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Things you don't understand

Post by jtbo » 18 Jan 2011 10:46 pm

I thought that we could have nice time killer here, present thing you don't understand and others try to explain it with basic terms :D

I stumbled upon this and it really goes bit over my understanding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%2 ... of_time%29

So tap atoms to side and they travel in time?
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Re: Things you don't understand

Post by whiskeyonesix » 18 Jan 2011 11:34 pm

Time flies :)

Maybe peoples perception of time is different, I've had days that have dragged for ever, and others ( usually when I'm not at work ) that have sped by. Time travel could be interesting though, cause and effect and all that....
I can just see VND transporting himself back to the Jurassic Period and dropping the Nut on a T-rex :) Just don't tread on anything... :D
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Re: Things you don't understand

Post by Speedy88 » 19 Jan 2011 01:16 am

I love philosophy in science. This is really cool but it's only working on one theory of many. I know of so many now, I don't know which one is more plausible. String no longer makes sense to me since I read into it, I believe more of the theory that time is like grains of sand piling up to create random events but that doesn't make sense either. But in that theory you can't go backwards...
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Re: Things you don't understand

Post by jtbo » 19 Jan 2011 02:33 am

Well, time is quite complicated animal itself, but it is not too alien in these, imo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity

I stumbled to original problem while trying to figure out how traveller travelling speed of light would be affected by gravitation as speed of gravitation is speed of light, but while trying to fing more about that I found problem with arrow of time and Entropy which I failed to understand, but maybe I just need to dig tad more into it. No wonder my 360 is not progressing :lol:

10 years ago days were much longer, now days feel like minutes, I can barely get out of bed when it is already time to go back to sleep, my boss told me that it is normal and "just wait until you get to my age" :| Even time is relative.
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Re: Things you don't understand

Post by Speedy88 » 19 Jan 2011 01:44 pm

I heard that as you get older time goes faster because of the mathematical equations behind it. Basically as you get nearer the end of time the perception is faster as there is less of it (like the end of a car journey feeling faster because you know how close you are)
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