is evolving, but it is still always the present moment no matter what "time" it is.
For exemple tomorrow does not exist untill it is today.
Any moment you live is the present moment... NOW is really happening, it is the only thing you can know for sure.
So if you really want a time to exist, call it now/the present.

Here is a good illustration

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/257801Sanstitre.png

Quote (Derkaderk @ Oct 4 2012 08:27pm)

but it's been empirically verified...and furthermore is consistent with what you quoted and agreed with

Quote (Quoz @ 2 Oct 2012 05:02)

I personally believe that time doesn't exist at all.  Just a human construct.

Quote (Derkaderk @ 4 Oct 2012 19:27)

but it's been empirically verified...and furthermore is consistent with what you quoted and agreed with



I would argue time is the phenomenon through which the present is evolving. it sounds to me like you're suggesting the past and the future don't exist

Quote (Eti_fr @ Oct 8 2012 07:06pm)

Yeah actually, only the present moment is real, exists... it is eternal and perfect.
The past was the present moment and is now done... the future will only become real when it will be the present moment.
The present is all that is.

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Quote (Nazzgul1982 @ Oct 8 2012 08:21pm)

If the present is all that is real, Then why does the past feel so real. Why do my memories remain even after the moment is gone? How do we pass information from human to human over generation to generation if the past generations are not real and only existed for there moment? How is the future not real when we can predict so many variables of it to uncanny precision? Time is real. It exist. We live in it on a far greater scale than the calendar of earth years we abide by. There was more to time than this moment and there will be more to time even long after we are gone. But data is never lost, not even to time. Light, DNA, etc. It lives on and the data is not lost. Time is not lost. It is real and it is all relevant and not chaotic.

Quote (Nazzgul1982 @ Oct 8 2012 06:21pm)

If the present is all that is real, Then why does the past feel so real. Why do my memories remain even after the moment is gone? How do we pass information from human to human over generation to generation if the past generations are not real and only existed for there moment? How is the future not real when we can predict so many variables of it to uncanny precision? Time is real. It exist. We live in it on a far greater scale than the calendar of earth years we abide by. There was more to time than this moment and there will be more to time even long after we are gone. But data is never lost, not even to time. Light, DNA, etc. It lives on and the data is not lost. Time is not lost. It is real and it is all relevant and not chaotic.