Travel Back in Rhyme
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21350905-travel-back-in-rhyme---times-gone-by
Add an apostrophe and we get time's gone by - and too darned fast at that!
"Travelling makes time go fast. So maybe travelling in space will give people time." - Andy Warhol
"Travelling makes time go fast. So maybe travelling in space will give people time." - Andy Warhol
According to my latest 4D Mathematical Theories on Time, we only Live in the present moment! 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_4-polytope
Thus have got all my jobs done today. Garden watered. It's going very well, in fact!
I think I should win a Prize for this Scented Geranium.
Still puzzling over General Relativity:
https://www.cnet.com/science/featur...d-time/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_4-polytope
Thus have got all my jobs done today. Garden watered. It's going very well, in fact!
I think I should win a Prize for this Scented Geranium.
Still puzzling over General Relativity:
https://www.cnet.com/science/featur...d-time/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
Thanks Steve: That's a really relevant article on General Relativity, in the sense that it links with the 4D discussion we've been having.
https://www.cnet.com/science/featur...d-time/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
Even though Pac-Man is unable to perceive 3D space doesn't mean 3D space can't exist. We're living in it. In fact, he's living in it.
Likewise, though we are unable to perceive 4D space, we are still living in it.
https://www.cnet.com/science/featur...d-time/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
Even though Pac-Man is unable to perceive 3D space doesn't mean 3D space can't exist. We're living in it. In fact, he's living in it.
Likewise, though we are unable to perceive 4D space, we are still living in it.
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Well, without the 4th dimension "Time" would we even be able to perceive? If we only had physical dimensions, how would we be able to exist with everything locked into stasis?
And I'd like to argue that Pac-Man is by definition 3D, two dimensions in which he can move, and time.
I am talking about the four-dimensional mathematical construction known as spacetime, in which time is treated as another dimension like space.
Go back to the tesseract and you might better understand what is meant by a 4D mathematical construction. Time is the fourth dimension of the spacetime manifold.
It is this fourth dimension that we can't mentally picture or perceive.
Go back to the tesseract and you might better understand what is meant by a 4D mathematical construction. Time is the fourth dimension of the spacetime manifold.
It is this fourth dimension that we can't mentally picture or perceive.
I am unable to differ between "time" and "spacetime", does not compute.
I am also unable to imagine space and matter existing without time, does not compute.
Without matter, how can time exist?
Without time, how can matter exist?
Pac-Man is 3D I tell ya! 🙂
I am also unable to imagine space and matter existing without time, does not compute.
Without matter, how can time exist?
Without time, how can matter exist?
Pac-Man is 3D I tell ya! 🙂
Time started out as a measure of one thing changing vs another thing changing. I suppose an absence of “time” is equivalent to an absence of relative change.
I’m just a caveman, though. I’m still struggling with whether imaginary numbers exist and are therefore real, and what implication that has for real numbers; are they really real numbers?
I’m just a caveman, though. I’m still struggling with whether imaginary numbers exist and are therefore real, and what implication that has for real numbers; are they really real numbers?
What is "Outside" of Minkowski spacetime is unhelpfully labelled "Elsewhere" or "Undefined".
Similar to the "Here be Dragons" label to be found on the uncharted oceans of old maps of the world!
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It is mathematically possible that there are universes where time without space exists, but their laws of physics would be unpredictable.
The time without space occupies the left hand column in the attached diagram.
So, your imagining is correct, we live in a universe where space and time (and matter) coexist along with our laws of physics.
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At least I give some thought to my answers!
It would be easier just to chuck a couple of words together. 😉
I'll try again! 🙄
We live in a universe where space, time, matter and energy coexist.
This happy fact leads to the particular laws of physics which permit our very existence.
Other universes are possible in which the laws of physics may be entirely different. They may not be such comfortable places!
Indeed, but my biggest gripe was that I really do not think matter can exist without time.
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