Time

I believe in linear time and object permanence.

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again, after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, look where my hand was

Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was (I couldn't get no rest)

Same as it ever was, hey let's all twist our thumbs

Here comes the twister

It amazes me there was at least one billion years of no geological change on Earth during or just after the Hadean Era (The Boring Billion).

I believe time is more like spaghetti, looped on itself. In theory, gravity can affect time so why not other forces?

Einstein's theories of relativity have been validated in many independent tests. One interesting feature is that, if you go for a while on an extremely fast spaceship and then return to Earth, the people on Earth will have aged more than you have, because they experienced more time. Very trippy!

Didn’t Einstein say that time is relative to the observer?

The whole you’re on a rocket ship going at the speed of light and your twin is on earth.

To you in the rocket, time slows down. To your twin, time doesn’t change.

Jinx, r5!

Like I don't have any real-time issues to worry about.

Real time -- get it? Hahaha.

It’s the fourth dimension, subject to gravity and speed.

We're here for maybe 80-90 years and then gone. For all the millions of years this rock has been rotating in the universe, we only get a few moments. Time only moves in one direction forward - unless you've got access to some really good drugs!

r10 There is a theory that everything is happening all at once. Today, tomorrow, and 1000 years from now are all happening at the same time and only our minds are the ones making sense of what is going on at any particular moment.

R11 I only accept that if quantum physics, schroeder’s cat, many world hypothesis is true. Because if not, free will is null and determinism is fate. But to give an analogy—suppose god created universes or first cause if the use of god is too religious for you. First cause is genius beyond what the human brain can even conceptualize. Everything is always happening because all possible worlds God created exist at once. But you only perceive the life and choices you make in predetermined possible options. Think of life like a video game with programming on a much larger, almost infinite scale.

I do, often.

I also wonder why dinosaurs and their cohorts preceded us.

Time, flowing like a river

time, beckoning me

who knows when we shall meet again

if ever

but time

keeps flowing like a river

to the sea

Goodbye my love,

maybe for forever

goodbye my love,

the tide waits for me

who knows when we shall meet again

if ever

but time

keeps flowing like a river (on and on)

to the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever

gone forever

gone forevermore

Goodbye my friends,

maybe forever

goodbye my friends,

the stars wait for me

who knows where we shall meet again

if ever

but time

keeps flowing like a river (on and on)

to the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever

gone forever

gone forevermore

R11 - That is a possibility but, things seem to move slowly (for humans at least) but are actually moving rather fast. I can flash back to a particular situation in my past which takes no real time then jump to the present - mentally of course. Still, I wish we had more time - our bodies age rather quickly but our minds remain current at least as our thoughts are concerned. That would all depend on civilization remaining balanced and not continue to decline as it seems to be doing at an accelerated pace. At 74, I guess 'time' will tell me soon enough what, if anything, is next.

If I could turn back time. If I could find a way.

R16 = Chee

Linear time is a drag.

If I could turn back tahhhhmm, I wouldn’t need Botox!

Earth is old enough to have had several advanced civilizations come and go. When I say advanced, I mean technologically like us. We will be ground under and forgotten too. That's the way of the world.

In my much younger days when I used to drop acid, time as numbers didn't make sense. Day was light, night was dark, that was the only time that made sense.

It’s linear in my mind. I instantly see each decade on a time line although anything before 1970 is most important to me.

[quote]Do you think time is linear?

No.

But seriously, how is it that as confusing as the timeline in The Terminator series is, it still somehow makes sense? Time is anything but linear in that universe because the plot requires it not to be in order to function as a story.

god r1 great link. DL as quoted by that blogger was hilarious in 2007.

I got here just before the Great Format Remodel. Was content here a lot livelier then? Back then, getting your post entered on the W&W list was a high honor.

Whatever became of all the wit … ? It must have disappeared into a fold in the space-time continuum, like that poster's half-pack of smokes or the red-wigged crack whore (not a pejorative).

Maybe it all just slipped down behind the sofa cushions.

[quote] Was content here a lot livelier then?

The content was more lively before the most recent format, but before that format (early to mid 2000s) it moved very fast. One couldn't keep up because the threads moved so fast. Permanent prime time pretty much killed and required user profiles pretty much killed any remaining liveliness.

I’m not talking linear in any mathematical sense. Just when I think of it as timeline with years noted and years of importance stick out. Like ‘29, ‘33, ‘39, ‘41, ‘44, ‘45, ‘50, ‘53, ‘58 (I was born😁), ‘63, ‘64, ‘68, from ‘70 on I’m bored.

Sometimes a series of events explodes my experience of time. They send aftershocks to the future. And sometimes, my reaction is not paralysis, it’s physically and mentally trying to fit something that big into this small lifespan.

Oh Stop it- time is none of that shit and you know it.

That was down-right creepy.

As long as we don't start having that multiverse bullshit, I'm happy with linear time. I still don't believe in object permanence.

Christ Almighty, some of you folks need to go to rehab.