He is the most renown mathematician/logician in history.
Unfortunately, he developed paranoia in his later years and starved to death.
Unfortunately, he developed paranoia in his later years and starved to death.
From Britannica:
"As Gödel aged, he grew more and more paranoid and eventually became convinced that he was being poisoned. He refused to eat unless his wife tasted his food first. When she became ill and had to be hospitalised for an extended period of time, Gödel essentially stopped eating and starved to death."
"As Gödel aged, he grew more and more paranoid and eventually became convinced that he was being poisoned. He refused to eat unless his wife tasted his food first. When she became ill and had to be hospitalised for an extended period of time, Gödel essentially stopped eating and starved to death."
What’s the difference between a paranoId and a psychotic? A person gets paranoid when he discovers something going on but he doesn’t know why. He becomes Psychotic when he found out why.
That is a very Earthly remark. If you ever meet people who look like green plungers and who come from the planet Tralfamadore, they will explain the real nature of spacetime to you.
Well, Tom Baker was the best Dr Who anyway. The thing is, we only see the Daleks from a human point of view; perhaps they would have ethical reasons to wipe out the human race, perhaps there was even a Dalek that had a similar opportunity to Baker, but chose not to do it.
If you sink to the levels of your enemy, you are no better than them, perhaps worse, because you can see how bad they are.
I find it fascinating that science fiction often explores such profound subjects and ideas.
Smell a scent associating with a your life experience in the past and you will definitely take an instant emotional journey through time.
Always thought that time travel isn't possible in your own time line, but you can travel to another timeline where you do what was already going to happen in that timeline. If you see what I mean.
All of this resolves to wether we have free will or not...
All of this resolves to wether we have free will or not...
Parallel timelines are also known as 'multiple histories' and they can eliminate the paradoxes of time travel.
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-paral...then multiple histories must also be possible.
"The idea is very simple. When I exit the time machine, I exit into a different timeline. In that timeline, I can do whatever I want, including destroying the time machine, without changing anything in the original timeline I came from. Since I cannot destroy the time machine in the original timeline, which is the one I actually used to travel back in time, there is no paradox."
😳 Nono, I meant something like the following "Smell a scent that you've associated in the past with a your beautiful experience in your life and you will definitely take an instant emotional journey through time".
Thanks for noticing and sorry, but sometimes in trying to write better I mess up the translation... 🙄
I was thinking of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" in which he talks about the memories invoked by the smell of fresh baked Madeleine cakes.
For me it's mostly music and films that do that. There are some I can't watch or listen to without recalling the emotional state associated with hearing them.
It is a form of time travel. But sometimes I feel like a helpless observer, doomed to watch, unable to assist...
For me it's mostly music and films that do that. There are some I can't watch or listen to without recalling the emotional state associated with hearing them.
It is a form of time travel. But sometimes I feel like a helpless observer, doomed to watch, unable to assist...
In this case I apologize for not being adequate to your cultured reply, and now that we talk about it a vague memory about the scent of madeleines is emerging...
However, I always have the sensation that I do not write as I would like in English, so i immediately thought of that.
However for me scents really represent a journey in the past more than any other experience of senses.
I also read somewhere that Quantum Biology (?) associates hearing and smell.
The expression that was used is more or less the following: "Smelling a scent is like listening to it, in some way".
I've a "molecular" sense of smell and even when listening I appear particularly more "sensitive" than other listeners...
However, I always have the sensation that I do not write as I would like in English, so i immediately thought of that.
However for me scents really represent a journey in the past more than any other experience of senses.
I also read somewhere that Quantum Biology (?) associates hearing and smell.
The expression that was used is more or less the following: "Smelling a scent is like listening to it, in some way".
I've a "molecular" sense of smell and even when listening I appear particularly more "sensitive" than other listeners...
I got seasick aboard ship in Hurricane in the Pacific while drinking Ginger Ale when I was 11, never could drink Ginger Ale after that, even today.
Since I view spacetime as tunnels one cannot go freely from one spacetime tunnel to another, so we are trapped in our own spacetime Tunnels, as it were. I also view spacetime as a one way street, like electrons moving in a DC circuit, propelled by electromotive force. Spacetime is not AC. Thus, only Superman can go back in time.
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I remember a novel by Fred Hoyle (former astronomer royal) "October The First Is Too Late" in which he posited that time is fragmentary, and that it's only our limited perception of it that makes it appear to be linear.
Hoyle was, IIRC, a proponent of the steady state theory of the universe and invented the term "big bang" as a derogatory way to describe the newer competing theory...
Hoyle was, IIRC, a proponent of the steady state theory of the universe and invented the term "big bang" as a derogatory way to describe the newer competing theory...
October the First Is Too Late (1966) rings a bell for me as it starts off in a Scottish setting!
Regarding Hoyle:
He, himself, considered the name 'big bang' an apt but innocent phrase for a theory to which he was opposed.
In 1949, Hoyle communicated with the public by way of giving lectures on BBC radio, so had no visual aids to liven up his descriptions and had to rely on the spoken word.
In a later interview, Hoyle said: "You had to have something vivid. So I thought up ‘the big bang’. Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.”
I extracted and edited the information from here: https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/54/2/2.28/302975?login=false
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I also remember a film from the 50s small budget US scifI in B&W. Team invents time machine, goes into past, changes it, comes back to a present catastrophe, decide to go back again to stop themselves from going back and changing the past, they arrive just in time to see themselves setting off to change the past and pursue.
All of which sets off a temporal loop, and the film finishes with a loop of them arriving and chasing after themselves.
I have no clue what the film was called, but I really liked it.
12 Monkies was an interesting spin on the whole paradox theme.
Anyone here seen Primer?
All of which sets off a temporal loop, and the film finishes with a loop of them arriving and chasing after themselves.
I have no clue what the film was called, but I really liked it.
12 Monkies was an interesting spin on the whole paradox theme.
Anyone here seen Primer?
.. and nobody would know... I think a lot of time travel has happened and changes history..... (perhaps... 🙂 )
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"Ooh La La" is a great Faces song written by Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane and covered by Rod Stewart among others. It contains the line "I wish I knew then, what I know now"; but if you did, your life and others around you would be quite different.
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