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Mar 9 2009 09:40am
Quote (dothe @ Fri, Mar 6 2009, 06:47pm)
oh jebus, you're not actually suggesting that ridiculous quantum theory that 'the moon is not there if no one is watching it' has any credence are you?


hell if i know
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Mar 9 2009 10:52am
your theory was totally crap

Bill Nye explained time better in 96'
you should've watched it
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Mar 9 2009 02:57pm
Quote (cynomyS @ Mon, Mar 9 2009, 11:52am)
your theory was totally crap

Bill Nye explained time better in 96'
you should've watched it


LOL VOUCH

BILL NYE FTW
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Mar 10 2009 07:11am
so u guys think actually think im wrong??
so do i but i just wanted to throw it out there

This post was edited by ragdollkatze on Mar 10 2009 07:12am
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Mar 10 2009 07:34am
What would be really amazing is if we could some how figure out if Time itself is completely different in other galaxies. Time seems to be a very relative concept.
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Mar 31 2009 09:37am
Forgive my relative lak of knowledge on this topic as I ask this question...it may be elementary to some here. I was lead to believe that time may be altered very slightly by relative velocities through space of two or more objects. That, if two perfect clocks are synchronized on earth and one is hurled through the galaxy as near-light-speed then returned at some later time, that the clock with the greater velocity would exhibit an earlier time-reading than the "stationary" clock here on earth.

Perhaps this is just misinterpretation, but if correct does that not "disprove" the OP's theory that time is constant and unchanged regardless of our perception? School me if otherwise please...
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Mar 31 2009 09:56am
Wait, I only read the opening essay, but how do you explain atomic clocks going slightly faster when you take them further from the Earth's gravity well? sad.gif
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Mar 31 2009 10:58am
Quote (Japazo @ Tue, Mar 31 2009, 09:37am)
Forgive my relative lak of knowledge on this topic as I ask this question...it may be elementary to some here. I was lead to believe that time may be altered very slightly by relative velocities through space of two or more objects. That, if two perfect clocks are synchronized on earth and one is hurled through the galaxy as near-light-speed then returned at some later time, that the clock with the greater velocity would exhibit an earlier time-reading than the "stationary" clock here on earth.

Perhaps this is just misinterpretation, but if correct does that not "disprove" the OP's theory that time is constant and unchanged regardless of our perception? School me if otherwise please...


That's a theory, yes. Relativity, which I'm more inclined to believe than this guy's barely legible theory.
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Apr 6 2009 03:31am
Quote (dothe @ Fri, Mar 6 2009, 11:47pm)
oh jebus, you're not actually suggesting that ridiculous quantum theory that 'the moon is not there if no one is watching it' has any credence are you?


isn't more like: if nobody is observing/experiencing in any way with the moon, then the location of the moon is in every possible space, and until something observes it, its existence is undetermined
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Apr 7 2009 01:03am
Time is just a matter of perception
There is no TIME or Matter.
It's all our ability to comprehend the logic.


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