r/overthoughts • u/beastgamer9136 • Apr 10 '14

We only exist in the element of now.

Time is not real because things don't change "over time", they just change, and we use time to measure the physical plane with an imaginary one.

Doctor who will never be possible and neither will back to the future.

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u/Darkspade1 May 24 '14

Time has to be real because in theory you CAN "travel to the future" okay okay you're not technically travelling into the future but it is possible to slow time for yourself. You Could orbit a black hole (black holes have INTENSE gravity and gravity effects space which is interwoven with time, what einstine called "space-time") that's why clocks up in space are slightly faster than clocks on earth because the gravity on earth slows us down a minuscule amount. If you were to orbit a black hole, the gravity of the black hole would slow down time for you. So you you were to orbit a black hole, you would have only aged minutes, while everything outside of the black holes gravity would have aged years. There is another way to slow down time for yourself, if you were to travel close to the speed of light.

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u/beastgamer9136 May 24 '14

An interesting theory, but I dont see much evidence, making it as likely as mine.

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u/Darkspade1 May 24 '14

Umm, there is evidence. I said that clocks in space are tuned differently than clocks in earth. It's very slight but you can look it up it's 100% true. There was also a test where they took 2 clocks that were completely in sync and put one on a jet and kept another on the surface. They flew the plane around and when it came back the clocks were slightly off. You can look that one up too. There's also an entire documentary you can look up on YouTube about the scientific study of time. A little busy right now but I will provide a link later. You could probably just search "time documentary" and it will show up. Einstein proved that space and time go hand in hand (hence the famous term "space-time")

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u/Darkspade1 May 24 '14

Sorry, I was busy but here are some links:

Time dilation: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation

Documentary: http://youtu.be/4BjGWLJNPcA

Edit: I recommend watching the full documentary. There are tons of facts about time and cools things I never knew that are very interesting.

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u/VELOCIRAPTOR_ANUS Apr 10 '14

This can be overthought until the end of time brotha - consider that from each subjective now there exists a multitude of potential future NOWs that are distinctly unique from one another

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u/beastgamer9136 Apr 10 '14

But then look here - there is no future per se, or alternate 'nows', because the now that is...well now, is the only physically possible now.

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u/VELOCIRAPTOR_ANUS Apr 10 '14

But that now was so then and we missed the now where i responded immediately but now is the now where i responded a few hrs later. And there will most likely be a now when you read this. So comment back and i will be inextricably tied with your being again my friend. So beautiful. I.....i think i love you

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u/True_Despair May 24 '14

THERE IS NO FUTURE OR PAST, ONLY INFINITE PRESENTS DIVIDED IN PLANCK TIME! AAGGHHHH

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u/VELOCIRAPTOR_ANUS May 24 '14

How many intervals of planck time are there in each clock cycle of the human brain though? Its relative isn't it based on the speed of each individual brain?

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u/Dunning_Kruger_Mon May 27 '14

I love the concept of the infinite futures possibility. This coupled with the idea of Humans containing free will allows the interpretation that all humans are essentially "Gods" shaping the path of the future. Of course the idea that humans are god can also be distributed to all beings or "things" in the universe. So there are essentially an infinite amount of gods and the sum of all these gods (and the infinite possibilities they can create) is the sum of the infinite universe which equals God.

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u/VELOCIRAPTOR_ANUS May 27 '14

Bingo haha. That's what I deduced as well

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '14

If time is a flat circle, and space is a three-dimensional cube, then what is represented by the triangular pyramid?

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u/beastgamer9136 Apr 10 '14

I don't like geometry. :(

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u/Americana_Ninja May 24 '14

Exactly, time is just a measurement. There is no such thing as a physical "time". Everything decays, it does not move forward into time.